Carlo Janka

Carlo Janka



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Carlo Janka (born October 15, 1986) is a Swiss alpine ski racer from Obersaxen, in the canton of Graubünden. He is considered a rising star of the Swiss team.
Janka competed in his first international FIS race in December 2001. Not until four years later did he reach the podium, but success came in all four disciplines. Janka began racing on the Europa Cup circuit in January 2004. He earned his first two World Cup starts in December of 2005, but did not finish either race. At the 2006 Junior World Championships in Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec, Canada, he won the bronze medal in giant slalom, and he finished the 2006/07 season in fourth place in the overall Europa Cup standings.
Janka scored his first World Cup points in the giant slalom at Alta Badia on December 17, 2006, finishing in 20th place. But his World Cup breakthrough began two years later, on November 29, 2008, when he came out of the 65th starting position to finish a surprising second place in the downhill at Lake Louise. Two weeks later, on December 13, he skied to his first World Cup victory in a giant slalom race at Val d’Isère.
On the Beaver Creek race weekend of the 4-6 December 2009 Janka achieved a remarkable feat by winning the Super-Combined, the Downhill, and the Giant Slalom on the Bird's of Prey course. This is something not achieved since Hermann Maier at the same race meet ten years earlier on the 1999/2000 World Cup tour. On the same weekend as Janka triumphed in Beaver Creek, a similar feat was almost attained by Lindsey Vonn on the female tour at Lake Louise.
He won the bronze medal in Downhill and gold in Giant Slalom at the 2009 World Championship of Val d'Isère

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