Lindsey Vonn biography
Lindsey Vonn, née Lindsey Kildow, (born October 18, 1984, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.), American Alpine skier who won four women’s World Cup overall championships (2008–10 and 2012) and is the all-time leader in women’s World Cup race victories with 82. She also won three Olympic Winter Games medals and eight world championships medals during her international racing career.
Kildow burst onto the worldwide snowboarding scene in 1999 at age 14 when she received the slalom race at Italy’s Trofeo Topolino competitors for skiers aged 11–14, changing into the primary American feminine to seize the occasion. She skied within the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, racing in Alpine mixed and slalom, however she managed solely a sixth-place end in mixed. She received a silver medal in downhill on the 2003 Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) junior world ski championships and once more took silver in downhill one 12 months later on the U.S. championships.
Kildow was a medal favorite going into the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy, however she crashed throughout a downhill coaching run and was airlifted to a hospital. Kildow, who mentioned on the time that she thought she had damaged her again and that her profession was over, returned and inside two days was competing regardless of the harm. She didn't win a medal, however her brave exhibiting earned her the U.S. Olympic Spirit Award. Kildow recovered in time to win silver medals in downhill and supergiant slalom (super-G) on the 2007 world championships, however she partially tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her proper knee in a crash throughout a coaching session to place an early finish to her season. Later that 12 months she married American skier Thomas Vonn. (The couple divorced in 2013.)
Lindsey Vonn rebounded from harm as soon as extra and had the perfect 12 months of her profession through the 2007–08 snowboarding season. She earned six World Cup victories to complete the season with 1,403 factors, greater than 200 factors forward of her nearest competitor, and captured her first general World Cup title. At the season’s penultimate competitors, Vonn received her tenth profession World Cup downhill race to interrupt the American report set by Picabo Street and Daron Rahlves. By then she had already clinched the World Cup downhill title, the primary American girl to take action since Street in 1996. Her momentum continued into the following 12 months, as she received gold medals within the downhill and supergiant slalom on the 2009 world championships, the World Cup supergiant slalom title, and her second World Cup downhill and general titles.
At the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Vonn received a gold medal in downhill and a bronze within the super-G. She adopted her Olympic exploits with a 3rd consecutive World Cup general title in March 2010. In addition, she captured downhill, super-G, and mixed World Cup championships within the 2009–10 season, which introduced her profession whole to 33 titles and broke Bode Miller’s U.S. report. In the 2010–11 season, Vonn repeated as World Cup champion in every of the three disciplines she had received the earlier season. She received the primary large slalom race of the 2011–12 season to develop into the fifth feminine skier to win a race in every of the 5 World Cup Alpine disciplines. Later that season she captured her fourth general World Cup title.
In January 2013 Vonn crashed throughout a super-G run on the Alpine world championships and tore two ligaments in her knee, ending her 2012–13 season. (Nevertheless, she managed to build up sufficient factors through the season to win her sixth straight downhill World Cup title 5 weeks later.) A gradual restoration pressured her to withdraw from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics shortly earlier than they have been scheduled to start. She returned to racing in December 2014 and one month later received her 63rd profession World Cup race to interrupt the report for many all-time World Cup victories for a feminine skier. She captured World Cup season titles in downhill and super-G that 12 months and completed third general within the World Cup standings. Vonn then took the super-G bronze medal within the 2015 world championships. In March 2016, shortly after successful her twentieth profession World Cup title (within the downhill self-discipline), she fractured her leg and withdrew from the rest of the 2015–16 season. Vonn returned in January 2017 and within the following month received a downhill bronze medal on the world championships, changing into (at age 32) the oldest girl to medal within the historical past of that occasion. At the 2018 Winter Games in P’yŏngch’ang, South Korea, Vonn received a bronze medal within the downhill occasion. She received one other downhill bronze on the 2019 world championships and retired from aggressive snowboarding after that occasion.
