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Lindsey Caroline Vonn (
Vonn is one of six 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 won 82 World Cup races in her career. Her total of 82 World Cup victories was a women's record until January 2023, when it was surpassed by Mikaela Shiffrin. Only Shiffrin and Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, with 86 World Cup victories, have more victories than Vonn. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn is one of the most successful American ski racers, and is considered one of the greatest of all skiers.[6]
In 2011, Vonn received the
Early life and education
Born Lindsey Caroline Kildow in
When Vonn was 9 years old, she met Olympic gold medalist ski racer Picabo Street, whom she considers her hero and role model.[13] 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.[14][15]
Vonn attended University of Missouri High School, an online program through the university's Center for Distance and Independent Study.[16][17] She speaks German fluently.[18] Despite not attending a traditional 4-year university, Vonn has gone on to participate in the four-day Harvard Business School's “The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports” program.[19]
Vonn's mother died in August 2022 following a one year battle with ALS.[20]
Skiing career
Early years
Lindsey Kildow was taught to ski by her grandfather, Don Kildow, in
Lindsey and other members of her gravity Corps 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 gravity corps skiers should "be in a race course".[25][failed verification] At the end of that first Vail season, Lindsey's mother asked if the coach thought Lindsey was a slow skier; the answer was an emphatic "NO," Lindsey was most definitely NOT a slow skier. It was mentioned that if anyone ever said that Lindsey was slow, it was likely because that person was not recognizing that Lindsey was in a perpetual growth spurt and, that the person saying that Lindsey was slow was not considering that changes in Lindsey's height affected her center of gravity, etc., 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 height than her peers) - which, in the SCV Gravity Corps Coach's opinion resulted in the devastatingly inaccurate "slow" comment. The words used by Colby S.Scudder were more colorful, and much less diplomatic. Based on Lindsey's newly confirmed speed, Lindsey and her mother asked about enrolling Lindsey into the older "Age-Class" program, which they said, had previously denied their enrollment request.[citation needed]
The coach supported the idea of skiing with "age-class" skiers. The next season, with the final approval of Director Chip Woods, Lindsey was enrolled into the "age class program," under SCV Alpine "technical skiing Coaches Reid Phillips, Chip Woods, Todd A. Rash and Gus Pernetz,etc., who collectively perfected Lindsey's early technical skills and began her SCV "in gate" training.[26][failed verification]
In the late 1990s, Lindsey and her siblings and mother stopped commuting from Minnesota to Colorado and instead moved to Colorado to ski exclusively at Ski Club Vail. During her first SCV year in Vail, Lindsey and one of her sisters skied together in the same "gravity corps" SCV group. It was during that first season Lindsey and her family were contemplating if the entire family should move from Minnesota to 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."[27]
However, 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.[28] In 1986, Lindsey's hero, Picabo Street, participated, but did not medal, in the same Topolino event.[28][29][30][failed verification] In 1995 at age 10, Kildow met Street in person at a promotional event. A few years later, "Street was stunned watching a 15-year-old Lindsey ski for the first time in 1999. She marveled at Lindsey'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.'"[31]
After climbing through the ranks of the
2002–2005
In her Olympic debut at the
Kildow credits a change in her attitude toward training to a bike ride with fellow ski racer Julia Mancuso and Mancuso's father Ciro when Kildow 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.[32]
On March 24, 2004, Kildow was the
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.[12]
2006–2007
At her second
Kildow earned her first "big race" medals with silver in both downhill and super-G at the
2008–2010: Winning the overall World Cup for three consecutive years
In
In
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.[37] 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.[38] 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.[39] 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.[40] 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.[40] Vonn was also named by the Associated Press as 2010 Female Athlete of the Year.[41]
2010 Winter Olympics
At the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010, Vonn planned to compete in all five women's alpine events.[42] 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.[43] 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.[44] 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.[45][46]
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
In her third event, the super-G, Vonn finished third behind Andrea Fischbacher and Tina Maze, 0.74 seconds behind Fischbacher's winning time.[48] 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.[49] 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.[50][51] 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
After 3 consecutive overall World Cups, Vonn faced more serious competition from
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
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
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.[52]
2013
Vonn got off to a slow start in the
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.[53] 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.[54]
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.[55] Vonn said she would be ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics despite her injury.[56]
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
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!"[61] ESPN posted a reference to her announcement, a few hours after Lindsey wrote the aforementioned on her Facebook page.[62]
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.
At the
On March 18, 2015, Vonn won the last World Cup downhill race at
2016
Vonn started the season by winning the three races contested by women in
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.[69] 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.[70]
On December 7, 2017, Vonn stated in an interview she will not be representing the President Donald Trump 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."[71]
2018
At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Vonn tied for 6th in women's super-G.[72] She won the bronze medal in women's downhill.[73] Vonn dedicated her Olympic races to her grandfather, a Korean War veteran who died the previous November, competing with his initials on her helmet.[74] 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."[75][76] 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."[77]
2019
In October 2018, ahead of the start of the 2018–19 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Vonn announced that she would retire from competition at the end of the season. Having previously suggested that she would continue until she had broken Stenmark's record for World Cup race victories, she confirmed that she would retire in 2019 regardless of whether she managed to surpass Stenmark's tally, explaining that "physically, I've gotten to the point where it doesn't make sense... I really would like to be active when I'm older, so I have to look to the future and not just be so focused on what's in front of me". She also said that she aimed to compete in all downhills and super-Gs in the World Cup season, planning to make her debut at Lake Louise at the end of November.[78] However the following month she injured her knee whilst training at Copper Mountain, forcing her to pull out of the Lake Louise races.[79] Subsequently, she announced that she would delay her retirement so she could compete at Lake Louise the following season.[80] Vonn finally made her season debut at Cortina d'Ampezzo in January, finishing 15th and 9th in the two downhills there[81] before failing to finish the super-G: after the latter race she told reporters that she was considering retiring immediately, stating that she would "give it a couple of days and make some decisions".[82] On February 1, 2019, Vonn announced that she would retire after the 2019 World Championships taking place in Sweden.[83] On February 10, 2019, after she won a bronze medal in women's downhill, she finally retired from the race circuit, with her wish to get flowers from Ingemar Stenmark as a goodbye being fulfilled.[84] With the clinching of the bronze she became the oldest woman to win a medal at a world championship (at age 34) and the first female racer to receive medals at six different world championships.[85]
2023
In January 2023, Vonn became the first woman to ski the Streif, although on her own and not competitively.[86]
Personal life
Lindsey Kildow married fellow
Kildow, still using her married name Vonn, met golfer
Vonn appeared in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which featured Olympians from the 2010 Winter Games.[102] She came 59th in Maxim's Hot 100 list that year.[103] She appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition again in 2016, wearing only bodypaint, and posed for the magazine once more in 2019.[104][105]
In 2005, as the winner of the downhill at
Documentary
In 2019, HBO released a documentary about Vonn entitled Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season.[107] The documentary covers her final World Championship season and her rise to fame from child prodigy to three-time Olympic medalist (one gold).
Vonn hosted the single season canine
Bibliography
- 2016: Strong Is the New Beautiful, (with Sarah Toland) Dey Street Books,
- 2022: Rise: My Story, Dey Street Books, ISBN 978-0062889447
World Cup results
Season titles
20 titles (4 overall, 8 downhill, 5 super-G, 3 combined)
Season | |
Discipline | |
2008 | Overall |
Downhill | |
2009 | Overall |
Downhill | |
Super-G | |
2010 | Overall |
Downhill | |
Super-G | |
Combined | |
2011 | Downhill |
Super-G | |
Combined | |
2012 | Overall |
Downhill | |
Super-G | |
Combined | |
2013 | Downhill |
2015 | Downhill |
Super-G | |
2016 | Downhill |
Season standings
Season | |||||||
Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
2002 | 17 | 93 | – | – | 35 | 41 | — |
2003 | 18 | 118 | – | – | – | 47 | — |
2004 | 19 | 30 | 38 | 45 | 26 | 14 | — |
2005 | 20 | 6 | 28 | 35 | 5 | 5 | |
2006 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 49 | 4 | ||
2007 | 22 | 6 | 37 | – | 7 | ||
2008 | 23 | 32 | 13 | 6 | |||
2009 | 24 | 8 | |||||
2010 | 25 | 14 | 28 | ||||
2011 | 26 | 19 | 12 | ||||
2012 | 27 | 20 | |||||
2013 | 28 | 8 | – | 20 | 4 | — | |
2014 | 29 | 68 | – | – | 25 | 36 | — |
2015 | 30 | – | 29 | — | |||
2016 | 31 | 43 | 18 | 5 | |||
2017 | 32 | 19 | – | – | 12 | 4 | — |
2018 | 33 | 10 | – | – | 9 | 10 | |
2019 | 34 | 83 | – | – | – | 32 | — |
Race victories
Season | |||
Date | Location | Discipline | |
2005 | December 3, 2004 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
2006 3 victories (2 DH, 1 SG) |
December 3, 2005 | Downhill | |
December 17, 2005 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill | |
March 3, 2006 | Hafjell, Norway | Super-G | |
2007 3 victories (2 DH, 1 SG) |
December 2, 2006 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
December 20, 2006 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill | |
January 28, 2007 | San Sicario, Italy | Super-G | |
2008 6 victories (5 DH, 1 SC) |
December 1, 2007 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
December 21, 2007 | St. Anton, Austria | Downhill | |
December 22, 2007 | Super combined | ||
January 19, 2008 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | |
February 9, 2008 | Sestriere, Italy | Downhill | |
March 8, 2008 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Downhill | |
2009 9 victories (2 DH, 4 SG, 2 SL, 1 SC) |
November 15, 2008 | Levi, Finland | Slalom |
December 5, 2008 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | |
January 17, 2009 | Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria | Super combined | |
January 30, 2009 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Slalom | |
February 1, 2009 | Super-G | ||
February 22, 2009 | Tarvisio, Italy | Super-G | |
March 1, 2009 | Bansko, Bulgaria | Super-G | |
March 11, 2009 | Åre , Sweden |
Downhill | |
March 12, 2009 | Super-G | ||
2010 11 victories (6 DH, 4 SG, 1 SC) |
December 4, 2009 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
December 5, 2009 | Downhill | ||
December 18, 2009 | Val-d'Isère, France | Super combined | |
January 8, 2010 | Haus im Ennstal, Austria | Downhill | |
January 9, 2010 | Downhill | ||
January 10, 2010 | Super-G | ||
January 22, 2010 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Super-G | |
January 23, 2010 | Downhill | ||
January 31, 2010 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Super-G | |
March 6, 2010 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Downhill | |
March 12, 2010 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Super-G | |
2011 8 victories (3 DH, 4 SG, 1 SC) |
December 5, 2010 | Lake Louise, Canada | Super-G |
December 18, 2010 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill | |
December 19, 2010 | Super combined | ||
January 8, 2011 | Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria | Downhill | |
January 21, 2011 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Super-G | |
January 23, 2011 | Super-G | ||
February 26, 2011 | Åre, Sweden | Downhill | |
March 6, 2011 | Tarvisio, Italy | Super-G | |
2012 12 victories (5 DH, 4 SG, 2 GS, 1 SC) |
October 22, 2011 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom |
December 2, 2011 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | |
December 3, 2011 | Downhill | ||
December 4, 2011 | Super-G | ||
December 7, 2011 | Beaver Creek, USA | Super-G | |
January 15, 2012 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Super-G | |
January 27, 2012 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Super combined | |
January 28, 2012 | Downhill | ||
February 4, 2012 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Downhill | |
February 26, 2012 | Bansko, Bulgaria | Super-G | |
March 9, 2012 | Åre, Sweden | Giant slalom | |
March 14, 2012 | Schladming, Austria | Downhill | |
2013 6 victories (3 DH, 2 SG, 1 GS) |
November 30, 2012 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
December 1, 2012 | Downhill | ||
December 2, 2012 | Super-G | ||
December 8, 2012 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Super-G | |
January 19, 2013 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | |
January 26, 2013 | Maribor , Slovenia |
Giant slalom | |
2015 8 victories (4 DH, 4 SG) |
December 6, 2014 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
December 20, 2014 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill | |
January 18, 2015 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | |
January 19, 2015 | Super-G | ||
January 25, 2015 | St. Moritz, Switzerland | Super-G | |
March 8, 2015 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Super-G | |
March 18, 2015 | Méribel, France | Downhill | |
March 19, 2015 | Super-G | ||
2016 9 victories (5 DH, 3 SG, 1 GS) |
December 4, 2015 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
December 5, 2015 | Downhill | ||
December 6, 2015 | Super-G | ||
December 12, 2015 | Åre, Sweden | Giant slalom | |
January 9, 2016 | Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria | Downhill | |
January 10, 2016 | Super-G | ||
January 23, 2016 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | |
January 24, 2016 | Super-G | ||
February 6, 2016 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Downhill | |
2017 | January 21, 2017 | Downhill | |
2018 5 victories (4 DH, 1 SG) |
December 16, 2017 | Val-d'Isère, France | Super-G |
January 20, 2018 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | |
February 3, 2018 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Downhill | |
February 4, 2018 | Downhill | ||
March 14, 2018 | Åre, Sweden | Downhill |
World Championship results
Year | ||||||
Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
2005 | 20 | – | DNF1 | 9 | 4 | 4 |
2007 | 22 | DNS1 | — | 2 | 2 | DSQ2 |
2009 | 24 | DNF2 | — | 1 | 1 | DSQ2 |
2011 | 26 | — | — | 7 | 2 | DNS2 |
2013 | 28 | — | — | DNF | — | — |
2015 | 30 | — | 14 | 3 | 5 | DNF2 |
2017 | 32 | — | — | DNF | 3 | 5
|
2019 | 34 | — | — | DNF | 3 | DNS2 |
Olympic results
Year | ||||||
Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
2002 | 17 | 32 | — | — | — | 6 |
2006 | 21 | 14 | DNS1 | 7 | 8 | DNF SL2 |
2010 | 25 | DNF1 | DNF1 | 3 | 1 | DNF2 |
2014 | 29 | injured: did not compete | ||||
2018 | 33 | — | — | T6 | 3 | DNF2 |
Additional appearances
- In 2018, on 6 May, Vonn appeared on the fourth episode of the second season of Drop the Mic, where she competed in a rap battle against Gus Kenworthy.
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External links
- Official website
- Lindsey Vonn at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Lindsey Vonn Archived September 18, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at U.S. Ski & Snowboard
- Lindsey Vonn at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database