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Jean-Claude Killy was the first skier to win races in two seasons (1967 and 1967/1968), while Ingemar Stenmark won races in 13 seasons and set a record for the greatest absolute number of races won in a single season winning 13 races (out of 33 total) in the 1978–79 season. He won races between 1974/1975 and 1988/1989, only failing to win in ...
This is the list of the most successful athletes who have won at least 40 World Cup races in the different World Cups of skiing events. As of December 2024, 48 skiers achieved that feat and among them, Swiss telemark skier Amélie Reymond tops the list with 164 World Cup victories.
The first world championships in alpine skiing were held in 1931. It consisted of downhill and slalom events for men and women. Next year the combined event was added to the program as a "paper" race which used the results of the downhill and slalom.
Multiple World Cups in the overall and in each discipline are marked with (#). Combined events (calculated using results from selected downhill and slalom races) were included starting with the 1974–75 season, but a discipline trophy was only awarded during the next season and then once again starting with the 1979–80 season.
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American World Cup alpine skier who has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history (men or women). She is considered one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time.
Samuel Bode Miller (/ ˈ b oʊ d i / BOH-dee; born October 12, 1977) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer.He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and the most successful male American alpine ski racer of all time.
Dominik Paris, 17 downhill victories (4th all-time), 6 podiums in the discipline standings, but never a small globe won. In the following table men's downhill World Cup season-end podiums since first edition in 1967. [3]
Only a few racers have ever managed to win races in all five classic World Cup alpine skiing disciplines during their career, as listed in the table below. Marc Girardelli ( 1988–89 ), Petra Kronberger ( 1990–91 ), Janica Kostelić ( 2005–06 ) and Tina Maze ( 2012–13 ) are the only skiers to have won all five events in a single season.