Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American ski racer. She has won four overall World Cup championships, with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman.
With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 / 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn has become the most successful American skier in history.
