Kjetil André Aamodt


Kjetil André Aamodt 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.

Biography

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. 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.
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 where he had been selected as awardee of the year for 2006.
Aamodt now runs a ski race camp in Gaustablikk, Norway, and does public speaking.

Legacy

In February 2015 Aamodt were selected as recipients of the Legends of Honor by the Vail Valley Foundation, and inducted into the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.

World Cup results

Season standings

Season titles

1 overall, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom, 1 slalom
SeasonDiscipline
1993Super-G
1993Giant slalom
1994Overall
1994Combined^
1997Combined^
1999Combined^
2000Slalom
2000Combined^
2002Combined^

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

Race victories

SeasonDateLocationRace
199215 Mar 1992Aspen, USASuper-G
199328 Nov 1992Sestriere, ItalyGiant slalom
19937 Mar 1993Aspen, USASuper-G
199321 Mar 1993Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
199323 Mar 1993Oppdal, NorwayGiant slalom
199326 Mar 1993Åre, SwedenSuper-G
199327 Mar 1993Åre, SwedenGiant slalom
199411 Jan 1994Hinterstoder, AustriaGiant slalom
199429 Jan 1994Chamonix, FranceDownhill
199430 Jan 1994Chamonix, FranceCombined
199419 Mar 1994Vail, USAGiant slalom
19967 Mar 1996Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
199714 Jan 1997 Adelboden, Switzerland Giant slalom
199825 Jan 1998Kitzbühel, AustriaCombined
199924 Jan 1999Kitzbühel, AustriaCombined
20009 Jan 2000Chamonix, FranceCombined
200016 Jan 2000 Wengen, SwitzerlandSlalom
200023 Jan 2000Kitzbühel, AustriaCombined
200213 Jan 2002 Wengen, SwitzerlandCombined
200220 Jan 2002Kitzbühel, AustriaCombined
200319 Jan 2003 Wengen, SwitzerlandCombined

World Championships results

Olympic results