Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is particularly successful as a ski racer in downhill and super-G.
Norway owes its fourth overall World Cup victory to him.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
is active in combination and giant slalom, but most successful in
Super-G
and
downhill
.
In 2012, the
ski racer
took part
in a
World Cup
for the
first time
.
In the 2019/2020 season, he won the
overall World Cup
, which so far has only been achieved three Norwegians before him.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
comes from Bærum, Norway, and was born there on September 21, 1992.
The
ski racer
drives, among other things,
giant slalom
and is active in the
combination
.
He can regularly
show
himself at his best in the
downhill
and Super-G.
Kilde contested
his first
FIS race
in 2007 and has been a regular since then.
Two years later he was allowed to take part in the European Olympic Festival in Szczyrk, but it was not a great success.
He was eliminated in the
slalom
and also in the
giant slalom
.
However, he made up for that the following year and won his first
FIS race
in 2010
.
That led to his first appearance in the
European Cup
in November of that year.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde celebrated another highlight of his young career at the
Junior World Championships
in Roccaraso 2012. In the Super-G, he narrowly missed the medal ranks and finished
fourth
.
Nonetheless, he finished the season with two Norwegian
junior championship
titles, namely slalom and giant slalom.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde at the World Cup, the Olympics and other major events
In October 2012, the Norwegian
ski racer took
part in the World Cup for the first time
.
However, he did not manage to qualify for the second round.
In January 2013 in the
European Cup
,
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was
much more successful and won the
Super-G
in Val-d'Isère.
Around two weeks later, he also secured victory in the two Super-Gs in La Thuile.
So it is hardly surprising that he took first place in the Super-G and the overall ranking of the 2012/2013 European Cup.
Not to be forgotten is his
gold medal
in giant slalom at the
Junior World Championships in
2013. The following year he went to the
Olympics
in Sochi
for the first time
, where he finished 13th in the Super-G.
In January 2015, Kilde had to take a one-month break, but nonetheless qualified for the
World Championship
in Beaver Creek.
There he reached eighth place in the combination.
The year ended with a surprise: a third place in the Super-G of Val Gardena.
The ski racer on the way to World Cup victory
On his title as
World Cup winner
had to
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
no longer wait long.
On January 30, 2016, he secured first place in the Kandahar run in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
.
In the 2019/2020 World Cup season, the
ski racer was treated
as an outsider, but from December 2019 he secured a place in the top ten in all races in which he crossed the finish line.
Although the athlete only managed one victory, he led the
overall standings
.
Alexis Pinturault was
already the
favorite
at the beginning of the season
and soon afterwards won the overall standings back.
That changed again in March.
Due to the
end of the season
due to the pandemic, Pinturault had
no chance of fighting his way back to the top.
So Kilde was the
overall winner
.
That made him the
fourth Norwegian overall World Cup winner
.
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So far, he has achieved the following successes in the
Alpine
Ski World Cup
:
Departure
: three gold medals, two silver medals, one bronze medal
Super-G
: three gold medals, four silver medals, four bronze medals
Combination
: one silver medal, two bronze medals
By Sophie Neumärker