“Luckily she said yes”
Kilde reveals details about the proposal and wedding to Shiffrin
October 13, 2025 – 6:09 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
They are the dream couple in the ski circus: Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. The Norwegian now revealed details about the future of the two athletes.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde gave an insight into an extremely private moment. The Norwegian ski racer gave an interview on the sidelines of the presentation of the new documentary “Downhill Skiers” by the Austrian newspaper “Krone” – and spoke about his serious injury as well as the marriage proposal and the planned wedding with his fiancée, the ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin.
Kilde first reported on his time in the hospital. The 33-year-old fell on the Lauberhorn descent in Wengen, Switzerland, in January 2024, seriously injured his shoulder and sustained a deep cut in his calf. Kilde repeatedly had to spend time in the hospital as he underwent multiple operations. But he could rely on his partner’s support.
“It was bad, very bad, but also really bad all at once,” said Kilde, describing the time immediately after the fall, when he was in the hospital in Bern and knew Shiffrin by his side. “The two of us were in my room and spent the whole night together.” He was on the ground due to his injuries. “But it was special and actually quite nice.”
Kilde and Shiffrin then got engaged in April 2024. The two-time Olympic medalist in Beijing described the moment she accepted his proposal as “unbelievable.” “I decided that in the hospital,” said Kilde. He thought that Shiffrin was the woman of his life. He simply had to ask her if she wanted to marry him. “Luckily she said yes.”
The excitement before the question of all questions was also greater than in the starting house in Kitzbühel. Because an application is not just about “whether I ski well,” said Kilde.
It is currently unclear when exactly the dream couple will get married. “We’ll have to see that. There’s not that much time now,” Kilde clarified. You have to wait for the Winter Olympics or for one of them to stop skiing. “Then we have time to party.”