Lindsey Caroline Vonn (née Kildow; Born in October 18, 1984), is a World Cup aerial ski racer who competed with the United States Ski Team. She has won four all-embracing World Cup championships – one of alone two changeable skiers to do so, forth with Annemarie Moser-Pröll – with three after titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Additional addition in 2012. Vonn won the gold badge in decline at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the aboriginal anytime in the accident for an American woman.[4] She has additionally won six after World Cup division titles in the decline conduct (2008-2013), four after titles in Cool G (2009-2012), and three after titles in the accumulated (2010-2012).
Vonn is one of six women to accept won World Cup contest in all bristles disciplines of aerial skiing – downhill, cool G, behemothic slalom, slalom, and cool accumulated – and has won 59 World Cup contest in her career through January 26, 2013. Alone two ski racers accept added World Cup victories in their careers, Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria with 62 and Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86. With her Olympic gold and brownish medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three argent medals in 2007 / 2011), and four all-embracing World Cup titles, Vonn has become the best acknowledged American skier in history.
Vonn accustomed the Laureus World Sports Awards Amateur of the Year for 2010. She was additionally accustomed afresh as the USOC's amateur of the year for 2010.
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