- Bode Miller
Samuel Bode Miller (born October 12 1977), best known as Bode Miller, is an American alpine skier. In 2005, he became the first American in 22 years to win the overall alpine skiing World Cup title, since Phil Mahre and Tamara McKinney in 1983. Earlier during his championship season, with a victory on November 28, 2004, he became only the fifth man to win World Cup races in all five disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill, and combined. - Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier is an Austrian skier who has won four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (both in 1998), three World Championship titles (1999: 2, 2005: 1) and 53 races in the World Cup. He ranks among the likes of Jean-Claude Killy, Ingemar Stenmark, Toni Sailer, Alberto Tomba, Kjetil André Aamodt and Franz Klammer as one of the best exponents of the sport. Maier did not initially enjoy much success in skiing. - Marlies Schild
Marlies Schild is an Austrian alpine skier. At the beginning of her career, her preference was in the downhill. However, by the age of 19 she had already undergone 5 knee surgeries, prompting her to concentrate instead on the less dangerous slalom and giant slalom competitions. At the Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 in St. Moritz she placed second in the slalom behind Janica Kostelić, and at the same competition in 2005 she won a bronze medal in the combination, … - Ted Ligety
Ted Ligety (born August 31, 1984 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) is an American alpine skier. Ligety won the gold medal in the men's alpine combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in an upset victory after the two skiers favored to win the event couldn't keep up with Ligety's blistering slalom runs. He is the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing since Tommy Moe won the downhill in Lillehammer in 1994. - Kalle Palander
Kalle Markus Palander (born May 2, 1977 in Tornio) is a Finnish alpine skier, the most successful male Finn ever in the sport. In 1999 Palander won the world championship in slalom. He also won the Alpine skiing World Cup in slalom during the 2002-2003 season, and was fourth in the overall standings. Palander has also been successful in giant slalom. He is known for his relaxed attitude and for wearing a red tuque instead of a helmet when participating in slalom competitions - Manfred Moelgg
Manfred Moelgg is an Italian alpine skier. A specialist of slalom and giant slalom, Moelgg debuted in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in January 2003 at Bormio. As of February 2007, he has two podium results in World cup, both in slalom. On February 17, 2007, he won the silver medal in slalom at the 2007 World Championship in Åre, Sweden. His sister Manuela Moelgg competes also in the World Cup. - Mario Matt
Mario Matt (born April 9, 1979) is an Austrian alpine skier. Matt was born in Flirsch. He is a slalom specialist, so far he won 8 slalom races and one super-combination in World Cup. He also became world champion in slalom in 2001 and 2007 championships. - Maria Riesch
Maria Riesch (born November 24 1984 in Garmisch-Partenkichen, Germany) is a German alpine skier. With a height of 1.81 metres, she is one of the tallest women on the alpine skiing circuit. Her younger sister, Susanne, is also a pro skier. After the end of both Martina Ertl-Renz's and Hilde Gerg's careers, Riesch took over the leadership of the German national alpine skiing team. Her most successful season to date was in 2004, … - Tanja Poutiainen
Tanja Poutiainen (born 6 April 1980 in Rovaniemi) is a Finnish alpine skier who won the silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics women's giant slalom race. In, 1997 Poutiainen became junior world champion in the slalom as well being listed 3rd in the Super-G, and the same year debuted in the Alpine skiing World Cup. At the 1999 Junior World Championships, she placed third in the giant slalom skiing competition. She placed second in the Super-G at the World Cup in Sestriere, … - Alexandra Meissnitzer
Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June, 1973) is a professional alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines. She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg. Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age. In 2006 Meissnitzer won the bronze in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in the Super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Skiing World Cup, … - Lasse Kjus
Lasse Kjus is a Norwegian Alpine skier who has won the overall World Cup twice, an Olympic gold medal, and several World Championships. His combined career total of 16 Olympic and World Championship medals ranks 2nd all-time behind fellow Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt - Kathrin Zettel
Kathrin Zettel is an Austrian alpine skier. The 2006–07 season represents her third World Cup campaign for the up-and-coming technical specialist from Göstling in Scheibbs. She won her first World Cup race on 25 November 2006. - Marc Girardelli
Marc Girardelli (born 18 July 1963 in Lustenau, Austria) is a former alpine skier. Girardelli started skiing at the age of five, and started racing at seven. After initially racing for Austria until 1976, he switched to racing for Luxembourg due to disagreements about coaching. In 1981 he started to make significant progress with his first podium in Wengen, Switzerland, and from that moment was in contention for Slalom and Giant Slalom podiums on a regular basis. - Christoph Gruber
Christoph Gruber (born March 25, 1976 in Schwaz) is an Austrian skier competing in all World Cup disciplines apart from slalom. In his World Cup debut, the Super G in Aspen, Colorado on November 27, 1998, he finished in fourteenth position. On December 21, 2000, he won his first World Cup race, a Giant Slalom, in Bormio. He has won the Super G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen three times. - Phil Mahre
Philip Mahre (born May 10, 1957, Yakima, Washington) is a American alpine ski racer, widely regarded as one of the greatest American skiers of all time. His total of 27 World Cup race wins remains number one all-time among American skiers, more than two decades after his retirement. Phil and his twin brother Steve (four minutes younger) were both world class ski racers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. - Daron Rahlves
Daron Louis Rahlves (born June 12, 1973 in Walnut Creek, California) is an American skier widely regarded as the most successful American speed racer of all time. He was educated at the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and currently resides in Truckee, California. He announced his retirement from World Cup racing at the end of the 2005-06 ski season. - Luc Alphand
Luc Alphand is a French former alpine skier, who is now a race car driver. Born in Briançon, Alphand made his World Cup skiing debut in 1984. In 1997 he won the World Cup. He retired in 1997 and started a career in auto racing. First in the Nissan Micra Stars Cup (1997-1998), then in the European Le Mans Series (2001), the FIA GT Championship (2002), and the Lamborghini Supertrophy (2002). He won the 2006 Dakar Rally, in which he had finished runner-up a year earlier. - Massimiliano Blardone
Massimiliano Blardone (born November 26, 1979) is an Italian professional Alpine skier, a specialist of giant slalom. Born in Domodossola, he debuted in Alpine Skiing World Cup at Soelden on October 29, 2000. Despite his widely recognized talent, he subsequently won only three races, at the Adelboden and Alta Badia giant slaloms in 2005, and at the Beaver Creek one in 2006. He classified third (2004) and second (2006) in the final classment of giant slalom World Cup. - Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. Killy was born in Saint-Cloud, but brought up in Val d'Isère. Following his international success, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969. Killy was a World Cup champion in 1967 and would repeat in 1968. Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of all three gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, in the slalom, giant slalom and downhill events. - Giorgio Rocca
Giorgio Rocca (born August 6,1975, Chur, Switzerland) is an Italian Alpine skier, a specialist of Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is the sole skier to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slalom in a row, a result he scored in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto Tomba (7) made better. He is currently the fifth all-time slalom winner, with a total of 11 victories. Rocca made his debut in the Alpine Skiing World Cup on January 6, 1996, … - Tamara McKinney
Tamara McKinney (born October 16, 1962) is a former American alpine ski racer. She was the overall World Cup champion in 1983, the only American woman to ever hold that title. - Resi Stiegler
Resi Stiegler is an American alpine skier. The daughter of Austrian Olympic champion Josef "Pepi" Stiegler, began skiing at age two and racing at six. Junior Olympic and Nor-Am success while still a teenager led to a U.S. Ski Team berth and eventually her first World Cup start in 2002, a slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, where she finished a remarkable 11th. At the 2003 Junior World Championships in France, she won bronze medals in slalom and combined, … - Tina Maze
Tina Maze (born May 2 1983 in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia) is a Slovenian alpine skier. She has 5 World Cup victories, all in the Giant Slalom. - Anja Pärson
Anja Sofia Tess Pärson (born April 25, 1981, in Umeå, Sweden) is a Swedish alpine skier, the winner of seven World Championships gold medals and two Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles. She is also the reigning Olympic champion in the slalom, after her victory at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Pärson was introduced to ski racing by her sister, Frida, and is now trained by her father, Anders. - Vreni Schneider
Verena "Vreni" Schneider is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most successful female ski racer ever (after Annemarie Moser-Pröll) and was elected "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century". She won the overall alpine skiing World Cup three times and eleven discipline World Cups in Slalom and Giant Slalom, along with 55 World Cup races (number two all-time among women to Moser-Pröll). - Kjetil André Aamodt
Kjetil André Aamodt is a retired Norwegian Alpine skier, one of the most decorated in history. He is the only Alpine skier to win 8 Olympic medals, and has won 5 world championship gold medals as well as 21 individual World Cup events. Described as an all-round alpine skier, Aamodt participated in all alpine skiing disciplines in the FIS worldcup and championship, … - Thomas Grandi
Thomas Grandi (born December 27 1972 in Bolzano, Italy) is a Canadian alpine skier. He specializes in technical skiing (giant slalom and slalom skiing. Grandi started in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in the 1992-93 season. His first top ten finish in the World Cup came in December 1996 where he finished in 10th position in the Giant Slalom at Alta Badia in Italy. - Pirmin Zurbriggen
Pirmin Zurbriggen (born February 4, 1963, Saas-Almagell, Kanton Wallis, Switzerland), is a Swiss former alpine skier, one of the all time great ski racers. He won the Overall World Cup title four times, an Olympic Gold Medal in Downhill, and 9 World Championships medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze). He is also one of only five men to have won races in all five alpine disciplines on the World Cup. - Jean-Baptiste Grange
Jean-Baptiste Grange is a French alpine skier. Grange debuted in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in January 2004. On February 17, 2007, he won the bronze medal in slalom at the 2007 World Championship in Åre, Sweden. <br> - Erika Hess
Erika Hess (born 6 March 1962) is a Swiss former alpine skier. She is one of the best female skier ever, dominating the field in the 1980s with 35 World Cup individual and two overall (1982 and 1984) victories. She also obtained six World Championships gold medals between 1982 and 1987, as well as bronze medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. - Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene, born May 11, 1943 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century. At the age of three, Nancy Greene's family moved to Rossland, British Columbia, a mountainous area and the site of the first ski competition ever held in Canada in 1897. The child of avid skiers, Greene began at a young age and while in high school she competed in the Canadian Junior Championships. - Katja Seizinger
Katja Seizinger (born May 10, 1972 in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former alpine skier, the most successful alpine skier of her country. She won three Olympic gold and two bronze medals. Three times she won the Alpine skiing World Cup championship (two in overall standings) and was also elected three times Germany's sportswoman of the year. By winning the Olympic downhill races in 1994 and 1998, … - John Kucera
John Kucera (born 17 September 1984 in Calgary) is a Canadian alpine skier. He burst onto the racing scene in 2006, winning his first World Cup, a Super G race, on November 26 of that year on home snow in Lake Louise, Canada. Later that season, on December 15, he finished third in another World Cup race, this time in Val Gardena, Italy, also in Super G. Kucera represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing 17th in combined, 22nd in super G, and 27th in downhill. - Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Annemarie Moser-Pröll a former Austrian Alpine skier, was the most successful female skier of the Alpine skiing World Cup during the 1970s. She celebrated her biggest successes in Downhill, Giant Slalom and Combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal (in Lake Placid) and won 5 World Cup titles. During her career, she also won the World Cup six times (including five consecutive years between 1971 and 1975. - Petra Kronberger
Petra Kronberger is an Austrian former alpine skier, who participated in all disciplines. She debuted in the World Cup in 1987, and achieved her first win in a downhill competition in 1990. In 1990 she won the World Cup overall, the first non-Swiss winner since 1984, and the first Austrian winner since Annemarie Moser-Pröll in 1979. Petra Kronberger is one of the few athletes who has won world cup competitions in all five disciplines. - Marie-Theres Nadig
Marie-Theres Nadig (born 8 March 1954 in Flums) is a former Swiss Alpine skier. 17-years old, she won Gold in Downhill and Giant Slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Nadig won 24 World Cup races and became overall World Cup winner in 1981. At the 1980 Winter Olympics, she was 3rd in Downhill. - Paul Accola
Paul Accola (born February 20 1967 in Davos). Is a Swiss former Alpine skier. He came top in the overall World Cup in 1992, and won a total of four medals at the Winter Olympics and World Championships in the combined event. By the pass of his career he won seven world cup victories and was on the podium 26 times last time in 2000. In February 2005, on his 38th birthday, Accola announced that he would retire as alpine skier after nearly two decades in the sport. - Michela Figini
Michela Figini, (born 7 April 1966 in Prato), is a Swiss former alpine skier. Figini won the gold medal in downhill at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo when she was only 18. She subsequently won numerous World Cup races and the overal Alpine Skiing World Cup twice, in 1985 and 1988. - Markus Wasmeier
Markus Wasmeier (born 9 September 1963 in Schliersee, Bavaria) is a German former professional skier. In 1985, at Bormio, he surprisingly won the World title of Giant Slalom. Wasmeier won a total of 9 Alpine skiing World Cup races, starting with two victories on 9 February 1986, in the Combination and Super-G of Morzine. His greatest victory, however, was the surprising double gold medal in both Giant Slalom and Super-G at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. - Piero Gros
Piero Gros (born October 30, 1954) is an Italian former Alpine Skiing champion who won one gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, as well as one Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1974.
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