Biography ted ligety olympics 2014

Ted Ligety began skiing at Park City Mountain Resory, site of several of the Winter Olympic Alpine races. He was named to the US Ski Developmental team in , winning a silver medal that year in the slalom in the Junior World Cup, and moved up to the US Ski team in His Olympic gold medal in the combined was a big surprise, but in March , he won his first World Cup race, a giant slalom in Korea.

Biography ted ligety olympics 2014 Read Edit View history. He successfully defended his world title in giant slalom in in Schladming , Austria, where he also won an unexpected gold medal in the super-G and a third gold medal in the super combined. Between the Olympic cycles, Ligety scorched tournaments at the annual World Cup and the bi-annual World Championships, accumulating a gallery of metals from around the world. But Ligety did do a phenomenal best time in the second leg, becoming first ahead to Raich.

In , Ligety won two World Cup giant slaloms and was the giant slalom World Cup champion for the year. He also won a World Cup giant slalom in February , his fourth World Cup race victory, so far all coming in the giant slalom. At the World Championships, he earned a bronze medal in the GS. Through , Ligety has six US championships, and serves as the Director of Skiing at the Mt.

Holly Club in southwest Utah.