Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn is world-renowned American alpine ski racer on the US ski team. She is one of the six women to have won ‘World Cup’ races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing, namely, downhill, super-G, slalom, giant slalom, and super combined. She became one of the top female skiers, with 82 ‘World Cup’ victories to her credit, surpassing Annemarie Moser-Prӧll of Austria, who held the record since the 1970s. However, she needs five more ‘World Cup’ victories to beat the record set by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who has 86 ‘World Cup’ titles. She is the first American woman to have won a gold medal in downhill, at the 2010 ‘Winter Olympics.’ She also won eight ‘World Cup’ season titles in the downhill discipline, five super-G titles, and three consecutive titles in the super combined (2010 to 2012). Surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who has 19 ‘World Cup’ ‘Globe’ wins (1975–1984), she won the 20th ‘World Cup’ ‘Crystal Globe’ title in 2016. She has the second-highest super ranking among all skiers, including men and women skiers in America. She is one of the greatest skiers America has produced. She grew up in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Burnsville, Minnesota. She is also known as “Kildon,” “Don Don,” and “The Don.”