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Lindsey Vonn American Alpine Ski Racer

Born Lindsay Caroline Kildow in St. Paul, Minnesota, she is the daughter of Linda Anne (née Krohn) and Alan Lee Kildow. She is raised in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Burnsville, Minnesota. His father was of Irish descent and his mother was of German and Norwegian descent. Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American World Cup alpine ski racer.

She made it to four World Cup overall championships – third among female skiers behind Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin – with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010,  and another in 2012. Vonn won a gold medal in Downloadhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first for an American woman. She won a record eight World Cup season titles, five titles in the super-G (2009–2012, 2015) and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012).

In 2016, he won his 20th World Cup Crystal Globe title, which is the overall record for a man or woman, surpassing Sweden’s Ingmar Steyn, who won 19 Globe titles from 1975 to 1984. All skiers, male or female, have their third highest super ranking.

While recovering from injury, he worked as a photographer for NBC News, covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In 2019 he announced the rest while referring to his documentary. Vonn announced that she was returning to competitive skiing in November 2024.

On November 14, Vonn announced she was taking a break from skiing and returning to competitive skiing following a successful Skinner’s surgery seven months earlier, which left her with pain that forced her to take a sabbatical. He returned to the downhill race at the FMS Fall Festival in Copper Mountain, Colorado on December 7, finishing 24th out of 45 skiers.