Description
Kjetil Jansrud is a World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion from Norway. He races in all five alpine disciplines, and his best event used to be the giant slalom where he has 6 World Cup podiums and an Olympic silver medal. However, since 2012 he has become more of a speed specialist having won all three of his World Cup victories in the speed events, he recently won the Super-G and came 3rd in the Downhill in the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
Born in Stavanger, Jansrud hails from Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jansrud finished tenth in the combined. 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 at the 2009 World Championships.
He won the silver medal in giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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. [More at Wikipedia]
Born
August 28th, 1985 in Stavanger (Age 39)
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