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Ingemar Stenmark was the first to win races in nine, ten, eleven, and twelve seasons and he is the only skier to win races in 13 seasons. Jean-Claude Killy won all his 18 races in only two seasons, achieving the unmatched feat of winning 12/17, or ~71% of races in a single season , while Günther Mader won his 14 races in nine seasons.
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.
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.
According to NBC Sports, she became the third skier of all time to eclipse 2,000 points in one World Cup season, joining the ranks of Tina Maze, who scored 2,414 points in 2013, and her 2019 self ...
The American star is already the most successful alpine skier of all-time. - Gabriele Facciotti/AP. Shiffrin, though, now has the chance to make yet more history in her remarkable career.
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.
Since then, she has broken the record for World Cup victories (now up to 99), won two World Cup overall season titles and became the most successful skier in modern world championships history.
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.