Luke Winters Explained

Luke Winters
Club:Mount Hood Race Team and Academy
Birth Date:2 April 1997
Birth Place:Gresham, Oregon, U.S.
Wcdebut:November 18, 2018 (age 21)
Olympicteams:1 – (2022)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:1 – (2021, 2023)
Worldsmedals:1
Worldsgolds:1
Wcseasons:4 – (20192022)
Wcpodiums:0
Wcoveralls:0 – (62nd in 2022)
Wctitles:0 – (23rd in SL, 2022)
Show-Medals:yes

Luke Winters (born April 2, 1997) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer. He was a medalist at the Junior World Championships in 2018. At the World Cup level, Winters focuses on the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.

Career

At the 2018 Junior World Championships in Davos, Switzerland, Winters won the bronze medal in the Super-G, was ninth in the downhill, and 22nd in the Alpine combined. In November 2018, he made his World Cup debut in the slalom at Levi, Finland. The following March, he gained his first national championship title, winning the alpine combined at Sugarloaf, Maine. He followed that up with his second national title, in slalom at Waterville Valley.[1]

In December 2019, he scored his first World Cup points at 19th place in the slalom at Val-d'Isère, France; he was second after the first run with bib 40. At his first World Championships in 2021, he was fifteenth after the first run of the slalom but failed to finish.

He has qualified to represent the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[2]

Personal life

Born and raised in Gresham, Oregon, a suburb east of Portland, Winters learned to race at Mount Hood. He attended Sugar Bowl Academy, a ski academy in northern California near Lake Tahoe, and graduated in 2015.[3] Winters has a twin brother, two sisters, and two great parents.[1]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined
21
2249
202123rowspan=3
20222462
2023259331

Top 20 results

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2020 15 December 2019 Val-d'Isère, FranceSlalom19th
2021 31 January 2021 Chamonix, FranceSlalom19th
2022 9 January 2022    Adelboden, SwitzerlandSlalom10th
22 January 2022 Kitzbühel, AustriaSlalom11th
9 March 2022 Flachau, AustriaSlalom 7th
20 March 2022 Méribel, FranceSlalom 8th
2023 4 January 2023 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GermanySlalom11th
4 February 2023 Chamonix, FranceSlalom12th

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
23
25

United States Championships

See also: United States Alpine Ski Championships.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Luke Winters. usskiandsnowboard.org.
  2. Web site: OlympicTalk. 2022-01-22. Team USA athlete roster for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. 2022-01-23. OlympicTalk NBC Sports. en-US.
  3. Web site: Scacco. Justin. Sugar Bowl alumnus Luke Winters picks up World Cup points in Croatia. 2020-08-26. www.sierrasun.com. en-US.