Lindsey Vonn Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Lindsey Caroline Vonn (née Kildow; born October 18, 1984) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the United States Ski Team. She has won four World Cup championships—one of two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll—with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010, plus another in 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman. She has also won six consecutive World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013), four consecutive titles in super-G (2009–2012), and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012).Vonn is one of six women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing – downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined – and won 59 World Cup races in her career through February 2014. Two alpine ski racers have more World Cup victories in their careers: Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria with 62 and Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86. 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 has become the most successful American ski racer in history.Vonn received the Laureus World Sports Awards Sportswoman of the Year for 2010. She was also honored again as the USOC's sportswoman of the year for 2010.Vonn was a correspondent for NBC News covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Net Worth
$1.4 Million
Date Of Birth
October 18, 1984
Place Of Birth
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Profession
Actress
Nicknames
Lindsey Vonn, Vonn, Lindsey
Star Sign
Libra
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Fact
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Appeared in a commercial for "Alka Selzer Plus".
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(February 5, 2013) Suffered multiple injuries after a serious crash on opening day of the Alpine World Championships in Austria.
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Recuperating after surgery, on February 10, 2013 at the Vail Valley Surgery Center, to repair a torn stabilizing ligaments in her knee and a fractured shin. Had injured herself on February 5, 2013 while competing at the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in Schladming, Austria.
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(November 21, 2011) Filed for divorce from her husband of 4 years Thomas Vonn.
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Will guest-star in the season finale of Law & Order (1990), her favorite TV show [March 31, 2010].
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Started skiing at the age of three near her Minneapolis home. When she was 12, her family moved to Vail, Colorado for her training. Won her first international championship at 15 and competed in her first Olympics at 17.
