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
Born (1985-08-28) 28 August 1985
Stavanger, Norway
OccupationAlpine skier
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)
Websitekjetil-jansrud.com
Olympics
Teams5 – (2006–2022)
Medals5 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams8 – (2005, 2009–2021)
Medals3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons18 – (2003–2006, 2008–2021)
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
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Slalom 0 0 0
Giant 0 3 3
Super-G 13 8 5
Downhill 8 7 4
Combined 1 0 1
Parallel 1 0 1
Total 23 18 14
International alpine ski competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 2 2
World Championships 1 2 0
Total 2 4 2
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 Kvetfjill 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)

Season Discipline
2015 Downhill
Super-G
2017 Super-G
2018 Super-G

Season standings
SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200418140—53———
200519985839———
200620432146——15
200721injured, out for season
2008221115347———
20092334—940——
20102417—7284710
2011251341427463
20122684994197
20132713—2181011
2014286—292413
2015292—191118
20163043320243
2017312—241221
20183244345172
20193313—3541314
2020348——597
20213531——720—
202236110——4047—

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 2012Norway  Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201428 February 2014Downhill
2 March 2014Super-G
201529 November 2014Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
30 November 2014Super-G
5 December 2014United States Beaver Creek, USADownhill
20 December 2014Italy Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G
24 January 2015Austria Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill
8 March 2015Norway  Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
18 March 2015France Méribel, FranceDownhill
201621 December 2015Italy Alta Badia, ItalyParallel-G
15 January 2016 Switzerland  Wengen, SwitzerlandCombined
6 February 2016South Korea Jeongseon, South KoreaDownhill
13 March 2016Norway  Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
20172 December 2016France Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
3 December 2016Downhill
16 December 2016Italy Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G
27 December 2016Italy Santa Caterina, ItalySuper-G
25 February 2017Norway  Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill
201826 November 2017Canada Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
11 March 2018Norway  Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201925 November 2018Canada Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
202024 January 2020Austria Kitzbühel, AustriaSuper-G

World Championship results
  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200519DNF1————
200721injured, did not compete
200923DNF1DNF1DNF—9
201125DNF15DNF—10
201327——DNF——
201529——4152
201731——24DNS2
201933——221—
202135——128DNS2

Olympic results
  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200620—DNS2——10
20102417212319
201428—DNF2134
201832—DNF1327
202236——23DNS—

References
  1. Norway Olympic Team and Media Guide Sochi 2014. Norway: Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. 2014. p. 24.
  2. "Profile: Kjetil Jansrud". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
  3. McKee, Hank (4 March 2012). "Jansrud ends Kvitfjell frustration with SG win". Ski Racing.
  4. "Season over early for Jansrud". FIS Alpine.com. 6 February 2013.
  5. "'Like a fairytale': Svindal wins world silver in final ski". ESPN. Associated Press. 9 February 2019.
  6. "The downhill World Champion title goes to Kjetil Jansrud". FIS-Ski.com. 9 February 2019.
  7. Sander, Christian Grieg (3 November 2021). "Jansrud hinter om slutt: – Min siste sesong". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  8. "Kjetil Jansrud, 5-time Olympic medallist, to end ski racing career on Saturday". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
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