Britt Janyk
Britt Janyk 
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 Canada
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| birthday | 21st May 1980 (age 40) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Vancouver , Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 168 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| society | Whistler Mountain Ski Club | ||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||
| End of career | May 17, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
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Britt Janyk (born May 21, 1980 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ski racer . She started in the World Cup from 1999 to 2011 and won a downhill run . At World Championships and the Olympic Games , she was twice in the top ten. She also won the overall standings of the Nor-Am Cup once and was Canadian champion 15 times . Her younger brother Michael Janyk was also a ski racer.
biography
Britt Janyk celebrated her first major successes in the Nor-Am Cup . In the 1999/2000 season she won the overall classification, from 1998/99 to 2000/01 she was second in the giant slalom classification three times in a row and also second in the Super-G classification in 1999/2000. In the 2001/02 season she won the giant slalom in the European Cup . In October 1999 Janyk competed in her first race in the World Cup . Initially she competed in downhill , super-G and giant slalom , but was not very successful. The only positive exception was eighth place in the giant slalom on Semmering in December 2000 . From the 2001/02 season she started, with a few exceptions, only in the disciplines of giant slalom and slalom . In the 2002/03 season she was regularly in the points and also managed some placements in the top 10. But then things didn't go as well for her and so she did n't qualify for a second round in 2005/06 .
From the 2006/07 season onwards , Janyk mainly competed in the downhill and Super-G. At the Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 in Åre , she was fourth in the Super-G at the same time as Nicole Hosp and only missed a medal by six hundredths of a second. On December 1, 2007 she was third on the Lake Louise Downhill for the first time on the podium in a World Cup race and a week later she celebrated her first and only World Cup victory in the Downhill in Aspen . In the further course of the 2007/08 season , she placed regularly in the top 10, which she reached third place in the Downhill World Cup. She was unable to match this in the next few years, she only achieved a few top 10 results. In 2010, Janyk took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time , having previously started at five World Championships. At her Olympic premiere she achieved sixth place in the downhill as well as 17th place in the Super-G and 25th place in the giant slalom.
Britt Janyk was a total of 15 times Canadian champion in all disciplines. She is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play . On May 17, 2011, she announced her retirement from ski racing.
successes
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 6th downhill, 17th Super-G, 25th giant slalom
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 31st giant slalom
- St. Anton 2001 : 23rd giant slalom
- St. Moritz 2003 : 26th slalom
- Åre 2007 : 4th Super-G, 12th downhill, 18th super combination, 32nd giant slalom
- Val-d'Isère 2009 : 17th Super-G, 26th giant slalom
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 15th downhill, 15th Super-G, 28th giant slalom
World cup
- 2006/07 season : 7th Super-G classification
- 2007/08 season : 3rd downhill classification
- 2 podium places, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 8, 2007 | Aspen | United States | Departure |
European Cup
- 2001/02 season : 1st giant slalom ranking
- 7 podium places, including 3 wins
Nor-Am Cup
- 1998/99 season : 2nd giant slalom ranking
- 1999/00 season : overall winner, 2nd giant slalom ranking, 2nd Super G ranking
- 2000/01 season : 5th overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking, 5th Super-G ranking
- 31 podium places, including 12 wins
Junior World Championships
- Schladming 1997 : 6th Super-G, 13th downhill, 27th giant slalom
- Megève 1998 : 11th Super-G, 11th giant slalom, 18th downhill, 24th slalom
- Pra Loup 1999 : 20th slalom, 26th giant slalom, 27th Super-G, 35th descent
- Québec 2000 : 4th giant slalom, 5th slalom, 9th Super-G, 12th downhill
More Achievements
- 15 Canadian championship titles
- Giant slalom: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010
- Super-G: 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011
- Slalom: 2003, 2004
- Departure: 2006, 2010, 2011
- Combination: 2002
- 2 wins in the Australian New Zealand Cup
- 2 wins in the South American Cup
- 29 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Web site Britt Janyk (English)
- Britt Janyk in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Britt Janyk in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Britt Janyk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Canadian veteran Britt Janyk retires. skiracing.com, May 17, 2011, accessed August 22, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Janyk, Britt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , Canada |