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Danelle D’Aquanni Umstead (born February 15, 1972) is an American
alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...
and Paralympian. She is part of the US Paralympics team. She competed at the women's slalom, giant slalom, downhill,
Super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event d ...
and combined at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, with her husband Rob Umstead as her
sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment. Sports Paralympic Games At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment. Rules are according to the Internationa ...
. They took the bronze medal at the downhill and combined. She also competed in the
2014 Winter Paralympics The 2014 Winter Paralympics (russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were a ...
in Sochi, winning a bronze medal in the
super combined Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. A traditional combined competition consists of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom, each discipline runs on separate days. The winner is the skier with the fastest aggregate time. (Until the 1990s, ...
. She competed in the
2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jung Seo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olymp ...
in Pyeongchang the downhill, slalom, giant slalom,
super-g Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event d ...
, and the
super combined Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. A traditional combined competition consists of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom, each discipline runs on separate days. The winner is the skier with the fastest aggregate time. (Until the 1990s, ...
. She has a genetic eye condition called
retinitis pigmentosa Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision. Symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreasing peripheral vision (side and upper or lower visual field). As peripheral vision worsens, people may ...
. On September 12, 2018, Umstead was announced as one of the celebrities being on season 27 of '' Dancing with the Stars''. Her professional partner was
Artem Chigvintsev Artem Vladimirovich Chigvintsev (russian: Артём Влади́мирович Чи́гвинцев; born 12 June 1982) is a Russian-American professional dancer, specializing in Latin dancing. Chigvintsev was a cast member of '' Burn the F ...
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Team Vision4Gold
- Official website of Danelle and Rob Umstead
Danelle Umstead
at the U.S. Paralympic Team * * 1972 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics People from Taos, New Mexico Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States Paralympic alpine skiers of the United States Sportspeople from New Mexico American female alpine skiers Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Participants in American reality television series Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing 21st-century American women {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub