Kjetil André Aamodt

Kjetil André Aamodt

Aamodt in June 2009
Disciplines	Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Combined
Club	SK Nordstrand IF
Born	September 2, 1971 (1971-09-02) Oslo, Norway
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
World Cup debut	November 23, 1989 (age 18)
Retired	March 2006
Olympics
Teams	5 - (1992-2006)
Medals	8 (4 gold)
World Championships
Teams	8 - (1991-2005)
Medals	12 (5 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	16
Wins	21
Podiums	64
Overall titles	1 - (1995)
Discipline titles	3 - (1 SG, 1 GS, 1 SL)
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Competitor for Norway Olympic Games Gold 1992 Albertville Super-G Gold 2002 Salt Lake City Super-G Gold 2002 Salt Lake City Combined Gold 2006 Turin Super-G Silver 1994 Lillehammer Downhill Silver 1994 Lillehammer Combined Bronze 1992 Albertville Giant slalom Bronze 1994 Lillehammer Super-G World Championships Gold 1993 Morioka Giant slalom Gold 1993 Morioka Slalom Gold 1997 Sestriere Combined Gold 1999 Vail Combined Gold 2001 St. Anton Combined Silver 1991 Saalbach Super-G Silver 1993 Morioka Combined Silver 2001 St. Anton Giant slalom Silver 2003 St. Moritz Downhill Bronze 1996 Sierra Nevada Super-G Bronze 1999 Vail Downhill Bronze 2003 St. Moritz Combined

Kjetil André Aamodt (born 2 September 1971, in Oslo) is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer, the most decorated in history.

He 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.

His combined career total of 20 World Championship and Olympic medals is an all-time best. Aamodt is both the youngest and oldest male alpine skier to win a gold medal at the Olympics. He tops the all-time Marathon World Cup ranking, with a total of 13252 points earned from 1989 to 2006. He is followed by Austrians Benjamin Raich (12061, 1998.-2010.) and Hermann Maier (11787, 1996.-2009.).

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.)

Aamodt had 19 Olympic and world championship medals stolen from him. The medals were taken in August 2003 by burglars who broke into a safe in his father's home. The five-time world champion and winner of four Olympic gold medals later revealed they were recovered by an anonymous helper over the internet.

Aamodt announced the conclusion of his career on live television on 6 January 2007, with hundreds of fellow athletes in attendance, at the Norwegian Sports Gala (Idrettsgallaen) where he had been selected as awardee of the year for 2006.

World Cup victories

Season titles

1 Overall, 1 Super-G, 1 Giant Slalom, 1 Slalom

Season	Discipline
1993	Super-G
	Giant Slalom
1994	Overall
	Combined^
1997	Combined^
1999	Combined^
2000	Slalom
	Combined^
2002	Combined^

^official season title in the Combined discipline
was not awarded until the 2007 season

Individual race victories

21 total (1 Downhill, 5 Super-G, 6 Giant Slalom, 1 Slalom, 8 Combined)

Season	Date	Location	Race
1992	15 Mar 1992	Aspen, USA	Super-G
1993	28 Nov 1992	Sestriere, Italy	Giant Slalom
	7 Mar 1993	Aspen, USA	Super-G
	21 Mar 1993	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G
	23 Mar 1993	Oppdal, Norway	Giant Slalom
	26 Mar 1993	Åre, Sweden	Super-G
	27 Mar 1993		Giant Slalom
1994	11 Jan 1994	Hinterstoder, Austria	Giant Slalom
	29 Jan 1994	Chamonix, France	Downhill
	30 Jan 1994		Combined
	19 Mar 1994	Vail, USA	Giant Slalom
1996	7 Mar 1996	Kvitfjell, Norway	Super-G
1997	14 Jan 1997	Adelboden, Switzerland	Giant Slalom
1998	25 Jan 1998	Kitzbühel, Austria	Combined
1999	24 Jan 1999	Kitzbühel, Austria	Combined
2000	9 Jan 2000	Chamonix, France	Combined
	16 Jan 2000	Wengen, Switzerland	Slalom
	23 Jan 2000	Kitzbühel, Austria	Combined
2002	13 Jan 2002	Wengen, Switzerland	Combined
	20 Jan 2002	Kitzbühel, Austria	Combined
2003	19 Jan 2003	Wengen, Switzerland	Combined

External links

• Kjetil André Aamodt at the International Ski Federation
• FIS-ski.com – Kjetil André Aamodt – World Cup season standings
• Ski-db.com - results - Kjetil André Aamodt