Nikki Stone
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women's Freestyle Skiing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1998 Winter Olympics | Inverted Aerials | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1995 Freestyle World Championship | Inverted Aerials | |
| Bronze | 1999 Freestyle World Championship | Inverted Aerials | |
Nicole 'Nikki' Stone (born February 4, 1971, Princeton, New Jersey, currently residing in Park City, Utah) is a former American Olympic skier.
Nikki Stone, who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, is best known for being the first American to win a gold medal as inverted aerial skier. Aerial Skiing is a sport where athletes ski into a 10-foot snow jump at approximately 40 miles per hour, flip and/or twist to a height of 50-feet, and land on a 45% hill.
Eighteen months before this second Olympic appearance, Nikki sustained a career-threatening spinal injury in which doctors believed she would never jump again.
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[edit] Career Highlights
Throughout her career, Nikki earned 35 World Cup medals, eleven World Cup titles, four national titles, two year-long Aerial World Cup titles, and a World Championship title. She also became the first pure aerialist ever (male or female) to become the year-long Overall Freestyle World Cup Champion. She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2003.
[edit] Television Appearances
Late Night with David Letterman, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN Early Addition, MSNBC Morning Line, ESPN Magazine show, Fox News Channel Sports Express, CNN Business As Unusual, Fox Sports News live, the Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, and a televised commercial for Chevrolet and the Salt Lake Olympic Committee.
[edit] Authored
Nikki Stone has written articles for Yahoo! Sports, the United States Olympic Committee, local newspapers, and skiing magazines. Nikki is also a contributing author to the book “Awaken the Olympian Within: Stories from America's Greatest Olympic Motivators” and is currently writing her own motivational self-help book.
[edit] Current Career
Nikki currently works as a Motivational Speaker and a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah.
She is active in the Right to Play charity.
[edit] Medals
An overview of medals won by Nikki at important championships, listing the years in which she won each:
| Championships | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Olympics - Aerials | 1998 | ||
| World Championships - Aerials | 1995 | 1999 | |
| World Cup Freestyle Overall | 1998 | ||
| World Cup Aerial Overall | 1995 1998 |
1999 | 1993 1994 |
| World Cups | 1998/1999 (1x) 1997/1998 (4x) 1995/1996 (1x) 1994/1995 (4x) 1991/1992 (1x) |
1998/1999 (1x) 1997/1998 (3x) 1996/1997 (2x) 1995/1996 (4x) 1994/1995 (3x) 1993/1994 (2x) 1991/1992 (2x) |
1995/1996 (2x) 1994/1995 (2x) 1993/1994 (1x) 1992/1993 (2x) |
| US Championships | 1993 (Aerials) 1994 (Aerials) 1995 (Aerials) 1998 (Aerials) |
1997 (Aerial) 1992 (Aerial) |
1993 (Combined) 1995 (Combined) |
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