Aamodt in June 2009 |
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| Disciplines | Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Combined |
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| Club | SK Nordstrand IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 2, 1971 Oslo, Norway |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | November 23, 1989 (age 18) |
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| Retired | March 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 5 - (1992-2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 8 (4 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 8 - (1991-2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 12 (5 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 1 - (1995) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 3 - (1 SG, 1 GS, 1 SL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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1 Overall, 1 Super-G, 1 Giant Slalom, 1 Slalom
| Season | Discipline |
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| 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
21 total (1 Downhill, 5 Super-G, 6 Giant Slalom, 1 Slalom, 8 Combined)
| Season | Date | Location | Race |
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| 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 |
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