Todd Lodwick
Nordic Combined
1994 Olympian
1998 Olympian
2002 Olympian
2006 Olympian
2010 Olympic hopeful
Personal Specs
Discipline: Nordic Combined
Height: 5-10
Weight: 145
Club: Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club
Sponsors: Mossy Oak
Short List Performance
- 1994 Olympic Winter Games - seventh (Team), 13th (Individual)
- 1998 Olympic Winter Games - 10th (Team), 20th (Individual)
- 2002 Olympic Winter Games - fourth (Team), fifth (Sprint), seventh (Individual)
- 2006 Olympic Winter Games - seventh (Team), eighth (Individual), ninth (Sprint)
- 2009 World champion - 10km mass start, 10km normal hill
Vancouver Watch
Lodwick is aiming for his fifth berth on the U.S. Olympic Team, which would be an unprecedented feat for an American skier. At Lillehammer in 1994, he was an untested 17-year-old. Now, coming off a two-year retirement, he's an accomplished 32. After winning two World Championship titles in 2009, he is on track to capture his first Olympic medal in 2010. He, Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane could make up the greatest U.S. Nordic Combined Team in Olympic Winter Games' history.
Personal
Lodwick debated between jumping and combined before committing to combined in 1991, joining his older brother, Kris. Todd Lodwick won his first international meet to open the 1994 Olympic season on his way to six World Cup titles during his storied career. He thought his career was over after a ninth-place finish in the sprint in Torino and retired to start a family with his wife, Sunny. Two years later, he returned with a goal of being a part of the first U.S. Nordic Combined Team to medal at an Olympic Winter Games.
Did You Know...?
- Worked in real estate and as a commentator for Universal Sports during brief retirement
- He and his family back home use Skype to talk via online video chat when he is competing abroad
- Stopped working out during retirement and ate McDonald's up to four times per week
- Favorite Olympic Winter Games memory, thus far, is the Opening Ceremony at Lillehammer
BIOGRAPHY
Todd Lodwick who returned to competition after a two year retirement, redefined the idea of U.S. success in nordic combined, right from his first international meet. He won that first competition - an International Cup meet, as they called it in those days - to open the 1994 Olympic season and has piled up unprecedented success for an American: Junior World Championships gold in 1996, six World Cup wins, the 2004 Grand Prix championship in the World Cup season and Summer Grand Prix title, and eight straight seasons of being in the top nine world rankings. Lodwick is looking to become the first American five-time Olympic skier and more.
FIRST TRACKS
Like many young skiers, he toyed with both jumping and combined before deciding in the summer of 1991 to stick with combined (older brother Kris was a combiner). In November '93, he competed what now would be called a Continental Cup in Lillehammer to open the Olympic season; two years later, he became the first U.S. skier to win a nordic combined World Cup; making it even more tasty was winning in front of his family and friends in Steamboat. Six weeks later, Lodwick was JWCs gold medalist in Asiago, Italy. Lodwick was fourth in the World Cup points in '98, '00 and 2005.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
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Four-time Olympian ('94, '98, '02, '06)
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Six-time World Champions team member ('95, '97, '99, '01, '03, '05)
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4th in '05 World Cup rankings (top-8, '98-2005 season)
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Career six World Cup victories
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2004 German Grand Prix Champion
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All-time U.S. Olympic best: 5th, 7th in 2002; and 4th in team event
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24 World Cup top-3s
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12 more top-10 in '05 (four podiums)
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USA record 17 U.S. title (9 combined, 8 jumping)
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Swept U.S. Combined, jumping titles '04, '05 and '06