Women in the world's spotlight 2012 (6)

Lindsey Vonn is a World Cup alpine ski racer with the United States Ski Team. She has won four overall World Cup championships. She is one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll, with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012. Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman. She has also won five consecutive World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline, four consecutive titles in Super G, and three consecutive titles in the combined as of 2012.(Globaltimes.cn)