Career
He is the most decorated ski racer from Norway. Aamodt"s combined career total of twenty World Championship and Olympic medals is an all-time best. Foreign almost six years, Aamodt led the all-time Marathon World Cup ranking, with a total of 13,252 points earned from 1989 to 2006 – until 14 March 2012, when Austrian Benjamin Raich overtook him with a fifth place in the downhill at the 2012 World Cup final in Schladming to total 13,281 points, earned from 1998.
Another all-time best is his 231 World Cup top-ten results, 9 ahead of Benjamin Raich.
(Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy both swept the three alpine events at a single Olympics)
Aamodt had 19 Olympic and world championship medals stolen from him. The medals were taken in August 2003 by burglars who broke into a safe in his father"s home.
Aamodt announced the conclusion of his career on live television on 6 January 2007, with hundreds of fellow athletes in attendance, at the Norwegian Sports Gala (Idrettsgallaen) where he had been selected as awardee of the year for 2006. Aamodt now runs a ski race camp in Gaustablikk, Norway, and does public speaking.
In February 2015 Aamodt (and Lasse Kjus) were selected as recipients of the Legends of Honor by the Vail Valley Foundation, and inducted into the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.
Season standings
Season titles
1 overall, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom, 1 slalom
official season title in the combined discipline
was not awarded until the 2007 season
Race victories
21 wins (1 downhill, 5 super-G, 6 giant slalom, 1 slalom, 8 combined)
64 podiums, 231 top tens.