BIOGRAPHY:
Todd Lodwick's return to competitive skiing in 2009 after a two-year retirement helped redefine the idea of U.S. success in nordic combined.  With a new outlook, and determined to be the best, his hard work paid off at the 2009 World Championships where he and his team brought home four medals, with two World Titles next to Lodwick's name.  As he headed in to the 2010 season with fire, he joined his fifth Olympic team and was part of the historic performance that made Vancouver so memorable, earning a silver in the team event. As a youth in the sport, Lodwick won his first-ever international competition (Continental Cup, Lillehammer NOR, Dec. 1993), to open the 1994 Olympic season. He then piled up unprecedented successes for an American: Junior World Championships gold in 1996, six World Cup wins, the 2004 Summer Grand Prix World Cup champion, and eight straight seasons of being in the top nine world rankings along with being on a World Cup podium in every season in which he competed. In addition to the Olympic silver, Lodwick has earned two World Championships golds since returning from his two-year hiatus, not too bad for a career second-coming.

TODD SAYS:
2010 was great. After coming back to the sport with huge aspirations and a goal of an Olympic medal, I had achieved it. The 2011 season was a little different. These 18 months where so much fun but came with a price. I took time off to spend with my family and to recharge for the upcoming season. That said, my goal for last season was World Championships. I came close to finishing fifth in the first event and the team almost got it done placing fourth. I am looking forward to this upcoming season knowing that I am still one of the best in the world with something to prove. I believe I will be the oldest on the tour this next year but if the young guys want a piece of me, they will have to earn it.

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.

OFF THE SNOW:
I have a love for the outdoors. I concentrate a lot on trying to supplement my training with the outdoors. Shooting my bow and playing a lot of golf top my list. Being a great father and husband to my family, when I'm not traveling the world and competing is on the absolute top of my list!