Lindsey Vonn, born Lindsey Kildow, (born 18 October 1984, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.), united states Alpine skier who has won four overall women’s World Cup championships (2008–10 and 2012) and is the all-time leader in women’s World Cup victories with 82.
During her international racing career she also won three medals for the Olympic Winter Games and eight medals for the world championships.
In 1999, when she won the slalom race at Italy’s Trofeo Topolino competition for skiers aged 11–14, Kildow burst onto the international skiing scene, becoming the first American woman to capture the event.
She skied combined in Alpine racing and slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, but she only managed a sixth place finish in combination.
She won a silver downhill medal at the 2003 Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS) Junior World Ski Championships, and once again took silver downhill at the U.S. Championships one year later.
Lindsey was a medal-favourite heading into Turin, Italy’s 2006 Olympic Winter Games but crashed during a downhill training run and was airlifted to a hospital. Kildow, who said at the time she thought she had broken her back and her career was over, came back and, despite the injury, competed within two days.
She didn’t win a medal but she earned the U.S. her courageous show. Award for olympic spirit. Kildow returned from the 2007 World Championships in time to win silver medals in downhill and supergiant slalom (super-G), but she partially tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee in a crash during a training session to bring an early end to her season.
She married US skier Thomas Vonn later that year. (Pair divorced in 2013)
Lindsey Vonn has once again rebounded from injury and had the best year of her career in the 2007–08 ski season. She won six World Cup victories to finish the season with 1,403 points, more than 200 points ahead of her nearest rival and claimed her first World Cup title overall.
In the penultimate competition of the season, Vonn won her 10th downhill race of the World Cup career to break the American record set by Picabo Street and Daron Rahlves. She ‘d already clinched the downhill title of the World Cup by then, the first American woman to do so since Street in 1996.
She continued her momentum into the next year when she won the downhill and supergiant slalom gold medals at the 2009 world championships, the supergiant slalom title in the World Cup, and her second downhill World Cup and overall titles.
She broke her leg in March 2016, shortly after winning her 20th World Cup career title (in the downhill discipline), and withdrew from the rest of the 2015–16 season.
Vonn returned in January 2017 and won a downhill bronze medal at the world championships the following month, becoming (at age 32) the oldest woman ever to compete in that event ‘s history.
Vonn won a bronze medal in the downhill event at the 2018 Winter Games in P’yòngch’ang, South Korea. She won another downhill bronze at the 2019 World Championships, and retired after that event from competitive skiing.
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