Luke Winters

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Luke Winters
Personal information
Born (1997-04-02) April 2, 1997 (age 27)
Gresham, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation Alpine skier
Skiing career
Disciplines Slalom, giant slalom
Club Mount Hood Race Team and Academy
World Cup debutNovember 18, 2018 (age 21)
Olympics
Teams1 – (2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams1 – (2021, 2023)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons4 – (20192022)
Podiums0
Overall titles0 – (62nd in 2022)
Discipline titles0 – (23rd in SL, 2022)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Méribel Team event
Junior World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Davos Super-G

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.

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Career

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

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

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom
Super-GDownhillCombined
2019 21no World Cup points
2020 22 127 49
2021 23 116 39
2022 24 62 23
2023 25 93 31

Top 20 results

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2020 15 December 2019 Flag of France.svg Val-d'Isère, France Slalom 19th
2021 31 January 2021 Flag of France.svg Chamonix, FranceSlalom19th
2022 9 January 2022  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Adelboden, SwitzerlandSlalom10th
22 January 2022 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, AustriaSlalom11th
9 March 2022 Flag of Austria.svg Flachau, AustriaSlalom 7th
20 March 2022 Flag of France.svg Méribel, FranceSlalom 8th
2023 4 January 2023 Flag of Germany.svg Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanySlalom11th
4 February 2023 Flag of France.svg Chamonix, FranceSlalom12th

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
2021 23 DNF2
2023 25 30

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
2022 24 DNF1 DNF1

Junior World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
2018 20DNF2DNF13922

United States Championships

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References

  1. 1 2 Luke Winters at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  2. 1 2 "Luke Winters". usskiandsnowboard.org.
  3. OlympicTalk (2022-01-22). "Team USA athlete roster for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics". OlympicTalk | NBC Sports. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  4. Scacco, Justin. "Sugar Bowl alumnus Luke Winters picks up World Cup points in Croatia". www.sierrasun.com. Retrieved 2020-08-26.