Lindsey Caroline Vonn (née
Kildow; born October 18, 1984) is an American
World Cup alpine ski racer on the
US Ski Team. She has won four World Cup overall championships—one of only 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 seven
World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015), five titles in
super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and three consecutive titles in the
combined (2010–2012).