Tuesday, February 20, 2018

@Ski Lindsey Vonn 33 yrs old does again seals a bronze medal finish in the Women's Downhill for a total of 3 medals, to go with 2 World Championships winner of 81 @WorldCup races

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DisciplinesDownhillSuper-G,
Giant slalomCombined
(also Slalom before 2012)
ClubVail SSC
BornOctober 18, 1984 (age 33)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Height5 ft 9.5 in (177 cm)
World Cup debutNovember 18, 2000
(age 16)
WebsiteLindseyVonn.com
Olympics
Teams4 – (2002200620102018)
Medals2 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams6 – (200517)
Medals7 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons16 – (200220042018)
Wins81
Podiums135
Overall titles4 – (2008102012)
Discipline titles16 – (8 DH, 5 SG, 3 KB)

Lindsey Caroline Vonn (/vɔːn/) (née Kildow (/kɪld/)); born October 18, 1984)[1] is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She has won four World Cup overall championships—one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll—with three consecutive titles in 20082009, and 2010,[2] plus another in 2012.[3] Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman.[4] She has also won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, 2016), five titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, an all-time record among men or women, passing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984.
Vonn is one of six women[5] to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing – downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined – and has won 81 World Cup races in her career through February 3, 2018. Her 81 World Cup victories are an all-time women's record, passing Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria who had held the record since the 1970s, and only Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86 World Cup victories has more. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn has become one of the most successful American female ski racers in history.
In 2010 Vonn received the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award [6] and was the United States Olympic Committee's sportswoman of the year.[7]
Various injuries have caused Vonn to miss parts of several seasons, including almost all of the 2014 season and most of the 2013 season. She worked as a correspondent for NBC News covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia

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