Jakub Janda
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 Czech Republic
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| Born |
27 April 1978 Čeladná, Czechoslovakia |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
| Ski club | Dukla Liberec | ||||||||||||
| Personal best | 218 m (715 ft) Vikersund, 25 February 2012 |
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| Seasons | 1996–present | ||||||||||||
| Individual wins | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Yellow bibs | 21 | ||||||||||||
| Indiv. starts | 361 | ||||||||||||
| Team starts | 46 | ||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 1 (2006) | ||||||||||||
| Four Hills titles | 1 (2006) | ||||||||||||
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Jakub Janda (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjakup ˈjanda]; born 27 April 1978) is a Czech ski jumper. His career highlights include being joint winner of the 2005/06 Four Hills Tournament (shared with Janne Ahonen) as well as winning the 2005/06 World Cup season.
Janda made his World Cup debut in 1996 but had to wait until 2003 for his first major success, which was third place in Liberec. Janda improved his performance under new Slovenian coach Vasja Bajc in 2004. In 2004–05 season he managed to collect several second and third places and one victory in World Cup events. He also gained a silver and a bronze medal at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf.
Janda started 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 to place high for the second round, 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 for the second straight time 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 Janda vs. Ahonen knockout duel. 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.
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