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Lindsey Vonn

American alpine ski racer with four overall World Cup titles.

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At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vonn became the first American woman to win the gold medal in the downhill event.[1]

Key facts and history

Vonn was born Lindsey Caroline Kildow in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Burnsville, Minnesota.[2] She began skiing at age two and trained in Erich Sailer's development program at Buck Hill.[3] She won her first world championship in super-G at the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France.[4] Vonn announced on January 7, 2014, that she would not compete in the Sochi Olympics due to knee instability.[5]

When she was nine, Vonn encountered Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street, who subsequently became her mentor.[6] On November 18, 2000, at age 16, Vonn debuted in the World Cup in Park City, Utah.[7] At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vonn won gold in downhill and bronze in super-G.[1][8]

What the cited sources add

An ESPN report from January 7, 2014, stated that Vonn's publicist Lewis Kay confirmed she would have surgery shortly.[5] The ESPN article also reported that Vonn needed three wins to match Annemarie Moser-Proell's record of 62 World Cup victories.[5] The same source noted that after returning to competition in December, Vonn sprained her MCL during a race at Val d'Isère, France.[5]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Lindsey Vonn wins Are GS; clinches fourth overall title", FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, March 9, 2012; "Lindsey Vonn wins 3rd straight overall World Cup", ESPN, March 12, 2010; "Vonn, Mancuso go 1–2 in downhill", ESPN, February 17, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Lindsey Vonn ancestry", Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: TV2.no (Norwegian) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Donaldson, "Vonn wins super-G for her first title as world champ", Deseret News, February 4, 2009; Dampf, "Vonn DQ'd from super-combi won by Zettel", June 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. "Lindsey Vonn will not compete in 2014 Sochi Olympics due to knee injury", ESPN, January 7, 2014. facts only, no text reused. espn.com
  6. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lindsey Vonn on The Daily Show (Published to TDS YouTube channel on June 26, 2019) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Trofeo topolino", Trofeo topolino; "italian | Albo d'Oro", italian (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Lindsey Vonn" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dunbar, "Vonn crashes, as Riesch takes super-combined title", February 18, 2010; "Fischbacher and Maze upset Vonn in super-G", February 20, 2010; Dampf, "Fischbacher and Maze upset Vonn in super-G", February 20, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Lindsey Vonn (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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