Kjetil JANSRUD

Historical Results

Cycling, spending time with his family.

Athlete

Partner, Benedicte Isabel Mortensen. Daughter, Froya (born 2020). Father, Jan Ingvald Jansrud. Mother, Inger Helen Jansrud.

Norwegian, English

Peer Gynt Alpinklubb (Vinstra, NOR)

2000 FIS event in Aurdal (Giant slalom - DNF1)
2003 World Cup in Wengen (Slalom - DNQ1)

3 December 2021: Suffered ligament damage in his left knee as the result of a crash in a World Cup super-G in Beaver Creek. It was initially thought it might end his season. But by mid-January he was back on snow to test the knee at Kvitfjell, site of the 1994 Olympic speed events, and was cleared to compete in the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing on 23 January 2022.

22 January 2019: Fractured the middle and index fingers on his left hand when he lost his balance at the top of the Hahnenkamm course during downhill training. He underwent surgery at a hospital in nearby St. Johann in Tirol. He was out for two weeks but returned for the World Championships in Are, where he won gold in the downhill.

6 February 2013: Suffered ligament damage to his left knee after a crash in the super-G at the World Championships in Schladming. While he skied down after the accident, later evaluation showed the damage and he ended his 2012/13 season. He returned to racing at the World Cup in Lake Louise in November 2013.

September 2006: Suffered from a bulging disc. Started one race in New Zealand in August 2006, but then missed the remainder of the 2006/07 season. He returned to racing in November 2007. "Horrified, I tried anything and everything to make it heal faster. But in the end, it put me out of the whole season, and up until October the following year. Injuries are always something that happens to 'other' racers. I had never been injured before, the broken thumb I got in Turin was a minor setback, but nothing I would consider an injury.” (kjetil-jansrud.com)

20 February 2006: Broke a thumb in the first run of giant slalom at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, ending his World Cup season. He returned to compete in lower level FIS races in Sweden and Norway in April 2006.

“Any way you look at it – the injuries have taught me valuable lessons and I am glad I have experienced those. It has given me a fundament to make the right decisions, and as an extension of that; one of the better stories is how I went from a torn ACL to an Olympic gold medal 11 months later in Sochi." (kjetil-jansrud.com)

2001

His family moved from coastal Norway to Vinstra, north of Lillehammer, when he was two. At the age of three, he was on cross-country skis. Then at seven, he got his first pair of Alpine skis. His father was instrumental in starting a new ski club, the Peer Gynt Alpintklubb at the Gala ski area, which became the springboard for his Alpine success. (kjetil-jansrud.com)

"I was young, and where we moved, everyone was put on skis. My father brought us there because of work. I liked the skiing and joined a ski club. It turned out to be a good decision.” (nytimes.com, 5 Dec 2014)

His Olympic gold medal in super-G at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

Selected as an opening ceremony flagbearer for Norway at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.