Julia Mancuso

Julia Mancuso is an American alpine ski racer from the Lake Tahoe area who retired from the World Cup after a career built around the biggest events. She made her World Cup debut at 15 and won a record eight medals at the Junior World Championships before her first Olympics, the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Her unexpected giant slalom gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin was the first of four Olympic medals, followed by silver medals in the downhill and the combined at the 2010 Games in Vancouver and a bronze in the combined at the 2014 Games in Sochi. That total of four Olympic medals ties the most ever won by an American woman in alpine skiing. She also won five World Championships medals, two silver and three bronze, and seven World Cup races, and in 2007 finished third in the overall World Cup standings.