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Kjetil André Aamodt

Kjetil André Aamodt
— Alpine skier —
Kjetil André Aamodt (bilde 01).JPG
Aamodt in June 2009
Disciplines Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom,
combined
Club SK Nordstrand IF
Born (1971-09-02) 2 September 1971 (age 45)
Oslo, Norway
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
World Cup debut 23 November 1989
(age 18)
Retired January 2007 (age 35)
Website kaaa.no
Olympics
Teams 5 – (19922006)
Medals 8 (4 gold)
World Championships
Teams 8 – (19912005)
Medals 12 (5 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 16 – (19902003, '0506)
Wins 21
Podiums 64
Overall titles 1 – (1994)
Discipline titles 3 – (1 SG, 1 GS, 1 SL)

Kjetil André Aamodt (born 2 September 1971) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Norway, a champion in the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. He is the most decorated ski racer from Norway.

Born in Oslo, Aamodt is the only alpine skier to win 8 Olympic medals, and has won 5 World Championship gold medals as well as 21 individual World Cup events. Described as an all-round alpine skier, Aamodt participated in all alpine skiing disciplines in the World Cup and World Championships, and is one of only 5 male alpine skiers to have won a World Cup race in all five disciplines.

Aamodt's combined career total of twenty World Championship and Olympic medals is an all-time best. He is the second-youngest male alpine skier to win an Olympic gold medal (age 20 in 1992; Toni Sailer was two months younger in 1956). Until 2014, he was also the oldest alpine skier to win an Olympic gold medal. For almost six years, Aamodt led the all-time Marathon World Cup ranking, with a total of 13,252 points earned from 1989 to 2006 – until 14 March 2012, when Austrian Benjamin Raich overtook him with a fifth place in the downhill at the 2012 World Cup final in Schladming to total 13,281 points, earned from 1998. Another all-time best is his 231 World Cup top-ten results, 9 ahead of Benjamin Raich.

By winning the super-G race at the 2006 Olympics, Aamodt became the first male alpine skier to win four gold medals in the Olympics. (Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy both swept the three alpine events at a single Olympics.)


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