Kjetil Jansrud

Kjetil Jansrud (born 28 August 1985) is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer. He was an Olympic champion who competed in many alpine skiing events, except for slalom. His best event was the giant slalom, where he won six World Cup podiums and an Olympic silver medal.

Since 2012, Jansrud focused on speed events, where most of his World Cup victories happened. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won the super-G and placed third in the downhill. Later, at the World Championships in Åre, Jansrud won gold in the downhill.

Today, Kjetil is known for hosting the popular TV reality show Alt for Norge. He was born in Stavanger and grew up in Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, not far from Kvitfjell.

Career

Kjetil Jansrud began his Olympic journey at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing tenth in the combined event. Unfortunately, he broke his thumb during the giant slalom, which ended his 2006 season. A bulging disc kept him from competing in the entire 2007 season.

Jansrud made his first World Cup podium finish in January 2009 at Adelboden and later finished ninth in the super combined at the World Championships. He won the silver medal in giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler.

He won his first World Cup race in March 2012 on home snow at Kvitfjell, followed by victories in several speed events. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014, Jansrud won gold in the super-G and bronze in the downhill at Rosa Khutor. He continued to achieve many wins in World Cup races and earned medals at World Championships over the next several years.

In the Winter Olympics in Korea in 2018, he won silver in the downhill and bronze in the super-G, bringing his total Olympic medals to five. At the World Championships in Sweden in 2019, he won gold in the downhill. Jansrud announced that the Kvitfjell race on 4 March 2022 would be his last, retiring on the same course where he won his first race in 2012.

World Cup results

Season titles

Kjetil Jansrud won 4 titles: 1 in Downhill and 3 in Super-G.

Season standings

Race victories

He had 23 wins in races, including 8 in Downhill, 13 in Super-G, 1 in Parallel Giant Slalom, and 1 in Slalom. He also stood on the podium 55 times and finished in the top ten 137 times.

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

Olympic results