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Julia Mancuso is an American alpine skier who has won more Olympic medals than any American woman in ski racing history, and is second all-time in International Championship medals with nine – four Olympic and five World Championship. As a four- event athlete from the beginning, Mancuso started World Cup racing and was a NorAm champion at 16, competed in the Olympics at 17, set a U.S. record for Junior World Championships medals before she was out of her teens, and then started her twenties by capturing two World Championships medals. Her storied career includes an Olympic medal in every color with gold in 2006, a pair of silver medals from 2010 and a bronze in 2014, making her the only American woman to earn one of each.
Hometown: Reno, Nevada, USA
Birthplace: 3/9/1984
Career highlights include:
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, bronze (combined)
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, silver (combined), silver (downhill)
Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games, gold (giant slalom)
2013 World Championship, bronze (super-g)
2011 World Championship, silver (super-g)
2007 World Championship, silver (super-g)