Billy Kidd
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World champion, February 1970
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April 13, 1943 Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 2 – (1964, 1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 5 – (1962–1970) includes two Olympics |
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| Medals | 4 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 3 – (1968–1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 2 – 2 (SL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 4 – 4 (SL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (7th in 1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (8th in SL & GS, 1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Winston "Billy" Kidd (born April 13, 1943) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the U.S. Ski Team from 1962 to 1970.
At the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Kidd and teammate Jimmie Heuga became the first American men to win Olympic medals in alpine skiing, winning silver and bronze in the slalom. Six years later, Kidd won a gold medal in the combined and a bronze in the slalom at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy. He promptly switched circuits and enjoyed a successful pro ski racing career from 1970 to 1972. Since 1970, Kidd has enjoyed enduring "legend" status in the sport, and he has remained in the public eye in his job as Director of Skiing at Steamboat Ski Resort in Colorado.
Born in Burlington, Vermont, Kidd grew up in the 1950s in the ski town of Stowe, where his family ran the Buccaneer Motel. With encouragement and coaching from his father, and with support from the town of Stowe, he became a top junior ski racer at Stowe with the Mount Mansfield Ski Team. Kidd was named to the U.S. Ski Team for the 1962 season.
Kidd made a name for himself that first season at age 18 with an eighth place in the slalom and a 15th place in the giant slalom (GS) at the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix, France. After enduring a season hampered by injuries, Kidd entered the 1964 season with high hopes and gritty determination. A silver medalist in the slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Kidd was the first American man (along with Heuga, who took bronze in the same race) to earn an Olympic medal in alpine skiing. Both Kidd and Heuga were just 20 years old at the time. Kidd finished seventh in the giant slalom and 16th in the downhill. Finishing all three races kept him eligible for the combined, then a non-medal event in the Olympics (but a World Championship medal event), and he took third for the FIS bronze.
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