Daron Rahlves

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Daron Rahlves
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Rahlves in 2012
Personal information
Born (1973-06-12) June 12, 1973 (age 51)
Walnut Creek, California, U.S.
Occupation Alpine skier
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines Downhill, super-G, giant slalom
Club Sugar Bowl Ski Team
World Cup debutMarch 13, 1994 (age 20)
RetiredMarch 26, 2006 (age 32) / February 21, 2010 (age 36)
Website DaronRahlves.com
Olympics
Teams3 – (1998, 2002, 2006) – alpine
1 – (2010) – freestyle
Medals0
World Championships
Teams6 – (19962005)
Medals3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons12 – (19952006)
Wins12 – (9 DH, 3 SG)
Podiums28 – (20 DH, 7 SG, 1 GS)
Overall titles0 – (4th in 2006)
Discipline titles0 – (2nd in DH & SG, 2004)
Medal record
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Men's alpine skiing
World Cup race podiums
Event1st2nd3rd
Giant slalom010
Downhill947
Super-G322
Total1279
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 St. Anton Super-G
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Bormio Downhill
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2005 Bormio Giant slalom
Men's freestyle skiing
Winter X Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Aspen Ski Cross

Daron Louis Rahlves (born June 12, 1973) is a former American World Cup alpine ski racer and freestyle skier.

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Biography

A Rahlves Olympic bib (left) displayed in a museum. Rahlves-Mancuso Display pic.JPG
A Rahlves Olympic bib (left) displayed in a museum.

Born in Walnut Creek, California, and raised in Northern California, Rahlves attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California. He retired from racing at the end of the 2006 season with twelve World Cup victories and a world championship.

Rahlves earned three World Championships medals, a gold in 2001 in the super-G and a silver and bronze (downhill and giant slalom) in 2005. His best year in the overall World Cup standings was 2006, when he finished fourth. Rahlves' best years in the downhill standings were 2003 and 2004, when he placed second. He was also the runner-up in the Super G standings in 2004.

Rahlves was named to the U.S. Olympic team as a freestyle skier for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He competed in the ski cross event at Cypress Mountain and placed 24th.

Personal life

Daron is married to Michelle [1] and has twins: son Dreyson and daughter Miley (born in July 2007). [2]

Movies

Rahlves has been featured in several movies as his racing career matured and after retirement. 2005 brought Rahlves' first appearance in Warren Miller's "Impact". In 2007, Rahlves was featured in Rage Films' movie "Enjoy" as well as Jalbert Productions' "The Thin Line: Examination of the downhill" and in 2008 has segments in Warren Miller's "Children of Winter" and again in Rage Film's movie "Down Days". He has also been in Warren Miller's Dynasty and Matchstick Productions' "In Deep in 2009. In 2010 Rahlves starred in Teton Gravity Research's "Light The Wick" and in 2011 Warren Miller's "Like There's No Tomorrow". Rahlves was a featured in Teton Gravity Research's "The Dream Factory". Most recently, Rahlves rode a night scene in Alyeska in which the snow was backlit with array of projected LED colors for Sweetgrass Productions "Afterglow" in 2014.

Awards and titles

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom
Super GDownhillCombined
1995 215918
1996 22582718
1997 234711
1998 24571246
1999 25531932
2000 2620471010
2001 2729381715
2002 2834451219
2003 29649242
2004 3053322
2005 3151234
2006 3241133

Race victories

SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
2000 3 Mar 2000 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill
4 Mar 2000Downhill
2003 29 Dec 2002 Bormio, ItalyDownhill
25 Jan 2003 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill
2004 5 Dec 2003 Vail, USADownhill
23 Jan 2004Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G
7 Mar 2004Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G
10 Mar 2004 Sestriere, ItalyDownhill
2005 11 Mar 2005 Lenzerheide, SwitzerlandSuper-G
2006 2 Dec 2005 Beaver Creek, USADownhill
29 Dec 2005Bormio, ItalyDownhill
14 Jan 2006 Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super GDownhillCombined
1996 22DNF122
1997 23DNF1DNF31
1999 2513DNF
2001 271915
2003 291622DSQ
2005 313102

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super GDownhillCombined
1998 24 20 7
2002 28 8 16
2006 32 DNF1 9 10
2010 3624th in ski cross (freestyle)

References

  1. "US Ski Team profile". Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)