Sexiest Pictures Of Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey Vonn, American alpine ski racer, was born on 18th October 1984 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as Lindsey Caroline Kildow. She has won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing.
She started skiing at the age of two and was trained by Erich Sailer, her father’s former couch. In 1997, Lindsey and her family moved to Colorado and started training under skiing coaches Todd A Rash, Reid Phillips, Gus Pernetz.
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In 1999, Lindsey won the Cadets slalom event in Italy’s Trofeo Topolino di Sci Alpino. At the age of 16, she completed her World Cup debut in Park City, Utah. Her Winter Olympic debut was in Salt Lake City at the age of 17. She ranked sixth after racing in both slalom and combined.
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Lindsey achieved the overall World cup title, and she is the second American woman with maximum World Cup downhill victories. In 2009, she became the first woman to win the world super-G title in the World Championship, held in Val-d’isere, France.
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Lindsey, whose aim was to break Stenmark’s record, declared her decision to retire in 2018. The announcement came before the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, though she decided to continue till the end of the season. In the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Skier got the sixth place in Women’s super-G and earned bronze in downhill.
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Lindsey aka Kildon, Don Don, has 82 World Cup Wins to her name and holds the record since the 1970s. She is behind Ingemar Stenmark, who has 86 World Cups credited to her. Lindsey is the first American woman who has won a gold medal in downhill at Winter Olympics, 2010. She has also won the 2016 20th World Cup Crystal Globe title.