Picabo Street
Picabo Street was born in Triumph, Idaho, Idaho, United States on April 3rd, 1971 and is the Skier. At the age of 53, Picabo Street biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.
She and three other Olympic and World Championship medals were awarded the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships.
Street also won World Cup downhill championships in 1995 and 1996, becoming the first American woman to do so, as well as nine World Cup downhill race champions.
In 2004, Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame.
Early life
Street was born in Triumph, Idaho, and her parents, Dee (a music teacher) and Roland "Stubby" Street (a stonemason), were both born on a street. Roland, Jr., her brother, is one year older. Picabo's parents decided to encourage Picabo to choose their own name when she was old enough, and she was dubbed "baby girl" or "little girl" for the first two years of her life. In order to obtain a passport, she was required to have a name at age three. She was named after the village of Picabo, which is just around the corner. She was born on a small farm in Triumph, many miles south of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race.
She attended Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent one year in the Rowmark Ski Academy before returning to Sun Valley to compete for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. She was a member of the local Hailey Ski Team before joining the academy.
Personal life
Street is retired and she divides her time between homes in Alabama and Winter Park, Colorado. She has a son who was born in August 2004 with her ex partner N. J. Pawley. On October 25, she married businessman John Reeser atop Prospect Mountain, near Hanceville, Alabama. Street gave birth to her second son on August 3, 2009.
Street announced on ESPN's College Game Day in Boise on September 25, 2010, that she was pregnant and expecting her third child.
Street named her skis for people who were both active and meaningful to her. Her "Earnies" (after Dale Earnhardt) and her "Arnolds" (after Arnold Schwarzenegger) are among them.
Skiing career
Street joined the U.S. Ski Team in 1989 at the age of 17. She primarily competed in the speed events of downhill and super G, with her World Cup debut at age 21 in a slalom on 6 December, 1992. Two months later at the 1993 World Championships in Japan she won the silver medal in the combined event.
After her silver medal performance in the downhill at the 1994 Winter Olympics, a run was named after her at Sun Valley, on the Warm Springs side of Bald Mountain; the expert run formerly known as "Plaza" became "Picabo's Street." Street joined Christin Cooper and Gretchen Fraser as Sun Valley Olympic medalists (their named runs are on Seattle Ridge).
By winning the 1995 downhill title, she became the first American to win a World Cup season title in a speed event. She repeated as downhill champion the following season, adding the title of world champion with her gold medal at the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
While training in Colorado in early December 1996, Street suffered an ACL injury to her left knee and missed the remainder of the 1997 season. A month after her gold medal win in the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics, she careened off course at the final downhill of the 1998 season at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Street crashed, snapping her left femur and tearing the ACL in her right knee. She was in rehabilitation for two years following the accident.
Street returned to ski racing in late 2000, and retired from international competition after the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, where she finished sixteenth in the downhill.