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Michela Figini of Switzerland is the youngest champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, with a gold medal in downhill at age 17 in 1984. Two Americans set age records in 2014: Mikaela Shiffrin , age 18, became the youngest Olympic slalom champion [ 9 ] and Bode Miller became the oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing, with a bronze in the ...
For the second straight Olympics, she finished in the top 10 in all six women's cross-country skiing events. In December 2022, Diggins broke the American record for World Cup cross-country ski wins with her fourteenth such win. [29] At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 in Slovenia, Diggins and teammate Julie Kern won bronze in the ...
Norway's Kari Traa is the most successful Olympic moguls skier, with three medals in the women's moguls event: one gold (2002), one silver (2006), and one bronze (1998). After a bronze medal in 2002 and a fourth place in 2006, Belarusian skier Aleksei Grishin secured the gold medal in the men's aerials event at the 2010 Games.
United States skier Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish during the women's giant slalom at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Alpine Ski Centre on February 07, 2022 in Yanqing, China.
Debra Rae "Debbie" Armstrong (born December 6, 1963) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Seattle, Washington.She was the first Olympic gold medalist from the U.S. in women's alpine skiing in twelve years, winning the giant slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
During this period, the Olympic medalists received an additional medal of the same metal from the International Ski Federation (FIS). The giant slalom was introduced at the 1950 World Championships and at the Olympics in 1952 ; both programs dropped the combined event, but it returned in 1954 at the World Championships as a "paper" race, using ...
Silver medallist Italy's Sofia Goggia (L) and bronze medallist Italy's Nadia Delago (R) celebrate with their team during the women's downhill victory ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
She is the first African-American to win medals in Winter Paralympic competition as a ski racer, and the first African-American to medal in any paralympic event. [1] St. John earned bronze and silver medals in several alpine skiing events during the 1984 Winter Paralympics .