Kjetil Jansrud

Kjetil Jansrud (born 28 August 1985) is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion. He competed in all alpine disciplines apart from slalom, and his best event was the giant slalom where he has six World Cup podiums and an Olympic silver medal. Since 2012, he had concentrated on the speed events, where all but two of his World Cup victories had come. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won the super-G and placed third in the downhill. At the World Championships in 2019 at Åre, Jansrud won gold in the downhill.

Kjetil Jansrud
Jansrud in February 2011
Personal information
Born (1985-08-28) 28 August 1985 (age 38)
Stavanger, Norway
Occupation(s)Alpine skier, television host
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) (2014)[1]
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
ClubPeer Gynt Alpinklubb
World Cup debut19 January 2003 (age 17)
Olympics
Teams5 – (20062022)
Medals5 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams8 – (2005, 20092021)
Medals3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons18 – (20032006, 20082021)
Wins23
Podiums55
Overall titles0 – (2nd in 2015, 2017)
Discipline titles4 – (1 DH, 3 SG)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing  Norway
World Cup race podiums
Event1st2nd3rd
Slalom000
Giant033
Super-G1385
Downhill874
Combined101
Parallel101
Total231814
International alpine ski competitions
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games122
World Championships120
Total242
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2014 SochiSuper-G
Silver medal – second place2010 VancouverGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2018 PyeongchangDownhill
Bronze medal – third place2014 Sochi Downhill
Bronze medal – third place2018 PyeongchangSuper-G
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 ÅreDownhill
Silver medal – second place2015 Beaver CreekCombined
Silver medal – second place2017 St. MoritzSuper-G
Junior World Championships
Silver medal – second place2004 MariborGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2005 BardonecchiaCombined

Born in Stavanger, Jansrud hails from Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, about forty kilometres (25 miles) from Kvitfjell.

Career

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jansrud finished tenth in the combined.[2] He broke his thumb in the Olympic giant slalom which ended his 2006 season. A bulging disc discovered that September kept him out of the entire 2007 season. Jansrud made his first World Cup podium in January 2009 at Adelboden and finished ninth in the super combined in February at the World Championships.

He won the silver medal in giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics at Whistler.

Jansrud won his first World Cup race in March 2012 on home snow at Kvitfjell; he made the podium in all three speed events over the weekend, capped off with a victory in the super-G on Sunday.[3]

At the first men's race of the World Championships in 2013 at Schladming, Jansrud crashed in the super-G, but got up and skied down to the finish. It was later revealed that he tore a ligament in his left knee, ending his 2013 season.[4]

At the Winter Olympics in 2014 at Sochi, Jansrud won gold in the super-G and bronze in the downhill at Rosa Khutor. At the first World Cup races following the games, he won two speed events at Kvitfjell.

In the 2015 season, Jansrud won seven World Cup races, and placed first in the season standings in both the Super-G and downhill disciplines. He won a silver medal at the World Championships at Beaver Creek in the combined.

Jansrud achieved four wins during the 2016 season. The following year, he won five World Cup races and placed first in super-G, second in downhill, and second in the overall season standing. He also won a silver medal at the World Championships in the super-G.

He took the silver medal in the downhill at the Winter Olympics in 2018 in Korea, 0.12 seconds behind teammate and training partner Aksel Lund Svindal, after leading most of the run. He won bronze in the super-G, for his fifth Olympic medal: a gold, two silver, and two bronze.

At the World Championships in 2019 in Sweden, Jansrud won gold in the downhill by two-hundredths of a second, edging out Svindal in his final international race.[5][6]

In an interview in November 2021, Jansrud expressed that the coming season probably would be his last season at top level.[7] Jansrud confirmed in February 2022 that the Kvitfjell race on 4 March 2022 will be his last race.[8] He is retiring at the same course on which he won his first race in 2012.

World Cup results

Season titles

4 titles: (1 Downhill, 3 Super-G)

SeasonDiscipline
2015Downhill
Super-G
2017Super-G
2018Super-G

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
20041814053
200519985839
20062043214615
200721injured, out for season
2008221115347
20092334940
201024177284710
2011251341427463
20122684994197
201327132181011
2014286292413
2015292191118
20163043320243
2017312241221
20183244345172
201933133541314
2020348597
20213531720
2022361104047

Race victories

  • 23 wins – (8 DH, 13 SG, 1 PGS, 1 SC)
  • 55 podiums – (19 DH, 26 SG, 6 GS, 2 PGS, 2 SC); 137 top tens
SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
20124 March 2012 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201428 February 2014Downhill
2 March 2014Super-G
201529 November 2014 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
30 November 2014Super-G
5 December 2014 Beaver Creek, USADownhill
20 December 2014 Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G
24 January 2015 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill
8 March 2015   Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
18 March 2015 Méribel, FranceDownhill
201621 December 2015 Alta Badia, ItalyParallel-G
15 January 2016    Wengen, SwitzerlandCombined
6 February 2016 Jeongseon, South KoreaDownhill
13 March 2016   Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
20172 December 2016 Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
3 December 2016Downhill
16 December 2016 Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G
27 December 2016 Santa Caterina, ItalySuper-G
25 February 2017   Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill
201826 November 2017 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
11 March 2018   Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201925 November 2018 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
202024 January 2020 Kitzbühel, AustriaSuper-G

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
200519DNF1
200721injured, did not compete
200923DNF1DNF1DNF9
201125DNF15DNF10
201327DNF
2015294152
20173124DNS2
201933221
202135128DNS2

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
200620DNS210
20102417212319
201428DNF2134
201832DNF1327
20223623DNS

References