Kjetil Jansrud


Kjetil Jansrud is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion. He races in all alpine disciplines apart from slalom, 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 but two of his World Cup victories in the speed events. At the 2014 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.
Born in Stavanger, Jansrud hails from Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, about

Career

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 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.
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.
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 Super 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

World Cup results

Season titles

4 titles:
SeasonDiscipline
2015Downhill
2015Super-G
2017Super-G
2018Super-G

Season standings

Race victories

SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
20124 March 2012 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201428 February 2014 Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill
20142 March 2014 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201529 November 2014 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
201530 November 2014 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
20155 December 2014 Beaver Creek, USADownhill
201520 December 2014 Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G
201524 January 2015 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill
20158 March 2015 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201518 March 2015 Méribel, FranceDownhill
201621 December 2015 Alta Badia, ItalyParallel-G
201615 January 2016 Wengen, SwitzerlandCombined
20166 February 2016 Jeongseon, South KoreaDownhill
201613 March 2016 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
20172 December 2016 Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper G
20173 December 2016 Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill
201716 December 2016 Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G
201727 December 2016 Santa Caterina, ItalySuper-G
201725 February 2017 Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill
201826 November 2017 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
201811 March 2018 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
201925 November 2018 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
202024 January 2020 Kitzbühel, AustriaSuper-G

World Championship results

Olympic results