Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. Her total of 82 World Cup victories is a women’s record, surpasses Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria who had held the record since the 1970s. She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men and women.
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Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the overall record for men or women, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984. In 2019, she announced her retirement, citing her injuries. She is one of six women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing. She grew up in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Burnsville, Minnesota, and is of Norwegian, German and Irish ancestry. Her father, who had won a national junior title before a knee injury at 18, “pushed’ her very hard, according to Erich Sailer, Vonn’s former coach. She speaks German fluently and is a member of the International Ski Federation (FIS) and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSSA) Vonn was on skis at age two before moving into a renowned development program at Burnsville’s Buck Hill, which also produced slalom racer Kristina Koznick. She began skiing as a child in Minnesota, at Buck Hill Ski and snowboard, and through family vacations that included 16-hour drives from Minnesota to Vail, Colorado. In her first year at SCV, Lindsey skied under Gravity Corps Coach Colby Sby, her only female coach, in Ski Club Vail’s Gravity Corps pre-pre-class program.
In 2010, she received the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award and was the United States Olympic Committee’s sportswomen of the year. Her total of 82 World Cup victories is a women’s record, surpasses Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria who had held the record since the 1970s. She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men and women. She was the only skier to compete in multiple World Championship gold medals in 2009, and four overall World Cup titles in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. In 2013, she worked as a correspondent for NBC News covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She considers Olympic gold medalist ski racer Picabo Street, whom she considers her hero and role model, to be her mentor in skiing. In an interview with The New York Times, she stated: “I would be in the back under a sleeping bag, and she’d be driving and singing along to some Eric Clapton tape.’’ Vonn commuted to Colorado to train for several years before her family moved in the late 1990s. When skiing in Colorado, she had lessons at Ski club Vail, an alpine racing program that taught, and still teaches skiers from ages 6 and up.
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