Janica Kostelic is a retired Croatian alpine ski racer born January 5, 1982. She won three Olympic gold medals and one silver at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games and a fourth gold in the combined at the 2006 Turin Games, and won five World Championship gold medals between 1999 and 2005 across slalom, giant slalom, downhill and combined events. She won thirty individual World Cup races and three overall World Cup titles, in 2001, 2003 and 2006, before retiring in 2007 at age 25 after ten knee surgeries.
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Career HighlightFour-time Olympic gold medalist in alpine skiing and five-time World Championship gold medalist. 2 Classification
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Which Olympic records did Janica Kostelic set?
She was the first alpine skier to win four medals at one Olympics and the first woman to win six alpine Olympic medals.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City she won gold in the slalom, giant slalom and alpine combined and silver in the super-G. That made her the first alpine skier, male or female, to win four medals at one Olympics, and the first woman to win three gold medals at the same Winter Games. At the 2006 Games in Torino she defended her combined gold and added a super-G silver, which made her the first female alpine skier to win six Olympic medals.
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Janica Kostelić (pronounced [janitsa kostelitɕ]; born 5 January 1982) is a Croatian former alpine ski racer.
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Janica Kostelić (pronounced [janitsa kostelitɕ]; born 5 January 1982) is a Croatian former alpine ski racer.
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Croatian alpine skier (born 1982)
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January 5, 1982
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5 January 1982
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She is a four-time Olympic gold medalist. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships.
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is a Croatian former alpine ski racer.
Competed In: 1998 Winter Olympics, Article text (competition)
At the age of 16, Kostelić was selected for the Croatian team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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