did not finish the slalom, so the Norwegian became the overall World Cup winner. He also won his fourth discipline title, his second in super G. At the 2010 Winter Olympics on 15 February, Svindal won the silver medal in the downhill competition in Whistler, 0.07 seconds behind the winner, Didier Défago of Switzerland, and 0.02 seconds ahead of bronze medalist Bode Miller of the United States. Svindal's medal was Norway's hundredth silver medal at the Winter Olympics, the most for any nation. Four days later on 19 February, Svindal won the super-G, his first-ever Olympic gold medal – ahead of Miller (+ 0.28 seconds) and Andrew Weibrecht (+ 0.31 seconds), both of the U.S. Svindal successfully defended his world title in the super combined in 2011 at Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany. After an Achilles tendon injury in October 2014, Svindal did not compete in World Cup events during the 2015 season. He did enter the World Championships in Colorado in February, and placed sixth in both the downhill and super-G events. After his season long injury, Svindal had a very strong start to the 2016 season. He managed seven world cup victories before he sustained a season-ending knee injury under tough conditions in Kitzbühel, Austria. After a fairly good start to the 2016–2017 season including 1 World Cup win, for the third straight season he suffered a season ending/interrupting injury, and this time missed both the majority of the World Cup season and the 2017 World Alpine Ski Championships. He won another Olympic Gold in the downhill event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, becoming the oldest ever Alpine skiing gold medallist. In his final race, the downhill at the 2019 World Alpine Ski Championships in Åre in February of that year, Svindal finished second in a Norwegian one-two, being pipped to the gold by team-mate Kjetil Jansrud by a margin of two hundredths of a second. Personal life Svindal dated alpine racer Julia Mancuso of the U.S. for three years, until the couple split up in September 2013. In his spare time, he devotes himself to freeskiing, and has already appeared in several freeskiing film documentaries. One of his best friends is his teammate Kjetil Jansrud. World Cup results Season titles 11 titles: (2 overall, 2 Downhill, 5 Super-G, 1 Giant slalom, 1 Combined) Season standings Race victories 36 wins – (14 DH, 17 SG, 4 GS, 1 SC) World Championship