Picabo Street
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| Disciplines | Downhill, Super-G, Combined | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
April 3, 1971 Triumph, Idaho, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | December 6, 1992 (age 21) |
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| Retired | February 2002 (age 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (1994, 1998, 2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 2 (1 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 2 – (1993, 1996) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 3 (1 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 8 – (1993-2002) (injured 1999, 2000) |
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| Wins | 9 – (9 DH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 17 – (15 DH, 2 SG) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (5th, 1995) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 2 – (DH: 1995, 1996) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Picabo Street (/ˈpiːkəbuː/; born April 3, 1971) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
Born at home in Triumph, Idaho, Street's parents are Dee (a music teacher) and Roland "Stubby" Street (a stonemason). Her brother Roland, Jr. is one year older. Her parents decided to let Picabo choose her own name when she was old enough, so for the first two years of her life she was called "baby girl" or "little girl". At age 3 she was required to have a name in order to get a passport. She was named after the nearby village of Picabo. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race.
She attended Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and participated in its ski academy, Rowmark, for one year before returning to Sun Valley to race for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Before the academy, she was a member of the local Hailey Ski Team.
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