Ted Ligety biography
Ted Ligety, in full Theodore Sharp Ligety, (born August 31, 1984, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.), American Alpine skier who was the primary American man to win two Olympic gold medals in Alpine snowboarding occasions.
Ligety started to ski when he was two years outdated. He began racing competitively at age 10 and rapidly earned the nickname “Ted Shred” from his coach. By that age he had progressed from the Park City (Utah) farm crew to the Park City ski crew, and through his teenagers he rose into the junior ranks of the game. He turned a part of the U.S. Ski Development Team in 2004. That yr he gained a silver medal within the slalom on the Junior World Championships in Maribor, Slovenia, and completed twenty third in a World Cup slalom race in Sestriere, Italy. Both finishes helped Ligety safe a spot on the 2005 U.S. ski crew.
Ligety competed on the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy, within the slalom, the enormous slalom, and the Alpine mixed, and he gained gold within the mixed. It was the one occasion he accomplished in the course of the video games. Ligety had completed in twenty second place after the downhill portion of the mixed, however his efficiency on the 2 slalom runs was sufficient to seize the gold. (He was disqualified from the slalom and failed to complete within the large slalom.) At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Ligety competed within the slalom, the enormous slalom, the supergiant slalom (super-G), and the tremendous mixed—an occasion made up of 1 downhill and one slalom run—however his finest end was fifth place within the tremendous mixed. He competed in the identical 4 occasions on the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the place he took the gold within the large slalom, turning into the primary American to win that occasion on the Olympics. Ligety returned to the Olympics on the 2018 Games in P’yŏngch’ang, South Korea, however he didn't medal in any of his three occasions.
Outside the Olympics, Ligety additionally excelled in World Championship and World Cup competitors. He gained his first medal in World Championship competitors, a bronze for the enormous slalom, at Val-d’lsère, France, in 2009, and he gained his first World Championship gold, additionally within the large slalom, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 2011. At the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria, he gained gold medals within the large slalom, the super-G, and the tremendous mixed, turning into the primary individual to win three or extra gold medals in a single competitors since French skier Jean-Claude Killy achieved that feat in 1968. He additionally gained a gold medal within the large slalom on the 2015 World Championships. In World Cup competitors, Ligety captured 5 season titles within the large slalom occasion (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014).
In 2006 Ligety and Italian businessman Carlo Salmini based Shred, an organization that specialised in creating bright-coloured helmets, goggles, and sun shades for ski racers.