Danelle Umstead

Alpine Skiing

Visually impaired US skier Danelle Umstead and her guide husband Rob are together known as team Vision4Gold.

Their incredible relationship has taken them to two Paralympic Winter Games and has seen them step onto the podium twice consecutively.

However before 2015 they had not won a World Championships medal, agonisingly missing out by just one place four times.

That all changed at the 2015 World Championships, with not just one but three medals. They also finished on top of the World Cup rankings in 2014-15.

Danelle is an inspiration to many not just because of her ability to ski down a mountain with only the voice of her husband to follow, but also because in 2010 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and has being skiing with the condition ever since.

The pair are determined to compete at PyeongChang 2018 and with a switch in focus to the downhill as Danelle’s specialist event, the plan appears to be coming together nicely.

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Results

		Unit	Date	Rank

Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (Vancouver, Canada)
Event	Unit	Rank
Women's Downhill Visually impaired	Final Round	3
Women's Super-G Visually impaired	Final Round	4
Women's Super Combined Visually impaired	Final Round	3
Women's Giant Slalom Visually impaired	Final Round	8
Women's Slalom Visually impaired	Final Round	9999

2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships (Sestriere, Italy)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Women's Downhill VI	Final	2011-01-16	9999
Women's Super-G VI	Final	2011-01-18	4
Women's Super-Combined VI	Final	2011-01-19	4
Women's Slalom VI	Final	2011-01-20	6
Women's Giant Slalom VI	Final	2011-01-21	9999

IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships (La Molina, Spain)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Women's Downhill VI	Race 1	2013-02-20	4
Women's Super-G VI	Race 1	2013-02-21	5
Women's Slalom VI	Race 1	2013-02-24	9999
Women's Super-Combined VI	Race 1	2013-02-25	4
Women's Giant Slalom VI	Race 1	2013-02-26	5

Paralympic Winter Games 2014 (Sochi, Russia)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Women's Downhill Visually Impaired	Final Round	2014-03-08	5
Women's Super-G Visually Impaired	Final Round	2014-03-10	4
Women's Slalom Visually Impaired	Final Round	2014-03-12	4
Women's Super Combined Visually Impaired	Final Round	2014-03-14	3

2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships Panorama (Panorama, Canada)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Women's Downhill VI	Race 1	2015-03-04	2
Women's Super-G VI	Race 1	2015-03-05	2
Women's Super-Combined VI	Race 1	2015-03-07	3
Women's Giant Slalom VI	Race 1	2015-03-08	9999
Women's Slalom VI	Race 1	2015-03-10	4

2017 IPC Alpine skiing World Championships Tarvisio, ITA (Tarvisio, Italy)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Women's Downhill VI	Race 1	2017-01-25	4
Women's Super-G VI	Race 1	2017-01-26	3
Women's Super-Combined VI	Race 1	2017-01-28	9999
Women's Giant Slalom VI	Race 1	2017-01-30	7
Women's Slalom VI	Race 1	2017-01-31	8

Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games (Pyeongchang, South Korea)
Event	Unit	Date	Rank
Women's Downhill Visually Impaired	Final	2018-03-10	9999
Women's Super-G Visually Impaired	Final	2018-03-11	6
Women's Super Combined Visually Impaired	Final	2018-03-13	8
Women's Giant Slalom Visually Impaired	Final	2018-03-14	8
Women's Slalom Visually Impaired	Final	2018-03-18	9999