33 Facts About Jessie Diggins

Jessica Diggins was born on August 26,1991 and is an American cross-country skier.

Jessie Diggins is the most accomplished cross-country skier from the United States in the sport's history having won three World Cup overall titles, three Olympic medals, seven World Championship medals, and numerous other event championships.

Jessie Diggins has used her status as a famous athlete to advance advocacy related to climate change and eating disorders.

Jessie Diggins has won seven medals, including two golds, at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, from 2013 to 2025.

Jessie Diggins has competed in the FIS Cross-Country World Cup since 2011.

Jessica "Jessie" Diggins was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Afton, Minnesota.

Jessie Diggins showed prowess for skiing at age 11 when she started competing against older children.

Jessie Diggins competed for the Stillwater Area High School, cross-country ski team.

In 2008, Jessie Diggins was the top-ranked girls' individual cross-country skier in the Minnesota high school rankings.

Jessie Diggins won the Korteloppet races in 2008 and 2009 as part of the American Birkebeiner festival in Wisconsin while she was still in high school.

Jessie Diggins fell out of the Minnesota high school rankings in 2009 when she competed and won the United States Junior National Sprint title on March 9 of that year.

Jessie Diggins was added to the United States World Junior Cross-Country Ski Team in 2010.

Jessie Diggins earned an academic scholarship to Northern Michigan University but deferred enrollment to race with the Central Cross-Country Elite team for one year.

Jessie Diggins decided to race professionally rather than attend college.

Jessie Diggins was named to the United States Ski Team in 2011 and competed at her first World Championships that year.

Jessie Diggins won a gold medal with Kikkan Randall in the team sprint in the 2013 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme.

At the 2014 U23 World Championships, Jessie Diggins won silver in the individual sprint.

Jessie Diggins was named to the US team for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Jessie Diggins won the silver medal in the 10-kilometer freestyle race in the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun.

At the 2017 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, Jessie Diggins took two medals: in the freestyle sprint, she won her quarterfinal and semifinal heats on her way to taking the silver, ahead of teammate Randall in third.

Jessie Diggins competed in all six women's cross-country skiing events at the Olympics and finished in the top 10 in all of them.

Jessie Diggins won the 2021 Tour de Ski, a first for an American.

Jessie Diggins' victory put her with Koch, who won the men's title in 1982, to be the only Americans to win overall season titles for a World Cup cross-country ski circuit.

At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Jessie Diggins won bronze in the women's sprint to become the first American to win an individual Olympic medal in a cross-country sprint.

Jessie Diggins went on to win silver in the women's 30 kilometer freestyle, earning the US' last medal on the last day of the Olympics.

Jessie Diggins was the first non-European to win a medal in the event.

Jessie Diggins left Beijing as the most decorated American cross-country skier of all time.

In December 2022, Jessie Diggins broke the American record for World Cup cross-country ski wins with her fourteenth such win.

Jessie Diggins set a United States' records with six victories and 12 podium finishes for the season.

Jessie Diggins is an ambassador for the non-profit organization Protect Our Winters, whose aim is to effect systemic solutions to climate change through the outdoor sports community.

Jessie Diggins traveled with POW to Capitol Hill in April 2018 to raise concerns over climate change.

In 2019, Jessie Diggins became a spokesperson for the Emily Program, an organization in the United States that provides treatment for eating disorders.

In 2020, Jessie Diggins wrote an autobiography, Brave Enough, about her athletic accomplishments and personal struggles with bulimia as a teenager.