# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-ligety
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:29:25.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-ligety"
name: "Ted Ligety"
slug: "ted-ligety"
description: "Theodore Sharp Ligety is a retired American alpine ski racer, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an entrepreneur, having cofounded Shred Optics. Ligety won the combined event at the 2006 Olympics in Turin and the giant slalom race at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. He is also a five-time World Cup champion in giant slalom. Ligety won the gold medal in the giant slalom at the 2011 World Championships. He successfully defended his world title in giant slalom in 2013 in Schladming, Austria, where he also won an unexpected gold medal in the super-G and a third gold medal in the super combined."
tagline: "American alpine skier"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ted_Ligety_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1984-08-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump