Lindsey Jacobellis 10 Personal Facts, Biography, Wiki
Born: August 19, 1985 (age 36 years), Danbury, Connecticut, United States Height: 1.65 m Nationality: American Education: Stratton Mountain School (2003) Siblings: Ben Jacobellis Silver medal: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women’s snowboard cross Books: Sochi: A True Story Name: Lindsey Jacobellis Sport: Snowboarding Event(s): Snowboard cross Height: 5-7 DOB: 8/19/1985 Birthplace: Danbury , Conn. Hometown: Roxbury, Conn. High School: Stratton Mountain School (Stratton, Vt.) ’03 Team/Club: Stratton Mountain School
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Jacobellis was born in Danbury, Connecticut, and grew up in Danbury and in southern Vermont, where her family had a weekend home. Her parents, Ben and Anita Jacobellis, encouraged her and her older brother Ben to participate in many sports. She was competitive from a young age, constantly trying to keep up with Ben or with her father on the slopes. As a young child, she was primarily a skier, but she switched to snowboarding after the family’s home burned when she was 8, destroying all her gear. She explains the switch by saying, “We couldn’t afford to buy all new ski equipment; we could only afford to buy snowboards.” She attended Vermont’s Stratton Mountain School, a college preparatory high school with a sports focus on training winter athletes, graduating in 2003. She was the only girl racing in snowboard cross, and says that competing against boys influenced how she approaches the sport. Lindsey Jacobellis (born August 19, 1985) is an American snowboarder from Roxbury, Connecticut. The most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time, she dominated the sport for almost two decades as a five-time World Champion and ten-time X Games champion. In her Olympic debut at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jacobellis won the silver medal in the snowboard cross but was unable to medal at the next three Olympics before winning gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. When bad things happen at the Olympics, no one ever lets it go. Nobody’s learned that lesson the hard way more than Lindsey Jacobellis. A full 16 years and a world removed from the day the American snowboardcross racer gave away the gold medal with a showboat move near the finish line, Jacobellis rode hard to the end and won it. Instead of a blank stare and a look of shocked disbelief after taking silver in Italy, Jacobellis clenched her fists and pumped them to celebrate gold in China. She smiled wide and placed her hands over her heart. The victory Wednesday marked a remarkable climb back up an Olympic mountain that Jacobellis, now 36 and a seasoned veteran in this game, had every reason to detest. Or leave behind. “Some days, I really don’t like it,” she said. “Some days, it’s very stressful and aggravating and there’s anxiety through the roof. But when it all comes all together, it really makes it worth it.” It only felt fitting that Jacobellis, a five-time Olympian who has been humbled aplenty at the Games, made a breakthrough for a U.S. team that, until she showed up, could not seem to get anything right.
