kjetil jansrud

Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud is an Olympic gold medallist and four-time Olympic silver and bronze medallist in alpine skiing. He is also a current world champion in super-G skiing. He has competed in every World Cup season since 2004 except 2007 when he was forced out by injury. During that time he was won four World Cup titles, 23 races, and a further 54 podium placings. He has represented Norway at four Winter Olympics, winning medals at the last three.

Jansrud was born in 1985 and comes from Vinstra in the Gudbrandsdalen valley. He made his World Cup debut in January 2003, aged 17. He competes in four of the five alpine ski disciplines: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and combined. His first taste of international glory came in 2004 when he took silver in the giant slalom at the Junior World Championships in Slovenia. The following year, at the same championships in Italy, he took silver in the combined. In 2006, he took part in his first Winter Olympics, missing a medal but managing a top-ten finish in the combined event.

It wasn’t until 2014 that Jansrud began to reap the rewards of years of such intense dedication that he once finished a race despite having torn a knee ligament on the way down. That year, he won Olympic gold in Russia and took 2nd place in the super-G part of the World Cup, helping him to his highest overall finish to that point. Since then, the floodgates have opened and Jansrud has won title after title, marking him out as one of the world’s best super-G skiers.