Ján Zelenčík

Ján Zelenčík
nation	Slovakia
birthday	17th October 1979
Career
society	LKS Dukla Banska Bystrica
National squad	since 1997
Pers. Best	164 m ( Oberstdorf 1996)
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 18, 1998
Overall World Cup	93. ( 1997/98 )
Jump World Cup	84th (1997/98)

Ján Zelenčík (born October 17, 1979 ) is a former Slovak ski jumper .

Zelenčík, who started for the LKS Dukla Banska Bystrica club , began his international career in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . After good performances in this series, he made his debut in the Ski Jumping World Cup on January 18, 1998 . In Zakopane , Poland , he reached 32nd place and narrowly missed the points. At the Ski Flying World Championships in 1998 in Oberstdorf , he flew to 36th place, after having reached 34th place in the World Cup flying the day before. On February 5, 1998 he was able to win World Cup points for the first time in Sapporo and reached 29th place. However, it was also the last World Cup points of his career. The 1997/98 World Cup season he finished tied with Japanese Kazuhiro Nakamura in 93rd place in the overall World Cup ranking. in the jump classification he was in the end on the 84th place. In the 1998/99 season he only competed in the World Cup show jumping in Predazzo , where he was 50th, before he returned exclusively to the Continental Cup. After he remained unsuccessful there, however, he ended his active ski jumping career with the start of the ski flying world championship in Harrachov in 2002 , where he flew again to 46th place.

At the open championship of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on September 5, 2009 in Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czech Republic, he won the title in the 1979 to 1984 age group on the converted K70 with 68.0 m and 72.0 m and 203.0 points .

Web links

• Ján Zelenčík in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)