Lindsey Vonn

She won four World Cup overall championships — second only amongst female skiers to 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 one for an American woman.

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She also won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, 2016), five titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012)

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In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title

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the overall record for men or women, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984

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She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women.

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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 82 World Cup races in her career through February 3, 2018

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Her total of 82 World Cup victories is a women's record, surpassing Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, who had held the record since the 1970

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Vonn is one of the most successful American ski racers, and is considered one of the greatest of all skiers.

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