Jared Goldberg (born June 17, 1991) is an American

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alpine ski racer, a member of the

U.S. Ski Team The U.S. Ski Team, operating under the auspices of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, develops and supports men's and women's athletes in the sports of alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, cross-country, ski jumping, and Nordic combined. Since 1974 the team and ...

, and resident of

Holladay, Utah Holladay is a city in central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area and abuts the Wasatch National Forest. The population was 31,965 at the 2020 census, a significant increas ...

. Goldberg was the 2010 U.S. Junior Championships combined champion, and won the

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title in the 2013 U.S. Championships. Goldberg competed for the United States in the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

, Russia, and the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

PyeongChang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...

, South Korea.

Early life

Goldberg was born in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, to Don (the owner of a computer consultants temporary staffing company) and Annette Goldberg (a nurse).Jared Goldberg 36th in Alpine combined, optimistic about downhill - The Boston Globe
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''2014 U.S. Olympic Team Media Guide''. His parents, both part-time ski instructors, met for the first time at

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. His family moved to Utah when he was four years old, and his hometown is

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, Salt Lake City, Utah."Jared Goldberg , U.S. Ski Team - Alpine"
alpine.usskiteam.com. He is

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and had his Bar Mitzvah celebration in a ski lodge. Goldberg attended Skyline High School in Salt Lake City, where he played the midfield position in

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and was also on the golf team. He attends Westminster College, where he studies

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

. His teammates call him “Goldie.”

Skiing career

Goldberg's club is Snowbird Sports Education Foundation. He first started competing in both skiing and snowboarding. Goldberg was the 2010 U.S. Junior Championships combined champion, and took second in Junior

and third in junior

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

(GS) in the 2011 U.S. Junior Championships. He took third in

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 ...

(SG) at the 2012 U.S. Championships. Goldberg won the downhill title in the 2013 U.S. Championships in Copper Mountain, Colorado, where he also took second in SG. He took third in GS at the 2014 U.S. Championships. In 2013, Goldberg was the overall Nor-Am Champion, competing in three different circuits that season; Nor-Am Cup, Europa Cup, and World Cup. Goldberg represented the

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and competed in

, Russia, finishing 11th in the combined and 19th in the

. At 22 years of age, he was the youngest member of the 2014 US Men's Alpine Team. In the 2015 World Championships, Goldberg had the third-fastest downhill run, AC, in

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/ Beaver Creek. In 2016, skiing at

Snowbird Snowbird is a common name for the dark-eyed junco (''Junco hyemalis''). Snowbird may also refer to: Places *Snowbird, Utah, an unincorporated area and associated ski resort *Snowbird Lake, a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada *Snowbird ...

in Utah, his left ski hit a hidden tree trunk and he snapped his Achilles tendon. In 2017, he competed in the

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in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in February, and took second place in SG at the U.S. Alpine Championships in March. In December, he gained his first World Cup top ten finish with ninth place in the downhill at

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, Italy. At the

, South Korea, Goldberg was 20th in the downhill, 24th in the super-G, and 36th at the combined."Jared Goldberg"
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World Cup results

Season standings

Top ten finishes

*0 podiums; 5 top tens (5 DH)

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

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