Janez Jazbec

Janez Jazbec
nation	Slovenia
birthday	December 27, 1984
place of birth	Kranj
size	181 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
discipline	Giant slalom , slalom
society	SK Tržič
status	active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 19, 2004  Overall World Cup 116th ( 2011/12 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 40th (2011/12)
last change: March 18, 2012

Janez Jazbec (born December 27, 1984 in Kranj ) is a Slovenian ski racer . His strongest discipline is the giant slalom .

biography

Jazbec contested his first FIS races in November 1999, the first victory followed in March 2004. From 2002 to 2004 he took part in three Junior World Championships , with his best result of 20th place in the Super-G in Maribor in 2004 .

In the European Cup Jazbec is since December 2003, mainly in Giant Slalom and Slalom race at the start. At the end of November 2006, the Slovenian finished in the top ten for the first time in the first giant slalom in Levi , but two weeks later he had to end the season due to an injury. In the following winter he had to take a long break and was only able to take part in races again in March. In the European Cup season 2008/09 he reached tenth place in the giant slalom ranking with four top 10 places. On December 2nd, 2009 he achieved his first podium finish with third place in the giant slalom in Val Thorens .

In addition to the European Cup races, Jazbec has also been used in giant slaloms in the World Cup since December 2004 . In his seventh World Cup race, the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère on December 13, 2009, he scored his first World Cup points with 21st place. Since then he has been in the World Cup more often, but was unable to score a second time in the next two years. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver - his first and so far only major event - he came 19th in the giant slalom.

On January 15, 2012, Jazbec celebrated his first European Cup victory in the giant slalom in Méribel . A month later he was able to score for the second time in the World Cup, with 18th place in the giant slalom in Bansko, his best ever World Cup result.

successes

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010 : 19th giant slalom

Junior World Championships

• Tarvisio 2002 : 34th Super-G
• Briançonnais 2003 : 24th giant slalom, 39th downhill
• Maribor 2004 : 20th Super-G, 33rd downhill, 45th giant slalom

World cup

• 1 place in the top 20

European Cup

• Season 2011/12 : 6th giant slalom ranking
• 3 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
January 15, 2012	Meribel	France	Giant slalom

More Achievements

• Three-time Slovenian junior champion (slalom 2003 and 2004, giant slalom 2004)
• 8 victories in FIS races

Web links

• Janez Jazbec in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Janez Jazbec in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Janez Jazbec in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )