Ted Ligety

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Ted Ligety Alpine skiing
Ted Ligety in 2018
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 31st August 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Salt Lake City , United States
size 180 cm
Weight 81 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom ,
super-G , downhill , combination
society Park City Ski Team
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 5 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Turin 2006 combination
gold Sochi 2014 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Val d'Isère 2009 Giant slalom
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Giant slalom
gold Schladming 2013 Super G
gold Schladming 2013 Super combination
gold Schladming 2013 Giant slalom
gold Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 Giant slalom
bronze Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 Alpine combination
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Maribor 2004 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 22, 2003
 Individual world cup victories 25th
 Overall World Cup 3rd ( 2012/13 )
 Downhill World Cup 26. ( 2013/14 )
 Super G World Cup 7th (2012/13)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (2007/08, 2009/10 ,
2010/11 , 2012/13, 2013/14)
 Slalom World Cup 4th ( 2005/06 )
 Combination World Cup 1. ( 2013/14 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 1 0
 Super G 0 2 0
 Giant slalom 24 7th 10
 slalom 0 2 4th
 combination 1 1 0
last change: March 15, 2020

Theodore Sharp ("Ted") Ligety (born August 31, 1984 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) is an American ski racer . In the course of his career he has competed successfully in all disciplines, but above all is one of the best giant slalom runners in history. In this discipline he is the third most successful runner behind Ingemar Stenmark and Marcel Hirscher with five discipline scores and 24 race wins . He was also the only runner to be three times world champion and once Olympic champion in giant slalom. There is also a world title and an Olympic victory in the combination and a world title in the super-G . This makes him the most successful non-European ski racer both at world championships and (after gold medals) at the Olympic Games.

biography

youth

Ligety has Hungarian ancestry and grew up in Park City . There he learned to ski at the age of two and took part in ski races for the first time at the age of eleven. From April 2000 he drove FIS races , the first use in the Nor-Am Cup followed in February 2001. The alpine ski races of the Olympic Winter Games 2002 took place in Ligety's place of residence Park City, so that he volunteered as a forerunner for the men's slalom . Although he was eliminated from both giant slalom and slalom at the 2003 Junior World Championships , the American Ski Association recognized his talent and shortly afterwards accepted him into the development team.

The additional funding brought about an increase in Ligety's performance. On November 22, 2003, he made his debut in the World Cup , but could not qualify for the second run in the Park City giant slalom. Three months later, on February 29, 2004, he took 23rd place in the slalom in Kranjska Gora and won his first World Cup points. He was particularly successful in the Nor-Am Cup: With two first and third places each, he won the slalom classification and finished second in the overall classification. In addition, he won the slalom silver medal at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Maribor . In the 2004/05 season Ligety concentrated in the World Cup on the slalom and achieved a placement in the points six times. At the end of February 2005 he made it into the top ten for the first time in Kranjska Gora. At the 2005 World Cup in Bormio , 12th place in the combination remained his only countable result.

Breakthrough and Olympic victory in 2006

On December 4, 2005 Ligety achieved third place in the giant slalom of Beaver Creek, the first podium in the World Cup. In the further course of the 2005/06 season a second and third place were added, which finally established himself at the top of the world. He caused a surprise at the 2006 Winter Olympics when, contrary to all expectations, he won the gold medal in combination, ahead of Ivica Kostelić and Rainer Schönfelder . This success was remarkable because he was only 32nd after the combined descent, but achieved the clear best time in the combined slalom. In the Olympic giant slalom and slalom races, however, he was eliminated. Three weeks after winning the Olympic Games, on March 5, 2006, he won his first World Cup victory at the giant slalom in Yongpyong .

In the winter of 2006/07 Ligety competed in world cup races in all five disciplines. Before the end of the year he was able to achieve two more podium finishes, but overall the season was slightly disappointing for him. In World Cup races he was fourth three times, as well as in the giant slalom of the 2007 World Championships in Åre , where he missed another medal by seven hundredths of a second. His fourth place in the downhill in Lenzerheide on March 14, 2007 was surprising , his first ever top 10 result in a World Cup downhill. From winter 2007/08 onwards, Ligety refrained from participating in downhill races (except in the context of combinations). Towards the end of the season he celebrated two more wins in Kranjska Gora and Bormio. Together with two third places, this was enough to win the giant slalom discipline for the first time; in the overall World Cup he was fifth.

Another giant slalom World Cup victory came in the 2008/09 season , again in Kranjska Gora. Ligety was able to book three additional podium places, but this was only enough for third place in the discipline classification, even if the gap to winner Didier Cuche was relatively small. His performances at the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère were very different : winning the bronze medal in the giant slalom was offset by three retirements in the other races. At the beginning of April 2009 Ligety suffered a knee injury during downhill training for the American championships, but an operation was not necessary.

Giant Lalom Dominator

On January 29, 2010 Ligety won his fifth World Cup race; It was his third victory in a row on the Podkoren slope in Kranjska Gora, which is one of the most demanding giant slalom courses in the world. With three more podium places, he won the giant slalom discipline for the second time. In addition, the first podium in a Super-G came in Val-d'Isère . At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , a fifth place in the super combined was his best result. The World Cup season 2010/11 started Ligety with three giant slalom wins in a row (Beaver Creek, Val d'Isere, Alta Badia ). Because of this, he was one of the most popular favorites ahead of the 2011 World Cup . In Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he confirmed the expectations and won the gold medal in the giant slalom, after having been eliminated in the Super-G and the Super Combined. At the end of the season, he won the giant slalom discipline of the World Cup for the third time.

At the beginning of the 2011/12 World Cup season on October 23, 2011 in Sölden , Ligety won the giant slalom. On December 6, 2011, he won his tenth World Cup in Beaver Creek. With another victory in Kranjska Gora, the fourth overall in this location, he finally finished second in the giant slalom discipline, behind Marcel Hirscher . In addition, he celebrated his first of two victories in this competition at the second edition of the Alpine Rockfest , an international invitation race in Andalo , Italy .

Triple world champion

Before the 2012/13 season by the International Ski led FIS a new material regulations. Among other things, a narrower sidecut on the carving skis should reduce the risk of injury, especially in giant slalom. Ligety was one of the sharpest critics of the new regulation and spoke out publicly against it several times. The change was made without consulting the athletes and set the technical development back by decades. However, Ligety succeeded by far the best with the forced switch to the new material. At the start of the season, he won the giant slalom in Sölden with a margin of 2.75 seconds - no skier had won this discipline since 1979. He dominated the competition in mid-December on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia , which is considered the most demanding track in the world, where he was 2.40 seconds faster than the runner-up in the first run.

Ligety won six of the eight World Cup giant slaloms of the season (including for the first time in Adelboden and Lenzerheide); twice he came third. At the 2013 World Championships in Schladming , he won the gold medal in the Super G and in the Super Combined; in these two disciplines he has not yet had a World Cup victory. He also successfully defended his giant slalom world championship title in 2011. Ligety is only the fifth skier to win gold three times at the same world championship. Before him, only Émile Allais (1937), Stein Eriksen (1954), Toni Sailer (1956, 1958) and Jean-Claude Killy (1968) had succeeded. With victory in the penultimate race of the season in Kranjska Gora, he secured the giant slalom discipline ranking for the fourth time.

Again Olympic and world champions

In the 2013/14 season Ligety continued his giant slalom winning streak. He won in both Sölden and Beaver Creek. This made him the first ski racer since Alberto Tomba in 1991 to win four giant slaloms in a row. The best mark of Ingemar Stenmark (fourteen wins in a row) he could not come close, as he was eliminated on December 14th in Val-d'Isère; it was the first failure in seven and a half years. Another retirement followed in the giant slalom in Adelboden. Despite this broken series, Ligety celebrated further successes. By winning the Super Combined from Wengen and 2nd place in the Super Combined from Kitzbühel , he secured the combined discipline ranking with the same number of points as Alexis Pinturault .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Ligety was the top favorite in the super combined and giant slalom. In the combination competition, however, he disappointed and was only twelfth. It was different in his parade discipline. He lived up to expectations and won his second gold medal with ease. On March 12, 2014 Ligety reached 2nd place in the downhill at the World Cup final in Lenzerheide (it was only his second top ten result in a downhill in seven years, which he had achieved at the same venue). So he now had at least one podium in every discipline. Three days later, he won the giant slalom discipline standings with a win in the last race of the season. Marcel Hirscher and Ligety had the same number of points in the discipline classification, but the greater number of wins this season (5: 2) was the decisive factor for the American. Thus Ligety won the small crystal ball for the fifth time; only Stenmark (with a total of 7) had more successes in giant slalom disciplines. Hirscher finally drew level four years later and overtook him in 2019.

The 2014/15 season did not start optimally for Ligety. In the second half of November, he suffered multiple fractures of his left hand during training, which then had to be operated on with three screws. Just a little over two weeks later, he won the giant slalom at Beaver Creek for the fifth time, where the World Championship took place two months later . There Ligety first won the bronze medal in the combination, while he finished ninth in the Super-G. He won a giant slalom on the Birds of Prey for the sixth time in a row and thus achieved his fifth world title. Previously, only Stenmark had managed to win three world championship titles in slalom (1978, 1980, 1982) and Kjetil André Aamodt in combination (1997, 1999, 2001).

Series of injuries

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Ligety won the giant slalom in Sölden for the fourth time, making it his 25th (and so far last) World Cup victory. A tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, which he suffered on January 28, 2016 during training in Oberjoch , meant the premature end of the season for him. In the following season 2016/17 Ligety returned to the World Cup. In the first race of winter, the giant slalom in Sölden on October 23, 2016, he finished fifth. In two of the three following races he suffered failures - due to back pain. He ended the season prematurely again in mid-January 2017 to undergo an operation on the spine and intervertebral discs. As a result, he missed the World Championship in St. Moritz .

In the 2017/18 season Ligety finished three times in the top ten in the World Cup. His best result was third place in the giant slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 28, 2018. He took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where he finished fifth in the combination. Ligety continued to suffer from back problems in the 2018/19 season as he was only able to complete a reduced training program. In the World Cup it was enough for a top 10 placement, at the 2019 World Championships in Åre for 11th place in the giant slalom.

Personal

In autumn 2006 Ligety founded the company Shred Optics together with a business partner . It sells ski goggles, sunglasses and ski helmets, all of which are designed by itself.

He has been married to his long-time American partner Mia Pascoe since July 2015. The two have been parents to a son since July 2017.

successes

Ted Ligety and Lindsey Vonn (2010)

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination City event
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2003/04 132. 8th - - - - - - 54. 8th - - - -
2004/05 62. 89 - - - - - - 24. 89 - - - -
2005/06 9. 636 - - - - 12. 188 4th 396 13. 52 - -
2006/07 11. 534 35. 50 - - 8th. 212 15th 170 11. 102 - -
2007/08 5. 898 - - 40. 8th 1. 485 9. 274 7th 131 - -
2008/09 9. 598 - - 21st 58 3. 421 22nd 113 44. 6th - -
2009/10 7th 667 - - 14th 119 1. 412 24. 65 14th 71 - -
2010/11 9. 610 58. 5 35. 27 1. 383 24. 101 13. 79 9. 15th
2011/12 9. 853 47. 9 34. 38 2. 513 15th 193 13. 85 9. 15th
2012/13 3. 1022 - - 7th 159 1. 720 19th 143 - - 13. 15th
2013/14 4th 991 26th 80 20th 90 1. 560 23. 81 1. 180 - -
2014/15 11. 560 58. 3 39. 24 3. 462 39. 26th 11. 45 - -
2015/16 38. 248 - - 25th 80 18th 157 49. 11 - - - -
2016/17 86. 71 - - 55. 2 27. 69 - - - - - -
2017/18 40. 188 - - - - 11. 164 - - 21st 24 - -
2018/19 51. 158 - - 47. 9 20th 111 - - 13. 38 - -
2019/20 44. 165 - - 57. 3 12. 162 - - - - - -

World Cup victories

Ligety has achieved 52 podium places so far, of which 25 wins:

date place country discipline
March 5, 2006 Yongpyong South Korea Giant slalom
March 8, 2008 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
March 14, 2008 Bormio Italy Giant slalom
February 28, 2009 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
January 29, 2010 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
5th December 2010 Beaver Creek United States Giant slalom
December 11, 2010 Val d'Isère France Giant slalom
December 19, 2010 Alta Badia Italy Giant slalom
October 23, 2011 Soelden Austria Giant slalom
December 6, 2011 Beaver Creek United States Giant slalom
March 10, 2012 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
October 28, 2012 Soelden Austria Giant slalom
December 2, 2012 Beaver Creek United States Giant slalom
December 16, 2012 Alta Badia Italy Giant slalom
January 12, 2013 Adelboden Switzerland Giant slalom
March 9, 2013 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
March 16, 2013 Lenzerheide Switzerland Giant slalom
October 27, 2013 Soelden Austria Giant slalom
December 8, 2013 Beaver Creek United States Giant slalom
17th January 2014 Wengen Switzerland Super combination
2nd February 2014 St. Moritz Switzerland Giant slalom
March 8, 2014 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
March 15, 2014 Lenzerheide Switzerland Giant slalom
December 7, 2014 Beaver Creek United States Giant slalom
October 25, 2015 Soelden Austria Giant slalom

Nor-Am Cup

  • 2003/04 season : 2nd overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
  • 7 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
January 3, 2004 Sunday River United States slalom
March 12, 2004 Mont-Tremblant Canada slalom
November 30, 2005 Keystone United States slalom

European Cup

  • 3 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
March 2, 2004 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Maribor 2004 : 2nd slalom, 9th combination, 12th giant slalom, 26th Super-G, 47th descent

More Achievements

  • 4 American championship titles (slalom 2005, 2006 and 2013; giant slalom 2007)
  • 2 podiums in the Australia New Zealand Cup , including 1 victory
  • 6 victories in FIS races

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ted Ligety  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American of Hungarian ancestry wins Gold at Sochi. February 21, 2014, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ted Ligety. usskiteam.com, 2009, accessed March 17, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Jeff Eisenband: Ted Ligety Started His Olympic Journey As Forerunner in Salt Lake City. The Post Game, February 13, 2018, accessed March 17, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Bill Pennington: Comeback Kid: Ligety Goes From 32nd to Gold. The New York Times , February 14, 2006, accessed March 17, 2010 .
  5. ^ Ligety, ski team optimistic after knee injury. The Denver Post, April 2, 2009, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ La revanche de Ted Ligety à Beaver Creek. Radio Télévision Suisse , December 7, 2011, accessed on March 4, 2019 (French).
  7. ^ Brian Pinelli: Ligety Skis to Victory, With Party Included. The New York Times , December 23, 2011, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Remo Geisser: Nobody carves like Ligety. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 28, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Stefan Oswalt: Ted Ligety superior winner. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 16, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Philippe Jäggi: "Outstanding!" - King Ligety of Schladming. Swiss radio and television , February 15, 2013, accessed on February 15, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Ligety is in a class of its own. Vorarlberger Nachrichten , December 9, 2013, accessed on December 9, 2013 .
  12. ↑ The King's series breaks after 7.5 years. 20 minutes , December 14, 2013, accessed December 14, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Ligety deserved Olympic winner - Janka missed a medal. Swiss radio and television , February 19, 2014, accessed on February 19, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Victory and a small crystal ball for Ligety. 20 minutes , March 15, 2014, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Ted Ligety breaks his hand. derStandard.at , November 23, 2014, accessed on November 24, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Ligety is crowned Giant Slalom King. Swiss Radio and Television , February 13, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Ligety suffers cruciate ligament rupture during training. Kleine Zeitung , January 28, 2016, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  18. ^ End of the season for Svindal and Ligety. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , January 17, 2017, accessed on March 4, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Ligety: “I'm not thinking about quitting yet”. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , January 11, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2017 .
  20. ↑ About us. Shred Optics, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Ski star Ligety marries his girlfriend Mia! Blick , July 27, 2015, accessed October 25, 2015 .
  22. ↑ Funny photo: Ted Ligety shows a baby son. Courier , July 7, 2017, accessed July 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ligety, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ligety, Theodore Sharp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt Lake City , Utah , United States