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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Ivica Kostelić
- Ivica Kostelic (pronounced ['i?itsa 'k?st?lit?]; born 23 November 1979) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Croatia.
- 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. After 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, 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).
- 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.
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