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— Alpine skier — | |
Olsson in May 2011 | |
Disciplines | Giant slalom |
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Club | IFK Mora |
Born |
(1982-08-17) 17 August 1982 (age 35) Mora, Sweden |
World Cup debut |
11 December 2010 (age 28) |
World Cup | |
Seasons | 2 |
Wins | 0 |
Podiums | 0 |
Overall titles | 0 |
Discipline titles | 0 |
Olsson holds nine Winter X_Games medals (+ 2 podiums in big air). He has also won many other events including big air at Winter X-Games 08, The US Free Skiing Open in Vail, The Red Bull Big Air in Åre, Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships in Riksgränsen and the World Superpipe Championships in Whistler BC. Since Olsson's return to alpine ski racing in 2008 he has won five FIS gs ski racers, with a 10 point fis result at Coronet Peak at the New Zealand National Championships which included a field of Olympians including Ben Griffin and Olivier Jenot.
Since 2005 Olsson has hosted the big air event Jon Olsson Invitational, also known as JOI. In 2007 the event was voted best big air event by freeskier magazine. From 2007 to 2010 he also hosted Jon Olsson Super Sessions (JOSS), a freeskiing film contest that takes place in Åre, Sweden. The event consisted of teams of skiers skiing for approximately two weeks with a film crew and creating a short ski film. Olsson made his debut in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Val-d'Isère in December 2010, as part of a plan to make the Swedish alpine ski team at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Hans Olsson, a Swedish alpine skier specialising in the speed events, is Jon Olsson's brother.[1]
Medal record | ||
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Men's freestyle skiing | ||
Representing Sweden | ||
X Games | ||
2002 Aspen | Big air | |
2008 Aspen | Big air | |
2004 Aspen | Superpipe | |
2009 Aspen | Big air | |
2003 Aspen | Slopestyle | |
2003 Aspen | Superpipe | |
2004 Aspen | Slopestyle | |
2005 Aspen | Superpipe | |
2005 Aspen | Slopestyle | |
2008 Aspen | Slopestyle |
Olsson lives in Monaco and also has a house in Marbella, Spain. His house, 'Casa Camo' was recently sold and he bought a new one, 'Casa Castle'. He is a car collector - having owned a highly customized Audi RS6, a Camo wrapped and supercharged Lamborghini Huracan with 800 horsepower, a Rolls-Royce Wraith named "George", and he currently drives a Mercedes Benz G500 4x4 squared and a new Audi RS6. The G 500 is called "Hans" after his brother, and it has been converted into a convertible so as to fit into the car park of his apartment building in Monaco. He also has a golf cart in Marbella, and often uses his father in-law's Mercedes GLE 63 AMG. Jon has designed and created multiple cars for the famous car rally "Gumball 3000" - the latest being a DTM RS6.[2] He continuously shares his life through social media, documenting his day-to-day adventures through YouTube vlogs, which he uploads periodically throughout the week. In early 2018 he proclaimed he would donate €1,000 to charity for every vlog that was off schedule.[citation needed] In his vlogs, Jon travels the world with his fiancé, fashion and lifestyle blogger Janni Delér and his current cameraman/editor Benjamin Ortega. On the 4th of January 2018, Jon Olsson's Youtube page reached 1 million subscribers.
Olsson holds eleven Winter X-Games podiums.[1] He has also won many other events including big air at Winter X-Games 08, The US Free Skiing Open in Vail, The Red Bull Big Air in Åre, Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships in Riksgränsen and the World Superpipe Championships in Whistler BC. Since Olsson's return to alpine ski racing in 2008 while training with coach, Guenther Birgmann at the Treble Cone Race Academy, he has won five FIS gs ski racers, with a 10 point fis result at Coronet Peak at the New Zealand National Championships.
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