- 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. - Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba (born December 19 1966), popularly called Tomba la Bomba ("Tomba the Bomb"), is a retired Italian alpine skier. He scored notable success in the late 1980s and 1990s in the slalom and giant slalom, winning three Olympic gold medals. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Ingemar Stenmark
Jan Ingemar Stenmark is a Swedish former slalom and giant slalom skier, competing for Fjällvinden Tärnaby. He is regarded as one of the most prominent Swedish sportsmen - and one of the greatest alpine skiers - of all time. Stenmark was born in the province of Lappland. His family moved to Tärnaby when he was four years old, where he became neighbours with Stig Strand, who would later win the World Cup Slalom title. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Picabo Street
Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971, in Triumph, Idaho) is an American skier, now retired and living in Park City, Utah. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, Idaho, where she learned to ski and race. She first joined the United States Ski Team in 1989, at the age of 17. She has written an autobiography entitled "Nothing to Hide" (ISBN 0-07-140693-X). She appeared on the TV show Nickelodeon GUTS in 1994. - 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 - 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. - Erik Guay
Erik Guay (born August 5, 1981 in Montreal) is a Canadian alpine skier from Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and is reported to ski at Mont Tremblant at Tremblant, Quebec. In Guay's best events, Super-G and downhill, he has finished in the top three in a number of World Cup races. He finished in second twice in 2005-06 in the Super-G and third once in downhill. In 2003, he finished 2nd in downhill once. - Toni Sailer
Anton "Toni" Sailer is an Austrian former skier, considered amongst one of the best ever in the sport history. Nicknamed "Blitz from Kitz", Sailer was the first skier at the olympic games to win all three Alpine skiing events (downhill, slalom and giant slalom), at the 1956 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo. He was the fifth athlete to win three gold medals in the same Winter Olympic Games. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Ken Read
Kenneth John Read (born November 6, 1955) was a Canadian alpine skier Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Read was raised in Vancouver, Kingston and Calgary and began skiing at age 3 and competing at age 8. He is an alumnus of the Ottawa Ski Club and Lake Louise Ski Club. Ken Read was a member of the Canadian Ski Team, the Crazy Canucks from 1974 to 1983 and competed in two Olympic Winter Games. - 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. - 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 - 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. - Franz Klammer
Franz Klammer (born December 3, 1953) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer who dominated the downhill event throughout much of the mid to late 1970s. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. - 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, … - 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. - 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). - 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, … - Rosi Mittermaier
Rosi Mittermaier (born August 5, 1950 in Reit im Winkl, Bavaria) is a former West German alpine skiing champion who won two gold medals and one silver in the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, earning her the nickname of " Gold-Rosi" within Germany. Today, she works for several charities and occasionally as a commentator for German television for major sporting events. - 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. - Emily Brydon
Emily Brydon (born on April 27 1980 in Fernie, British Columbia) is a Canadian alpine skier who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. - Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen (born December 11, 1927) is a Norwegian-American former professional alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Pernilla Wiberg
Pernilla Wiberg is one of Sweden's most famous and talented alpine skiers. She won the giant slalom gold in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the combination gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. She was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2002. Wiberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1991. - Karl Schranz
Karl Schranz (born 18 November 1938 in St. Anton, Tyrol) is a former alpine skier from Austria. Schranz was one of the best giant slalom skiers in the 1960s, but rather unlucky in the Olympics. He was sick in 1960, and scored a silver in 1964. In 1968, at Grenoble, he was disqualified, and French Jean-Claude Killy won. In the foggy run, also a track worker was allegedly on the track. For 1972, he got disqualified for being not an amateur. - Hanni Wenzel
Hanni Wenzel (born in Straubing, Germany on December 14, 1956) is a former alpine skier from Liechtenstein. She won the country's first Olympic medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck (Austria). Born in Germany, Hanni moved to Liechtenstein at an early age. After she and her brother Andreas began to get successful in skiing - Hanni became the 1974 slalom World Champion - the family was granted Liechtenstein citizenship. - Stephan Eberharter
Stephan Eberharter (born March 23, 1969, Stumm) is an Austrian skier who has won the World Cup (overall) title in 2002 and 2003. He has arguably been the closest rival of compatriot Hermann Maier in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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