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}} Janica Kostelić (; born 5 January 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medalist from Croatia. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships. In World Cup competition, she won thirty individual races, three overall titles, three slalom titles, and four (unofficial) combined titles. Kostelić is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics (in 2002 and 2006), and the only woman to win three alpine skiing gold medals in one Olympics (2002). Kostelić was the World Cup overall champion in 2001, 2003 and 2006. On 15 January 2006, Kostelić became only the third woman in World Cup history (after Swede Pernilla Wiberg and Austrian Petra Kronberger) to win World Cup races in all of the sport's five disciplines. On 5 February 2006 Kostelić became the second female skier (after Petra Kronberger) to win all five disciplines in one season. In the summer of 2006, she decided to not compete in the 2007 season, due to chronic knee and back pain. She had endured ten knee surgeries and thyroid surgery during her career.〔(Ski Racing.com ) – Janica Kostelic may take winter off to regroup from injuries – 16 August 2006.〕〔(Ski Racing.com ) – Kostelic to sit out 2006–07 season – 6 October 2006.〕〔(Ski Racing.com ) – Kostelic fails to find the hunger to race again – 22 April 2007.〕 Following a year away from competition, Kostelić announced her retirement from racing in April 2007.〔(fisalpine.com ) – Janica Kostelic – accessed 19 March 2012.〕 ==Early years== Born in Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), into a winter sports family, Kostelić's father Ante was also her trainer. Her older brother Ivica is a renowned ski racer in his own right, the 2011 overall World Cup champion. She started skiing at the age of three and began training at nine years old, and quickly became successful and won several junior competitions. At the age of 16, Kostelić was selected for the Croatian team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Her best result was 8th place in the combined. She competed in all five disciplines. She won her first World Cup slalom in December 1999. Kostelić then suffered knee ligament damage which kept her out of competition until late 2000. She won the World Cup overall title that 2001 season with eight further victories. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janica Kostelić」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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