Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn
 Alpine skier 
Lindsey Vonn in January 2017
Disciplines Downhill, Super-G,
Giant slalom, Combined
(also Slalom before 2012)
Club Vail SSC
Born (1984-10-18) October 18, 1984
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
World Cup debut November 18, 2000
(age 16)
Website LindseyVonn.com
Olympics
Teams 4 – (2002, 2006, 2010, 2018)
Medals 3 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams 6 – (200517)
Medals 7 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 16 – (2002, 20042018)
Wins 82
Podiums 137
Overall titles 4 – (200810, 2012)
Discipline titles 16 – (8 DH, 5 SG, 3 KB)

Lindsey Caroline Vonn (née Kildow /kɪld/; born October 18, 1984)[1] is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She has won four World Cup overall championships—one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll—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 ever in the event for an American woman.[4] She has also won a record 8 World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, 2016), 5 titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and 3 consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, an all-time record among men or women, passing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984. She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women.

Vonn is one of 6 women[5] to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing—downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined—and has won 82 World Cup races in her career through February 3, 2018. Her 82 World Cup victories are an all-time women's record, passing Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria who had held the record since the 1970s, and only Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86 World Cup victories has more. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, 2 World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011), and 4 overall World Cup titles, Vonn is the most successful American ski racer and is considered one of the greatest ever.[6]

In 2010, Vonn received the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award [7] and was the United States Olympic Committee's sportswoman of the year.[8]

Various injuries have caused Vonn to miss parts of several seasons, including almost all of the 2014 season and most of the 2013 season. While recovering from injury, she worked as a correspondent for NBC News covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Early life and education

Born Lindsey Caroline Kildow in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she is the daughter of Linda Anne (née Krohn) and Alan Lee Kildow.[9] She grew up in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Burnsville, Minnesota. She is of Norwegian ancestry.[10] Vonn was on skis at age two before moving into Erich Sailer's renowned development program at Burnsville's Buck Hill, which also produced slalom racer Kristina Koznick. Her father, who had won a national junior title before a knee injury at 18, "pushed" her very hard, according to Sailer.[11]

When Vonn was 10 years old, she met Olympic gold medalist ski racer Picabo Street, whom she considers her hero and role model. Their meeting made such an impression on Street that she remembered the meeting and later served as Vonn's mentor in skiing. Vonn commuted to Colorado to train for several years before her family moved to Vail, Colorado in the late 1990s.[12][13]

Vonn attended University of Missouri High School, an online program through the university's Center for Distance and Independent Study.[14][15]

Skiing career

Early years

Vonn was taught to ski by her grandfather, Don Kildow, in Milton, Wisconsin.[16] Vonn began skiing as a child in Burnsville, Minnesota, at Buck Hill Ski and Snowboard, and through family vacations that included 16-hour drives from Minnesota to Vail. "I would be in the back under a sleeping bag, and she'd be driving and singing along to some Eric Clapton tape," Vonn said in an interview. By the time Lindsey was 7, she had skied in Minnesota, Colorado, and Oregon year-round. When skiing in Colorado, she had lessons at Ski Club Vail (SCV), an alpine racing program (subsequently expanded and renamed Ski & Snowboard Club Vail) that taught, and still teaches skiers from ages 6 and up.[17] During her first year at SCV, Lindsey skied under "Gravity Corps" Ski Coach Colby S. Scudder, Vonn's only female coach, in Ski Club Vail's Gravity Corps "pre-age-class" program. The program was directed by Tom Krebs who told the Gravity Corps coaches to not train the skiers inside gates, but instead to develop their all-mountain skiing skills and to develop their comfort in the fall line (the most direct route down a ski slope), while ensuring the kids were exposed to as much terrain as possible—versatility and exposure to diverse terrain was the directive.[18] At that time, the Gravity Corps pre-age-class skiing program consisted of multiple groups of 8–10 skiers; it was the only SCV venue open at the club to younger skiers who were not yet old enough to participate in official "age-class" USSA or FIS sanctioned events. Vonn, and other members of her group, placed first, second and third, in Gravity Corps unofficial races in which all gravity corps skiers participated in one collective unofficial gathering. The race was set and run by Krebs, and directed as the only time the skiers should "be in a race course".[18] The subsequent year, at the end of the season, Lindsey's mother asked if the coach thought Lindsey was a slow skier; the answer was Lindsey was most definitely NOT a slow skier. It was mentioned that if anyone ever told the mother that Lindsey was slow, it was likely because that person was not recognizing that Lindsey was in a perpetual self-conscious growth spurt and, that the person saying that Lindsey was slow was not telling them that changes in her height, affected her center of gravity and skiing confidence, and thus that person who described Lindsey as skiing slowly was not acknowledging the differences between a growing young male skier vs. a young female skier (who by the age of 11, stood at a much taller self-conscious height than her peers) - which, in the coach's opinion resulted in the devastatingly inaccurate slow comment. The words used by Colby Scudder were more colorful, and much less diplomatic. Nonetheless, the next season, because of Lindsey's strength, ability, and love of skiing in the fall-line, Lindsey's mother requested technical training and because Colby and Tom believed Lindsey would thrive under the training of SCV's skilled technical coaches, the next season, Lindsey was entered early into the "age class program" where Lindsey skied with much older high school aged athletes, under SCV Alpine Ski "Age-class" technical skiing Coaches Reid Phillips, Chip Woods, Reid Phillips, Todd A. Rash and Gus Pernetz,etc., who collectively perfected Lindsey's early technical skills and began the official "in gate" race training at SCV.[19]

In the late 1990s, Lindsey and her siblings and mother moved to Colorado to ski exclusively at Ski Club Vail. During her first year in Vail, Lindsey and one of her sisters skied together in the same "gravity corps" SCV group, while her mother considered whether to move the entire family from Minnesota to Vail,Colorado. "Vail was wonderful to me," Lindsey said, "but I missed all the traditional things of childhood – sleepovers, school dances, making friends in a conventional way. Halfway through the second season, Lindsey's siblings also moved to Vail. "Now all my brothers and sisters had left their friends for me. That was stressful on them. I felt so guilty."

But the move paid off because in 1999 Lindsey Kildow and Will McDonald became the first American athletes to win the "Cadets" slalom events in Italy's Trofeo Topolino di Sci Alpino.[20] In 1986, Lindsey's hero, Picabo Street, participated, but did not medal, in the same Topolino event.[20][21][22] In 1995 Lindsey first met Street in person, a few years later, "Street said was stunned watching a 15-year-old Lindsey ski for the first time in 1999. She marveled at Vonn's knack for following the fall line. 'The faster she went, the bigger the smile she got on her face,' Street said. 'You can't teach somebody to love the fall line like that little girl loved the fall line.'" [23]

After climbing through the ranks of the U.S. Ski Team, she made her World Cup debut at age 16 on November 18, 2000, in Park City, Utah.

2002–2005

In her Olympic debut at the 2002 Winter Olympics at age 17, Vonn raced in both slalom and combined in Salt Lake City, with her best result coming with sixth in combined. On March 4, 2003, she earned a silver medal in downhill in the Junior World Championship at Puy Saint-Vincent, France.

Vonn credits a change in her attitude toward training to a bike ride with fellow ski racer Julia Mancuso and Mancuso's father Ciro when Vonn visited them at their home in Lake Tahoe, California. With little biking experience, she quickly found herself miles behind Julia and Ciro. Alone and embarrassed, she realized she needed drastic revision of her training regimen and her attitude toward training if she was going to be successful.[24]

On March 24, 2004, Vonn was the downhill silver medalist at the U.S. Alpine Championships at Mt. Alyeska Resort, Girdwood, Alaska. Earlier that year 2004, Vonn climbed onto the World Cup podium for the first time with a third-place finish in downhill in January 2004 at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Her maiden victory in that specialty came at Lake Louise, Alberta, in December 2004. She captured five more World Cup podiums over the next two months.

In 2005, she competed in four races at her first World Championships held in Bormio, Italy, pulling in fourth-place finishes in both the downhill and the combined. She was ninth in super-G, but failed to finish the giant slalom. She cited the unexpected appearance of her father, with whom she has a strained relationship, for rattling her before the event.[11]

2006–2007

Lindsey Vonn during a slalom race in Aspen in November 2006

At her second Winter Olympics in 2006, Vonn clocked the second-best time in the first practice run yet crashed in the second training run for the downhill race on February 13, 2006, in San Sicario, Italy; she was evacuated by helicopter to Turin and was hospitalized overnight. Despite a bruised hip and strong pains, she returned on the slope 2 days later to compete and finished eighth. The gritty performance earned her the U.S. Olympic Spirit Award, as voted by American fans, fellow Team USA athletes, former U.S. Olympians, and members of the media for best representing the Olympic Spirit.

Vonn earned her first "big race" medals with silver in both downhill and super-G at the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden. A training crash before the slalom caused her a low-level ACL sprain to her right knee, ending her season 4 weeks early. Nevertheless, she finished third for the season in the women's 2007 World Cup disciplines of downhill and super-G.

2008–2010: Winning the overall World Cup for three consecutive years

In 2008, Lindsey Vonn won the overall World Cup title. She became the second American woman to do so, following Tamara McKinney in 1983. American Bode Miller won the men's title to complete the first U.S. sweep of the men's and women's overall titles in 25 years (McKinney and Phil Mahre in 1983). She also won the World Cup season title in the downhill and the U.S. Alpine Championships combined title (downhill & slalom), marking her best ski season to date. Vonn set a new American record for the most World Cup downhill victories with ten, winning at Crans-Montana, Switzerland, on March 8.

Vonn in March 2008

In 2009, Vonn repeated as overall World Cup champion, repeated as downhill champion and also won the season championship in super-G by winning the final race of the season. During the season, she broke Tamara McKinney's American record of 18 World Cup victories when she won the super-G at Tarvisio in February. Her nine World Cup wins also set an American single-season record, surpassing Phil Mahre's total of eight in 1982. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, Vonn won her first world championship and became the first American woman to win the world super-G title.[25] In the super combined event, she won the downhill portion and had appeared to have finished second in the event with a strong slalom performance, but was disqualified for splitting a gate.[26] Three days later she won the gold in the downhill. During early 2009, she appeared in Alka-Seltzer television commercials in the United States as support for the United States Ski Team. During the summer of 2009, Vonn switched her equipment sponsor and supplier to Head skis, after previously racing her entire career on Rossignol skis.[27] In October 2009, Vonn was awarded the Skieur d'Or Award[28] by members of the International Association of Ski Journalists for her performances during the previous season.

In December 2009, Vonn sustained a bruised arm after a crash during the opening run of the World Cup giant slalom. She continued racing as there was no fracture that would prevent her return and run at the Olympic Games in Vancouver.[29] 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 Phil Mahre and trailing only Bode Miller. On January 14, 2010, Lindsey Vonn was named Colorado Athlete of the Year for 2009.[30] With her victory in a super-G just prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics, she clinched her second straight super-G discipline title with two races still to go.[31] Vonn ended up also winning the overall title, as well as the discipline titles in downhill, super-G and combined, and by winning the last super-G of the season, she boosted her overall World Cup victory total to 33, surpassing Bode Miller for the most World Cup victories by an American.[32] The third consecutive overall World Cup title also equals Phil Mahre's American record and makes Vonn the third woman to achieve it, behind Petra Kronberger with 3 straight and Annemarie Moser-Pröll with 5 straight.[32] Vonn was also named by the Associated Press as 2010 Female Athlete of the Year.[33]

2010 Winter Olympics

Vonn at the 2010 Arthur Ashe Kids Day in Queens, New York, August 2010

At the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010, Vonn planned to compete in all five women's alpine events.[34] On February 10, she revealed she had severely bruised her shin in training the previous week. Vonn said the pain from her injury was "excruciating" and she would have a difficult time competing at the Winter Olympics.[35] Due to unseasonably warm weather and resultant poor snow conditions, many of the Alpine skiing events were moved back, giving Vonn additional time to heal.[36] On February 17, in her first event, Vonn won the gold medal in the downhill at Whistler Blackcomb, beating longtime U.S. rival Julia Mancuso by 0.56 seconds and becoming the first American woman to win Olympic gold in downhill.[37][38]

From left to right: Tina Maze of Slovenia (silver), Andrea Fischbacher of Austria (gold), and Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. (bronze) with the medals they earned in the super-G

In her second event, the super combined, Vonn finished first in the downhill portion of the race. In the slalom portion, however, she crashed when she failed to get her ski around a right-hand gate. Vonn said her shin wasn't the problem. Gold and silver were won by Maria Riesch and Julia Mancuso respectively.[39]

In her third event, the super-G, Vonn finished third behind Andrea Fischbacher and Tina Maze, 0.74 seconds behind Fischbacher's winning time.[40] Afterwards, Vonn said she didn't ski the last part of the course as aggressively as she could have and lost the race as a result.[41] In her fourth event, the giant slalom, fog affected visibility. Vonn crashed in her first run, resulting in a broken fourth finger and Vonn's disqualification from the event.[42][43] In her fifth event, the slalom, Vonn lost control and straddled a gate, disqualifying her from the event.

2011: Losing the overall World Cup to Maria Riesch by 3 points

Vonn at the Boston Red Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles game, April 2011

After 3 consecutive overall World Cups, Vonn faced more serious competition from Maria Riesch of Germany in 2011. Riesch had a strong start to the season by winning 2 downhills in Lake Louise, where Vonn had won 7 races. Vonn placed on the podium in every speed race but failed to finish in several slaloms. Riesch had 5 podiums in the first 6 slaloms and was significantly ahead in the overall ranking by the end of January.

At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Vonn suffered from a concussion she acquired during training a week earlier. She started in 2 events and achieved a seventh place in super-G and a silver medal in downhill.

Back to World Cup and healthy again, Vonn finished ahead of Riesch in several races (including a giant slalom she finished third, best career result in GS until then), she took overall lead for first time that season after downhill event of the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide. The super-G was cancelled due to poor weather conditions, and after the slalom Riesch regained the overall lead by 3 points. The giant slalom was also cancelled due to weather and Riesch was the 2011 overall champion.

2012: Joining the all-event winner's club

Vonn won her fourth Overall World Cup Title in 2012. The season opened in October in Sölden, Austria where Vonn won her first giant slalom. This made Vonn the 6th woman to have won all events at least once.

On December 2–4, 2011, she won all three races in Lake Louise (two downhills, one super-G) for her second career 'hat trick', and with her eleventh win at Lake Louise she surpassed Renate Götschl's record for most career wins at a single resort (ten in Cortina d'Ampezzo). On December 7, 2011, Vonn notched her first World Cup victory on U.S. snow, at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Due to a lack of snow in France, its super-G was rescheduled in advance for a Wednesday on the Birds of Prey course. Her limited success on U.S. snow is primarily due to a lack of speed events; only three have been run in the U.S. during her career. It was the first home win by an American woman in 17 years, since Hilary Lindh of Alaska won the downhill in nearby Vail in December 1994.

With further victories in January 2012, she overtook Renate Götschl to become the third most successful female World Cup racer in terms of victories.

On February 4, 2012, Vonn achieved her fiftieth World Cup victory on the Kandahar downhill course at Garmisch, Germany. The win also gave her 25 career downhill victories, surpassing Götschl for second most career DH wins. With a podium finish in Russia on February 18, 2012 Vonn clinched the season title in downhill, her fifth consecutive in that discipline.

Vonn's expressed disappointment that she missed the FIS Alpine Record for 2,000 points in a season by 20 points. In her final race of the season at Schladming, Austria, she was not able to improve on her first giant slalom run after losing her pole at the starting gate. Her 24th finish at Schladming led to her loss of a potential 20-plus points for her season record. "It was possible to get those 20 points, I was in a good position ... If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take. It will give me even more motivation for next season", commented Vonn after the race.[44]

2013

Vonn got off to a slow start in the 2013 season, slowed by illness with marginal results in giant slalom and skipping a pair of slalom races in November 2012. She came back quickly once the speed events started, again sweeping all three races in Lake Louise from November 30 to December 2 (two downhills, one super-G) for her third career 'hat trick', and increasing her record for most career wins at a single resort to 14. The three wins increased her career total to 56, moving her past Vreni Schneider into second place all-time among women behind Annemarie Moser-Pröll with 62.

After some disappointing results, Vonn announced her decision on December 17 to take a break from the World Cup circuit to fully recover from her earlier illness.[45] She returned and finished in 6th place on January 6 in her first downhill race since her break. Two weeks later she won the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo and week later won the giant slalom in Maribor, Slovenia.[46]

World Championships

At the first marathon of the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria, Vonn crashed in the super-G and was airlifted to a nearby hospital. She tore her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her right knee, with a tibial plateau fracture.[47] Vonn said she would be ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics despite her injury.[48]

World Cup Finals

Before her season ending crash on February 5 in Schladming, Vonn led in the World Cup downhill standings with 340 points. Several were within reach of taking the title during her absence from the tour. Overall champion Tina Maze, who trailed Vonn by more than a hundred points, took a 4th-place finish in Méribel and a win in Garmisch to close the gap to a single point with one race remaining at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide. Weather conditions were in Vonn's favor, as officials canceled the race after numerous delays due to a thick fog on the lower section. As a result, she won her sixth downhill season title despite not competing in a downhill since mid-January.

2014

Vonn traveled to Austria for the first race of the 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup, but ultimately decided not to compete during the first weekend.[49] She announced plans to return to competition in late November.[49] On November 20, 2013, Vonn re-injured her right knee straining it and partially tearing her right ACL after a crash during training.[50] She returned to competition on December 6, finishing 40th the first of two downhill races in Lake Louise, Canada,[51] then 11th in the second downhill on December 7, followed by a 5th place in the super-G on December 8. In December, she said of her preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics that "I'm going to play it safe and race minimal races, so I can get the confidence and the timing and the feeling of racing again. I'm really going to be safe and smart as I can."[52]

On January 7, 2014, Vonn announced that she would not compete in the Sochi 2014 Winter Games because she had re-injured her right knee on December 21, 2013, while skiing in France. "I am devastated to announce that I will not be able to compete in Sochi. I did everything I possibly could to somehow get strong enough to overcome having no ACL but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level. I'm having surgery soon so that I can be ready for the World Championships at home in Vail next February. On a positive note, this means there will be an additional spot so that one of my teammates can go for gold. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support. I will be cheering for all of the Olympians and especially team USA!" [53] ESPN posted a reference to her announcement, a few hours after Lindsey wrote the aforementioned on her Facebook page.[54]

2015: Comeback

Vonn made her comeback to the top of the podium on December 6, 2014 at the Women's World Cup downhill race at Lake Louise, Alberta, winning the event in only her second race back.[55] In January 2015, she tied and then overtook Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell for the most World Cup wins ever.

At the 2015 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek, Colorado, Vonn won a bronze medal in the first of ladies' events, the super-G.[56] She placed 5th in the downhill race and 14th in the giant slalom race.

On March 18, 2015, Vonn won the last World Cup downhill race at Meribel, France and claimed the World Cup downhill title for the seventh time. Vonn tied with Moser-Proell for the women's record of seven globes in one discipline.[57] The next day, Vonn notched her eight victory of the season by winning the last super-G race. With this win, Vonn took the super-G season title for a fifth time, tying a record shared by German Katja Seizinger, Austrian Hermann Maier and Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal. She joined Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark as the only skiers to reach 19 season titles across all disciplines and the overall. Vonn also made a World Cup podium for the 113th time, tying Moser-Proell‘s women's record.[58][59]

2016

Vonn started the season by winning the three races contested by women in Lake Louise (2 Downhill, 1 Super G) for her third career victory. This brought her to 70 career World Cup wins, increasing her lead over the previous women's world record holder for most World Cup podiums by a woman (Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell, 62 career victories) and with her 25th Super G win, she passed Austrian Hermann Maier for most Super G wins for either gender.[60] In January, Vonn tied the record of Annemarie Moser-Pröll for all-time downhill victories at 36 with a win at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria. Because poor snow conditions resulted in a shorter course, the race was uniquely held over two combined runs, similar to slalom and giant slalom races. Two weeks later in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Vonn broke Moser-Pröll's record with her 37th downhill victory.

2017

On November 11, 2016, Vonn announced on her Facebook page that she had severely fractured the humerus bone of her right arm in a training crash. She had undergone surgery to repair the bone.[61] Vonn returned to the World Cup on January 15, 2017, in the downhill race at Altenmarkt; she finished 13th. On January 20, in her second race back from injury, she won the downhill event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, capturing her 77th win.[62]

On December 8, 2017, Vonn stated in an interview she will not be representing the President in the 2018 Winter Olympics and will not attend the White House reception if she wins a gold medal. Vonn made it clear in her statement that she feels that all Olympians represent the United States people, and not the leaders. She was quoted in the CNN article saying, "Well I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the President." [63]

2018

2018 Winter Olympics

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Vonn tied for 6th in Women's Super-G.[64] She won the bronze medal in women's downhill.[65] Vonn dedicated her Olympics races to her grandfather, a Korean War veteran who died the previous November, competing with his initials on her helmet.[66] In a tearful interview following the woman's downhill race, Vonn stated: "Our family never gives up and I never gave up. I kept working hard and I'm really proud of this medal and I know he [her grandfather] is too."[67][68] She later scattered some of her grandfather's ashes near the men's downhill racing course, stating: "I know that it would mean a lot to him to be back here, a part of him is in South Korea always." [69]

Personal life

Vonn has enjoyed a significant amount of media attention for an alpine skier, making her the face of her sport in the US. She has appeared on The Today Show, Access Hollywood, and The Late Show with David Letterman and has picked up endorsements from notable companies such as Head, Oakley, Red Bull, Rolex, and Under Armour.[70] In 2010, her assets were estimated to be worth over 2.5 million dollars.

Vonn in March 2010 with 8 crystal globes, including 3 large ones for FIS World Cup overall titles and 5 smaller ones for various discipline titles

Vonn married fellow 2002 Olympian and former U.S. Ski Team athlete Thomas Vonn on September 29, 2007, at the Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah.[71] In November 2011, the couple announced initiation of divorce proceedings after four years of marriage.[72] The divorce was finalized on January 9, 2013.[73]

Vonn met golfer Tiger Woods at a charity event in 2012. They started dating in March 2013 before splitting in May 2015.[74][75][76]

Vonn frequently stays at the home of Maria Höfl-Riesch, her friend and former major competitor, in Garmisch, Germany. Lindsey and Thomas Vonn often spent Christmas Eve at the Riesch family home. Vonn is fluent in German (including Austro-Bavarian).[77] During the off-season, Lindsey resides in Vail, Colorado. The most unusual of Vonn's trophies lives in Kirchberg, Austria—Olympe the cow. Vonn won the oversized pet in 2005 in Val-d'Isère.[78] Vonn's nicknames are "Kildon", "Don Don" and "The Don."

Though she makes many public appearances, Vonn says training takes up most of her life except for a few weeks after the ski season. She trains six to eight hours a day for six days per week during the summer, incorporating endurance cycling, tight-rope walking, and reaction training into her indoor regimen. She also spends a significant portion of her training regimen skiing, focusing on technical aspects and speed all year round.[79]

Vonn appeared in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition which featured Olympians from the 2010 Winter Games.[80] She came in 59th on Maxim's Hot 100 list that year.[81]She appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition again in 2016. This time she only wore bodypaint.

As of December 25 2017, she is in a relationship with Canadian ice hockey player P. K. Subban.[82]

World Cup results

Season titles

20 titles (4 overall, 8 downhill, 5 super-G, 3 combined)

Season Discipline
2008Overall
Downhill
2009Overall
Downhill
Super-G
2010Overall
Downhill
Super-G
Combined
2011Downhill
Super-G
Combined
2012Overall
Downhill
Super-G
Combined
2013Downhill
2015Downhill
Super-G
2016Downhill

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom
Super-GDownhillCombined
200217933541
20031811847
2004193038452614
20052062835355
2006215949423
200722637337
20082313213612
200924138112
20102511428111
20112621912111
2012271202111
20132882041
201429682536
20153032911
20163124318315
20173219124
201833109210

Race victories

  • 82 wins – (43 DH, 28 SG, 4 GS, 2 SL, 5 SC)
  • 137 podiums, 213 top tens
Season Date Location Discipline
2005December 3, 2004Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
2006
3 victories
(2 DH, 1 SG)
December 3, 2005Downhill
December 17, 2005France Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill
March 3, 2006Norway Hafjell, NorwaySuper-G
2007
3 victories
(2 DH, 1 SG)
December 2, 2006Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 20, 2006France Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill
January 28, 2007Italy San Sicario, ItalySuper-G
2008
6 victories
(5 DH, 1 SC)
December 1, 2007Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 21, 2007Austria St. Anton, AustriaDownhill
December 22, 2007Super combined
January 19, 2008Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
February 9, 2008Italy Sestriere, ItalyDownhill
March 8, 2008 Switzerland Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandDownhill
2009
9 victories
(2 DH, 4 SG,
2 SL, 1 SC)
November 15, 2008Finland Levi, FinlandSlalom
December 5, 2008Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
January 17, 2009Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, AustriaSuper combined
January 30, 2009Germany Garmisch, GermanySlalom
February 1, 2009Super-G
February 22, 2009Italy Tarvisio, ItalySuper-G
March 1, 2009Bulgaria Bansko, BulgariaSuper-G
March 11, 2009Sweden Åre, SwedenDownhill
March 12, 2009Super-G
2010
11 victories
(6 DH, 4 SG, 1 SC)
December 4, 2009Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 5, 2009Downhill
December 18, 2009France Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper combined
January 8, 2010Austria Haus im Ennstal, AustriaDownhill
January 9, 2010Downhill
January 10, 2010Super-G
January 22, 2010Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalySuper-G
January 23, 2010Downhill
January 31, 2010 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper-G
March 6, 2010 Switzerland  Crans-Montana, SwitzerlandDownhill
March 12, 2010Germany Garmisch, GermanySuper-G
2011
8 victories
(3 DH, 4 SG, 1 SC)
December 5, 2010Canada Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G
December 18, 2010France Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill
December 19, 2010Super combined
January 8, 2011Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, AustriaDownhill
January 21, 2011Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalySuper-G
January 23, 2011Super-G
February 26, 2011Sweden Åre, SwedenDownhill
March 6, 2011Italy Tarvisio, ItalySuper-G
2012
12 victories
(5 DH, 4 SG,
2 GS, 1 SC)
October 22, 2011Austria Sölden, AustriaGiant slalom
December 2, 2011Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 3, 2011Downhill
December 4, 2011Super-G
December 7, 2011United States Beaver Creek, USASuper-G
January 15, 2012Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalySuper-G
January 27, 2012 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper combined
January 28, 2012Downhill
February 4, 2012Germany Garmisch, GermanyDownhill
February 26, 2012Bulgaria Bansko, BulgariaSuper-G
March 9, 2012Sweden Åre, SwedenGiant slalom
March 14, 2012Austria Schladming, AustriaDownhill
2013
6 victories
(3 DH, 2 SG, 1 GS)
November 30, 2012Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 1, 2012Downhill
December 2, 2012Super-G
December 8, 2012 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper-G
January 19, 2013Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
January 26, 2013Slovenia Maribor, SloveniaGiant slalom
2015
8 victories
(4 DH, 4 SG)
December 6, 2014Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 20, 2014France Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill
January 18, 2015Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
January 19, 2015Super-G
January 25, 2015 Switzerland  St. Moritz, SwitzerlandSuper-G
March 8, 2015Germany Garmisch, GermanySuper-G
March 18, 2015France Méribel, FranceDownhill
March 19, 2015Super-G
2016
9 victories
(5 DH, 3 SG, 1 GS)
December 4, 2015Canada Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill
December 5, 2015Downhill
December 6, 2015Super-G
December 12, 2015Sweden Åre, SwedenGiant slalom
January 9, 2016Austria Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, AustriaDownhill
January 10, 2016Super-G
January 23, 2016Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
January 24, 2016Super-G
February 6, 2016Germany Garmisch, GermanyDownhill
2017January 21, 2017Downhill
2018
5 victories
(4 DH, 1 SG)
December 16, 2017France Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
January 20, 2018Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
February 3, 2018Germany Garmisch, GermanyDownhill
February 4, 2018Downhill
March 14, 2018Sweden Åre, SwedenDownhill

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
200520DNF1944
200722DNS122DSQ2
200924DNF211DSQ2
20112672DNS2
201328DNF
2015301435DNF2
201732DNF35

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
200217326
20062114 DNS178DNF SL2
201025DNF1DNF131DNF2
201429injured: did not compete
201833T63DNF2

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