Jonna Mendes

Jonna Mendes

— Alpine skier —
Disciplines	Downhill, Super G
Club	Heavenly Ski & Snowboard Fnd
Born	(1979-03-21) March 21, 1979 Santa Cruz, California
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
World Cup debut	March 7, 1997 (age 17)
Retired	May 2006 (age 27)
Olympics
Teams	2 – (1998, 2002)
Medals	0
World Championships
Teams	4 – (1999–2005)
Medals	1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	9 – (1998–2006)
Podiums	0
Overall titles	0 – (25th in 2003)
Discipline titles	0 – (13th in SG, 2003)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing the United States World Championships 2003 St. Moritz Super G Junior World Ski Championships 1999 Pra Loup Downhill 1998 Megève Downhill

Jonna Mendes (born March 31, 1979) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She specialized in the speed events and raced for nine seasons on the World Cup circuit. Mendes competed in two Winter Olympics and four World Championships. She was the bronze medalist in the Super G at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Born in Santa Cruz on the California coast, Mendes began skiing at age four when her family moved to the Lake Tahoe area in the Sierra Nevada mountains. She made her World Cup debut in March 1997 and retired from international competition in May 2006.

Mendes won three U.S. titles: two in giant slalom (2001, 2002) and one in downhill (2004). The first came at The Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana, but was followed by a broken foot the next day, incurred in a crash near the end of her second run in the slalom. She repeated the next year at her home venue of Squaw Valley, and won the last at Alyeska in Alaska.

After racing

In 2011, Mendes became the recruiting coordinator for the new Sun Valley Ski Academy in Sun Valley, Idaho. She attended college in New York City and had been working with the U.S. Ski Team's national alpine development system for the previous four years.

World Cup results

Top ten finishes

• 5 Downhill, 5 Super G

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2001	Nov 30, 2000	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	10th
	Dec 1, 2000		Downhill	6th
2002	Dec 1, 2001	Lake Louise, Canada	Super-G	10th
2003	Nov 29, 2002	Aspen, USA	Super G	10th
	Dec 6, 2002	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	9th
	Dec 8, 2002		Super G	9th
	Jan 17, 2003	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Super G	8th
	Jan 18, 2003		Downhill	5th
	Feb 28, 2003	Innsbruck, Austria	Super G	8th
2004	Dec 20, 2003	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Downhill	5th

Season standings

Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
1998	18	105	—	—	47	—	—
1999	19	77	—	—	42	40	—
2000	20	65	—	—	44	28	13
2001	21	37	—	—	29	17	—
2002	22	67	—	—	24	29	—
2003	23	25	—	53	13	16	—
2004	24	64	—	—	50	23	—
2005	25	64	—	—	35	26	—
2006	26	100	—	—	58	50	—

World Championship results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
1999	19	—	—	26	25	9
2001	21	—	—	18	20	9
2003	23	—	—	3	6	—
2005	25	—	—	—	12	—

Olympic results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
1998	18	—	—	32	17	14
2002	22	—	—	16	11	—

External links

• Jonna Mendes at the International Ski Federation
• FIS-Ski.com – World Cup season standings – Jonna Mendes
• Ski-db.com – results – Jonna Mendes
• – Olympic results
• Sun Valley Ski Academy – Jonna's blog