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{{Short description|Czech ski jumper and politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2019}}
{{Infobox skier
| name = Jakub Janda
| image = Jakub Janda (2011).jpg
| caption = Janda in 2011
| nationality = {{CZE}} 
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|4|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Čeladná]], [[Czechoslovakia]]
| height = 1.78 m
| personalbest = {{convert|218|m|ft|abbr=on}}<br />[[Vikersundbakken|Vikersund]], [[2011–12 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|25 Feb 2012]]
| seasons = [[1995–96 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|1996]]–[[2017–18 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2018]]
| wins = 6
| totalpodiums = 20
| events_in_yellow = 21
| individual_starts = 361
| team_starts = 47
| wcoveralls = 1 ([[2005–06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2006]])
| fhtitles = 1 (2006)
| updated = 17 November 2017
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[ski jumping]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FIS Nordic World Ski Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[2005–06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2005-06 season]] |overall}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships|2005 Oberstdorf]] | Individual NH}}
{{MedalBronze | [[2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships|2005 Oberstdorf]] | Individual LH}}
}}

'''Jakub Janda''' ({{IPA|cs|ˈjakup ˈjanda}}; born 27 April 1978) is a Czech politician and former [[ski jumper]]. In ski jumping he competed from 1996 to 2017, winning the gold medal in the [[2005–06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup]] as the 2006 World Champion. He also won the [[Four Hills Tournament|2005/06 Four Hills Tournament]] (shared with [[Janne Ahonen]]), as well as silver and bronze medals at the [[FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005|2005 World Championships]]. Janda is one of the most successful ski jumpers from the Czech Republic, and is the only Czech World Cup champion to date.

At the [[2017 Czech legislative election]], he was elected to the [[Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic|Chamber of Deputies]] representing the [[Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)|Civic Democratic Party]].

== Ski jumping career ==
Janda made his [[FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|World Cup]] debut in 1996. He had his first major success in 2003, finishing in third place in [[Ještěd ski jumping hills|Liberec]]. Janda improved his performance under new Slovenian coach [[Vasja Bajc]] in 2004. In the 2004–05 season he took several second and third places and one victory in World Cup events. He also won a silver and a bronze medal at the [[2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships]] in [[Oberstdorf]].

Janda started the 2005/06 season with World Cup wins in [[Kuusamo]], [[Lillehammer]], [[Harrachov]] and [[Engelberg]], and entered the [[Four Hills Tournament]] leading the World Cup standings. In the opening event in Oberstdorf, Janda finished in third place, with [[Janne Ahonen]] in first and [[Roar Ljøkelsøy]] in second. After winning the second race of the Tournament in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], Janda moved to second place in the standings behind the reigning Tournament champion Ahonen. Norway's [[Lars Bystøl]] was the unexpected winner in [[Innsbruck]] while Janda finished ahead of Ahonen again to move into a two-point lead before the last competition. Like in all previous rounds, Janda advanced in last place into the competition to having skis that were too long during Oberstdorf qualifying and could not participate in the next three qualifying rounds as a result. The tournament climaxed with a head-to-head knockout duel between Janda and Ahonen. Janda won the first round by one point (tied to Ahonen on meters), then increased his lead to three points before the last jump. Ahonen beat Janda in the last jump by 141.5 meters to 139 meters and won the [[Bischofshofen]] competition by two points. The overall standings thus had both jumpers tied for first place, the first ever joint victors in the history of the tournament. Norway's Ljøkelsøy finished third. Janda was the first Czech winner of the Tournament since [[Jiří Raška]] in 1971.

Janda then experienced a drop of form, leading to poor results at the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in [[Turin]], finishing 13th in the individual normal hill, 10th in the individual large hill and 9th in the team large hill.

After the Olympics he returned to the podium in the World Cup event (2nd place in Lahti), but his form was less solid than at the beginning of the season. His biggest rival Janne Ahonen tried to take advantage of it, but also struggled and after disappointing Lahti results on the eve of the end of the season, he decided to withdraw from one race of the World Cup to concentrate on the last events in [[Norway]] and on mammoth hill in [[Planica]].

Janda's lead grew to 175 points with 200 points to gain in the last round in Planica. Janda announced he did not want to participate in the [[ski flying]] event (he finished only seventh in the Ski Flying World Championships just after the Four Hills Tournament), but had to compete in Planica to secure his overall title. Qualifying last to the final round of the first of two Planica races and finishing 29th after the second jump, he was helped by Ahonen, who did not reach a better result than 11th place.

Janda did not enter the last race and finished the World Cup standings with 1151 points, still 127 ahead of Ahonen. He was the first Czech to win the ski jumping World Cup, and the first to win the Olympic discipline World Cup standings.

Coach [[Vasja Bajc]] ended his relationship with the Czech team after the season and was replaced by an Austrian, Richard Schallert.

Janda has competed in three [[Winter Olympics]], earning his best finish of seventh in the team large hill event at [[Vancouver]] in [[2010 Winter Olympics|2010]] while his best individual finish was 13th in the individual normal hill event at [[Turin]] four years earlier.

On 2 October 2017 he made his last official career jump when he stuck at the qualification round of Grand Prix season final competition in [[Klingenthal]]. He was elected to the [[Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic|Czech parliament]] three weeks later.

== Political career ==
Janda participated in the [[2017 Czech legislative election]] and was elected into the parliament as a candidate of the [[Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)|Civic Democratic Party]].<ref name="Skokan Jakub Janda jde do klání o místo ve Sněmovně v dresu ODS">{{cite web|title=Skokan Jakub Janda jde do klání o místo ve Sněmovně v dresu ODS|url=https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/440393-skokan-jakub-janda-jde-do-klani-o-misto-ve-snemovne-v-dresu-ods.html|website=Novinky.cz|access-date=9 June 2017|language=cs-CZ}}</ref> Upon his election, he retired from ski jumping.

== World Cup ==

=== Standings ===
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:86%; text-align:center; border:grey solid 1px; border-collapse:collapse; background:#ffffff;"
! style="background-color:#369; color:white; width:60px;"|&nbsp;Season&nbsp;
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"|Overall
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"|{{Abbr|4H|Four Hills Tournament}}
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"|{{Abbr|SF|Ski flying}}
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"| {{Abbr|RA|Raw Air}}
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"|{{Abbr|W5|Willingen Five}}
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"|{{Abbr|NT|Nordic Tournament}}
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:55px;"|{{Abbr|JP|Ski Jumping (JP) Cup}}
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[1995–96 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|1995/96]] 
| align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center| —
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[1996–97 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|1996/97]] 
| align=center|96 || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|48 || align=center|92
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[1997–98 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|1997/98]] 
| align=center|70 || align=center|52 || align=center|38 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|63 || align=center|72
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[1998–99 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|1998/99]] 
| align=center|47 || align=center|50 || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center| — || align=center|46
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[1999–00 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|1999/00]] 
| align=center|70 || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center| — || align=center|70
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2000–01 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2000/01]] 
| align=center|35 || align=center|71 || align=center|34 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|21 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2001–02 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2001/02]] 
| align=center|32 || align=center|37 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center| — || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2002–03 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2002/03]] 
| align=center|25 || align=center|37 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|14 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2003–04 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2003/04]] 
| align=center|39 || align=center|54 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|17 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2004–05 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2004/05]] 
| align=center|6 || align=center|5 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|6 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2005–06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2005/06]] 
| align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37|{{gold01}} || align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37|{{gold01}} || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|6 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2006–07 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2006/07]] 
| align=center|22 || align=center|19 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|25 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2007–08 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2007/08]] 
| align=center|49 || align=center|25 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|57 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2008–09 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2008/09]] 
| align=center|22 || align=center|22 || align=center|45 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|20 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2009–10 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2009/10]] 
| align=center|22 || align=center|26 || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|15 || align=center|N/A
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2010–11 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2010/11]] 
| align=center|34 || align=center|33 || align=center|29 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A 
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2011–12 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2011/12]] 
| align=center|25 || align=center|12 || align=center|34 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A 
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2012–13 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2012/13]] 
| align=center|62 || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A 
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2013–14 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2013/14]] 
| align=center|28 || align=center|46 || align=center|25 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A 
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2014–15 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2014/15]] 
| align=center|56 || align=center|46 || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A 
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2015–16 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2015/16]] 
| align=center|32 || align=center|21 || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A 
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2016–17 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2016/17]] 
| align=center|38 || align=center|16 || align=center| — || align=center|51 || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A  
|-
! scope=row align=center|[[2017–18 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2017/18]] 
| align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center| — || align=center|N/A || align=center|N/A  
|}

=== Wins ===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:86%; line-height:15px; text-align:left; border:grey solid 1px; border-collapse:collapse; background:#ffffff;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! style="background-color:#369; color:white; width:10px;"| No.
! style="background-color:#369; color:white;  width:30px;"| Season
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:105px;"| Date
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:158px;"| Location
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:205px;"| Hill
! style="background-color:#4180be; color:white; width:25px;"| Size
|-
! scope=row style="text-align:center;"|1 
| align=center|[[2004–05 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2004/05]] || align=right|23 January 2005 &nbsp; || {{flagicon|GER}} [[Titisee-Neustadt]] || [[Hochfirstschanze]] HS142 || align=center|LH
|-
! scope=row style="text-align:center;"|2 
| align=center rowspan=5|[[2005–06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup|2005/06]] || align=right|26 November 2005 &nbsp; || {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Kuusamo]] || [[Rukatunturi ski jumping hill|Rukatunturi]] HS142 <small>(night)</small> || align=center|LH
|-
! scope=row style="text-align:center;"|3 
| align=right|4 December 2005 &nbsp; || {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Lillehammer]] || [[Lysgårdsbakken]] HS138 || align=center|LH
|-
! scope=row style="text-align:center;"|4 
| align=right|11 December 2005 &nbsp; || {{flagicon|CZE}} [[Harrachov]] || [[Čerťák]] HS142 || align=center|LH
|-
! scope=row style="text-align:center;"|5 
| align=right|18 December 2005 &nbsp; || {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Engelberg]] || [[Gross-Titlis-Schanze]] HS137 || align=center|LH
|-
! scope=row style="text-align:center;"|6 
| align=right|1 January 2006 &nbsp; || {{flagicon|GER}} [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]] || [[Große Olympiaschanze]] HS137 <small>(night)</small> || align=center|LH
|}

== References ==
* {{FIS ski jumper|27594}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050215102926/http://czech-ski.com/svaz.asp?cil=2&ido=24 Profile of Jakub Janda (in Czech)]

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