Internationally, Lindh first attracted attention at the 1986 Junior World Championships in Bad Kleinkirchheim when she won the gold medal in the downhill. A week earlier she had won the US championship in this discipline. On March 15, 1986, she was used for the first time in the World Cup on the downhill in Colorado and took the first World Cup points as 13th. Due to injury, however, she could not contest a single race during the 1986/87 season.
For several years, the rather public-shy Lindh was one of the most consistent riders and regularly achieved World Cup results among the top ten. During the Pan American Games in 1990 in Las Leñas , she won the bronze medal in the downhill. In addition to her extrovert teammate Picabo Street , she was hardly noticed. However, this changed at the 1992 Winter Olympics , when she surprisingly won the silver medal on the “Roc de Fer” slope in Méribel ; she lost only six hundredths of a second to the Canadian Olympic champion Kerrin Lee-Gartner . She had to end the 1992/93 season prematurely after only a few races because of a collateral ligament tear.
On February 2, 1994 Lindh finally succeeded in the Sierra Nevada the first victory in a World Cup downhill. She won two more runs in December 1994 in Vail and Lake Louise . At the end of the 1994/95 season she finished second in the Downhill World Cup ranking, behind the superior Picabo Street, which had won all other races with one exception. At the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, she was third in the downhill and fifth in the Super-G.
Despite permanent back pain, Lindh decided to go on for another year. The high point of her career followed, the 1997 World Cup : in Sestriere she won the gold medal in the downhill, ahead of the Swiss Heidi Zurbriggen and the Swede Pernilla Wiberg . The end of her career formed the US championships in March 1997, where she won the downhill and super-G titles.
After her resignation, Lindh continued her studies in biology at the University of British Columbia . Today she works as a businesswoman; She is the owner of an advertising agency and a market research company that advises winter sports areas on ecological issues. In 2005 she was inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame .
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