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Aksel Lund Svindal (born December 26, 1982 in
Lørenskog) is a Norwegian alpine skier from Kjeller. He is a two-time
winner of the Alpine Skiing
World Cup (2007 and 2009).
Career
In his career, Svindal won five World
Championship medals, four World Cup discipline titles (in downhill, Combined, Super-G and Giant
Slalom), and, starting from 2005 and, as of 2009, twelve World
Cup races. Additionally, he won four medals at the 2002 World
Junior Championships, including gold in combined. He won his first
overall World Cup in 2007.
On November 27, 2007, during the first training run for the
Birds of Prey downhill race in Beaver Creek, USA, Svindal crashed
badly after landing a jump. He somersaulted into a safety fence and
taken to Vail Valley Medical Center with broken bones in his face
and a 15 cm laceration to his groin and abdominal area. He
returned to World Cup skiing in October 2008. His first new two
victories were a Donwhill and a Super-G in Beaver Creek, the same
place where he had injured himself[1].
Also in his return season, Svindal won his second overall World
Cup over Austrian Benjamin Raich. At the very final race
of the finals held in Åre, the
two had won respectively two previous final races (a Downhill and
Giant Slalom), with Svindal leading by two points but Raich being
favourite as a specialist in slalom. However, both skiers went off,
and the Norwegian was the final winner[2].
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World Cup
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