Lindsey Vonn Short biography
Lindsey Caroline Vonn (born October 18, 1984) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. Throughout her career, Vonn won four World Cup overall championships, three consecutive titles between 2008 and 2010, and another in 2012. She also won eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, and 2016), five titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and three consecutive titles in the super combined (2010–2012). In 2016, Vonn won her 63rd World Cup race and broke Ingemar Stenmark's record for the most World Cup wins by a male or female skier.
Vonn is one of six women 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 82 World Cup races. Only Stenmark and Mikaela Shiffrin have more victories than Vonn. 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 is one of the most successful American ski racers, and is considered one of the greatest of all skiers. Vonn retired from competitive skiing in 2019.
