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Lasse Kjus (born 14 January 1971) is a former
Racing career
Born in Oslo, Kjus grew up in Siggerud, but represented the club Bærums SK.
In February 1999, Kjus pulled off one of the most remarkable feats in the history of alpine skiing when he medaled in all 5 events at the 1999 World Championships in Vail, Colorado. Five skiers had previously earned four medals at a single World Championship (through 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as World Championships for alpine skiing): Toni Sailer of Austria in 1956 at Cortina and in 1958 at Bad Gastein, Marielle Goitschel of France in 1966 at Portillo, Chile, Jean-Claude Killy of France in 1968 at Grenoble, Rosi Mittermaier of Germany in 1976 at Innsbruck, and Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland in 1987 at Crans-Montana; the first four did so when only four medal events were contested, but no one before or since has medaled in all five alpine disciplines, downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and combined or Super-combined, at a single championship.
He started off on 2 February by tying Austrian great
A particular curiosity was also his first heat in the slalom race in Wengen, Switzerland, on 17 January 1999: He got out of the starting gate, got caught with the tip of his right ski, went backwards through the first gate, but finished the heat. He finished third overall – his best World Cup slalom result ever, documented on a YouTube video
Kjus raced for 17 seasons on the World Cup circuit; his first race was in January 1990 in
Legacy
In February 2015 Kjus (and Aamodt) were selected as recipients of the Legends of Honor by the Vail Valley Foundation, and inducted into the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.[2]
World Cup results
Season standings
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1990 |
19 | 58 | 41 | 29 | 29 | – | – |
1991 |
20 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 23 | 33 | 2 |
1992 |
21 | 60 | 30 | 35 | — | — | — |
1993 |
22 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 37 | – | 9 |
1994 |
23 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 27 | 1 |
1995 |
24 | 6 | 24 | 9 | 26 | 9 | 3 |
1996 |
25 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 4 | — |
1997 |
26 | 13 | 32 | 22 | 6 | 16 | 2 |
1998 |
27 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 16 | 11 | — |
1999 |
28 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
2000 |
29 | 53 | 51 | 32 | 22 | 53 | — |
2001 |
30 | 3 | 23 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 |
2002 |
31 | 6 | 18 | 25 | 9 | 15 | 2 |
2003 |
32 | 31 | 44 | 35 | 11 | 37 | 7 |
2004 |
33 | 8 | 48 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 3 |
2005 |
34 | 7 | 53 | 7 | 22 | 18 | 2 |
2006 |
35 | 43 | – | 57 | 22 | 41 | 12 |
Season titles
2 overall, 1 downhill, 3 combined
Season | Discipline |
---|---|
1994 |
Combined |
1996 |
Overall |
1999 |
Overall |
Downhill | |
Combined | |
2001 |
Combined |
^official season title in the combined discipline
was not awarded until the
Race victories
Season | Date | Location | Discipline |
---|---|---|---|
1994 |
16 Jan 1994 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Combined |
1995 |
2 Feb 1995 | Vail, USA | Super-G |
1996 |
21 Dec 1995 | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | Giant slalom |
29 Dec 1995 | Bormio, Italy | Downhill | |
6 Mar 1996 | Kvitfjell, Norway | Downhill | |
1997 |
26 Jan 1997 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Combined |
2 Mar 1997 | Kvitfjell, Norway | Downhill | |
1999 |
12 Dec 1998 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill |
18 Dec 1998 | Val Gardena, Italy | Downhill | |
16 Jan 1999 | Wengen, Switzerland | Downhill | |
17 Jan 1999 | Combined | ||
22 Jan 1999 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill | |
10 Mar 1999 | Sierra Nevada, Spain | Downhill | |
2001 |
21 Jan 2001 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Combined |
2004 |
19 Dec 2003 | Val Gardena, Italy | Super-G |
22 Jan 2004 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill | |
2005 |
4 Dec 2004 | Beaver Creek, USA | Giant slalom |
10 Mar 2005 | Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Downhill |
World Championships results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | 20 | 10 | – | – | – | – |
1993 | 22 | 12 | 16 | cancelled | – | 1 |
1996 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
1997 | 26 | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
1999 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
2001 | 30 | – | 7 | 4 | DNS | — |
2003 | 32 | – | DNS2 | 9 | 13 | 2 |
2005 | 34 | – | DNF1 | 11 | 33 | 6 |
Olympic results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1992 | 19 | — | DNF1 | — | — | — |
1994 | 23 | — | 7 | 12 | 18 | 1 |
1998 | 27 | — | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
2002 | 31 | — | 3 | DNF | 2 | 5 |
2006 | 35 | — | 18 | 14 | 14 | DNF SL1 |
See also
References
- ^ a b Lasse Kjus at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- ^ "Norway's dynamic duo Aamodt and Kjus named 2015 Legends Of Honor". FIS. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
External links
- Lasse Kjus at FIS (alpine)
- Lasse Kjus at Olympics.com
- Lasse Kjus at Olympedia
- Lasse Kjus at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database