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Lindsey Vonn

Medal record
Women's Alpine Skiing
Representing the  United States
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Val d'Isère Downhill
Gold medal – first place 2009 Val d'Isère Super-G
Silver medal – second place 2007 Åre Downhill
Silver medal – second place 2007 Åre Super-G

Lindsey Vonn (née Kildow, born October 18, 1984) is an alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team and the reigning overall World Cup champion.

Career

Vonn was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was raised in the Twin Cities metro area, in Burnsville. She was on skis at age 2 before moving into Erich Sailer's renowned development program at Buck Hill, which also produced slalom racer Kristina Koznick. She commuted to Colorado to train for a couple of years before her family moved to Vail in the late 1990s. She married fellow 2002 Olympian and former U.S. Ski Team athlete Thomas Vonn on September 29, 2007, at the Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah. [1]

In 1999, Vonn became the first American to win at Italy's Trofeo Topolino (for skiers of 11-14 age) where she was victorious in slalom. After climbing through the ranks of the U.S. Ski Team, she made her World Cup debut at age 16 on November 18, 2000 in Park City.

In her Olympic debut at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Vonn raced in both slalom and combined in Salt Lake City, with her best result coming with sixth in slalom. On March 4, 2003 she earned a silver medal in downhill in the Junior World Championship at Puy St. Vincent, France.

On March 24, 2004, Vonn was the downhill silver medalist at the U.S. Alpine Championships held in Jackson, Wyoming. In the December of the same year Vonn climbed onto the World Cup podium for the first time in her career after claiming the downhill victory in Lake Louise, Alberta. She would go on to capture five more World Cup podiums over the next two months.

Lindsey Vonn during a slalom race in Aspen in November 2006.

In 2005, she competed in four races at her first World Championships held in Bormio, Italy, pulling in fourth place finishes in both the downhill and the combined. She was also ninth in Super-G, but failed to finish the giant slalom.

In her second Winter Olympics in 2006, while training for the downhill race on February 13, 2006 in San Sicario, Italy, Vonn crashed and was evacuated by helicopter to Torino, where she was hospitalized overnight. Despite a bruised hip, she returned the following day to compete and finished eighth. The gritty performance earned her the U.S. Olympic Spirit Award, as voted by American fans, fellow Team USA athletes, former U.S. Olympians, and members of the media for best representing the Olympic Spirit.

Vonn earned her first "big race" medals with silver in both downhill and Super-G at the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden. A training crash before the slalom caused her a low-level ACL sprain to her right knee, ending her season four weeks early. Nevertheless, she finished third for the season in the women's 2007 World Cup disciplines of downhill and Super G.

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Lindsey Vonn wins the Overall World Cup title for 2008.

In 2008, Lindsey Vonn won the overall World Cup title. American Bode Miller won the men's title to complete the first U.S. sweep of the men's and women's overall titles in 25 years (Tamara McKinney and Phil Mahre in 1983). She also won the World Cup season title in the downhill and the U.S. Alpine Championships combined (downhill & slalom) title, marking her best ski season to date. Vonn also established a new all-time record for most downhill victories by an American with ten, winning at Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on March 8.

At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere, France, Vonn won her first world championship and became the first American woman to win the world Super-G title.[1] In the super combined event, she won the downhill portion and had appeared to have finished second in the event with a strong slalom performance, but was disqualified for splitting a gate.[2] Three days later she won the gold in the Downhill.

World Cup victories

Season titles

Season Discipline
2008 Overall
2008 Downhill

Race victories

18 race victories (11 downhill, 3 super G, 2 slalom, 2 combined)

Date Location Race
December 3, 2004 Canada Lake Louise Downhill
December 3, 2005 Canada Lake Louise Downhill
December 17, 2005 France Val d'Isere Downhill
March 3, 2006 Norway Hafjell Super G
December 2, 2006 Canada Lake Louise Downhill
December 20, 2006 France Val d'Isere Downhill
January 28, 2007 Italy San Sicario Super G
December 1, 2007 Canada Lake Louise Downhill
December 21, 2007 Austria St. Anton Downhill
December 22, 2007 Austria St. Anton Super Combined
January 19, 2008 Italy Cortina Downhill
February 9, 2008 Italy Sestriere Downhill
March 8, 2008 Switzerland Crans-Montana Downhill
November 15, 2008 Finland Levi Slalom
December 5, 2008 Canada Lake Louise Downhill
January 17, 2009 Austria Altenmarkt Super Combined
January 30, 2009 Germany Garmisch Slalom
February 1, 2009 Germany Garmisch Super G

References

  1. ^ Donaldson, Amy (February 4, 2009). "Vonn wins super-G for her first title as world champ". Deseret News. Retrieved 2009-02-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ Dampf, Andrew (February 6, 2009). "Vonn DQ'd from super-combi won by Zettel". AP. Retrieved 2009-02-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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