Picabo Street

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Women’s Alpine Skiing
Olympic medal record
Gold	1998 Nagano	Super-G
Silver	1994 Lillehammer	Downhill
World Championships
Gold	1996 Sierra Nevada	Downhill
Silver	1993 Morioka	Combined
Bronze	1996 Sierra Nevada	Super-G

Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971 in Triumph, Idaho) is an American skier, now retired and living in Portland, Oregon. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race.

She first joined the United States Ski Team in 1989, at the age of 17. She has written an autobiography entitled Nothing to Hide (ISBN 0-07-140693-X). She appeared on the TV show Nickelodeon GUTS in 1994 .

Her given name was inspired by the nearby Idaho town of Picabo (pronounced "PEEK-uh-boo"), which in turn takes its name from a Native American word meaning "shining waters".

She primarily competed in the speed events of Downhill and Super G.

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 World Cup in Downhill, she became the first American ever to win a season overall title.

She retired after the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah with nine career victories.

[edit] Other

Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2005.
She has appeared on Celebrity Paranormal Project.
Many jocular references to her first name are in evidence on the Internet. She is not now and has never been an Intensive Care Nurse, for example.

[edit] World Cup victories

[edit] Overall results

Season	Discipline
1995	Downhill
1996	Downhill

[edit] Individual victories

Date	Location	Race
December 9, 1994	Lake Louise	Downhill
January 21, 1995	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
February 17, 1995	Åre	Downhill
March 4, 1995	Saalbach	Downhill
March 11, 1995	Lenzerheide	Downhill
March 15, 1995	Bormio	Downhill
December 1, 1995	Lake Louise	Downhill
January 19, 1996	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
March 8, 1996	Narvik	Downhill