Aksel Lund Svindal biography
Aksel Lund Svindal, (born December 26, 1982, Løerenskog, Norway), Norwegian Alpine skier who gained two males’s Fédération International de Ski (FIS) World Cup total championships (2007 and 2009), in addition to a gold medal within the supergiant slalom (super-G) on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Svindal’s dad and mom, each skiers, purchased him his first pair of skis for his third birthday, and by age 9 he was racing competitively. He attended highschool in Oppdal, Norway, a ski resort that hosted World Cup slalom snowboarding occasions, which enabled him to are likely to his research and work on his approach on the slopes on the similar time. He gained the nationwide under-16 slalom title and was chosen to ski for the Norwegian junior nationwide group. At the FIS junior world ski championships in 2002, Svindal collected 4 medals, together with a gold within the mixed occasion. In March 2005 at Bormio, Italy, he earned his first FIS world ski championship medal—the silver within the mixed.
Svindal’s journey to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, didn't lead to any medals. He completed fifth within the super-G and sixth within the big slalom (GS). He rebounded the next month, nevertheless, ending second total within the World Cup. In the 2006–07 season, Svindal gained two gold medals (the GS and the downhill) on the world championships after which claimed his first total World Cup title with a dominating efficiency within the season finale at Lenzerheide, Switzerland, profitable the downhill, super-G, and GS.
A promising begin to the subsequent season was derailed in November 2007 when Svindal crashed throughout a downhill coaching run. He suffered a extreme stomach harm and fractures to his face and didn't ski competitively for 11 months. At the 2009 world championships Svindal took the gold within the tremendous mixed and the bronze within the super-G; he then accomplished his exceptional comeback season at Åre, Sweden, in March 2009, narrowly profitable the general World Cup title over his closest rival, Benjamin Raich of Austria. Svindal gained the championship by a record-low two-point margin. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games he gained his first three Olympic medals: a gold within the super-G, a silver within the downhill, and a bronze within the GS.
Svindal gained a gold medal within the tremendous mixed on the 2011 world championships, and the next yr he captured a World Cup title within the super-G. His 2012–13 ski season was an incredible success, as he gained the downhill and super-G World Cup titles in addition to a downhill gold on the 2013 world championships. Svindal had a comparatively poor displaying on the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the place his greatest end was fourth place within the downhill, and he was pressured to withdraw earlier than the top of competitors due to allergy symptoms.