- 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, …
- Benjamin Raich
Benjamin Raich (born February 28, 1978 in Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol) is an Austrian skier who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso (born March 9, 1984 in Reno, Nevada), is an American alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The daughter of Ciro Mancuso, she resides in Olympic Valley, California.
- Denise Karbon
Denise Karbon is an Italian Alpine skier. She was born in Brixen (Bressanone), Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
- Janica Kostelić
Janica Kostelić is a retired female skier from Croatia, considered one of the greatest female skiers of all time. She is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympic Games (in 2002 and 2006), and the only woman to win three alpine Olympic gold medals in one year (2002). She was World Cup champion in 2001, 2003 and 2006.
- 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.
- Fritz Strobl
Fritz Strobl (born August 24, 1972 in Lienz) is an Austrian alpine skier. He won the gold medal in the downhill competition at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, USA. He won a silver medal at the 2007 Alpine Skiing World Championships in the men's Super-G. He retired at the end of the 2006/2007 season
- 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.
- Michaela Dorfmeister
Michaela Dorfmeister (born 25 March, 1973 in Vienna) is a professional alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are both the Downhill and Super-G disciplines, although she skis in and has had success in Giant Slalom.
- Didier Cuche
Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is a Swiss alpine skier. He is generally seen as a specialist in the high speed disciplines like the Downhill and Super-G. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he won the Silver medal in Super-G, where he had the exact same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal. He won 6 World Cup races. In the 2006-2007 season Cuche has been in good form, especially in the Downhill, where he is currently leading the standings, …
- Karen Putzer
Karen Putzer is an Italian alpine skier. She was born in Bolzano, South Tyrol. A specialist of Giant Slalom and Super-G, she won a total of eight World Cup victories, arriving second in the overall classment in the 2002-2003 season behind Janica Kostelić. However, her career was often hampered by accidents. She won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City.
- 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
- Carole Montillet
Carole Montillet-Carles (born April 7, 1973) is a French alpine skier.
- 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.
- Alain Baxter
Alain Baxter (born 26 December 1973, Edinburgh) is a professional skier from Scotland. He specialises in the slalom discipline.
- 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.
- Nicole Hosp
Nicole Hosp is a professional alpine skier from Austria, and the winner of the overall 2006–7 World Cup along with the giant slalom World Cup. This versatile all-around racer has won World Cup races in 4 of the 5 alpine skiing disciplines (Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and combined), and is the reigning World Champion in the giant slalom.
- Laure Pequegnot
Laure Pequegnot is a former French Alpine skier. She was born in Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble, (Isère). She won a total of 3 Alpine skiing World Cup races, all in the slalom discipline.
- Andrej Jerman
Andrej Jerman, is a Slovenian skier. His best result in the Alpine skiing World Cup came at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the 2006-07 season, when he won the downhill race. A day later he finished 2nd, again in the downhill. His best result until then was 4th place in Bormio, downhill as well, in the same season. He represented his country at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, where he finished 19th in the combined and 28th in the downhill and the super-G.
- Silvan Zurbriggen
Silvan Zurbriggen (born 15 August, 1981) is a Swiss alpine skier. He was born in Brig, Valais. In 2003, he was Vice-World Champion in Slalom.
- Ambrosi Hoffmann
Ambrosi Hoffmann (born 22 March 1977) is a Swiss alpine skier. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he finished 8th in downhill. He won a bronze medal in Super-G at the 2006 Winter Olympics and placed 17th in the downhill event.
- Shona Rubens
Shona Rubens (born on October 31, 1986 in Sydney, Australia) is a Canadian alpine skier. Rubens qualified to compete for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics after placing 18th in a World Cup downhill in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Her other career highlights including placing second in downhill at the 2004 Lake Louise Nor-Am Cup and placing fifth in the super-G at 2005 Canadian championships.
- 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.
- Michael Walchhofer
Michael Walchhofer (born April 28, 1975 in Radstadt) is an Austrian Alpine skier. He started his career in slalom, but now participates in the downhill speed events. He won the silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in the men's downhill event. He also participated in the combined event, but he did not finish the slalom portion.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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
- Martina Schild
Martina Schild (born 26 October 1981) is a Swiss alpine skier competing in downhill and Super-G. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she won the silver medal in the women's downhill. She placed 6th in the women's Super-G. She is the grand-daughter of skier Hedy Schlunegger (1923-2003), who was the downhill Olympic champion of 1948.
- Alex Antor
Alex Antor (born 1979) is an Andorran alpine skier who represented Andorra at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He was also their flag bearer in the Opening Ceremonies. He speaks Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Catalan.
- Christelle Laura Douibi
Christelle Laura Douibi (born November 24, 1985) is an Algerian alpine skier at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She finished last, among those who finished, in her events yet felt proud of the achievement. She dedicated her first race to her deceased father Mohammed. She was also the nation's flag bearer in this, their first, Winter Olympics. She was the only women to represent Africa at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Marco Büchel
Marco Büchel is a Liechtensteiner skier, who participated in five Winter Olympics, starting in 1992.
- 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, …
- Lindsey Kildow
Lindsey C. Kildow (born October 18, 1985 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American alpine skier. While growing up ski racing in Vail, Colorado, her role model was Picabo Street. Her successes in skiing led to an Olympic Games debut in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. On February 13, 2006, while training for the downhill race at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Kildow crashed and was evacuated by helicopter to a nearby hospital.
- 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, …
- Marc Berthod
Marc Berthod (born 24 November, 1983 in Saint-Moritz) is a Swiss alpine skier. In 2005, he was Swiss champion in Giant Slalom. He finished 7th in the combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics.