The Winter Sports School in Park City U.S. Ski Team is Winter Sports School alumni. Six Winter Sports School alumni competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Torino, Italy, and two (Julia Mancuso ’00 and Ted Ligety ’02) won gold medals – the only two gold medals captured by the entire U.S. Ski Team during those games. Ligety also won the World Cup Giant Slalom title in 2008, 2010 and 2011. Seven Winter Sports School alumni competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. Julia Mancuso '00 won silver medals in the women's downhill and women's super combined. Andrew Weibrecht '03 won the bronze medal in
Colombia at the Olympics weightlifters for the first time. Colombian athletes continued participating at the Olympics since then without missing a Summer edition of the Games, sending females athletes to compete for the first time at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City. Colombia won their first olympic medals at the Munich Olympics in 1972, forty years after making its debut in the games. The first one was a silver medal won by shooter Helmut Bellingrodt in the 50 metre running target event, both Clemente Rojas and Alfonso Pérez won each one a bronze medal in boxing at those games too, bringing the