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Lasse Kjus in January 2006
nation	Norway
birthday	14th January 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Siggerud , Norway
size	180 cm
Weight	88 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	Bærum Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 3 × 1 × World championships 3 × 8 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Lillehammer 1994 combination silver Nagano 1998 Departure silver Nagano 1998 combination silver Salt Lake City 2002 Departure bronze Salt Lake City 2002 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Morioka Shizukuishi 1993 combination silver Sierra Nevada 1996 combination silver Sestriere 1997 Super G silver Sestriere 1997 Departure silver Sestriere 1997 Giant slalom gold Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Super G gold Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Giant slalom silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Departure silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 slalom silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 combination silver St. Moritz 2003 combination  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships gold Zinal 1990 Giant slalom silver Zinal 1990 Departure silver Zinal 1990 combination bronze Zinal 1990 Super G bronze Zinal 1990 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 12, 1990  Individual world cup victories 18th  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1995/96 , 1998/99 )  Downhill World Cup 1. (1998/99)  Super G World Cup 3. (1995/96)  Giant Slalom World Cup 3. (1995/96)  Slalom World Cup 13. ( 1990/91 )  Combination World Cup 1. ( 1993/94 , 1998/99, 2000/01 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 10 7th 6th  Super G 2 4th 6th  Giant slalom 2 7th 1  slalom 0 0 1  combination 4th 6th 4th

Lasse Kjus (born January 14, 1971 in Siggerud , Viken , Norway ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . He won the overall World Cup twice , was once Olympic champion and three times world champion . At the 1999 World Championships in Vail , he won a medal in all five disciplines (two gold, three silver) - an achievement that was unmatched up to then and since then, at best comparable to the few that were before the introduction of the Super-G in all four disciplines Have won medals: Toni Sailer in 1956 and 1958, Marielle Goitschel in 1966, Jean-Claude Killy in 1968 and Rosi Mittermaier in 1976 (their combination medal being the automatic result of the other three medals, Kjus had to compete in a separate race). He won a total of 16 medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships and is one of the most successful ski racers ever.

biography

The all-rounder won 18 World Cup races (10 downhill runs, 2 Super-G, 2 giant slalom, 4 combinations) and the overall World Cup in 1996 and 1999. In Morioka he was combined world champion in 1993 . At the 1999 World Championships in Vail , he was able to triumph in giant slalom and super-G and also won silver in slalom , combined and downhill . Kjus has won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel five times and the Lauberhorn race in Wengen twice .

At the Olympic Games, his record is not as outstanding as at the World Championships. Nevertheless, he managed to win gold in combination at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer . He also won silver in downhill and combined in Nagano in 1998 . At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , he was able to add silver in the downhill and bronze in the giant slalom to his collection of medals. His last World Cup race, a Super-G, he finished on March 16, 2006 in Åre with a 13th place. After two years without a competition, Kjus started again in the Norwegian championships in 2008 and finished third in the downhill.

In 1999 he won the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year , in the same year he was honored with the Aftenposten gold medal and awarded the Skieur d'Or by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) .

His best slalom result in the World Cup also dates back to 1999, a third place in the Wengen slalom, which is particularly remarkable in how he achieved it: he got stuck with his ski at the start and backed through the first gate.

Kjus is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .

successes

winter Olympics

• Lillehammer 1994 : 1st combination, 7th giant slalom, 12th Super-G, 18th downhill
• Nagano 1998 : 2nd downhill, 2nd combination, 8th giant slalom, 9th Super-G
• Salt Lake City 2002 : 2nd downhill, 3rd giant slalom, 5th combination
• Turin 2006 : 14th downhill, 14th Super-G, 18th giant slalom

World championships

• Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 : 10th slalom, 25th Super-G
• Morioka 1993 : 1st combination, 12th slalom, 16th giant slalom
• Sierra Nevada 1996 : 2nd combination, 4th downhill, 4th giant slalom, 6th Super-G, 10th slalom
• Sestriere 1997 : 2nd giant slalom, 2nd Super-G, 2nd descent, 5th combination
• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 1st giant slalom, 1st Super-G, 2nd slalom, 2nd descent, 2nd combination
• St. Anton 2001 : 4th Super-G, 7th giant slalom
• St. Moritz 2003 : 2nd combination, 9th Super-G, 13th descent
• Bormio 2005 : 6th combination, 11th Super-G, 33rd downhill

World Cup ratings

Kjus has won the overall World Cup twice (1996, 1999), plus four more victories in discipline ratings.

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1989/90	68.	14th	-	-	29	4th	29	9	41.	1	-	-
1990/91	9.	103	33.	5	23.	6th	11.	30th	13.	42	2.	20th
1991/92	60.	108	-	-	-	-	35.	43	30th	65	-	-
1992/93	12.	452	-	-	37.	32	4th	254	19th	96	9.	70
1993/94	7th	651	27.	83	7th	194	21st	76	15th	118	1.	180
1994/95	6th	665	9.	227	26th	47	9.	212	24.	54	3.	125
1995/96	1.	1216	4th	343	3.	264	3.	475	14th	134	-	-
1996/97	13.	625	16.	173	6th	203	22nd	101	32.	48	2.	100
1997/98	10.	578	11.	275	16.	96	29	48	20th	127	-	-
1998/99	1.	1465	1.	760	7th	208	14th	163	14th	154	1.	180
1999/00	53.	146	33.	36	22nd	60	32.	36	51.	14th	-	-
2000/01	3.	866	5.	301	8th.	143	8th.	241	23.	81	1.	100
2001/02	6th	680	15th	215	9.	176	25th	48	18th	101	2.	140
2002/03	31.	283	37.	30th	11.	140	35.	39	44.	14th	7th	60
2003/04	8th.	824	9.	316	7th	230	14th	141	48.	17th	3.	120
2004/05	7th	580	18th	163	22nd	70	7th	258	53.	9	2.	80
2005/06	43.	169	41.	16	22nd	94	57.	3	-	-	12.	56

World Cup victories

Kjus won 18 World Cup races (10 downhill, 2 Super-G, 2 giant slalom, 4 combined) and achieved 42 podium places.

date	place	country	discipline
January 16, 1994	Kitzbühel	Austria	combination
2nd December 1995	Vail	United States	Super G
December 21, 1995	Kranjska Gora	Slovenia	Giant slalom
December 29, 1995	Bormio	Italy	Departure
March 6, 1996	Kvitfjell	Norway	Departure
January 26, 1997	Kitzbühel	Austria	combination
March 2, 1997	Kvitfjell	Norway	Departure
December 12, 1998	Val d'Isère	France	Departure
December 18, 1998	Val Gardena	Italy	Departure
January 16, 1999	Wengen	Switzerland	Departure
January 17, 1999	Wengen	Switzerland	combination
January 22, 1999	Kitzbühel	Austria	Departure
March 10, 1999	Sierra Nevada	Spain	Departure
January 21, 2001	Kitzbühel	Austria	combination
December 19, 2003	Val Gardena	Italy	Super G
January 22, 2004	Kitzbühel	Austria	Departure
4th December 2004	Beaver Creek	United States	Giant slalom
March 10, 2005	Lenzerheide	Switzerland	Departure

Junior World Championships

• Madonna di Campiglio 1988 : 6th Super-G, 9th descent
• Aleyska 1989 : 9th descent, 21st slalom, 37th Super-G, 37th giant slalom
• Zinal 1990 : 1st giant slalom, 2nd descent, 2nd combination, 3rd Super-G, 3rd slalom

Norwegian championships

Kjus is a six-time Norwegian champion :

• 1 × downhill (1995)
• 3 × Super-G (1996, 1998, 2005)
• 1 × slalom (1992)
• 1 × combination (1995)

Awards

• 1999: Norway's Sportsman of the Year
• 1999: Aftenposten gold medal
• 1999: Skieur d'Or

Web links

• Lasse Kjus website
• Lasse Kjus in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Leave Kjus in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Leave Kjus in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• From 0 to 100 , Focus , March 5, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Seeger : Ski World Cup Guide 97.Biorama, Basel 1996, p. 179.
2. ↑ YouTube video in Norwegian with English subtitles.