Lindsey Vonn who is counted among the most decorated women skiers in history, has won four women’s World Cup overall championships. The 33-year-old has great prominence in the winter sports, with an impeccable 20-year skiing career.
As of 2023, Lindsey Vonn’s net worth is estimated to be around $14 million. With 82 World Cup wins, which is the highest by a woman, Vonn retired in 2019 as the all-time leader in women’s World Cup race victories. She also has three Olympic medals, including one gold medal.
She won her first overall World Cup in 2008 and became the only American woman to achieve such a title, since 1983. After that, she won the title three times more, in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
In addition to this, Vonn also holds 16 discipline World Cup titles in downhill, super G, and some combined events. Her expertise lies beyond the World Cup stage as she has earned two-time World Champion.
She gained recognition on the Olympic level after winning a gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver Games, the very first by an American woman along with a bronze medal in the Super-G. Despite suffering several injuries Vonn’s invincible energy never left her side. As she retired in 2019, she left behind an impeccable legacy in alpine skiing.
Why did Lindsey Vonn retire in 2019?
After winning an Olympic gold medal and two bronze medals, and four World Cup overall championships, the downhill skier, Lindsey Vonn retired in 2019 because of severe injuries.
Last year, in March 2022, the olympian shared a video on her Instagram, sitting in a hospital bed before being wheeled to the operating room for another knee surgery in order to recover from numerous skiing injuries. She also showed the exercise prescribed to her for knee improvement.
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She captioned the post, “Surgery yesterday went well..Been having a hard time with the pain in my knee.”
“You may have noticed I haven’t been posting many workout videos lately…that’s why,” she added.
Throughout her skiing career, Vonn has suffered several injuries as well as severe crashes. During the super-G race in 2019, she got injured and later on, announced her retirement from ski racing.
Following that, as Vonn pulled out of the Sochi Olympics because of her injury, the executives of NBC Sports asked her to join, which Vonn accepted and covered the Olympics as a correspondent. Additionally, Lindsey Vonn also went to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games as the NBA Olympics correspondent.
