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Alpine skiing is an Olympic sport, contested at the Winter Olympic Games. The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included nordic skiing, but the first alpine skiing events were not held until 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [1] A combined event was held for both men and women in 1936.
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.
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]
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin breaks Lindsey Vonn's record for World Cup Alpine victories, cementing her place among the greats in her sport. Elliott: Mikaela Shiffrin has more wins than any ...
USA skier Nina O'Brien falls in the second run of the women's giant slalom during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images) (JOE KLAMAR via Getty Images)
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.
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American World Cup alpine skier who has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history (men or women). She is considered one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time.
She won four World Cup overall championships – third amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin – with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, [2] plus another in 2012. [3] Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. [4]