Rasmus Windingstad

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Rasmus Windingstad
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Windinggstad skiing in 2023
Born (1993-10-31) 31 October 1993 (age 29)
Asker, Norway [1]
Occupation Alpine skier
Skiing career
Disciplines Giant slalom, super-G, combined
Club Bærums SK
World Cup debut2 February 2014 (age 20)
Olympics
Teams1 – (2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams3 – (2015, 2019, 2023)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons4 – (2017–2020)
Wins1 – (1 PG)
Podiums3 – (2 GS, 1 PG)
Overall titles0 – (33rd in 2023)
Discipline titles0 – (2nd in PAR, 2020)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Beijing Team event
Junior World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Jasná Giant slalom

Rasmus Windingstad (born 31 October 1993) is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer.

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Sports career

At the Junior World Championships in 2014, he won a bronze medal in the giant slalom, was seventh in the super combined, and ninth in the slalom. Windingstad made his World Cup debut in February 2014 in St. Moritz, but did not finish the first run. Over the next year, he competed in five more World Cup races, but did not finish any of them. [2] He gained his first World Cup podium at Kranjska Gora in March  2019. [3]

Windingstad has competed at three World Championships, and placed thirteenth in the giant slalom and combined events in 2019. [2]

Personal life

Windingstad was born in Gjøvik on 31 October 1993. [4] He has a Swedish mother and Norwegian father (from Gol), [5] and represents the sports club Bærums SK. [2]

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom		Super-GDownhillCombinedParallel
2016 22127—45————
2017 23 153 — 53 — — —
2018 24 98 — 35 44 — —
2019 25 36 — 16 26 — 14
2020 26 42 — 28 42 — — 2
2021 27 116 — 38 — — — —
2022 28 69 — 19 — — —
2023 29 33 — 9 — — —

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2019 9 Mar 2019 Flag of Slovenia.svg Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd
2020 24 Dec 2019 Flag of Italy.svg Alta Badia, Italy Parallel-G 1st
2023 25 Feb 2023 Flag of the United States.svg Palisades Tahoe, USAGiant slalom3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombinedParallelTeam
event
2015 21 — 31 — — — — —
2019 25 — 13 — — 13 —
2023 29 — 16 — — — 5 —

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
2022 28 — DNF1 29 — —

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References

  1. ↑ "Rasmus WINDINGSTAD". Olympics.com. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Rasmus Windingstad at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  3. ↑ "Kristofferson beats Windingstad for Norwegian 1-2 in GS". Washington Post. Associated Press. 9 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Rasmus Windingstad". olympedia.org. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Windingstad klar for World Cup". Hallingdølen (in Norwegian). 18 April 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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