Jared Goldberg (born June 17, 1991) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the U.S. Ski Team, and resident of Holladay, Utah.Jared Goldberg - U.S. Ski & Snowboard Retrieved September 5, 2018.
Goldberg was the 2010 U.S. Junior Championships combined champion, and won the downhill title in the 2013 U.S. Championships. Goldberg competed for the United States in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Early life Goldberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 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"Sizing up some of the non-Israeli Jews in Sochi," The Jerusalem Post."Team USA: Athlete Roster - Skiing," 2014 U.S. Olympic Team Media Guide."Jared Goldberg: A Passion for the Mountains," First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine. His parents, both part-time ski instructors, met for the first time at Killington Ski Resort in Vermont. His family moved to Utah when he was four years old, and he was raised in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City."Jared Goldberg | U.S. Ski Team - Alpine", alpine.usskiteam.com. He is Jewish and had his Bar Mitzvah celebration in a ski lodge."4 Jewish Athletes To Watch at Sochi Winter Olympics", The Forward.
Goldberg attended Skyline High School in Salt Lake City, where he played the midfield position in lacrosse and was also on the golf team.Lindsey Van. "Meet the 15 Utahns who will help represent the US at the Sochi Olympics", Deseret News. He attends Westminster College, where he studies mechanical engineering. His teammates call him “Goldie.”South Korea Olympics Get Jewish Athletes Going For Gold – The Forward
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 downhill and third in junior giant slalom (GS) in the 2011 U.S. Junior Championships. He took third in Super-G (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 United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics and competed in Sochi, Russia, finishing 11th in the combined and 19th in the giant slalom. 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 Vail/Beaver Creek. In 2016, skiing at Snowbird in Utah, his left ski hit a hidden tree trunk and he snapped his Achilles tendon."Sugarloaf a stop on road to recovery for U.S. ski team's Goldberg; Utah resident shakes off torn Achilles to resume budding international career," CentralMaine.com.
In 2017, he competed in the World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in February,"Feuz claims World Championship downhill title," Skiracing.com. and took second place in SG at the U.S. Alpine Championships in March."Ross, Cochran-Siegle win super G at US Alpine Championships," WTOP. In December, he gained his first World Cup top ten finish with ninth place in the downhill at Val Gardena, Italy."Downhill Racer Jared Goldberg Is Headed To Second Olympics"
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Goldberg was 20th in the downhill, 24th in the super-G, and 36th at the combined."Jared Goldberg"
World Cup results Season standings Season Age Overall Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2013 21 144 — — 52 — — 2014 22 81 — — — 39 15 2015 23 72 — — 41 36 16 20162493 ——444421 20172598 ——5631— 20182663 ——392619 201927103 ——603637 2020 2892 ———3237 202129 68 — — 47 23 rowspan=9 20223085— —5131 20233157——4422 20243253——2327 20253326——4—
Top ten finishes 0 wins 1 podium (1 SG); 7 top tens (5 DH, 2 SG) Season Date Location Discipline Place201816 Dec 2017 Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 9th20192 Mar 2019 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill 9th202119 Dec 2020 Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 9th202317 Dec 2022 Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 9th20 Jan 2023 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill 4th202416 Dec 2023 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 10th202520 Dec 2024 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 2nd
World Championship results Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined TeamCombined 2015 23 — — — 20 29rowspan=4 2017 25 — — — 20 21 2021 29 — — 15 20 DNS2 2023 31 — — — 26 — 202533 — — 25 24 —
Olympic results Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2014 22 — 19 — — 11 2018 26 — — 24 20 36
See also List of select Jewish skiers
References
External links