- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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 - 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Sarah Schleper
Sarah Schleper (born February 19, 1979 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado) is an American alpine skier. Schleper won her first World Cup medals in 2000, a silver in slalom and a bronze in giant slalom. She had her first World Cup victory in the slalom final in 2005. - 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. - Sonja Nef
Sonja Nef (born 19 April 1972 in Heiden) is a Swiss former alpine skier. Nef was World Champion in Giant Slalom in 2001. She won the 2001 and 2002 World Cup in Giant Slalom. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she finished third in Giant Slalom. <BR> - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Michaela Kirchgasser
Michaela Kirchgasser (born on March 18, 1985 in Schwarzach im Pongau, Salzburg) is an Austrian alpine skiier specialized in Slalom and Giant Slalom. - Fredrik Nyberg
Fredrik Nyberg is a Sweden Alpine skier. He was born in Skön (Sundsvall). Excelling in giant slalom and super G, he won a total of seven World Cup races in those disciplines. He took part in a total of five Winter Olympics; his 5th-place finish in the 2006 Olympic giant slalom in was his best Olympic result. Nyberg planned to end his career after the 2006-07 season, but crashed during training in Austria on November 10, 2006, causing a serious knee injury. - 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). - Anna Ottosson
Anna Ottosson is a Swedish alpine skier who won an Olympic bronze medal in the Giant Slalom race at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She stands 1.66 meters (5 ft 5 in) tall and weighs 64 kg (141 lbs) - Jens Byggmark
Jens Byggmark is a Swedish alpine skier, who specialises in slalom and giant slalom. Byggmark was born in in Örebro but was raised in Tärnaby. He made his World Cup debut in 2005, and has to date won two World Cup Slalom in the 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup. He also obtained a second place in Schladming, Austria, again in Slalom. - Davide Simoncelli
Davide Simoncelli (born January 30 1979) is an Italian Alpine skier. He won a total of 2 Alpine Skiing World Cup Giant Slaloms. He is a specialist of the Gran Risa track of Alta Badia, where he won one time and arrived second three times. - 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. - François Bourque
François Bourque is a Canadian alpine skier. Bourque won the super-G event at the 2003 World Championships and the combined event at the 2004 World Championships. In the 2005 season, he picked up a third place finish in the super-G in a World Cup event in Garmisch, Germany. In the 2006 season he picked up another third place finish at a World Cup event, this time in the Giant Slalom in Alta Badia, Italy. - 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. - Steve Mahre
Steven Mahre (born May 10, 1957, in Yakima, Washington) is an American former Alpine skier and twin brother of skier Phil Mahre (Steve is younger by 4 minutes). Steve Mahre won the silver medal in slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, finishing 21 hundredths of a second behind his more celebrated brother. He won the gold medal in Giant Slalom at the 1982 World Championships in Schladming, Austria. - Debbie Armstrong
Deborah Rae ("Debbie") Armstrong (born December 6, 1963 in Salem, Oregon) is an American alpine skier. She was the United States' first gold medalist in the women's giant slalom, taking first at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Armstrong was a multisport athlete at Garfield High School in Seattle, playing basketball and soccer from 1976-1980. After being named to the U.S. downhill team, she broke a leg, and was unable to compete. - Max Julen
Max Julen is a Swiss former alpine skier, 1984 Olympic champion in Giant Slalom. <BR> - Alexa Loo
Alexa Loo (born on October 6, 1972 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a Canadian snowboarder of Chinese-Canadian descent. The Richmond, British Columbia native's major event is the parallel giant slalom. - 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. - Sylviane Berthod
Sylviane Berthod (born 25 April, 1977 in Salins) is a female alpine skier from Switzerland, who was Swiss champion in downhill skiing (1997, 1998, 1999) and Giant Slalom (1998). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she finished 7th in downhill. Berthod experienced both extremes of her skiing career on the same course. In 1999, she careened wildly off the course in St. Moritz, shredding her knee ligaments. Two years later on the same slope, she earned her first World Cup gold medal. - Andrea Mead-Lawrence
Andrea Mead-Lawrence (born April 19, 1932 is a former American alpine skier. She was the first American alpine skier to win two Olympic gold medals. Andrea Mead was born in Rutland County, Vermont into an alpine skiing family. At the age of 15, she competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and placed eighth in the slalom. Four years later at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway she came out on top in both the slalom and the giant slalom events. - Christin Cooper
Christin Cooper (born October 8, 1959) is an American former alpine skier from Ketchum, Idaho. Cooper's best season on the World Cup tour was in 1982, when she won three medals at the World Championships at Haus im Ennstal and finished in third place in the overall World Cup standings. She placed fourth in the overall standings in 1981. In honor of her silver medal in the giant slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics, …
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