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Ivica Kostelić

Ivica Kostelić (pronounced [ˈiʋitsa ˈkɔstɛlitɕ]; born 23 November 1979) is a Croatian former alpine ski racer. He specialized in slalom and combined, but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers able to score points in all disciplines. He is the brother of skiing champion Janica Kostelić. In his career he was coached by his father Ante Kostelić, as well as by Kristian Ghedina and Tomislav Krstičević.

Ivica Kostelić
Alpine skier 
Kostelić in October 2010
DisciplinesSlalom, Combined, Super-G,
Giant slalom, Downhill
ClubSki club Zagreb[1]
Born (1979-11-23) 23 November 1979 (age 43)
Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Websiteivica.kostelic.hr
Olympics
Teams4 – (20022014)
Medals4
World Cup
Seasons20 – (19982017)
Wins26[2]
Podiums60[2]
Overall titles1 – (2011)
Discipline titles5 – (SL in 2002 and 2011, K in 2011, 2012 and 2013)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing  Croatia
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Slalom 15 9 16
Giant 0 1 0
Super-G 1 1 1
Combined 9 4 2
Parallel 1 0 1
Total 26 15 20
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 4 0
World Championships 1 1 1
Total 1 5 1
Olympic Games
2006 Turin Combined
2010 Vancouver Combined
2010 Vancouver Slalom
2014 Sochi Combined
World Championships
2003 St. Moritz Slalom
2013 Schladming Combined
2011 Garmisch Super-G
Junior World Ski Championships
1997 Schladming Combined

Biography

After considerable success in junior competitions, Kostelić's World Cup career alternated between triumph and injury. His main accomplishments include a World Championship gold medal in slalom in 2003, Olympic silver medal in slalom in 2010, three consecutive Olympic silver medals in combined in 2006 (traditional combined), 2010 (super combined) and 2014, as well as the overall World Cup title in 2011.

Kostelić scored a total of 26 World Cup race victories and a total of 59 World Cup podiums during his career (as of February 2014). He won the slalom World Cup title in 2002 and 2011, and the combined World Cup title in 2011 and 2012.

Since 2008, he finished among the top six in the overall World Cup standings each season (2008: sixth; 2009: fourth; 2010: fifth; 2011: first; 2012: fourth; 2013: fifth). He also scored points in all disciplines each of those seasons, and his best race results were a seventh place in downhill, a second place in giant slalom, and victories in all other disciplines (11 in slalom, 1 in parallel-slalom, 2 in combined, 4 in super combined, and 1 in super-G).

Ivica Kostelić is currently one of the coaches the Croatian national team.

Career

Early World Cup years (1998–2002)

Kostelić made his first World Cup start in October 1998 in Sölden, Austria, at the age of 18, but failed to qualify for a second run.[3] He did not finish any of his first 11 World Cup races over 3 seasons, until finally scoring World Cup points for the first time in Sestriere, Italy, in December 2000. His first three seasons on the World Cup all ended prematurely due to injuries, failing to make it past December or January each season.

Breakthrough (2002–2005)

His big breakthrough came during the 2002 season, when he shockingly won the slalom at Aspen, Colorado, in November 2001 starting from the 64th bib number, his first finish higher than 21st place in any World Cup race. He won two more slaloms that season, and had three additional podiums (top 3), enough to clinch the slalom season title over Bode Miller while avoiding season-ending injury for the first time in his career.

Kostelić would continue his success during the next season, winning three more slalom races by mid-season, and adding a gold medal in slalom in February at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He would narrowly miss repeating his slalom title, falling to second place as Kalle Palander won four consecutive slaloms in late season to clinch the globe. He would go on to win another slalom race during the 2003–2004 season, the 7th win of his career, before injuries again ended his season prematurely in January. He would return to World Cup competition in time for the start of the 2004–2005 season, but would fail to finish any of his first 7 races that year. Despite a pair of podiums later that season and occasional top-10 finishes, he would not win another World Cup race for nearly three years.

Resurgence as all-event skier (2006–2010)

Kostelić began his World Cup career as a technical specialist, racing only slalom and GS (with an occasional super-G), but started to ski more often the speed events including downhill during the 2006 season, primarily in order to compete in the new format of super combined, which consists of single runs of downhill and slalom. He did win a Nor-Am downhill in December 1998 at Lake Louise, Canada. As his sister Janica, 'Ivo' has always been aiming to become a complete racer able to excel in all specialties. He scored his first World Cup points at Kitzbuehel, Austria, finishing 29th on the 'Streif' in January 2008. A week later he was 8th in the downhill at Chamonix, in France. His broadened portfolio brought quick dividends, with a silver medal in the combined (a traditional combined with a single downhill and two runs of slalom) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, in February. He would follow that success during the 2007 World Cup season with a win in the super combined in Reiteralm, Austria, in December 2006, his eighth World Cup win and first other than slalom.

Starting with the 2008 season, Kostelić joined the select group of World Cup racers able to excel in all disciplines. Although he failed to win any World Cup races during the 2008 season, he finished second 4 times and third twice in slalom and super combined events, and for the first time scored points in all disciplines. He would finish second in the combined standings and sixth in the overall. The next season brought another win in slalom, along with three more second places (including in GS for his first time) and a pair of thirds, as he moved up to fourth in the overall standings while again taking second in the slalom standings. Success in all disciplines continued in the 2010 season, with two more World Cup wins in slalom and combined (for a total of 11 in his career) along with a second in super-G, his first podium in a speed event. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, he won a pair of silver medals, in slalom and combined.

Overall World Cup title (2011)

Kostelić's skiing would reach another level during the 2011 season. Following a third in the season-opening slalom in November at Levi, Finland, he suffered a string of mediocre finishes outside the top-10 for the rest of 2010. Then he opened the New Year with a victory in the first-ever Munich City Event parallel slalom on 2 January, and took second place four days later in the slalom in his hometown of Zagreb. He followed that up with three more wins over the next two weeks in slalom and super combined at Adelboden and Wengen, Switzerland, to take the lead in the overall World Cup standings for the first time. At the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel, Austria, he had victories in super-G and combined, plus a second place in slalom, which opened a gap of more than 400 points over his nearest competitors in the overall ranking. A week later, he won the super combined in Chamonix, France, his third straight win in combined and clinching the combined title for the season with one race still remaining.[4] It was his seventh victory of January 2011, the most by any alpine ski racer in a single calendar month in World Cup history, and he scored points in all 14 World Cup races held in January, including two seconds and two fifths along with top-30 finishes in all three downhills, for a total of 999 points in January alone.

After the stunning success of January, Kostelić's results tailed off considerably and he would fail to finish higher than fifth in any of the remaining 10 World Cup races on the season. In February, Kostelić won a bronze medal in super-G at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch, but finished only 8th and 13th in the slalom and giant slalom after he sustained a knee injury in the second giant slalom run. He had chosen not to race the World Championships downhill or the super combined (in which he was the clear favorite to win the gold medal) in order to avoid injury on the extremely icy course.[5] On 12 March, five races before the end of the season, he clinched his first overall World Cup title,[6] and he would clinch the slalom title at the final race in Lenzerheide, Switzerland on 19 March, despite finishing out of the points that day.[7] Kostelić would win a total of three crystal globes for the 2011 season including the overall, slalom, and combined titles.

Defending the overall World Cup title (2012)

In the 2012 season Kostelić had a better start than the year before, winning two slaloms in December. His next victories were the super combined and the slalom at Wengen, and the following weekend he won also the classical combined of the Hahnenkamm races (downhill and slalom) in Kitzbühel, where he took the overall lead for the first time that season. However, in February 2012 he sustained an injury and missed 11 races, including two classic slaloms and one parallel, in Stockholm. In the meantime, Marcel Hirscher took the lead in the overall standings and would go on to claim his first overall title. Kostelić returned to action in Schladming at the end of the season, and competed only in slalom. He finished 16th and André Myhrer took the slalom title.

Personal life

Born and raised in Zagreb, his parents, Ante and Marica, are former elite team handball players. They taught Ivica and his sister Janica, two years younger, to ski on the nearby hill Sljeme (now the site of the annual Snow Queen Trophy World Cup races).[8] Janica Kostelić also became an accomplished skier, and Ante Kostelić remained their primary ski coach throughout their careers, and was the head coach of the Croatian ski team.[9]

In 2006 Kostelić passed the entrance exam at the University of Zagreb to become a part-time undergraduate student of history.[10]

In 2014 Kostelić married longtime girlfriend Elin Ararsdotir, a native of Iceland. In October she gave birth to their first child, a son Ivan. In July 2016 Elin gave birth to their second child, a son Leon.[11]

Nacional article

In January 2003, after winning the slalom at Kranjska Gora, Kostelić told the reporters that before the race he had felt "powerful, all-conquering, like a German soldier ready for battle in 1941", in reference to the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.[12] Although the Croatian media had largely ignored the statement, the weekly tabloid Nacional picked up the story and published an article featuring previously unreleased statements made by Kostelić from an interview that he gave to the weekly in May 2002. According to Nacional Kostelić said that he was "fascinated" with the scale of the World War II Luftwaffe attack on Britain and gave an opinion on the differences between national socialism and communism saying that "Nationalism was still a healthy system for someone who was ambitious. In communism, we weren’t permitted to be ambitious, and both systems were totalitarian."[13]

His remarks were interpreted by the weekly as a sign of far-right political leanings and the story attracted attention from international press.[14] Kostelić then issued a statement claiming that the sentences published by Nacional were taken out of context and that they were made in informal conversation conducted after the formal interview, and added that "my heart is neither left- nor right-oriented, only towards sports, and my mind is only on skiing".[12]

Other journalists had dismissed his original statement as nothing more than a badly chosen metaphor due to the fact that both Ivica and his father Ante are avid World War II buffs.[12] Since 2002 Ante Kostelić owns a publishing house which published the Croatian edition of the award-winning book Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. In April 2010, the company also published a book Waffen-SS, mračne sile zločinačke politike (Waffen-SS, the Dark Forces of Criminal Politics) by Hrvoje Spajić about the Waffen-SS which Ante Kostelić had edited.[15]

World Cup results

Season titles

Season Discipline
2002 Slalom[16]
2011 Overall[17]
Combined[18]
Slalom[19]
2012 Combined[20]
2013 Combined A

A Unofficial, tied with Alexis Pinturault.

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined
2001 21 107 40
2002 22 7 1 22
2003 23 7 2 27
2004 24 34 14 30 37
2005 25 31 7
2006 26 40 15 16
2007 27 25 16 3
2008 28 6 5 40 25 35 2
2009 29 4 2 8 26 47 4
2010 30 5 4 21 15 23 3
2011 31 1 1 11 3 25 1
2012 32 4 2 23 43 1
2013 33 5 3 14 28 44     1 [A]
2014 34 42 16 32 34 30
2015 35 50 31 59 4
2016 36 105 20
2017 37 139 35

A Crystal globes in Combined have not been officially awarded for 2013 season. However, athletes still get their medals.

Race victories

  • 26 wins – 15 slalom, 9 combined (5 super combined, 4 traditional), 1 parallel slalom, 1 super-G
Season Date Location Discipline
2002 25 November 2001 Aspen, USA Slalom
13 January 2002 Wengen, Switzerland Slalom
9 March 2002 Flachau, Austria Slalom
2003 16 December 2002 Sestriere, Italy Slalom
5 January 2003 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Slalom
12 January 2003 Bormio, Italy Slalom
2004 15 December 2003 Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Slalom
2007 10 December 2006 Reiteralm, Austria Super combined
2009 22 December 2008 Alta Badia, Italy Slalom
2010 17 January 2010 Wengen, Switzerland Slalom
24 January 2010 Kitzbühel, Austria Combined
2011 2 January 2011 Munich, Germany Parallel slalom
9 January 2011 Adelboden, Switzerland Slalom
14 January 2011 Wengen, Switzerland Super combined
16 January 2011 Slalom
21 January 2011 Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G
23 January 2011 Combined
30 January 2011 Chamonix, France Super combined
2012 8 December 2011 Beaver Creek, USA Slalom
21 December 2011 Flachau, Austria Slalom
13 January 2012 Wengen, Switzerland Super combined
15 January 2012 Slalom
22 January 2012 Kitzbühel, Austria Combined
12 February 2012 Sochi, Russia Super combined
2013 27 January 2013 Kitzbühel, Austria Combined
10 March 2013 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Slalom

World Championships results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
1999 19 32
2001 21
2003 23 1 DNF1
2005 25 DNF1
2007 27 DNF2 DSQ1 12
2009 29 DNS1
2011 31 8 13 3
2013 33 5 25 28 20 2
2015 35 15 DNF 12
2017 37 38

Olympic results

Olympics Age Downhill Super-G Giant slalom Slalom Combined
2002 Salt Lake City 22 9th DNF
2006 Turin 26 31st 6th   2nd
2010 Vancouver 30 18th 16th 7th   2nd   2nd
2014 Sochi 34 24th 27th 9th   2nd

Podiums per discipline

Discipline 1st 2nd 3rd Total podiums
Slalom 16 10 16 42
Giant slalom 0 1 0 1
Super-G 1 1 1 3
Combined 4 2 1 7
Super combined 5 6 1 12
Parallel slalom 1 0 1 2
Total podiums 27 20 20 67

NOTE: This table counts all career races in A-team, including FIS World Cup, FIS World Championships and Winter Olympics.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "About me". ivica.kostelic.hr. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Ivica Kostelic". ski-db.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  3. ^ "FIS Biography for Ivica Kostelic". Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Kostelic Gets 7th Cup Win of Month at Chamonix". Ski Racing. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  5. ^ "Svindal Defends Super-Combi Gold at Worlds". Ski Racing. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  6. ^ "Walchhofer Wins To Take DH Lead, Kostelic Ices Overall". Ski Racing. 12 March 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  7. ^ "Razzoli Wins Race, Kostelic Everything Else at Cup Finale". Ski Racing. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  8. ^ "Golden Gates". Sports Illustrated. 4 March 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  9. ^ "Croatian Ski Association – National teams". Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  10. ^ Duplančić, Blaž (13 July 2006). "U šestom desetljeću ću BITI PROFESOR POVIJESTI" (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  11. ^ Ivica Kostelić postao je tata i ponosno objavio: Rodio se sin
  12. ^ a b c White, Jim (20 January 2003). "'Of course he is not a Nazi. He is a man who likes history'". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  13. ^ Pleše, Mladen (15 January 2003). . Nacional. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  14. ^ "Croatian skier under fire over 'Nazi' remarks". BBC News. 16 January 2003.
  15. ^ Pavliša, Mija (16 April 2010). "Ante Kostelić uredio knjigu o vojnicima SS-a". T-Portal.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  16. ^ "Kostelic seals slalom crown". BBC Sport. BBC. 9 March 2002. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  17. ^ Lang, Patrick (12 March 2011). "Croatia's Kostelic wins overall World Cup". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  18. ^ "Kostelic wins super-combined World Cup". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  19. ^ Dunbar, Graham (19 March 2011). "Kostelic of Croatia Wins World Cup Slalom Title". ABC News. American Broadcasting Company. Associated Press. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  20. ^ "Kostelic bags super combined World Cup title". Yahoo! Eurosport. TF1 Group. Reuters. 12 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.

External links

  • Ivica Kostelić at FIS (alpine) 
  • Ivica Kostelić at Olympedia 
  • Ivica Kostelić at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database  
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ivica, kostelić, pronounced, ˈiʋitsa, ˈkɔstɛlitɕ, born, november, 1979, croatian, former, alpine, racer, specialized, slalom, combined, also, alpine, world, racers, able, score, points, disciplines, brother, skiing, champion, janica, kostelić, career, coached,. Ivica Kostelic pronounced ˈiʋitsa ˈkɔstɛlitɕ born 23 November 1979 is a Croatian former alpine ski racer He specialized in slalom and combined but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers able to score points in all disciplines He is the brother of skiing champion Janica Kostelic In his career he was coached by his father Ante Kostelic as well as by Kristian Ghedina and Tomislav Krsticevic Ivica KostelicAlpine skier Kostelic in October 2010DisciplinesSlalom Combined Super G Giant slalom DownhillClubSki club Zagreb 1 Born 1979 11 23 23 November 1979 age 43 Zagreb SR Croatia YugoslaviaHeight1 82 m 6 ft 0 in 1 Websiteivica kostelic hrOlympicsTeams4 2002 2014 Medals4World CupSeasons20 1998 2017 Wins26 2 Podiums60 2 Overall titles1 2011 Discipline titles5 SL in 2002 and 2011 K in 2011 2012 and 2013 Medal record Men s alpine skiingRepresenting CroatiaWorld Cup race podiumsEvent 1st 2nd 3rdSlalom 15 9 16Giant 0 1 0Super G 1 1 1Combined 9 4 2Parallel 1 0 1Total 26 15 20Event 1st 2nd 3rdOlympic Games 0 4 0World Championships 1 1 1Total 1 5 1Olympic Games2006 Turin Combined2010 Vancouver Combined2010 Vancouver Slalom2014 Sochi CombinedWorld Championships2003 St Moritz Slalom2013 Schladming Combined2011 Garmisch Super GJunior World Ski Championships1997 Schladming Combined Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 2 1 Early World Cup years 1998 2002 2 2 Breakthrough 2002 2005 2 3 Resurgence as all event skier 2006 2010 2 4 Overall World Cup title 2011 2 5 Defending the overall World Cup title 2012 3 Personal life 3 1 Nacional article 4 World Cup results 4 1 Season titles 4 2 Season standings 4 3 Race victories 5 World Championships results 6 Olympic results 7 Podiums per discipline 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksBiography EditAfter considerable success in junior competitions Kostelic s World Cup career alternated between triumph and injury His main accomplishments include a World Championship gold medal in slalom in 2003 Olympic silver medal in slalom in 2010 three consecutive Olympic silver medals in combined in 2006 traditional combined 2010 super combined and 2014 as well as the overall World Cup title in 2011 Kostelic scored a total of 26 World Cup race victories and a total of 59 World Cup podiums during his career as of February 2014 update He won the slalom World Cup title in 2002 and 2011 and the combined World Cup title in 2011 and 2012 Since 2008 he finished among the top six in the overall World Cup standings each season 2008 sixth 2009 fourth 2010 fifth 2011 first 2012 fourth 2013 fifth He also scored points in all disciplines each of those seasons and his best race results were a seventh place in downhill a second place in giant slalom and victories in all other disciplines 11 in slalom 1 in parallel slalom 2 in combined 4 in super combined and 1 in super G Ivica Kostelic is currently one of the coaches the Croatian national team Career EditEarly World Cup years 1998 2002 Edit Kostelic made his first World Cup start in October 1998 in Solden Austria at the age of 18 but failed to qualify for a second run 3 He did not finish any of his first 11 World Cup races over 3 seasons until finally scoring World Cup points for the first time in Sestriere Italy in December 2000 His first three seasons on the World Cup all ended prematurely due to injuries failing to make it past December or January each season Breakthrough 2002 2005 Edit His big breakthrough came during the 2002 season when he shockingly won the slalom at Aspen Colorado in November 2001 starting from the 64th bib number his first finish higher than 21st place in any World Cup race He won two more slaloms that season and had three additional podiums top 3 enough to clinch the slalom season title over Bode Miller while avoiding season ending injury for the first time in his career Kostelic would continue his success during the next season winning three more slalom races by mid season and adding a gold medal in slalom in February at the 2003 World Championships in St Moritz Switzerland He would narrowly miss repeating his slalom title falling to second place as Kalle Palander won four consecutive slaloms in late season to clinch the globe He would go on to win another slalom race during the 2003 2004 season the 7th win of his career before injuries again ended his season prematurely in January He would return to World Cup competition in time for the start of the 2004 2005 season but would fail to finish any of his first 7 races that year Despite a pair of podiums later that season and occasional top 10 finishes he would not win another World Cup race for nearly three years Resurgence as all event skier 2006 2010 Edit Kostelic began his World Cup career as a technical specialist racing only slalom and GS with an occasional super G but started to ski more often the speed events including downhill during the 2006 season primarily in order to compete in the new format of super combined which consists of single runs of downhill and slalom He did win a Nor Am downhill in December 1998 at Lake Louise Canada As his sister Janica Ivo has always been aiming to become a complete racer able to excel in all specialties He scored his first World Cup points at Kitzbuehel Austria finishing 29th on the Streif in January 2008 A week later he was 8th in the downhill at Chamonix in France His broadened portfolio brought quick dividends with a silver medal in the combined a traditional combined with a single downhill and two runs of slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino Italy in February He would follow that success during the 2007 World Cup season with a win in the super combined in Reiteralm Austria in December 2006 his eighth World Cup win and first other than slalom Starting with the 2008 season Kostelic joined the select group of World Cup racers able to excel in all disciplines Although he failed to win any World Cup races during the 2008 season he finished second 4 times and third twice in slalom and super combined events and for the first time scored points in all disciplines He would finish second in the combined standings and sixth in the overall The next season brought another win in slalom along with three more second places including in GS for his first time and a pair of thirds as he moved up to fourth in the overall standings while again taking second in the slalom standings Success in all disciplines continued in the 2010 season with two more World Cup wins in slalom and combined for a total of 11 in his career along with a second in super G his first podium in a speed event At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler he won a pair of silver medals in slalom and combined Overall World Cup title 2011 Edit Kostelic s skiing would reach another level during the 2011 season Following a third in the season opening slalom in November at Levi Finland he suffered a string of mediocre finishes outside the top 10 for the rest of 2010 Then he opened the New Year with a victory in the first ever Munich City Event parallel slalom on 2 January and took second place four days later in the slalom in his hometown of Zagreb He followed that up with three more wins over the next two weeks in slalom and super combined at Adelboden and Wengen Switzerland to take the lead in the overall World Cup standings for the first time At the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbuhel Austria he had victories in super G and combined plus a second place in slalom which opened a gap of more than 400 points over his nearest competitors in the overall ranking A week later he won the super combined in Chamonix France his third straight win in combined and clinching the combined title for the season with one race still remaining 4 It was his seventh victory of January 2011 the most by any alpine ski racer in a single calendar month in World Cup history and he scored points in all 14 World Cup races held in January including two seconds and two fifths along with top 30 finishes in all three downhills for a total of 999 points in January alone After the stunning success of January Kostelic s results tailed off considerably and he would fail to finish higher than fifth in any of the remaining 10 World Cup races on the season In February Kostelic won a bronze medal in super G at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch but finished only 8th and 13th in the slalom and giant slalom after he sustained a knee injury in the second giant slalom run He had chosen not to race the World Championships downhill or the super combined in which he was the clear favorite to win the gold medal in order to avoid injury on the extremely icy course 5 On 12 March five races before the end of the season he clinched his first overall World Cup title 6 and he would clinch the slalom title at the final race in Lenzerheide Switzerland on 19 March despite finishing out of the points that day 7 Kostelic would win a total of three crystal globes for the 2011 season including the overall slalom and combined titles Defending the overall World Cup title 2012 Edit In the 2012 season Kostelic had a better start than the year before winning two slaloms in December His next victories were the super combined and the slalom at Wengen and the following weekend he won also the classical combined of the Hahnenkamm races downhill and slalom in Kitzbuhel where he took the overall lead for the first time that season However in February 2012 he sustained an injury and missed 11 races including two classic slaloms and one parallel in Stockholm In the meantime Marcel Hirscher took the lead in the overall standings and would go on to claim his first overall title Kostelic returned to action in Schladming at the end of the season and competed only in slalom He finished 16th and Andre Myhrer took the slalom title Janica KostelicPersonal life EditBorn and raised in Zagreb his parents Ante and Marica are former elite team handball players They taught Ivica and his sister Janica two years younger to ski on the nearby hill Sljeme now the site of the annual Snow Queen Trophy World Cup races 8 Janica Kostelic also became an accomplished skier and Ante Kostelic remained their primary ski coach throughout their careers and was the head coach of the Croatian ski team 9 In 2006 Kostelic passed the entrance exam at the University of Zagreb to become a part time undergraduate student of history 10 In 2014 Kostelic married longtime girlfriend Elin Ararsdotir a native of Iceland In October she gave birth to their first child a son Ivan In July 2016 Elin gave birth to their second child a son Leon 11 Nacional article Edit In January 2003 after winning the slalom at Kranjska Gora Kostelic told the reporters that before the race he had felt powerful all conquering like a German soldier ready for battle in 1941 in reference to the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union 12 Although the Croatian media had largely ignored the statement the weekly tabloid Nacional picked up the story and published an article featuring previously unreleased statements made by Kostelic from an interview that he gave to the weekly in May 2002 According to Nacional Kostelic said that he was fascinated with the scale of the World War II Luftwaffe attack on Britain and gave an opinion on the differences between national socialism and communism saying that Nationalism was still a healthy system for someone who was ambitious In communism we weren t permitted to be ambitious and both systems were totalitarian 13 His remarks were interpreted by the weekly as a sign of far right political leanings and the story attracted attention from international press 14 Kostelic then issued a statement claiming that the sentences published by Nacional were taken out of context and that they were made in informal conversation conducted after the formal interview and added that my heart is neither left nor right oriented only towards sports and my mind is only on skiing 12 Other journalists had dismissed his original statement as nothing more than a badly chosen metaphor due to the fact that both Ivica and his father Ante are avid World War II buffs 12 Since 2002 Ante Kostelic owns a publishing house which published the Croatian edition of the award winning book Stalingrad by Antony Beevor In April 2010 the company also published a book Waffen SS mracne sile zlocinacke politike Waffen SS the Dark Forces of Criminal Politics by Hrvoje Spajic about the Waffen SS which Ante Kostelic had edited 15 World Cup results EditSeason titles Edit 6 titles 1 overall 2 Slalom 3 CombinedSeason Discipline2002 Slalom 16 2011 Overall 17 Combined 18 Slalom 19 2012 Combined 20 2013 Combined AA Unofficial tied with Alexis Pinturault Season standings Edit Season Age Overall Slalom Giantslalom Super G Downhill Combined2001 21 107 40 2002 22 7 1 22 2003 23 7 2 27 2004 24 34 14 30 37 2005 25 31 7 2006 26 40 15 162007 27 25 16 32008 28 6 5 40 25 35 22009 29 4 2 8 26 47 42010 30 5 4 21 15 23 32011 31 1 1 11 3 25 12012 32 4 2 23 43 12013 33 5 3 14 28 44 1 A 2014 34 42 16 32 34 302015 35 50 31 59 42016 36 105 202017 37 139 35A Crystal globes in Combined have not been officially awarded for 2013 season However athletes still get their medals Race victories Edit 26 wins 15 slalom 9 combined 5 super combined 4 traditional 1 parallel slalom 1 super GSeason Date Location Discipline2002 25 November 2001 Aspen USA Slalom13 January 2002 Wengen Switzerland Slalom9 March 2002 Flachau Austria Slalom2003 16 December 2002 Sestriere Italy Slalom5 January 2003 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Slalom12 January 2003 Bormio Italy Slalom2004 15 December 2003 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Slalom2007 10 December 2006 Reiteralm Austria Super combined2009 22 December 2008 Alta Badia Italy Slalom2010 17 January 2010 Wengen Switzerland Slalom24 January 2010 Kitzbuhel Austria Combined2011 2 January 2011 Munich Germany Parallel slalom9 January 2011 Adelboden Switzerland Slalom14 January 2011 Wengen Switzerland Super combined16 January 2011 Slalom21 January 2011 Kitzbuhel Austria Super G23 January 2011 Combined30 January 2011 Chamonix France Super combined2012 8 December 2011 Beaver Creek USA Slalom21 December 2011 Flachau Austria Slalom13 January 2012 Wengen Switzerland Super combined15 January 2012 Slalom22 January 2012 Kitzbuhel Austria Combined12 February 2012 Sochi Russia Super combined2013 27 January 2013 Kitzbuhel Austria Combined10 March 2013 Kranjska Gora Slovenia SlalomWorld Championships results Edit Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super G Downhill Combined1999 19 32 2001 21 2003 23 1 DNF1 2005 25 DNF1 2007 27 DNF2 DSQ1 122009 29 DNS1 2011 31 8 13 3 2013 33 5 25 28 20 22015 35 15 DNF 122017 37 38 Olympic results EditOlympics Age Downhill Super G Giant slalom Slalom Combined2002 Salt Lake City 22 9th DNF 2006 Turin 26 31st 6th 2nd2010 Vancouver 30 18th 16th 7th 2nd 2nd2014 Sochi 34 24th 27th 9th 2ndPodiums per discipline EditDiscipline 1st 2nd 3rd Total podiumsSlalom 16 10 16 42Giant slalom 0 1 0 1Super G 1 1 1 3Combined 4 2 1 7Super combined 5 6 1 12Parallel slalom 1 0 1 2Total podiums 27 20 20 67NOTE This table counts all career races in A team including FIS World Cup FIS World Championships and Winter Olympics See also EditList of multiple Olympic gold medalists List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games Ante KostelicReferences Edit a b About me ivica kostelic hr Retrieved 7 February 2014 a b Ivica Kostelic ski db com Retrieved 16 January 2015 FIS Biography for Ivica Kostelic Retrieved 30 January 2011 Kostelic Gets 7th Cup Win of Month at Chamonix Ski Racing 30 January 2011 Retrieved 21 March 2011 Svindal Defends Super Combi Gold at Worlds Ski Racing 14 February 2011 Retrieved 21 March 2011 Walchhofer Wins To Take DH Lead Kostelic Ices Overall Ski Racing 12 March 2011 Retrieved 21 March 2011 Razzoli Wins Race Kostelic Everything Else at Cup Finale Ski Racing 19 March 2011 Retrieved 21 March 2011 Golden Gates Sports Illustrated 4 March 2002 Retrieved 21 March 2011 Croatian Ski Association National teams Retrieved 21 March 2011 Duplancic Blaz 13 July 2006 U sestom desetljecu cu BITI PROFESOR POVIJESTI in Croatian Slobodna Dalmacija Retrieved 5 May 2011 Ivica Kostelic postao je tata i ponosno objavio Rodio se sin a b c White Jim 20 January 2003 Of course he is not a Nazi He is a man who likes history The Guardian Retrieved 5 May 2011 Plese Mladen 15 January 2003 Ivica Kostelic Nazism was a healthy system Nacional Archived from the original on 31 May 2012 Retrieved 5 May 2011 Croatian skier under fire over Nazi remarks BBC News 16 January 2003 Pavlisa Mija 16 April 2010 Ante Kostelic uredio knjigu o vojnicima SS a T Portal hr in Croatian Retrieved 5 May 2011 Kostelic seals slalom crown BBC Sport BBC 9 March 2002 Retrieved 12 February 2012 Lang Patrick 12 March 2011 Croatia s Kostelic wins overall World Cup Reuters Thomson Reuters Retrieved 12 February 2012 Kostelic wins super combined World Cup Yahoo Eurosport TF1 Group Reuters 30 January 2011 Retrieved 12 February 2012 Dunbar Graham 19 March 2011 Kostelic of Croatia Wins World Cup Slalom Title ABC News American Broadcasting Company Associated Press Retrieved 12 February 2012 Kostelic bags super combined World Cup title Yahoo Eurosport TF1 Group Reuters 12 February 2012 Retrieved 12 February 2012 External links EditIvica Kostelic at FIS alpine Ivica Kostelic at Olympedia Ivica Kostelic at Ski DB Alpine Ski Database Winter OlympicsPreceded byJakov Fak Flagbearer for CroatiaSochi 2014 Succeeded byNatko Zrncic Dim Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ivica Kostelic amp oldid 1134745597, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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