Luke Winters
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 2, 1997 |
| Occupation | Alpine skier |
| Sport | |
| Country | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
| Skiing career | |
| Disciplines | Slalom, giant slalom |
| Club | Mount Hood Race Team and Academy |
| World Cup debut | November 18, 2018 (age 21) |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 1 – (2022) |
| Medals | 0 |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 3 – (2021, 2023, 2025) |
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 4 – (2019–2022) |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Overall titles | 0 – (62nd in 2022) |
| Discipline titles | 0 – (23rd in SL, 2022) |
Medal record | |
Luke Winters (born April 2, 1997) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer.[1] He was a medalist at the Junior World Championships in 2018. At the World Cup level, Winters focuses on the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
Career
[edit | edit source]At the 2018 Junior World Championships in Davos, Switzerland, Winters won the bronze medal in the Super-G, was ninth in the downhill, and 22nd in the Alpine combined. In November 2018, he made his World Cup debut in the slalom at Levi, Finland. The following March, he gained his first national championship title, winning the alpine combined at Sugarloaf, Maine. He followed that up with his second national title, in slalom at Waterville Valley.[1][2]
In December 2019, he scored his first World Cup points at 19th place in the slalom at Val-d'Isère, France; he was second after the first run with bib 40. At his first World Championships in 2021, he was fifteenth after the first run of the slalom but failed to finish.
He has qualified to represent the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[3]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Born and raised in Gresham, Oregon, a suburb east of Portland, Winters learned to race at Mount Hood. He attended Sugar Bowl Academy, a ski academy in northern California near Lake Tahoe, and graduated in 2015.[4] Winters has a twin brother, two sisters, and two great parents.[2]
World Cup results
[edit | edit source]Season standings
[edit | edit source]| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 21 | no World Cup points | |||||
| 2020 | 22 | 127 | 49 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | 116 | 39 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | 62 | 23 | — | — | — | |
| 2023 | 25 | 93 | 31 | — | — | — | |
Top 20 results
[edit | edit source]- 0 podiums; 3 top tens
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15 December 2019 | France Val-d'Isère, France | Slalom | 19th |
| 2021 | 31 January 2021 | France Chamonix, France | Slalom | 19th |
| 2022 | 9 January 2022 | Switzerland Adelboden, Switzerland | Slalom | 10th |
| 22 January 2022 | Austria Kitzbühel, Austria | Slalom | 11th | |
| 9 March 2022 | Austria Flachau, Austria | Slalom | 7th | |
| 20 March 2022 | France Méribel, France | Slalom | 8th | |
| 2023 | 4 January 2023 | Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Slalom | 11th |
| 4 February 2023 | France Chamonix, France | Slalom | 12th |
World Championship results
[edit | edit source]| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team Combined |
Parallel | Team event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | DNF2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | |
| 2025 | 27 | DNF2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Olympic results
[edit | edit source]| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24 | DNF1 | DNF1 | — | — | — |
World Junior Championship results
[edit | edit source]| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 20 | DNF2 | DNF1 | 3 | 9 | 22 |
United States Championships
[edit | edit source]- United States slalom champion in 2019 and 2020
- United States combined champion in 2019 and 2021
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Luke Winters at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
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External links
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- Luke Winters at U.S. Ski Team
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