# @utah2034 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfg515OD1BI
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-22T21:30:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 (@slcut2034) — https://gondola.cc/slcut2034

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🇺🇸Here is the tenth story on Utah Olympic athletes featuring @steven_nyman an alpine skier from Provo. 📸: @drwclrk
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Born and bred in Utah, downhiller Steven Nyman was skiing at two (Dad ran the ski school at Sundance) and racing at eight for Sundance (while mowing Robert Redford's lawn in the summer), not far from his home. He was a discretionary pick to the 2002 Junior Worlds squad, where he landed two medals, including a slalom gold. Coaches were so impressed they entered him in a World Cup slalom six days later and he finished 15th. Needless to say, his 6’4” frame is more suited for speed events—his three World Cup downhill wins proves it.
The one thing that is consistent with World Cup skiing is that it’s not consistent. Nyman knows that best of all. After an incredibly successful 2013 season, 2014 shaped up to be mediocre results-wise. But he took a lot of positives out of the season as well, namely fast skiing in Beaver Creek and another Olympic start. And then came 2015, where Steven was in top condition physically and performed his strongest and most consistent season of his career, finishing 6th in the downhill rank.
In 2016, Nyman did something no other American Downhiller has done—podiuming four times in a row, starting with the PyeongChang Olympic test event in Jeongseon (3rd) and then Chamonix (2nd), Kvitfjell (3rd), and St. Moritz (2nd). In 2017 Steven started the season off strong with a third place finish in Val Gardena then grabbing a top 10 in Kitzbuehel. The fourth race of the season in Garmisch, Nyman was having the fastest run of the day until he crashed off a jump tearing his knee. He has rehabbed all summer at the U.S. Ski Team's Center of Excellence and was ready for the coming season with lofty goals at the 2018 Games in PeyongChang, where he medaled at the test event and felt "at one with the course". Injury just days before kept him from the Games in PeyongChang, however, he recently had his first child, Nell, and is loving spending more time being a Dad
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olympics2018, flytopyeongchang, winterolympics, slc2030, pyeongchang2018, slc, wintergames, saltlakecity, americandownhiller, utahisrad, wintersports, slc2026

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