At the age of 15, Aamodt Kilde took part in FIS races from November 2007 . In 2009 he was a participant in the European Youth Olympic Festival in Szczyrk , but was eliminated in both slalom and giant slalom. In February 2010 he won his first FIS race, from November 2010 he was also used in the European Cup . The first top 10 placement in this racing series followed in January 2012. At the Junior World Championship 2012 in Roccaraso , Kilde just missed a medal as fourth in the Super-G. At the end of the 2011/12 season he won the Norwegian junior championship in giant slalom and slalom. At the Norwegian Championships in 2012, he finished second in giant slalom, with only Aksel Lund Svindal defeated.
Aamodt Kilde made his debut in the World Cup on October 28, 2012 at the giant slalom in Sölden , but he was unable to qualify for the second round. On January 24, 2013, he won his first European Cup race, the Super-G of Val-d'Isère . A little more than two weeks later, two more wins followed in the two Super-Gs at La Thuile . As a result, he took the lead in the discipline and overall ranking. Kilde was also successful at the Junior World Championships in 2013 and won gold in the giant slalom. He finished the 2012/13 European Cup season as the winner of the overall standings and the Super-G standings. He got his first World Cup points on December 1st, 2013 with 18th place in the Super-G of Lake Louise . In the further course of the 2013/14 World Cup season , four placements were added to the points.
Approaching the world's best
After a cautious start to the 2014/15 season , Kilde had to take a break for more than a month in January 2015 for health reasons. Nevertheless, he qualified for the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek , where he finished eighth in the combination. On December 18, 2015, Kilde surprisingly finished third in the Super-G in Val Gardena and thus achieved the first World Cup podium of his career; together with Aksel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud , he ensured a triple Norwegian success. Kilde celebrated his first World Cup victory on January 30, 2016 at the Kandahar downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where he caught Boštjan Kline , who had been the leader until then, with start number 30 . Less than a month later, he achieved his first World Cup victory in a Super-G in Hinterstoder (again ahead of Kline). With second place in the final Super-G of the 2015/16 season in St. Moritz , he secured victory in the discipline classification.
At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Kilde achieved two more podium places, but was otherwise unable to build on the previous winter's performances. At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz, he just missed a medal in three races: fourth in the Super-G and in the combination, and sixth in the downhill. At the end of the season he made a change of material from Atomic to Head . In the 2017/18 World Cup , Kilde finished six times in the top ten, but never made a podium. The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang were disappointing , where he didn't get past 13th place. After a third place in the Super-G of Beaver Creek at the beginning of the World Cup 2018/19 , Kilde won the downhill from Val Gardena on December 15, 2018. In the further course of the winter two third places were added. Once again, he did not win a medal at the 2019 World Cup in Åre .
Overall World Cup winner 2019/20
After Marcel Hirscher's resignation and before the start of the 2019/20 World Cup season , the media expected a duel between Alexis Pinturault and Henrik Kristoffersen in the fight and the overall World Cup standings in general . In turn, they gave Kilde at best outsider opportunities in the speed discipline ratings. After a cautious start to the season, however, from December 2019 he was among the top ten in all races in which he crossed the finish line - not only in his preferred disciplines, downhill and super-G, but also in giant slaloms and combinations. Although he was on the podium only four times until the beginning of February, his consistency kept him nearing the top, as neither Pinturault nor Kristoffersen (as well as Matthias Mayer, who was in the lead in the meantime ) were able to break away significantly. His only victory this winter was on February 14, 2020 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , where he also took the lead in the overall standings.
Two weeks later, Pinturault took back the overall lead at the races in Hinterstoder and the three-way battle had turned into a duel. Kilde reacted on March 6, 2020 with a second place in the downhill from Kvitfjell and took the lead again with a 54 point lead. Since the Super-G had to be canceled the following day due to bad weather, Pinturault seemed to have an advantage due to the remaining program, but then the FIS canceled the season on March 12th due to the COVID-19 pandemic . With a total of 22 top 10 placements in four disciplines (including just one win and six other podium places), Kilde was the overall winner. He is the fourth Norwegian winner of the large crystal ball after Kjetil André Aamodt (1994), Lasse Kjus (1996 and 1999) and Aksel Lund Svindal (2007 and 2009).
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