Jared Goldberg

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Jared Goldberg
Personal information
Born (1991-06-17) June 17, 1991 (age 33)
Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation Alpine skier  
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm) [1]
Skiing career
Disciplines Downhill, Super-G,
Combined
Club Snowbird Sports Education Foundation
World Cup debutNovember 2012  (age 21) [2]
Olympics
Teams2 – (2014, 2018)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams4 – (2015, 2017, 2021, 2023)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons9 – (20142022)
Podiums0
Overall titles0 – (57th in 2023)
Discipline titles0 – (15th in AC, 2014)

Jared Goldberg (born June 17, 1991) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the U.S. Ski Team , and resident of Holladay, Utah. [3]

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Goldberg was the 2010 U.S. Junior Championships combined champion, and won the downhill title in the 2013 U.S. Championships. Goldberg competed for the United States in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Early life

Goldberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Don (the owner of a computer consultants temporary staffing company) and Annette Goldberg (a nurse). [4] [5] [6] [7] His parents, both part-time ski instructors, met for the first time at Killington Ski Resort in Vermont. [4] His family moved to Utah when he was four years old, and he was raised in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City. [8] He is Jewish and had his Bar Mitzvah celebration in a ski lodge. [9]

Goldberg attended Skyline High School in Salt Lake City, where he played the midfield position in lacrosse and was also on the golf team. [6] [10] He attends Westminster College, where he studies mechanical engineering. [8] [6] [11] His teammates call him “Goldie.” [12]

Skiing career

Goldberg's club is Snowbird Sports Education Foundation. [8] He first started competing in both skiing and snowboarding. [4]

Goldberg was the 2010 U.S. Junior Championships combined champion, and took second in Junior downhill and third in junior giant slalom (GS) in the 2011 U.S. Junior Championships. [8] He took third in Super-G (SG) at the 2012 U.S. Championships. [8]

Goldberg won the downhill title in the 2013 U.S. Championships in Copper Mountain, Colorado, where he also took second in SG. [8] He took third in GS at the 2014 U.S. Championships. [8]

In 2013, Goldberg was the overall Nor-Am Champion, competing in three different circuits that season; Nor-Am Cup, Europa Cup, and World Cup.

Goldberg represented the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics and competed in Sochi, Russia, finishing 11th in the combined and 19th in the giant slalom. [13] [8] [1] At 22 years of age, he was the youngest member of the 2014 US Men's Alpine Team. [14]

In the 2015 World Championships, Goldberg had the third-fastest downhill run, AC, in Vail/Beaver Creek. [8] In 2016, skiing at Snowbird in Utah, his left ski hit a hidden tree trunk and he snapped his Achilles tendon. [15]

In 2017, he competed in the World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in February, [16] and took second place in SG at the U.S. Alpine Championships in March. [17] In December, he gained his first World Cup top ten finish with ninth place in the downhill at Val Gardena, Italy. [18] [19]

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Goldberg was 20th in the downhill, 24th in the super-G, and 36th at the combined. [20]

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
2013 2114452
2014 22813915
2015 2372413616
2016 24 93 44 44 21
2017 25 98 56 31
2018 26 63 39 26 19
2019 27 103 60 36 37
2020 28 92 32 37
2021 29 68 47 23
2022 30 85 51 31
2023 31 57 44 22
2024 32 18 10 11
Standings through 17 December 2023

Top ten finishes

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2018 16 Dec 2017 Flag of Italy.svg Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 9th
2019 2 Mar 2019 Flag of Norway.svg Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill9th
2021 19 Dec 2020 Flag of Italy.svg Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill9th
2023 17 Dec 2022 Flag of Italy.svg Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill9th
20 Jan 2023 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill4th
2024 16 Dec 2023 Flag of Italy.svg Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 10th

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
2015 23 20 29
2017 25 20 21
2021 29 15 20 DNS2
2023 31 26

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
2014 22 19 11
2018 26 24 20 36

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