Tina Maze is a World Cup alpine ski racer and a two-time Olympic gold medalist from Slovenia. She is the most successful female ski racer in Slovenian history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. In Slovenia, she was awarded the title of the best female athlete of the year for 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2013, and her four Olympic medals tie her with rower Iztok ?op as the most successful athlete representing Slovenia at the Olympics. Maze started her career as a giant slalom specialist, but later competed in all five alpine skiing disciplines. She is one of just six women who have won in all five World Cup disciplines and one of three to do it in a single season. Currently, Maze is the reigning world champion in super-G and Olympic champion in downhill and giant slalom. She was also the world champion in giant slalom in 2011. Through March 2014, Maze has won 23 World Cup races, and won the World Cup overall title in 2013. In that season, she had 11 event victories and tallied a record number of World Cup points ? 2414, beating the previous record of Hermann Maier of 2000 points from the 2000 season. [More at Wikipedia]

May 2nd, 1983 in Slovenj Gradec (Age 40)