Kjetil André Aamodt

Kjetil André Aamodt (born 2 September 1971) 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.

Kjetil André Aamodt

Alpine skier
Aamodt in June 2009
Disciplines	Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, combined
Club	SK Nordstrand IF
Born	(1971-09-02) 2 September 1971 Oslo, Norway
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
World Cup debut	22 March 1988 (age 16)
Retired	January 2007 (age 35)
Website	kaaa.no
Olympics
Teams	5 – (1992–2006)
Medals	8 (4 gold)
World Championships
Teams	8 – (1991–2005)
Medals	12 (5 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	16 – (1990–2003, 2005–2006)
Wins	21
Podiums	64
Overall titles	1 – (1994)
Discipline titles	3 – (1 SG, 1 GS, 1 SL)
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Representing  Norway International alpine ski competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 4 2 2 World Championships 5 4 3 Total 9 6 5 World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Downhill 1 3 4 Super-G 5 2 2 Giant 6 4 7 Slalom 1 6 5 Parallel 0 1 0 Combined 8 6 2 Total 21 22 20 Olympic Games 1992 Albertville Super-G 2002 Salt Lake City Super-G 2002 Salt Lake City Combined 2006 Turin Super-G 1994 Lillehammer Downhill 1994 Lillehammer Combined 1992 Albertville Giant slalom 1994 Lillehammer Super-G World Championships 1993 Morioka Giant slalom 1993 Morioka Slalom 1997 Sestriere Combined 1999 Vail Combined 2001 St. Anton Combined 1991 Saalbach Super-G 1993 Morioka Combined 2001 St. Anton Giant slalom 2003 St. Moritz Downhill 1996 Sierra Nevada Super-G 1999 Vail Downhill 2003 St. Moritz Combined

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 (age 20 in 1992; Toni Sailer was two months younger in 1956). 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. (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]

Aamodt now runs a ski race camp in Gaustablikk, Norway, and does public speaking.[3]

Legacy

In February 2015 Aamodt (and Lasse Kjus) were selected as recipients of the Legends of Honor by the Vail Valley Foundation, and inducted into the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.[4]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
1990	18	39	–	14	19	–	—
1991	19	17	20	10	8	–	—
1992	20	13	26	11	5	–	17
1993	21	2	5	1	1	28	3
1994	22	1	9	2	4	10	1
1995	23	5	14	4	19	13	4
1996	24	10	18	14	8	44	7
1997	25	2	6	2	12	24	1
1998	26	4	13	9	21	12	2
1999	27	2	4	4	9	5	1
2000	28	2	1	9	13	13	1
2001	29	7	7	16	10	36	3
2002	30	2	9	16	6	6	1
2003	31	3	23	14	4	7	2
2004	32	broken ankle in October 2003, out for season
2005	33	26	–	40	14	28	—
2006	34	8	–	–	5	6	5

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

Race victories

• 21 wins (1 downhill, 5 super-G, 6 giant slalom, 1 slalom, 8 combined)
• 63 podiums, 231 top tens (first skier of all-time in this ranking).[5]

Aamodt at Kitzbühel in January 2000

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

World Championships results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
1991	19	12	–	2	–	–
1993	21	1	1	cancelled	–	2
1996	24	8	11	3	27	6
1997	25	DNF2	6	8	9	1
1999	27	7	DNF2	9	3	1
2001	29	7	2	18	DNS	1
2003	31	9	24	5	2	3
2005	33	14	–	22	23	DSQ

Olympic results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
1992	20	DNF2	3	1	26	—
1994	22	DNF2	12	3	2	2
1998	26	—	DNF1	5	13	—
2002	30	6	7	1	4	1
2006	34	—	—	1	4	DNS

References

1. "Aamodts stjålne medaljer returnert| Nettavisen.no". Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
2. "Aamodt la opp på direkten – Alpint – NRK Sport". www.nrksport.no. Retrieved 29 October 2008.
3. Kjetil André Aamodts Rennskole
4. "Norway's dynamic duo Aamodt and Kjus named 2015 Legends Of Honor". FIS. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
5. "COMPETITORS HAVING MORE THAN ONE TOP 10 POSITION - ALPINE SKIING MEN". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

External links

• Kjetil André Aamodt at the International Ski Federation
• Kjetil André Aamodt World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
• Kjetil André Aamodt at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Kjetil André Aamodt at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Kjetil André Aamodt at the International Olympic Committee
• Official website (in Norwegian)

Awards
Preceded by Marit Bjørgen	Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Aksel Lund Svindal