Kjetil Jansrud

Kjetil Jansrud

Jansrud in February 2011
Personal information
Born	(1985-08-28) 28 August 1985 Stavanger, Norway
Occupation(s)	Alpine skier, television host
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) (2014)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
Club	Peer Gynt Alpinklubb
World Cup debut	19 January 2003 (age 17)
Olympics
Teams	5 – (2006–2022)
Medals	5 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	8 – (2005, 2009–2021)
Medals	3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	18 – (2003–2006, 2008–2021)
Wins	23
Podiums	55
Overall titles	0 – (2nd in 2015, 2017)
Discipline titles	4 – (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 2014 Sochi Super-G 2010 Vancouver Giant slalom 2018 Pyeongchang Downhill 2014 Sochi Downhill 2018 Pyeongchang Super-G World Championships 2019 Åre Downhill 2015 Beaver Creek Combined 2017 St. Moritz Super-G Junior World Championships 2004 Maribor Giant slalom 2005 Bardonecchia Combined

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 is the current host of popular tv reality show Alt for Norge.

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. 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 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.

In an interview in November 2021, Jansrud expressed that the coming season probably would be his last season at top level. Jansrud confirmed in February 2022 that the Kvitfjell race on 4 March 2022 will be his last race. 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

Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant  slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2004	18	140	—	53	—	—	—
2005	19	98	58	39	—	—	—
2006	20	43	21	46	—	—	15
2007	21	injured, out for season
2008	22	111	53	47	—	—	—
2009	23	34	—	9	40	—	—
2010	24	17	—	7	28	47	10
2011	25	13	41	4	27	46	3
2012	26	8	49	9	4	19	7
2013	27	13	—	21	8	10	11
2014	28	6	—	29	2	4	13
2015	29	2	—	19	1	1	18
2016	30	4	33	20	2	4	3
2017	31	2	—	24	1	2	21
2018	32	4	43	45	1	7	2
2019	33	13	—	35	4	13	14
2020	34	8	—	—	5	9	7
2021	35	31	—	—	7	20	—
2022	36	110	—	—	40	47	—

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

Season	Date	Location	Discipline
2012	4 March 2012	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G
2014	28 February 2014		Downhill
	2 March 2014		Super-G
2015	29 November 2014	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill
	30 November 2014		Super-G
	5 December 2014	Beaver Creek, USA	Downhill
	20 December 2014	Val Gardena, Italy	Super-G
	24 January 2015	Kitzbühel, Austria	Downhill
	8 March 2015	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G
	18 March 2015	Méribel, France	Downhill
2016	21 December 2015	Alta Badia, Italy	Parallel-G
	15 January 2016	Wengen, Switzerland	Combined
	6 February 2016	Jeongseon, South Korea	Downhill
	13 March 2016	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G
2017	2 December 2016	Val-d'Isère, France	Super-G
	3 December 2016		Downhill
	16 December 2016	Val Gardena, Italy	Super-G
	27 December 2016	Santa Caterina, Italy	Super-G
	25 February 2017	Kvitfjell, Norway	Downhill
2018	26 November 2017	Lake Louise, Canada	Super-G
	11 March 2018	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G
2019	25 November 2018	Lake Louise, Canada	Super-G
2020	24 January 2020	Kitzbühel, Austria	Super-G

World Championship results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2005	19	DNF1	—	—	—	—
2007	21	injured, did not compete
2009	23	DNF1	DNF1	DNF	—	9
2011	25	DNF1	5	DNF	—	10
2013	27	—	—	DNF	—	—
2015	29	—	—	4	15	2
2017	31	—	—	2	4	DNS2
2019	33	—	—	22	1	—
2021	35	—	—	12	8	DNS2

Olympic results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2006	20	—	DNS2	—	—	10
2010	24	17	2	12	31	9
2014	28	—	DNF2	1	3	4
2018	32	—	DNF1	3	2	7
2022	36	—	—	23	DNS	—

External links

• Kjetil Jansrud at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (alpine)
• Kjetil Jansrud at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (cross-country)
• Kjetil Jansrud at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Kjetil Jansrud at Olympics.com
• Kjetil Jansrud at Olympedia (archive)
• Kjetil Jansrud at Team Norway (in Norwegian)
• Kjetil Jansrud at Head Skis
• Kjetil Jansrud at Norwegian Ski Team (in Norwegian)