1. Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American World Cup alpine ski racer.
71 Facts About Lindsey Vonn
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Lindsey Vonn won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline, five titles in super-G, and three consecutive titles in the combined.
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Lindsey Vonn has the third highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women.
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Lindsey Vonn's total of 82 World Cup victories was a women's record until January 2023, when it was surpassed by Shiffrin.
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In 2011, Lindsey Vonn received the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award, and was the United States Olympic Committee's sportswoman of the year.
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Lindsey Vonn announced she was returning to competitive skiing in November 2024.
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Lindsey Vonn grew up in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Burnsville, Minnesota.
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Lindsey Vonn's father is of Irish ancestry and her mother was of German and Norwegian ancestry.
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Lindsey Vonn Kildow was taught to ski by her grandfather, Don Kildow, in Milton, Wisconsin.
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Lindsey Vonn began skiing as a child in Burnsville, Minnesota, at Buck Hill Ski and Snowboard, and through family vacations that included 16-hour drives from Minnesota to Vail, Colorado.
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Lindsey Vonn captured five more World Cup podiums over the next two months.
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Lindsey Vonn was ninth in super-G, but failed to finish the giant slalom.
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Lindsey Vonn cited the unexpected appearance of her father, with whom she has a strained relationship, for rattling her before the event.
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In 2008, Lindsey Vonn won the overall World Cup title.
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Lindsey Vonn became the second American woman to do so, following Tamara McKinney in 1983.
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Lindsey Vonn won the World Cup season title in the downhill and the US Alpine Championships combined title, marking her best ski season to date.
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In 2009, Lindsey Vonn repeated as overall World Cup champion, repeated as downhill champion and won the season championship in super-G by winning the final race of the season.
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At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isere, France, Lindsey Vonn won her first world championship and became the first American woman to win the world super-G title.
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In October 2009, Lindsey Vonn was awarded the Skieur d'Or Award, by members of the International Association of Ski Journalists for her performances during the previous season.
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In December 2009, Lindsey Vonn sustained a bruised arm after a crash during the opening run of the World Cup giant slalom.
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Lindsey Vonn continued racing as there was no fracture that would prevent her return and run at the Olympic Games in Vancouver.
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On January 14, Lindsey Vonn was named Colorado Athlete of the Year for 2009.
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Lindsey Vonn ended up winning the overall title, as well as the discipline titles in downhill, super-G and combined, and by winning the last super-G of the season, she boosted her overall World Cup victory total to 33, surpassing Miller for the most World Cup victories by an American.
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Lindsey Vonn was named by the Associated Press as 2010 Female Athlete of the Year.
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At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Lindsey Vonn planned to compete in all five women's alpine events.
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Lindsey Vonn said the pain from her injury was "excruciating" and she would have a difficult time competing at the Winter Olympics.
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Lindsey Vonn crashed in her first run, resulting in a broken fourth finger and her disqualification from the event.
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Riesch had a strong start to the season by winning 2 downhills in Lake Louise, Alberta, where Lindsey Vonn had won 7 races.
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Lindsey Vonn placed on the podium in every speed race but failed to finish in several slaloms.
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At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Lindsey Vonn suffered from a concussion she acquired during training a week earlier.
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Lindsey Vonn started in 2 events and achieved a seventh place in super-G and a silver medal in downhill.
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Back to World Cup and healthy again, Lindsey Vonn finished ahead of Riesch in several races, she took overall lead for first time that season after downhill event of the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide.
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Lindsey Vonn won her fourth Overall World Cup Title in 2012.
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Lindsey Vonn expressed disappointment that she missed the FIS Alpine Record for 2,000 points in a season by 20 points.
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At the first marathon of the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria, Lindsey Vonn crashed in the super-G and was airlifted to a nearby hospital.
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Lindsey Vonn tore her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her right knee, with a tibial plateau fracture.
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Lindsey Vonn said she would be ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics despite her injury.
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Lindsey Vonn traveled to Austria for the first race of the 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup, but ultimately decided not to compete during the first weekend.
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On November 20,2013, Lindsey Vonn re-injured her right knee straining it and partially tearing her right ACL after a crash during training.
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On January 7,2014, Lindsey Vonn announced that she would not compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics because she had re-injured her right knee on December 21,2013, while skiing in France.
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Lindsey Vonn made her comeback to the top of the podium on December 6,2014, at the women's World Cup downhill race at Lake Louise, Alberta, winning the event in only her second race back.
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Lindsey Vonn placed 5th in the downhill race and 14th in the giant slalom race.
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On March 18,2015, Lindsey Vonn won the last World Cup downhill race at Meribel, France and claimed the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time.
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Lindsey Vonn tied with Moser-Proell for the women's record of seven globes in one discipline.
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The next day, Lindsey Vonn notched her eight victory of the season by winning the last super-G race.
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Lindsey Vonn made a World Cup podium for the 113th time, tying Moser-Proell's women's record.
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Lindsey Vonn started the season by winning the three races contested by women in Lake Louise, Alberta for her third career victory.
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Two weeks later in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Lindsey Vonn broke Moser-Proll's record with her 37th downhill victory.
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On November 11,2016, Lindsey Vonn announced on her Facebook page that she had severely fractured the humerus bone of her right arm in a training crash.
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Lindsey Vonn returned to the World Cup on January 15,2017, in the downhill race at Altenmarkt; she finished 13th.
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On December 7,2017, Lindsey Vonn stated in an interview she would not be representing President Donald Trump in the 2018 Winter Olympics and would not attend the White House reception if she won a gold medal.
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Lindsey Vonn made it clear in her statement that she feels that all Olympians represent the United States people, and not the leaders.
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At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Lindsey Vonn tied for 6th in women's super-G.
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Lindsey Vonn finally made her season debut at Cortina d'Ampezzo in January 2019, finishing 15th and 9th in the two downhills there, before failing to finish the super-G: after the latter race she told reporters that she was considering retiring immediately, stating that she would "give it a couple of days and make some decisions".
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On February 1, Lindsey Vonn announced that she would retire after the 2019 World Championships taking place in Sweden.
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In January 2023, Lindsey Vonn became the first woman to ski the Streif, although on her own and not competitively.
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On 14 November 2024, Lindsey Vonn announced she was coming out of retirement and returning to competitive skiing after having a successful knee replacement surgery seven months earlier which stopped the pain that had led to her retirement.
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Lindsey Vonn made her return on 7 December 2024 in a downhill race at the FIS Fall Festival at Copper Mountain, Colorado, finishing 24th out of 45 skiers.
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On 21 December 2024, Lindsey Vonn made her comeback to the World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland, finishing 14th in the Super-G.
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Lindsey Vonn told the press that she had only suffered minor injures.
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Lindsey Vonn attained her first World Cup podium in seven years when she came second in the super-G at the season finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, on 23 March 2025.
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Lindsey Vonn appeared in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which featured Olympians from the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Lindsey Vonn came 59th in Maxim's Hot 100 list that year.
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Lindsey Vonn appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition again in 2016, wearing only bodypaint, and posed for the magazine once more in 2019.
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On 6 May 2018, Lindsey Vonn appeared on the fourth episode of the second season of Drop the Mic, where she competed in a rap battle against Gus Kenworthy.
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Lindsey Vonn hosted the single season canine reality competition series The Pack, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video on November 20,2020.
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Kildow, still using her married name Lindsey Vonn, met golfer Tiger Woods at a charity event in 2012.
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Lindsey Vonn announced that the two had parted ways, but remained friends.
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In 2021, Lindsey Vonn began a relationship with Diego Osorio, co-founder of tequila company Lobos 1707.
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In 2005, as the winner of the downhill at Val d'Isere, Lindsey Vonn was offered a pregnant Tarine cow, a locally popular dairy breed.
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However, Lindsey Vonn decided to keep it, as she knew a farmer in Austria who would be willing to take care of the cow, whom she named Olympe.