{{Infobox alpine ski racer , name = Billy Kidd , image = Billy Kidd skier 1970.jpg , image_size = 220 , caption = Kidd after winning the world title in

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...

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{{MedalGold , 1970 Val Gardena , Combined {{MedalBronze , 1964 Innsbruck , Combined {{MedalBronze , 1970 Val Gardena , Slalom William Winston Kidd (born April 13, 1943) is a former

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alpine ski racer, a member of the U.S. Ski Team from 1962 to 1970. At the

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, Kidd and teammate Jimmie Heuga became the first American men to win Olympic medals in alpine skiing, winning silver and bronze in the slalom. Six years later, Kidd won a gold medal in the combined and a bronze in the slalom at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy. He promptly switched circuits and enjoyed a successful pro ski racing career from 1970 to 1972, winning the World Pro Ski Tour World Championships in 1970, becoming the only racer in history to win FIS and Pro titles the same year. Since 1970, Kidd has enjoyed enduring "Legend" status in the sport, and has remained in the public eye in his job (1970-2024) as Director of Skiing at

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Early life

Born in

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, Kidd grew up in the 1950s in the ski town of Stowe,{{cite journal , url=http://www.coloradanmagazine.org/2009/03/01/kidding-around-on-the-slopes/ , journal=Coloradan , title=Kidding around on the slopes , last=Lay , first=Jennie , date=March 1, 2009 , accessdate=January 9, 2013 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124070859/http://www.coloradanmagazine.org/2009/03/01/kidding-around-on-the-slopes/ , archive-date=November 24, 2009 , url-status=dead where his parents, Bill and Betty, ran the Buccaneer Motel. With encouragement and coaching from his father, and with support from the town of Stowe, he became a top junior ski racer at Stowe with the

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Ski Team. Along with best friend and skiing rival Jimmie Heuga, Kidd was named to the U.S. Ski Team for the 1962 season.

Ski racing

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, title=Swift French star wins World slalom , date=February 14, 1962 , page=14 and a 15th place in the giant slalom (GS) at the 1962 World Championships in

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.{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cVspAAAAIBAJ&pg=6666%2C94300 , newspaper=The Spokesman-Review , location=Spokane, Washington , agency=Associated Press , title=Zimmerman leads Austrian ski sweep , date=February 16, 1962 , page=13 After enduring a season hampered by injuries, Kidd entered the 1964 season with high hopes and gritty determination. A silver medalist in the slalom at the

, Kidd was the first American man (along with Heuga, who took bronze in the same race) to earn an Olympic medal in alpine skiing.{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=J-YiAAAAIBAJ&pg=806%2C1534800 , newspaper= Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal , location=Florida , agency=Associated Press , title=Yank skiers break the ice, take 2nd, 3rd in slalom , date=February 9, 1964 , page=3-B Both Kidd and Heuga were just 20 years old at the time.{{cite news , title=Olympic History: Billy Kidd triumphs at 1964 Olympic Games , author=Lauren Moran , newspaper= Steamboat Pilot & Today , location=Colorado , date=February 6, 2010 , url=http://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/2010/feb/06/olympic-history-billy-kidd-triumphs-1964-olympic-g/ , accessdate=March 17, 2010 Kidd finished seventh in the

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and 16th in the downhill. Completing all three races kept him eligible for the combined, then a non-medal event in the Olympics (but a

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medal event), and he took third for the FIS bronze. In the final non-World Cup season of 1966, Kidd won three crucial races in Europe and was actually outracing

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. Kidd suffered the first of two major injuries that almost ended his career, a left ankle sprain in late January, which resulted in a tendon operation.{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gZ5RAAAAIBAJ&pg=5588,3377046 , newspaper=

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, title=Ski champ Billy Kidd suffers ankle injury , agency=Associated Press , date=January 24, 1966 , page=21{{cite magazine, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGxJukg5SA8C&pg=PA76 , magazine=

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, last=Jerome, first=John, title=The best slalom skier in the world?, date=October 1966, page=76 Later the same year, he broke his right

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, location=Washington , agency=Associated Press , title=Women match slalom skills in World skiing , date=August 5, 1966 , page=14 during downhill training at the 1966 World Championships, held in August in Portillo,

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, title=Found: A Pretty Penny , last=Ottum , first=Bob , date=August 15, 1966 , page=12 The injury also kept him out of the first

season of

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. During this injury time, he returned to college at the

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The following year he took fifth in the

(GS) at the

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. He took 15th in the downhill but did not finish the first run of the slalom, which was held in thick fog. Following those Olympics, he won a World Cup slalom in

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in March and finished 7th in the overall World Cup standings, the best from

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. For the

World Cup season, Kidd finished in the top ten in all three events: 8th in giant slalom, 9th in downhill, and 10th in slalom. His first World Cup victory came a month later at the Roch Cup slalom in

.{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hrVWAAAAIBAJ&pg=7303%2C960726 , newspaper=The Spokesman-Review, location=Spokane, Washington , agency=Associated Press , title=Billy Kidd upsets Killy in Roch slalom , date=March 17, 1968 , page=3, sports His second win came a year later, also a slalom on U.S. snow at Squaw Valley,

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, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined and the bronze in the slalom.{{cite magazine , url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1970/02/16/kidd-comes-in-from-the-old-cold , magazine=Sports Illustrated , title=Kidd Comes in From the Old Cold , last=Jenkins , first=Dan , authorlink=Dan Jenkins, date=February 16, 1970 , page=42 On winning the gold, he said, "I'd always promised my mom I'd bring home a gold medal." Following the conclusion of the World Championships in mid-February 1970, Kidd retired from the World Cup circuit, and immediately joined the new pro circuit,{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qEVWAAAAIBAJ&pg=7187%2C393347 , newspaper=The Spokesman-Review, location=Spokane, Washington , agency=Associated Press , title=Billy Kidd plans races on pro tour , date=February 17, 1970 , page=13{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4iU0AAAAIBAJ&pg=5443%2C4204948 , newspaper=

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, location=Maine , agency=Associated Press , title=Kidd sses pro skiing as big in the future , date=October 13, 1970 , page=19 started by former U.S. Ski Team coach (and Kidd's and Heuga's University of Colorado ski coach) Bob Beattie.{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19700304&id=reEPAAAAIBAJ&pg=4972,129667 , newspaper= The Free Lance–Star , location=Fredericksburg, Virginia , agency=Associated Press , title=Kidd predicts pro skiing can't miss , date=March 4, 1970 , page=9 Kidd won the pro championship the same year, the only racer to hold world titles in the two circuits at once.{{cite magazine , url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1971/12/20/the-spider-who-finally-came-in-from-the-cold , magazine=Sports Illustrated , title=The Spider Who Finally Came in From The Cold , first=Gwilym S. , last=Brown , page=98 , date=December 20, 1971 Nagging injuries led to few starts during the 1972 season, and he retired from the pro circuit that fall.{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AgorAAAAIBAJ&pg=4463%2C312350 , newspaper=

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, location=Pennsylvania , title=Billy Kidd retires from ski racing , date=December 1, 1972 , page=26 Kidd graduated from the University of Colorado in 1969 with a B.S. degree in

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.{{cite web, title=Billy Kidd – MSN Encarta , url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761589704/Billy_Kidd.html , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041115181220/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761589704/Billy_Kidd.html , archivedate=November 15, 2004 , url-status=dead , df=mdy Hall of Fame inductions: 1976 The US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame 1986 The Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame 1995 The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame 2013 The Vermont Sports Hall of Fame

Steamboat Springs

Kidd moved to Steamboat Springs,

, in 1970,{{cite news , url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x5ZTAAAAIBAJ&pg=2092%2C5962120 , newspaper= The Bulletin , location=Bend, Oregon , title=Billy Kidd keeps hopping long after his glory days , last=Pauls , first=Terri , date=February 5, 1988 , page=D-1 and ever since has been strongly identified with the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation, where he serves as its director of skiing.{{cite news , url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=STP19700903-01.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ , work=Steamboat Pilot , location=Steamboat Springs, Colorado , title=Bill Kidd signs on , date=September 3, 1970 , page=1{{cite magazine , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjXFWhWmqGMC&pg=PA48 , magazine=Ski , last=Rand , first=Abby , title=Champagne skiing on a great natural mountain , date=August 1971 , page=48{{cite magazine , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjXFWhWmqGMC&pg=PA63 , magazine=Ski , agency=(advertisement) , title=Steamboat's a comin' , date=August 1971 , page=63 2020 marked his 50th year on the job at Steamboat Ski Resort. As ambassador not just for Steamboat, but for the

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and the sport of skiing, Kidd is instantly recognizable by his

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, last=Williamson , first=Judy , title=Billy Kidd and Steamboat , date=October 24, 1982 , page=14, FUN, Sunday magazine For over 50 ski seasons, skiers and snowboarders joined Kidd for a daily free, on-mountain clinic at 1 PM at the top of the Steamboat gondola. Those who have "skied with Billy Kidd" down the Heavenly Daze intermediate run received practical ski tips, and heard from Kidd about what it's like to ski in the Olympics. At the invitation of Special Olympics founder

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, Kidd served on the Board of Directors of

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International. He also served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and on the board of the Jimmie Heuga Center (multiple sclerosis) in Vail.{{cite Sports-Reference , url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/billy-kidd-1.html, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121840/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/billy-kidd-1.html, url-status=dead, archive-date=2020-04-18 He has regularly hosted Native American teens at Steamboat for annual "Future Olympians" weekends of skiing and snowboard instruction. Participants come mainly from the Ute reservation near Salt Lake City. In the late 1980s, Kidd appeared in the award-winning

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"Portraits" advertising campaign, photographed by

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at his ranch near Steamboat. The campaign highlighted portraits of some of the most prominent people in the world, with the tagline "Achievers, visionaries, icons ... all with one thing in common." Besides Kidd, other AmEx card-carrying celebrities featured in the series included

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. Kidd hosts corporate ski outings for companies including American Express,

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World Cup results

Season standings

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Race podiums

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World Championship results

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

, , ''20'', , style="background:silver;" , 2 , , 7 , , 16 , , style="background:#c96;" , 3 , - ,

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

, , ''23'', , — , , — , , — , , — , - ,

, , ''24'', , DNF1 , , 5 , , 18 , , — , - ,

, , ''26'', , style="background:#c96;", 3 , , 15 , , 5 , , style="background:gold;" , 1 From

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...

through

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

, the

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held i ...

were also the

for alpine skiing.
At the World Championships from 1954 through 1980, the combined was a "paper race" using the results of the three events (DH, GS, SL). * The 1966 championships were held in August in

; Kidd broke his leg during a downhill training run.

Olympic results

{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" ! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant
Slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !! Combined , - ,

, , ''20'' , , style="background:silver;" , 2 , , 7 , , rowspan=2 , ''not run'' , , 16 , , rowspan=2 , ''not run'' , - ,

, , ''24'' , , DNF1 , , 5 , , 18

References

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External links

* {{FIS alpine skier, 221453
Billy Kidd
World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation * {{Ski-DB, bill_kidd_usa_kddbi * {{SR/Olympics profile
Billy Kidd
at Colorado Ski Museum Hall of Fame

at VermontSkiMuseum.org

''Sports Illustrated''
– 1964 Olympics – February 17, 1964 article
''Stars and Stripes''
– archives – February 9, 1964 – ''European edition'' * {{Webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926023132/http://www.si.com/vault/cover/1965/03/08 , date=September 26, 2015 , title=''Sports Illustrated'' – cover – March 8, 1965 – Billy Kidd *
A Bullet in the Rockies
* {{Webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926015922/http://www.si.com/vault/cover/1968/02/05 , date=September 26, 2015 , title=''Sports Illustrated'' – cover – February 5, 1968 – 1968 Olympics preview – Billy Kidd & Jimmy Heuga *
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1080808/index
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