Misplaced Pages

Jakub Janda

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Czech ski jumper and politician
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Jakub Janda" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Jakub Janda
Janda in 2011
Country Czech Republic
Born (1978-04-27) 27 April 1978 (age 46)
Čeladná, Czechoslovakia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Personal best218 m (715 ft)
Vikersund, 25 Feb 2012
World Cup career
Seasons1996–2018
Indiv. starts361
Indiv. podiums20
Indiv. wins6
Team starts47
Overall titles1 (2006)
Four Hills titles1 (2006)
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005-06 season overall
Silver medal – second place 2005 Oberstdorf Individual NH
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Oberstdorf Individual LH
Updated on 17 November 2017.

Jakub Janda (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjakup ˈjanda]; born 27 April 1978) is a Czech politician and former ski jumper. In ski jumping he competed from 1996 to 2017, winning the gold medal in the 2005–06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup as the 2006 World Champion. He also won the 2005/06 Four Hills Tournament (shared with Janne Ahonen), as well as silver and bronze medals at the 2005 World Championships. Janda is one of the most successful ski jumpers from the Czech Republic, and is the only Czech World Cup champion to date.

Ski jumping career

Janda made his World Cup debut in 1996. He had his first major success in 2003, finishing in third place in Liberec. Janda improved his performance under new Slovenian coach Vasja Bajc in 2004. In the 2004–05 season he took several second and third places and one victory in World Cup events. He also won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf.

Janda started the 2005/06 season with World Cup wins in Kuusamo, Lillehammer, Harrachov and Engelberg, and entered the Four Hills Tournament leading the World Cup standings. In the opening event in Oberstdorf, Janda finished in third place, with Janne Ahonen in first and Roar Ljøkelsøy in second. After winning the second race of the Tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Janda moved to second place in the standings behind the reigning Tournament champion Ahonen. Norway's Lars Bystøl was the unexpected winner in Innsbruck while Janda finished ahead of Ahonen again to move into a two-point lead before the last competition. Like in all previous rounds, Janda advanced in last place into the competition to having skis that were too long during Oberstdorf qualifying and could not participate in the next three qualifying rounds as a result. The tournament climaxed with a head-to-head knockout duel between Janda and Ahonen. Janda won the first round by one point (tied to Ahonen on meters), then increased his lead to three points before the last jump. Ahonen beat Janda in the last jump by 141.5 meters to 139 meters and won the Bischofshofen competition by two points. The overall standings thus had both jumpers tied for first place, the first ever joint victors in the history of the tournament. Norway's Ljøkelsøy finished third. Janda was the first Czech winner of the Tournament since Jiří Raška in 1971.

Janda then experienced a drop of form, leading to poor results at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing 13th in the individual normal hill, 10th in the individual large hill and 9th in the team large hill.

After the Olympics he returned to the podium in the World Cup event (2nd place in Lahti), but his form was less solid than at the beginning of the season. His biggest rival Janne Ahonen tried to take advantage of it, but also struggled and after disappointing Lahti results on the eve of the end of the season, he decided to withdraw from one race of the World Cup to concentrate on the last events in Norway and on mammoth hill in Planica.

Janda's lead grew to 175 points with 200 points to gain in the last round in Planica. Janda announced he did not want to participate in the ski flying event (he finished only seventh in the Ski Flying World Championships just after the Four Hills Tournament), but had to compete in Planica to secure his overall title. Qualifying last to the final round of the first of two Planica races and finishing 29th after the second jump, he was helped by Ahonen, who did not reach a better result than 11th place.

Janda did not enter the last race and finished the World Cup standings with 1151 points, still 127 ahead of Ahonen. He was the first Czech to win the ski jumping World Cup, and the first to win the Olympic discipline World Cup standings.

Coach Vasja Bajc ended his relationship with the Czech team after the season and was replaced by an Austrian, Richard Schallert.

Janda has competed in three Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the team large hill event at Vancouver in 2010 while his best individual finish was 13th in the individual normal hill event at Turin four years earlier.

On 2 October 2017 he made his last official career jump when he stuck at the qualification round of Grand Prix season final competition in Klingenthal. He was elected to the Czech parliament three weeks later.

Political career

Janda participated in the 2017 Czech legislative election and was elected into the parliament as a candidate of the Civic Democratic Party. Upon his election, he retired from ski jumping.

World Cup

Standings

 Season  Overall 4H SF RA W5 NT JP
1995/96 — — — N/A N/A N/A —
1996/97 96 — — N/A N/A 48 92
1997/98 70 52 38 N/A N/A 63 72
1998/99 47 50 — N/A N/A — 46
1999/00 70 — — N/A N/A — 70
2000/01 35 71 34 N/A N/A 21 N/A
2001/02 32 37 N/A N/A N/A — N/A
2002/03 25 37 N/A N/A N/A 14 N/A
2003/04 39 54 N/A N/A N/A 17 N/A
2004/05 6 5 N/A N/A N/A 6 N/A
2005/06 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/A N/A N/A 6 N/A
2006/07 22 19 N/A N/A N/A 25 N/A
2007/08 49 25 N/A N/A N/A 57 N/A
2008/09 22 22 45 N/A N/A 20 N/A
2009/10 22 26 — N/A N/A 15 N/A
2010/11 34 33 29 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2011/12 25 12 34 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2012/13 62 — — N/A N/A N/A N/A
2013/14 28 46 25 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2014/15 56 46 — N/A N/A N/A N/A
2015/16 32 21 — N/A N/A N/A N/A
2016/17 38 16 — 51 N/A N/A N/A
2017/18 — — — — — N/A N/A

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2004/05 23 January 2005   Germany Titisee-Neustadt Hochfirstschanze HS142 LH
2 2005/06 26 November 2005   Finland Kuusamo Rukatunturi HS142 (night) LH
3 4 December 2005   Norway Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS138 LH
4 11 December 2005   Czech Republic Harrachov Čerťák HS142 LH
5 18 December 2005   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
6 1 January 2006   Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze HS137 (night) LH

References

Specific
  1. "Skokan Jakub Janda jde do klání o místo ve Sněmovně v dresu ODS". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 9 June 2017.
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup champions
Men
Women
Four Hills Tournament
Tournaments
Ski jumping hills
Four Hills Tournament winners
Categories: