Overall World Cup winner, Olympic champion – the now 39-year-old Swiss Carlo Janka was all of that. The Graubünden native is now taking on a new challenge and becoming an athletic trainer at a Swiss ice hockey club.
In 2010, Janka was crowned Olympic champion in giant slalom. At the 2009 World Cup, he also took the crown on RTL – at that time, ÖSV star Benjamin Raich came in second. In the 2009/10 season he also won the overall World Cup. The Swiss won eleven World Cup races, and Janka was on the podium in a total of 29. In January 2022, the Obersaxen-born Swiss ended an active career.
For the last two years he has worked as an athletic trainer at the Swiss second division team EHC Chur and gained important experience there. Janka is now moving one floor down and taking on the same job at EHC Wetzikon, which takes part in the MyHockeyLeague. It is the third highest league in Switzerland and also the highest in the amateur sector.
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