Jan Hudec

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Jan Hudec Alpine skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada (until 2016) Czech Republic (from 2016)
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
birthday 19th August 1981 (age 39)
place of birth Šumperk , Czechoslovakia
size 183 cm
Weight 93 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society Banff Alpine Racers
status resigned
End of career March 31, 2018
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Sochi 2014 Super G
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Are 2007 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 2, 2002
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 16. ( 2011/12 )
 Downhill World Cup 9th (2011/12)
 Super G World Cup 6th (2011/12)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 0 1
 Super G 0 2 0
 

Jan Hudec (born August 19, 1981 in Šumperk , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech - Canadian ski racer . He was a member of the Canadian national ski team from 1999 to 2016 and specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. From 2016 he started for the Czech Ski Association.

biography

Hudec was born as the son of Jan Hudec sen. and his wife Vladi, a cross-country skier, born in Czechoslovakia . When he was one year old, his family left the country with him and settled in Germany . She spent four and a half years there and moved to Canada in 1986 , where his father found a job as a ski trainer in Red Deer . In 1993 the family moved to Banff , where both parents worked at the Mountain Ski Academy.

Hudec skied for the first time in Germany at the age of two and competed in his first race at the age of three. He further developed his alpine talent in Canada and eventually became a student at the Mountain Ski Academy. From 1996 on he started regularly at the FIS races held in North America and made his debut in the Nor-Am Cup at the end of 1997 . It took two years before he was able to place in the top ten in the Nor-Am Cup for the first time. In February 2002, as a 20-year-old, he achieved his first victory on the descent from Le Massif .

Internationally, he first drew attention to himself in February 2001 when he finished fourth in the downhill at the Junior World Championships in Verbier, Switzerland . Two years later he surprisingly reached seventh place at the World Championships in St. Moritz . In the same year, a serious knee injury interrupted his career. When he made his comeback in November 2004 in the World Cup downhill run in Lake Louise , he was seventh with start number 68. Two weeks after this success, another injury forced him to take a year-long break from racing.

Through the Nor-Am Cup, Hudec qualified again for the Canadian World Cup team, where he hardly made it into the top ranks. He failed to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics . It wasn't until the 2007 World Ski Championships in Åre , Sweden , that he caught up with the world's best. At the beginning of the world championship he finished seventh in the Super-G , five days later he achieved the greatest success of his career to date with the silver medal in the downhill.

On November 24, 2007 he celebrated his first victory in the World Cup on the downhill from Lake Louise. During training for the Lauberhorn downhill run in Wengen , Hudec fell badly on January 8, 2008 and suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament , which ended the 2007/08 season prematurely for him. The Canadian only returned to the World Cup in January 2009 and took part in the World Cup in Val-d'Isère in February . There he fell on the descent and tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, which meant that the 2008/09 season also ended prematurely for him.

The following 2009/10 season proved difficult. Only once did Hudec finish in the top 15 in the World Cup, at the 2010 Winter Olympics he didn't get past 23rd in the Super-G and 25th in the downhill. For these reasons, he was increasingly used in the Nor-Am Cup, where he achieved several podium places. In the 2010/11 season he again achieved a top 10 result in the World Cup downhill from Kvitfjell . At the 2011 World Championships , he finished 25th in the downhill, in the Super-G he was eliminated.

In the winter of 2011/12, Hudec gradually approached the world's best again. After two top 10 results, he won the Downhill from Chamonix on February 4, 2012 and achieved his second World Cup victory in over four years. With a total of eight top 10 results, including two podium places, he came sixth in the Super G World Cup and ninth in the Downhill World Cup. Before that, he had never been in the top ten in the Downhill World Cup and not in the top 20 in the Super-G. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he and Bode Miller won the bronze medal in Super-G ex aequo .

In May 2016, Hudec announced that he would be competing for his home country Czech Republic from the 2016/17 season. He justified this step with what he considered to be too high expenses that he would have had to pay the Canadian Association. In the following two World Cup winters, however, he never finished in the points, his best result for the Czech Republic was a 41st place. On March 31, 2018, he announced his resignation.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G
space Points space Points space Points
2002/03 123. 13 - - 44. 13
2003/04 116. 16 - - 36. 16
2004/05 91. 42 37. 36 45. 6th
2006/07 69. 98 31. 67 29 31
2007/08 37. 264 13. 174 24. 90
2008/09 101. 32 39. 32 - -
2009/10 102. 36 44. 20th 38. 16
2010/11 75. 100 26th 89 45. 11
2011/12 16. 548 9. 284 6th 264
2012/13 35. 195 21st 103 15th 92
2013/14 34. 233 24. 92 11. 141
2014/15 82. 73 43. 26th 30th 47

World Cup victories

  • 5 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
November 24, 2007 Lake Louise Canada Departure
4th February 2012 Chamonix France Departure

Nor-Am Cup

  • 2001/02 season : 4th overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 5th Super-G ranking
  • 2005/06 season : 10th overall classification, 5th Super-G classification, 10th downhill classification
  • Season 2009/10 : 7th overall ranking, 4th downhill ranking, 4th Super-G ranking
  • 2010/11 season : 7th super-G rating
  • 13 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
February 20, 2002 Le Massif Canada Departure
February 15, 2006 Big mountain United States Super G
March 14, 2010 Burke United States Super G

Junior World Championships

  • Québec 2000 : 13th Super-G, 18th downhill, 18th slalom, 24th giant slalom
  • Verbier 2001 : 4th downhill, 15th Super-G, 31st giant slalom, 37th slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vice world champion Jan Hudec suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament ( memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - Kleine Zeitung , January 8, 2008
  2. ↑ Jan Hudec pulled cruciate ligament rupture downhill  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - sport.orf.at, February 11, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sport.orf.at  
  3. ↑ Jan Hudec will no longer wear the Maple Leaf. CBC / Radio-Canada , May 30, 2016, accessed June 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Olympic bronze medal winner Jan Hudec ends his career. skiweltcup.tv, March 31, 2018, accessed April 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hudec, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Šumperk