Lindsey Vonn

        Lindsey Vonn is a three time Winter Olympic athlete from the United States. She was born Lindsey Caroline Kildrow on October 18, 1984 in St. Paul, Minnesota and grew up in the city of Burnsville. Lindsey has been on skis since she was 2 years old. Her father was a national junior skiing champion until he injured his knee. Lindsey met the famous American woman skier Picabo Street when she was 10. Her family moved to Vail, Colorado so Lindsey could spend more time training. In 2007 Lindsey married 2002 Olympian and former U.S. Ski Team athlete Thomas Vonn. Her favorite T.V. show is Law and Order, she got to visit the set and she is going to be on the show. Her character will be an assistant named Alicia. They will be shooting on the NYC set on April 9, 2010 and the show will air May 24, 2010. I will be watching!

       Lindsey became the first American female to win Italy's Trofeo Topolino (skiers of ages 11-14) in the slalom. Lindsey worked her way up in U.S. Ski Team rankings and made her World Cup debut at age 16 on November 18, 2000 in Park City, Utah. At her first Winter Olympics in 2002, she raced in combined and slalom she came in with a result of sixth place in the combined. In 2003 she won a silver medal for downhill at the Junior World Championship in Puy Saint-Vincent, France.

        At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, Lindsey crashed while training in San Sicario, Italy she had to be air lifted by helicopter to Torino where she was hospitalized overnight. The next day she competed and came in eighth place, she won the U.S. Olympic Spirit Award. She got the award because American fans, fellow U.S. team athletes and former U.S. Olympians voted for her. Vonn won her first medal in Super-G and the downhill at the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden.

        In 2008, Lindsey won the World Cup title, this made her the second woman in the U.S. ever to get this award. She was named Colorado Athlete of the Year in 2009. On February 10 she announced she had an injury on her shin. She wasn't sure she could compete but the weather was on her side and the IOC (International Olympic Committee) postponed the race because of weather. She eventually won gold in downhill, the first American woman to take gold. She raced using men's downhill skis. Lindsey also won bronze in the super-combined and she took bronze in the super-G where she finished only 0.74 seconds away from first place. Unfortunately she crashed in the giant slalom and broke her pinky finger and was disqualified in the slalom for missing a gate.

Last modified 04/14/2010