Gold In The Snow Trivia Quiz

Answer: USA

Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971) won one Olympic gold at Nagano in 1988.
She also won one World Championship gold and was a nine-time winner on the World Cup circuit. After a career that was badly affected by injury, she retired in 2002.

Answer: Norway

Kjetil André Aamodt (born September 2, 1971) won four Olympic golds, one at Albertville in 1992, two at Salt Lake City in 2002 and one at Turin in 2006.
He also won five World Championship golds and topped the podium 21 times on the World Cup circuit.

Answer: Canada

Kerrin Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) won gold in the downhill at Albertville in 1992. She retired in 1994 and started to work as a television broadcaster.

Answer: France

Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) dominated downhill skiing in the late 1960s. He won three Olympic golds at Grenoble in 1968, six World Championship golds and 18 World Cup wins. He had a varied career after retirement. He appeared in a number of TV commercials and shows and played a ski instructor in the 1972 movie "Snow Job".

The linked Val d'Isère and Tignes ski area in the French Alps was named "l'Espace Killy" in his honour.

Answer: Sweden

Ingemar Stenmark (born March 1, 1956) was regarded as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time. He won two Olympic golds at Lake Placid in 1980 and three World Championship golds. He dominated his disciplines from the age of 17, and scored 86 World Cup wins.

Answer: Italy

Alberto Tomba - Tomba la Bomba - (born December 19, 1966) was probably the world's best skier in slalom and giant slalom of his generation. He won two Olympic golds at Calgary in 1988 and one at Albertville in 1992. He also won two World championship golds. He topped the podium 50 times in World Cup races.

Answer: Germany

Katja Seizinger (born May 10, 1972) was at her retirement Germany's most successful woman skier. She won three Olympic Games golds, two at Lillehammer in 1994 and one at Nagano four years later. She also won one World Championship gold and had 36 World Cup wins.

Answer: Croatia

Janica Kostelić (born January 5, 1982) won three gold medals at Salt Lake City in 2002 and a fourth gold four years later at Turin. She also won five World Championship golds and topped the podium in 30 World Cup races.

Answer: Switzerland

Vreni Schneider (born November 26, 1964) won three gold medals in two Olympic Games, Lillehammer in 1994 and Calgary in 1988. At her retirement in 1995, she was Switzerland's most successful woman skier. In 14 seasons, she won 55 World Cup races and three Olympic golds. She was a three-times world champion.

Answer: Austria

Hermann Maier - the Hermanator - (born December 7, 1972) was one of skiing's greats. He won two Olympic golds at Nagano in 1988, three World Championship golds and had 54 World Cup wins. It was a career that might not have been - aged 15 Maier was sent home from a ski academy for being too slightly built.

In 2001 his career was nearly ended by a motorcycle accident, but despite very serious injuries, he returned to the sport and to the winner's podium. He was nicknamed "The Hermanator" after his friendship with Arnold Schwarzenegger - "The Terminator".