Todd Lodwick
Todd Lodwick ( born November 21, 1976 in Steamboat Springs ) is an American Nordic combined and ski jumping.
Career
In addition to 18 national titles (ten in the Nordic combined and eight in the special jumping) he scored six World Cup victories and winning the Junior World Championship in 1996 in the Italian Asiago. In the overall World Cup was his best finish a fourth place three times (1997/ 98, 1999/2000 and 2004/ 05), it could also be placed from 1997/98 to 2004/ 05 by going in the top ten of the overall World Cup.
Lodwick took part in five Winter Olympics, where he arrived in 2002 in Salt Lake City as the best placements fifth place in the sprint and fourth place in the team competition.
In March 2006, he first finished his career, but at the beginning of the season 2008/ 09 he started again in the Continental Cup Nordic combined and won three races in a row. In December 2008, nearly three years after his retirement, he returned to the World Cup. With two second place in Oberhof him there succeeded an impressive comeback. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec Lodwick won the title in the inaugural Mass Start competition and in the individual race.
Together with Brett Camerota, Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane won Lodwick on February 23, 2010, the silver medal in the team competition of the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. By far a total of 13 stage wins, he also believes the record in the Continental Cup Nordic Combined.