Sunday, February 16, 2014

Alpine Skiing - Men's Super-G - 2104 Winter Olympics

 Kjetil Jansrud
Gold Medal
Norway
Kjetil Jansrud (born 28 August 1985) is a World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion from Norway. He races in all five alpine disciplines, and his best event is the giant slalom, with six World Cup podiums and one in the Olympics.
Born in Stavanger, Jansrud hails from Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jansrud finished tenth in the combined. He broke his thumb in the Olympic giant slalom which ended his 2006 season. A bulging disc discovered that September kept him out of the entire 2007 season. Jansrud made his first World Cup podium in January 2009 at Adelboden and finished ninth in the super combined at the 2009 World Championships.
He won the silver medal in giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Jansrud won his first World Cup race in March 2012 on home snow at Kvitfjell; he made the podium in all three speed events over the weekend, capped off with a victory in the super G on Sunday.
At the first men's race of the 2013 World Championships, Jansrud crashed in the super G, but got up and skied down to the finish. It was later revealed that he tore a ligament in his left knee, ending his 2013 season.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Jansrud won gold in the Super-G and bronze in the downhill at Rosa Khutor.

 Andrew Weibrecht
Silver Medal
USA
Andrew Weibrecht (born February 10, 1986) is a World Cup alpine ski racer and two-time Olympic medalist from the the United States. Born in Lake Placid, New York, he races in all five disciplines and specialiizes in the speed events of Downhill and Super G.
Bode Miller
Bronze Medal
USA
Samuel Bode Miller (/ˈboʊdiː/; born October 12, 1977) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.
He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and so the most successful male American alpine ski racer of all time.
Miller is one of the greatest World Cup racers of all time with 33 victories, and one of five men to win World Cup events in all five disciplines. In November 2004, Miller became the 5th and last man to win World Cup races in all 5 disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill, and combined − and today he is the only one with five or more victories in each discipline. In 2008, Miller and Lindsey Vonn won the overall World Cup titles for the first U.S. sweep in 25 years.
He has won six medals in the Winter Olympics, the most of any U.S. skier − two silvers (giant slalom and combined) in Salt Lake City 2002, a gold (super combined), a silver (Super-G) and a bronze (downhill) in Vancouver 2010 and a bronze (Super-G) in Sochi 2014 . Miller is one of 5 skiers who have won Olympic medals in 4 different disciplines, matching the feats of Kjetil André Aamodt and female racers Anja Pärson, Janica Kostelić, and Katja Seizinger.
He has won six discipline World Cup titles. During his career Miller has also won four World Championships titles in four different disciplines (giant slalom, combined, Super-G and downhill) and one silver medal in Super-G .

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