World Championships Results
Ted Ligety won five medals in the World Championships, four of them gold. He won three of them in giant slalom, after a bronze medal in 2009 in Val d'Isère behind Carlo Janka and Benjamin Raich he won the GS world title in 2011 besting Cyprien Richard and Philipp Schörghofer. Ligety repeated as world champion in GS in 2013, ahead of Marcel Hirscher and Manfred Mölgg. At Schladming in 2013, he became a triple world champion in giant slalom, super G, and combined.
Ligety became the fifth man in history to win three or more gold medals at one world championships and the first in 45 years, when Jean-Claude Killy won four in 1968, with the combined as a "paper race." Ligety is the first racer of either gender to win the super G, giant slalom, and combined at one world championships.
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 20 | DNF | — | — | — | 12 |
| 2007 | 22 | DNF | 4 | 31 | — | DNF |
| 2009 | 24 | DNF | 3 | DNF | — | DSQ |
| 2011 | 26 | 19 | 1 | DNF | — | DNF |
| 2013 | 28 | DNF | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
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