The greatest female downhill skier of all time hung it up yesterday, after a bronze medal performance in the 2019 World Championships Women's Downhill, becoming the first female racer to receive six world championship medals.

This, a day after crashing in the Super-G, where they brought out the stretcher for her - but Vonn said, fu*k that, I'm skiing down the mountain, black eye and all.

She ends her career 4 short of the all-time alpine record of the legendary Ingemar Stenmark - Stenmark was there to cheer her on at the end.



Stats:

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,[2] plus another in 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. She has also won a record 8 World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, 2016), 5 titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and 3 consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the overall record for men or women, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984. She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women.

Vonn is one of 6 women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing—downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined—and has won 82 World Cup races in her career through February 3, 2018. 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 1970s. Only Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86 World Cup victories has more. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, 2 World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011), and 4 overall World Cup titles, Vonn is the most successful American ski racer and considered one of the greatest of all skiers.

*****

Shame I'm not seeing much in the media about this....Lindsey Vonn, along with Serena Williams, is probably the greatest American female athlete this century. Hell, maybe in the world.

DOM and LINDSEY
sittin on a ski
S-K-I-I-I-N-G
first comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes your pony saying then comes marriage

I want too see the dog try to walk in that coat

**** the haters Dom, thanks for posting this.

Nice OP, and even nicer 1st reply.

Great post. Underappreciated GOAT!

I'm here for coat dog

Mikaela Shiffrin will probably outGOAT Vonn before she turns 25

Nice end of career for Vonn and Svindal though, 2 champions with destroyed body leaving on a world championship medal is great

I wish

I want to hug her

lol Vonn isn't even the best female skiier in this century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marit_Bjørgen

lol different sport, Dude. Come on.

Yeah Dom you said greatest female athlete this century. I said not the greatest skier, let alone athlete. Both ski professionally in different events. Thus, they are both skiers.

lol ok

In his defense he said "maybe", and those two sports are like comparing apples and oranges.

He also wrote "american". Plus lol at conflating cross country with alpine. Might as well throw ski jumping in there as well.

Chloe Kim?

When I first saw the headline about Vonn's last race, the headline below was Tiger kills potential mate on first date and I was amused.

Really its true?