- 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, … - Bruno Kernen
Bruno Kernen (born 1 July, 1972 in Thun, Canton of Berne) is a Swiss alpine skier. In 1997, he was world champion in downhill, as well as a silver medalist in Alpine combined. In 2003, he won bronze in downhill at the world championships in St. Moritz. He is the 2003 winner of the Lauberhorn race. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Kernen won a bronze medal in the downhill. He also raced in the Super-G, where he placed 18th. - Aksel Lund Svindal
Aksel Lund Svindal is a Norwegian alpine skier from Kjeller. He won the overall 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup. Svindal has also won three World Championship medals, three World Cup discipline titles (in super G, combined, and giant slalom), and seven World Cup races (in downhill, super G, giant slalom, and super combined). Additionally, he won four medals at the 2002 World Junior Championships, including gold in combined. - 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, … - Christl Cranz
Christl Franziska Antonia Cranz-Borchers was a German alpine skier. Crantz was the dominating skier of the 1930s winning twelve world championship titles between 1934 and 1939. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the Alpine skiing combined competition (slalom and downhill). Cranz was born 1914 in Brussels. After the break-out of World War I, Cranz and her family fled from Belgium to Traifelberg near Reutlingen. There Cranz learnt skiing. - Rudolf Rominger
Rudolf Rominger (August 21 1908 - November 8, 1979) was a Swiss former alpine skier. He won several World Championship titles. - 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 - 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, … - Walter Prager
Walter Prager was a Swiss alpine skier. At the 1931 World Championship in Mürren, Prager became the first World Champion in downhill skiing. He won the 1933 championship as well. - Inger Bjørnbakken
Inger Bjørnbakken is a Norwegian alpine skiier who finished tied for 6th (with fellow Norwegian and 1963 Holmenkollen medalist Astrid Sandvik) in the women's slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo. Two years later, Bjørnbakken won the women's slalom at the Alpine World Skiing Championships in Bad Gastein, Austria. For her Alpine world championship, Bjørnbakken earned the Holmenkollen Medal that same year (Shared with fellow Norwegian Håkon Brusveen). - Ida Schöpfer
Ida Schöpfer is a Swiss former alpine skier, ten times Swiss champion in alpine skiing and 1954 World Champion in Downhill skiing and Alpine combined. <BR> <BR> - Corinne Rey-Bellet
Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 - 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine skier. Rey-Bellet shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 and won a total of five World Cup races. She retired in 2003 because of a series of injuries to her right knee. - H. Adams Carter
Hubert Adams "Ad" Carter was an American mountaineer and language teacher. Carter was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1914, and made his first ascent of Mount Washington (1,917 metres) at the age of five. He graduated from Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. in 1932 and from Harvard College in 1936. In 1934, Carter participated with Bradford Washburn in the first ascents of Mount Quincy Adams (4,150 m) and Mount Crillon (3,879 m) in Alaska. - Borghild Niskin
Borghild Niskin is a Norwegian alpine skier who finished 7th in the women's giant slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo. For that honor, Niskin became the first woman awarded the Holmenkollen medal that same year (Shared with fellow Norwegians Arnfinn Bergmann and Arne Hoel.). Niskin is one of only eleven non-nordic skiers to ever win the Holmenkollen medal (Stein Eriksen, King Haakon VII, Inger Bjørnbakken, Astrid Sandvik, King Olav V, Erik Håker, … - Andy Mill
Andy Ray Mill (born November 2, 1953 in Aspen, Colorado) is a two-time Olympic downhill skier from the United States. In 1974, Mill was on the World Championship Downhill Team competing in St. Moritz, Switzerland. For seven years thereafter he was the number one American downhill skier. Mill was on the 1976 Olympic team in Innsbruck, Austria, where he placed sixth in the downhill won by Franz Klammer. Mill was also that year's U.S. Downhill Champion. - Kaye Vaughan
Charles Kaye Vaughan (born 1931) is a former Canadian Football League and Hall of Fame player with the Ottawa Rough Riders who won the CFL's Outstanding Lineman Award in 1956 and 1957. Kaye Vaughan is married to former Alpine World Skiing Champion and Canadian Sports Hall of Fame member, Lucille Wheeler. For a time they lived in Ottawa, Ontario where he played football but in 1967 moved to the village of Knowlton in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
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