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Ivica Kostelić (pronounced [ˈiʋitsa ˈkɔstɛlitɕ]; born 23 November 1979) is a Croatian former alpine ski racer. He specialized in slalom and combined, but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers able to score points in all disciplines. He is the brother of skiing champion Janica Kostelić. In his career he was coached by his father Ante Kostelić, as well as by Kristian Ghedina and Tomislav Krstičević.
Biography
After considerable success in junior competitions, Kostelić's
Kostelić scored a total of 26
Since 2008, he finished among the top six in the overall World Cup standings each season (2008: sixth; 2009: fourth; 2010: fifth; 2011: first; 2012: fourth; 2013: fifth). He also scored points in all disciplines each of those seasons, and his best race results were a seventh place in downhill, a second place in giant slalom, and victories in all other disciplines (11 in slalom, 1 in parallel-slalom, 2 in combined, 4 in
Ivica Kostelić is currently one of the coaches the Croatian national team.
Career
Early World Cup years (1998–2002)
Kostelić made his first World Cup start in October
He did not finish any of his first 11 World Cup races over 3 seasons, until finally scoring World Cup points for the first time in Sestriere, Italy, in December 2000. His first three seasons on the World Cup all ended prematurely due to injuries, failing to make it past December or January each season.Breakthrough (2002–2005)
His big breakthrough came during the
Kostelić would continue his success during the
Resurgence as all-event skier (2006–2010)
Kostelić began his World Cup career as a technical specialist, racing only slalom and GS (with an occasional super-G), but started to ski more often the speed events including
Starting with the
Overall World Cup title (2011)
Kostelić's skiing would reach another level during the
After the stunning success of January, Kostelić's results tailed off considerably and he would fail to finish higher than fifth in any of the remaining 10 World Cup races on the season. In February, Kostelić won a bronze medal in super-G at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch, but finished only 8th and 13th in the slalom and giant slalom after he sustained a knee injury in the second giant slalom run. He had chosen not to race the World Championships downhill or the super combined (in which he was the clear favorite to win the gold medal) in order to avoid injury on the extremely icy course.[5] On 12 March, five races before the end of the season, he clinched his first overall World Cup title,[6] and he would clinch the slalom title at the final race in Lenzerheide, Switzerland on 19 March, despite finishing out of the points that day.[7] Kostelić would win a total of three crystal globes for the 2011 season including the overall, slalom, and combined titles.
Defending the overall World Cup title (2012)
In the
Personal life
Born and raised in
In 2006 Kostelić passed the entrance exam at the University of Zagreb to become a part-time undergraduate student of history.[10]
In 2014 Kostelić married longtime girlfriend Elin Ararsdotir, a native of Iceland. In October she gave birth to their first child, a son Ivan. In July 2016 Elin gave birth to their second child, a son Leon.[11]
Nacional article
In January 2003, after winning the slalom at
His remarks were interpreted by the weekly as a sign of
Other journalists had dismissed his original statement as nothing more than a badly chosen metaphor due to the fact that both Ivica and his father Ante are avid World War II buffs.[12] Since 2002 Ante Kostelić owns a publishing house which published the Croatian edition of the award-winning book Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. In April 2010, the company also published a book Waffen-SS, mračne sile zločinačke politike (Waffen-SS, the Dark Forces of Criminal Politics) by Hrvoje Spajić about the Waffen-SS which Ante Kostelić had edited.[15]
World Cup results
Season titles
Season | Discipline |
---|---|
2002 |
Slalom[16] |
2011 |
Overall[17] |
Combined[18] | |
Slalom[19] | |
2012 |
Combined[20] |
2013 |
Combined A |
A Unofficial, tied with Alexis Pinturault.
Season standings
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 |
21 | 107 | 40 | – | – | – | — |
2002 |
22 | 7 | 1 | 22 | — | — | — |
2003 |
23 | 7 | 2 | 27 | — | — | — |
2004 |
24 | 34 | 14 | 30 | 37 | — | — |
2005 |
25 | 31 | 7 | — | — | — | — |
2006 |
26 | 40 | 15 | – | – | – | 16 |
2007 |
27 | 25 | 16 | – | – | – | 3 |
2008 |
28 | 6 | 5 | 40 | 25 | 35 | 2 |
2009 |
29 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 47 | 4 |
2010 |
30 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 23 | 3 |
2011 |
31 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 25 | 1 |
2012 |
32 | 4 | 2 | 23 | – | 43 | 1 |
2013 |
33 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 28 | 44 | 1 [A] |
2014 |
34 | 42 | 16 | 32 | 34 | – | 30 |
2015 |
35 | 50 | 31 | – | – | 59 | 4 |
2016 |
36 | 105 | – | – | – | – | 20 |
2017 |
37 | 139 | – | – | – | – | 35 |
Race victories
- 26 wins – 15 slalom, 9 combined (5 super combined, 4 traditional), 1 parallel slalom, 1 super-G
Season | Date | Location | Discipline |
---|---|---|---|
2002 |
25 November 2001 | Aspen, USA | Slalom |
13 January 2002 | Wengen, Switzerland | Slalom | |
9 March 2002 | Flachau, Austria | Slalom | |
2003 |
16 December 2002 | Sestriere, Italy | Slalom |
5 January 2003 | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | Slalom | |
12 January 2003 | Bormio, Italy | Slalom | |
2004 |
15 December 2003 | Madonna di Campiglio, Italy | Slalom |
2007 |
10 December 2006 | Reiteralm, Austria | Super combined |
2009 |
22 December 2008 | Alta Badia, Italy | Slalom |
2010 |
17 January 2010 | Wengen, Switzerland | Slalom |
24 January 2010 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Combined | |
2011 |
2 January 2011 | Munich, Germany | Parallel slalom |
9 January 2011 | Adelboden, Switzerland | Slalom | |
14 January 2011 | Wengen, Switzerland | Super combined | |
16 January 2011 | Slalom | ||
21 January 2011 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Super-G | |
23 January 2011 | Combined | ||
30 January 2011 | Chamonix, France | Super combined | |
2012 |
8 December 2011 | Beaver Creek, USA | Slalom |
21 December 2011 | Flachau, Austria | Slalom | |
13 January 2012 | Wengen, Switzerland | Super combined | |
15 January 2012 | Slalom | ||
22 January 2012 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Combined | |
12 February 2012 | Sochi, Russia | Super combined | |
2013 |
27 January 2013 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Combined |
10 March 2013 | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | Slalom |
World Championships results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | 19 | — | — | 32 | — | — |
2001 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — |
2003 | 23 | 1 | DNF1 | — | — | — |
2005 | 25 | DNF1 | — | — | — | — |
2007 | 27 | DNF2 | DSQ1 | — | — | 12 |
2009 | 29 | — | DNS1 | — | — | — |
2011 | 31 | 8 | 13 | 3 | — | — |
2013 | 33 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 20 | 2 |
2015 | 35 | 15 | — | DNF | — | 12 |
2017 | 37 | 38 | — | — | — | — |
Olympic results
Olympics | Age | Downhill | Super-G | Giant slalom | Slalom | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 Salt Lake City | 22 | — | — | 9th | DNF | — |
2006 Turin | 26 | — | 31st | — | 6th | 2nd |
2010 Vancouver | 30 | 18th | 16th | 7th | 2nd | 2nd |
2014 Sochi | 34 | — | 24th | 27th | 9th | 2nd |
Podiums per discipline
Discipline | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total podiums |
---|---|---|---|---|
Slalom | 16 | 10 | 16 | 42 |
Giant slalom | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Super-G | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Combined | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Super combined | 5 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
Parallel slalom | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Total podiums | 27 | 20 | 20 | 67 |
NOTE: This table counts all career races in A-team, including FIS World Cup, FIS World Championships and Winter Olympics.
See also
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
- Ante Kostelić
References
- ^ a b "About me". ivica.kostelic.hr. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Ivica Kostelic". ski-db.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ "FIS Biography for Ivica Kostelic". Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ "Kostelic Gets 7th Cup Win of Month at Chamonix". Ski Racing. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "Svindal Defends Super-Combi Gold at Worlds". Ski Racing. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "Walchhofer Wins To Take DH Lead, Kostelic Ices Overall". Ski Racing. 12 March 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "Razzoli Wins Race, Kostelic Everything Else at Cup Finale". Ski Racing. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "Golden Gates". Sports Illustrated. 4 March 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ "Croatian Ski Association – National teams". Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ Duplančić, Blaž (13 July 2006). "U šestom desetljeću ću BITI PROFESOR POVIJESTI" (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ Ivica Kostelić postao je tata i ponosno objavio: Rodio se sin
- ^ a b c White, Jim (20 January 2003). "'Of course he is not a Nazi. He is a man who likes history'". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ Pleše, Mladen (15 January 2003). "Ivica Kostelić: Nazism was a healthy system". Nacional. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ "Croatian skier under fire over 'Nazi' remarks". BBC News. 16 January 2003.
- ^ Pavliša, Mija (16 April 2010). "Ante Kostelić uredio knjigu o vojnicima SS-a". T-Portal.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ "Kostelic seals slalom crown". BBC Sport. BBC. 9 March 2002. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ Lang, Patrick (12 March 2011). "Croatia's Kostelic wins overall World Cup". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ "Kostelic wins super-combined World Cup". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ Dunbar, Graham (19 March 2011). "Kostelic of Croatia Wins World Cup Slalom Title". ABC News. American Broadcasting Company. Associated Press. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ "Kostelic bags super combined World Cup title". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 12 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
External links
- Ivica Kostelić at FIS (alpine)
- Ivica Kostelić at Olympedia
- Ivica Kostelić at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database