Jon Olsson

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Jon Olsson (2011)

Jon Olsson (* 17th August 1982 in Mora as Jon Anders Olsson ) is a Swedish freestyle ski and alpine ski racer . He weighs 84 kg and is 1.80 m tall. The ski racer Hans Olsson is his brother. On June 23, 2018, he married his girlfriend Janni Delér.

Career

Jon Olsson has won nine medals in the Winter X Games so far , including a gold medal in the 2008 Big Air, two silver medals in the 2004 Superpipe and 2009 in the Big Air, and six bronze medals. At the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in 2005 , he achieved fifth place in the halfpipe discipline.

After taking part in numerous FIS alpine skiing races up to 2002 , Olsson has been regularly participating in alpine competitions since December 2007. In September 2008 he took part in races in the Australia New Zealand Cup for the first time and since December 2008 he has been competing in the Nor-Am Cup . In this racing series he won the giant slalom classification in the 2009/10 season with a win in Panorama and two more top 10 results. Since December 2010, Olsson has also competed in the World Cup , but has not yet won any World Cup points.

Jon Olsson took part in the Gumball 3000 races. In recent years, Olsson owned several super sports cars , which he converted together with the Dutch auto tuner Absolute Motors and then sold on to private customers. The sports cars sold include a Rolls-Royce Wraith tuned to 810 hp and an 800 hp Lamborghini Huracán . Both cars caused a sensation with their white-gray-black graded camouflage optics.

He is co-founder of the bag company Douchebags. Its main sponsor is the Head ski company .

Since September 2007 he has been running a YouTube channel that has more than 1.4 million subscribers.

Web links

Commons : Jon Olsson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian Islinger: Olsson sells his Huracán. autozeitung.de, June 16, 2017, accessed October 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Code name: George the Rolls. Auto Bild, June 27, 2017, accessed October 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ We are Douchebags and that is our story. (No longer available online.) Douchebags, archived from the original on August 25, 2016 ; accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Jon Olsson's YouTube channel. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Olsson, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish skier
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Mora (Sweden) , Sweden