Kjetil Jansrud

Kjetil Jansrud is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion who was born on 28 August 1985 in Stavanger and comes from Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen. He competed in every alpine discipline except slalom, and giant slalom was his best event, where he had six World Cup podiums and an Olympic silver medal. From 2012 he concentrated on the speed events, which produced all but two of his World Cup victories. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi he won the super-G and placed third in the downhill, and at the 2019 World Championships in Are he won gold in the downhill. He later became the host of the television show Alt for Norge.