The latest in Carlo Janka

Janka out of downhill, super-combined

2011-02-10T19:30:12Z

Reigning World Cup winner Carlo Janka on Thursday pulled out of the downhill and super-combined at the world ski championships, because of fatigue caused by a heart problem.

The 24-year-old will miss Saturday's downhill and Monday's super-combined so he can concentrate on defending his giant slalom title on Friday February 18.

The Olympic giant slalom champion has...

Olympic Alpine Skiing 2010

2010-11-30T13:36:18Z

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Austria season a near miss, not failure says Raich

2010-03-11T08:30:54Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Austria have failed to win a downhill this season, came away from the Vancouver without a single medal in men's Alpine skiing yet could still end up with the overall world champion thanks to Switzerland's Carlo Janka won the men's World Cup finals downhill on Wednesday to take the lead in the overall standings in his ding dong battle for supremacy with Austria's Benjamin Raich.

Mario Scheiber of Austria finished second in the downhill on the Switzerland's Carlo Janka on Tuesday added the Olympic giant slalom crown to his world title on a day when American Bode Miller failed in his bid to set Games history.

Janka, who led after the first leg, clocked a combined total of 2min 37.83sec over the two runs to add to his country's Olympic medal showing (American Bode Miller will not add a giant slalom podium to his three-medal Olympic haul after he crashed out on the first leg of the event on Tuesday, with Swiss all-rounder Carlo Janka in pole position.

Janka, the defending world giant slalom champion, clocked the fastest time of 1min 17.27sec down the Dave Murray course ...

Hirscher leads Austria to Val d'Isere cleansweep

2010-04-16T08:26:06Z

Hirscher's maiden win on the World Cup circuit followed that of team-mates Benjamin Raich and Michael Walchhofer in the super-combined and super-G also held on the Face de Bellevarde piste on Friday and Saturday respectively.

The performance by the Austrian team dispelled worries that it might suffer another nightmare weekend courtesy of their Austria continued their domination of the World Cup events here when Michael Walchhofer overcame poor weather conditions to claim victory in the super-G on Saturday.

Veteran Walchhofer, who was following up his countryman Benjamin Raich's win on Friday...

Raich stops Janka run in super-combined

2010-04-16T08:28:41Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Experienced Austrian Benjamin Raich stopped the stunning run of Swiss sensation Carlo Janka by coolly winning a World Cup ...

Austria strike back with super-combined treble

2010-04-16T08:28:41Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Austria, often outclassed by Alpine rivals Switzerland since the northern winter began, struck back by placing three men on the podium of a World Cup super-combined event on Friday.

The trad...

Raich wins super-combined skiing, Janka bombs

2010-04-16T08:28:50Z

Benjamin Raich struck a blow back for Austria in winning the World Cup super-combined event here on Friday, his 35th victory on the international ski circuit.

All the talk before this three-day event, which also sees the racers competing in the super-G on Saturday and giant slalom on Sunday, had been of Carlo Janka returns here for a three-day World Cup event starting Friday in the best form of his life and onto an unforgiving slope which he has admitted to relishing.

The 23-year-old Janka became the first man since 2007 to win three consecutive alpine men's World Cup ski races when he won the giant slalom on the Birds of Prey course at Carlo Janka was confident Thursday that he could reproduce his stunning early season form on the infamous "Face de Bellevarde" piste here.

Janka arrived in Val d'Isere on the back of a remarkable triple success in Beaver Creek last weekend where he stormed to glory in the giant slalom, downhill a...

Janka wins GS for 3rd World Cup victory in a row

2010-04-16T08:40:00Z

Switzerland's Janka wins GS; 1st man since '07 with 3 consecutive World Cup victories

Switzerland's Carlo Janka wrapped up quite a weekend by winning a giant slalom Sunday to become the first man in more than 2 1/2 years with three consecutive World Cup victories.

Janka finished two runs down ...

Janka wins downhill to stretch World Cup lead

2010-04-16T08:38:48Z

Switzerland's Carlo Janka won an alpine men's World Cup downhill race here on Saturday, stretching the overall World Cup lead he grabbed by winning a Super Combined title here on Friday.

Janka won in 1min 43.49secs with countryman Didier Cuche, second in the overall World Cup standings after six of 34 races, settling for...

Germany Alpine Skiing World Cup

2010-06-30T15:20:36Z

Carlo Janka of Switzerland reacts after winning an alpine ski, Men's World Cup giant slalom, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Friday, March 12, 2010. Janka won the overall World Cup title and Switzerland's Carlo Janka skis to the gold medal in the Men's giant slalom at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Alpine Skiing Men's Super G - Day 8

2010-03-27T12:28:54Z

WHISTLER, BC - FEBRUARY 19: Carlo Janka of Switzerland competes in the men's alpine skiing Super-G on day 8 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Whistler Creekside

Vancouver Olympics Switzerland Ski Janka

2010-03-27T22:29:15Z

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 file photo, Switzerland's Carlo Janka speeds down the course during the first run of an Alpine Ski, Men's World Cup Giant Slalom, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)

SWITZERLAND ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP

2010-03-28T14:14:37Z

USA's Bode Miller airborne in the men's World Cup downhill skiing competition at Wengen, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Miller was poised to take the lead before losing control near the finish line. Carlo Janka of Switzerland was 0.66 seconds faster than