Lindsey Vonn

• Lindsey Vonn is an American Alpine ski racer known especially for speed events.
• She won downhill gold and super-G bronze at Vancouver 2010.
• She added Olympic downhill bronze at PyeongChang 2018.
• She won the overall World Cup in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
• As of 8 November 2026 she had 84 World Cup victories, including 45 downhill and 28 super-G wins.
• After a 2013 knee injury and missing Sochi 2014, she returned to World Cup racing in 2024/25.

Lindsey Vonn built her reputation on downhill and super-G, where high speed magnifies the importance of line choice, jumps and terrain changes. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver she became the first American woman to win Olympic downhill gold and also took super-G bronze. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d’Isère she won gold in both events. Her eight World Championship medals span several editions: two silvers in 2007, two golds in 2009, silver in 2011, bronze in 2015 and 2017, and bronze again in 2019.

Vonn added Olympic downhill bronze at PyeongChang in 2018. Her four overall World Cup titles came in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012, with additional discipline titles, especially in downhill and super-G. As of 8 November 2026, she had 84 World Cup wins: 45 downhill, 28 super-G, five super-combined, four giant slalom and two slalom. The distribution shows that, while the speed races defined most of her victories, she also won across the Alpine programme.

A severe knee injury in 2013 kept her out of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. She returned to the Games at PyeongChang, where downhill bronze added to her record. After the 2019 World Championships in Åre she ended that phase of her World Cup career. She later returned to racing in the 2024/25 season: her first World Cup start after the comeback was the super-G at St. Moritz on 21 December 2024, where she finished 14th.

Her career includes long periods at the top, a forced Olympic absence and a later return to the circuit. Maria Höfl-Riesch achieved a broader balance across slalom and combined events, while Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal combined speed and technical titles. Their different strengths place Vonn among the ski legends of Alpine racing.