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Pages in category "American female alpine skiers" The following 148 pages are in this category, out of 148 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Two Americans set age records in 2014: Mikaela Shiffrin, age 18, became the youngest Olympic slalom champion [9] and Bode Miller became the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing, with a bronze in the super-G at age 36. [10] Croatian Janica Kostelić has won the most medals of any woman, with six (four gold, two silver). [11]
By winning her second Olympic gold medal in the 2018 giant slalom, Shiffrin tied Ted Ligety and Andrea Mead Lawrence for the most Olympic gold medals ever won by an American Olympian in alpine skiing. She is one of only 5 Americans to ever win the World Cup overall title. In World Championships, she is the most decorated American alpine skier ...
Despite skiing with her arm in a brace due to the injury, Vonn won three straight races (two downhills and a super-G) in Haus im Ennstal, Austria, from January 8–10, 2010. The wins raised her to second among American skiers on the all-time career list for World Cup wins with 28, passing Mahre and trailing only Bode Miller.
On Saturday, the two-time Olympic champion held on to her first-run lead to beat Italian prodigy Lara Colturi, who starts for Albania, by 0.55 seconds and Swiss skier Camille Rast by 0.57. They ...
Picabo Street (/ ˈ p iː k ə b uː /; born April 3, 1971) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals.
Diggins left Beijing as the most decorated American cross-country skier of all time. [28] For the second straight Olympics, she finished in the top 10 in all six women's cross-country skiing events. In December 2022, Diggins broke the American record for World Cup cross-country ski wins with her fourteenth such win. [29]
During her first World Cup season, she had two top-15 finishes in downhill as the 1972 Winter Olympics neared. [1] She was expected to make the U.S. Olympic team, but dislocated a hip in a downhill at Grindelwald on January 18, two weeks before the games began. [7] She missed those Winter Olympics [8] but competed in 1976, 1980, and 1984. [9]