50 Fun Facts About Lindsey Vonn

Before her 2010 Olympic gold, Lindsey Vonn treated a badly bruised shin by wrapping it in which food?

Cheese was the surprise remedy: Vonn applied a soft curd called topfen to draw out the swelling. A week after revealing it she was Olympic champion.

After a 2005 downhill win in Val d'Isère, France, Lindsey Vonn chose to keep which unusual prize?

A cow named Olympe was the prize, and Vonn boarded her with an Austrian farmer. By 2014 she owned a small herd.

Which Masters champion did Lindsey Vonn date from March 2013 to May 2015?

Tiger Woods and Vonn were together for just over two years, a stretch in which injury kept her out of the Sochi Olympics.

Lindsey Vonn became the first American woman to win Olympic downhill gold at which Canadian city's Games?

Vancouver staged the 2010 Games, with the ski races at Whistler. Warm weather delayed the downhill, giving Vonn's injured shin extra days to heal.

At the 2009 World Championships, Lindsey Vonn needed thumb surgery after a mishap with which object?

A champagne bottle sliced her thumb during a photo opportunity after her downhill gold. She said she would probably never open one again.

Lindsey Vonn's younger siblings include her sister Karin and which kind of multiple-birth set?

Triplets Dylan, Laura and Reed complete the family, making Vonn the eldest of five. The whole family eventually relocated for her ski career.

Lindsey Vonn's women's record of 82 World Cup wins was broken in January 2023 by which fellow American?

Mikaela Shiffrin passed Vonn's 82 wins and then the all-time mark of 86. Vonn's total had stood as the women's record since her 2019 retirement.

Lindsey Vonn played a teachers' union assistant in the 2010 finale of which long-running New York crime drama?

Law & Order was Vonn's favourite show, and she had lobbied for years to appear in it. Creator Dick Wolf invited her after her Olympic medals.

In 2012 skiing's governing body rejected Lindsey Vonn's request to do what at a World Cup downhill in Canada?

Vonn asked to race against the men on a course she had dominated, but the federation ruled that one gender cannot enter the other's races.

Lindsey Vonn co-directed a 2022 documentary about which childhood hero, the 1998 Olympic super-G champion?

Picabo Street met Vonn when the future champion was nine and later became her mentor. The film, made with Frank Marshall, is simply titled Picabo.

Thomas Vonn, a fellow 2002 Olympian who coached Lindsey Vonn to her 2010 gold, was then her what?

Husband Thomas Vonn gave her the surname she kept after their divorce was finalised in 2013. The two ski racers had married in Utah in 2007.

Lindsey Vonn, raised in Minnesota and Colorado, speaks which second language fluently?

German is part of Vonn's family tree as well as her vocabulary: her mother had German as well as Norwegian ancestry.

Lindsey Vonn's family moved from Minnesota in the late 1990s so she could train at which Colorado resort town?

Vail became home, and after her Olympic gold the resort renamed its International run Lindsey's in her honour.

Lindsey Vonn raced the 2018 Olympics with the initials of her late grandfather, a veteran of which conflict?

The Korean War had taken him to the host country decades earlier, and Vonn later scattered some of his ashes near the Olympic course.

Lindsey Vonn won the slalom at Italy's Trofeo Topolino, a junior race named after which Disney character?

Mickey Mouse is Topolino in Italian. In 1999 Vonn became the first American girl to win the slalom at the prestigious international junior event.

Which operation in April 2024 ended Lindsey Vonn's chronic pain and cleared the way for her racing comeback?

A knee replacement using titanium parts, done with robotic assistance, stopped the pain that had ended her career. A month later she was planning her return.

Where were the Winter Games at which Lindsey Vonn made her Olympic debut on home snow aged 17?

Salt Lake City 2002 saw the teenager race two events under her maiden name, with sixth place in the combined her best result.

Which NHL defenseman, already her fiancé, did Lindsey Vonn propose to on Christmas Day 2019?

P. K. Subban and Vonn were engaged for over a year before announcing their split in December 2020, saying they remained friends.

At which Canadian resort did Lindsey Vonn win 18 World Cup races, including her very first in December 2004?

Lake Louise in Alberta suited her so well that fans playfully renamed it Lake Lindsey. She swept all three races of a weekend there three times.

Lindsey Vonn retired in 2019 four wins short of which slalom great's then-record 86 World Cup victories?

Ingemar Stenmark granted Vonn's farewell wish by presenting her with flowers after the last race before her 2019 retirement.

Sidelined by injury, Lindsey Vonn covered the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a correspondent for which network?

NBC News put Vonn on air for the Games she had hoped to race in; she had pulled out only a month before the opening ceremony.

Lindsey Vonn grew up in suburban Burnsville but was born in which Minnesota city in October 1984?

Saint Paul was her birthplace; her father, a former national junior champion, had her racing close to home from an early age.

Under which maiden name did Lindsey Vonn make her Olympic debut and win her first World Cup race?

Kildow was the name on the results sheet until her 2007 wedding; she has raced as Vonn ever since, even after her divorce.

Which longtime American rival from Lake Tahoe took silver behind Lindsey Vonn in the 2010 Olympic downhill?

Julia Mancuso finished 0.56 seconds back for an American one-two, then added a second silver in the super combined.

By 2016 Lindsey Vonn had won 20 of which trophy, awarded to skiing's World Cup season champions?

A crystal globe goes to each overall and discipline champion; the big one for the overall title weighs nine kilograms. Vonn's 20 passed the old record of 19.

Lindsey Vonn has invested in Angel City FC and the Utah Royals, clubs that play in which women's league?

NWSL side Angel City, based in Los Angeles, announced Vonn among its star-studded ownership group in 2020, two years before its first season.

Lindsey Vonn, who finished high school online, later took a four-day business course at which university?

Harvard Business School runs the short programme on the business of entertainment, media and sports; Vonn never attended a traditional four-year college.

Which network released the 2019 documentary Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, about her farewell campaign?

HBO followed Vonn through her injury-hit 2019 season; the film earned two Sports Emmy nominations and led on to her memoir.

Lindsey Vonn's 2008 overall title completed a US World Cup sweep with which men's champion from New Hampshire?

Bode Miller and Vonn gave the United States both overall titles in the same season for the first time in 25 years.

Lindsey Vonn learned to race under coach Erich Sailer at which tiny suburban Minnesota ski area?

Buck Hill in Burnsville drops just 310 feet and shares its summit with a water tower, yet Sailer's programme also produced slalom racer Kristina Koznick.

Nine days before the 2026 Olympic downhill, Lindsey Vonn ruptured which ligament yet still chose to race?

Anterior cruciate ruptures usually end a season, but Vonn confirmed the injury and still started the race, where she crashed and broke her leg.

In 2023 Lindsey Vonn became the first woman to ski which course, home of the feared Hahnenkamm downhill?

The Streif in Kitzbühel, Austria, has staged the Hahnenkamm races since 1937. Vonn skied it alone rather than in competition.

In summer 2009 Lindsey Vonn ended a career-long partnership with Rossignol to race on which brand's skis?

Head skis carried her to Olympic gold the very next winter; the brand is just as well known for its tennis rackets.

Lindsey Vonn won bronze in her 2019 farewell race at the World Championships in Åre, in which country?

Sweden's Åre had also hosted her first major medals, two silvers in 2007. The 2019 bronze made her the first woman with medals from six world championships.

What is the one-word main title of Lindsey Vonn's 2022 memoir, a New York Times bestseller?

Rise: My Story followed her 2016 book Strong Is the New Beautiful and grew out of the documentary about her 2019 farewell.

Which close friend and rival beat Lindsey Vonn to the 2011 overall World Cup title by just three points?

Maria Riesch held on because bad weather cancelled the season's last race, leaving Vonn no chance to close the tiny gap.

Which discipline did Lindsey Vonn finally win at Sölden in October 2011, completing her set of all five?

Giant slalom was the missing piece: the Sölden win made Vonn the sixth woman to win World Cup races in all five disciplines.

Which Italian resort saw Lindsey Vonn's first World Cup podium in 2004 and her fifth Olympics in 2026?

Cortina d'Ampezzo has one of her favourite slopes, and Vonn had said she hoped to end her career there.

Airlifted to hospital after a training crash, Lindsey Vonn raced two days later at which city's Olympics?

Turin 2006 saw her finish eighth in the downhill despite a bruised hip, a display that earned her the U.S. Olympic Spirit Award.

At which Swiss resort did Lindsey Vonn, aged 41, win a World Cup downhill, her first victory since 2018?

St. Moritz delivered her 83rd World Cup win and made her the oldest winner of a World Cup downhill, a year after her comeback began.

Lindsey Vonn was first taught to ski by her grandfather Don in the town of Milton, in which state?

Wisconsin was where Don Kildow taught his son Alan to ski and, a generation later, his granddaughter; he also helped found a ski club in nearby Janesville.

Lindsey Vonn and her dog Lucy fronted which 2020 Amazon reality series, likened to The Amazing Race for dogs?

The Pack sent 12 dogs and their owners around the world chasing a $500,000 prize, but Amazon cancelled it after one season.

In 2019 Lindsey Vonn won the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, a major prize presented in which country?

Spain's heir to the throne lends the awards their name. The jury honoured Vonn as the woman with the most Alpine World Cup victories at the time.

Which Italian won the 2018 Olympic downhill in which Lindsey Vonn, then 33, took the bronze medal?

Sofia Goggia beat Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel to the gold. Eight years later she was on the podium again, with bronze in the same event.

Which American won the 2026 Olympic downhill, becoming the event's first US champion since Lindsey Vonn?

Breezy Johnson won by four hundredths of a second for her first Olympic medal, in a race where Vonn herself crashed out.

Lindsey Vonn's 25th super-G win beat the record of which Austrian, a double gold medallist at the 1998 Olympics?

Hermann Maier, nicknamed the Herminator, had held the mark for super-G wins by any skier, male or female.

In 2015 Lindsey Vonn passed which Austrian six-time overall champion for most women's World Cup wins?

Annemarie Moser-Pröll had held the women's record of 62 wins since the seventies; Vonn first tied it, then broke it, within a single month.

Before Lindsey Vonn, who was the only American woman to win skiing's overall World Cup title, in 1983?

Tamara McKinney was only 20 when she won it; a quarter of a century passed before Vonn became the second.

Fog cancelled the final downhill of 2013, leaving injured Lindsey Vonn one point ahead of which rival?

Tina Maze needed only a top-15 finish to pass Vonn, whose season had ended with a crash at the World Championships weeks earlier.

Lindsey Vonn appeared in 2009 television commercials for which antacid brand, backing the US Ski Team?

Alka-Seltzer ran the adverts early in the year in which Vonn won her first two world championship golds.