Jan Hudec
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| Disciplines | Downhill, Super-G | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Banff Alpine Racers | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
August 19, 1981 Šumperk, Czechoslovakia |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | February 2, 2002 (age 20) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | janhudec.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 2 – (2010, 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 5 – (2003, 2007–13) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 11th – (2004–14) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 2 – (2 DH) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 5 – (3 DH, 2 SG) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (16th in 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (6th in SG, 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Jan Hudec, Jr. (born August 19, 1981) is a Former Canadian Czech-born World Cup alpine ski racer (2002-2015), who has decided to represent the Czech Republic (2016-present) in all future FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Events, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Beset by injuries for several seasons, he returned to World Cup form in 2012 at age 30 and gained his second victory. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Hudec won the bronze medal in the super-G at Rosa Khutor. It was the first Olympic medal for Canada in men's alpine skiing in 20 years.
Born in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia, Hudec defected in a homemade raft with his parents to West Germany while an infant. The family moved to Canada in 1986 and settled in Red Deer, Alberta, where Jan Sr. was a ski coach. In 1993 the Hudecs, now a family of four with younger brother Phil, moved to Banff where both parents worked at the Banff Mountain Ski Academy.
Hudec emerged as a World Cup downhiller in February 2007; he won the silver medal in downhill at the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden, followed up with a fifth place at Garmisch, Germany. That November he won his first World Cup event, a downhill in Lake Louise, but suffered a season-ending knee injury while training in Switzerland two months later. In January 2009, Hudec had a comeback at the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen, Switzerland, where he finished eighth, but three weeks later an injury at the 2009 World Championships downhill in Val-d'Isère, France, ended his 2009 season.
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