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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.
Matti Ensio Nykänen (pronounced [ˈmɑtːi ˈnykænen] ⓘ; 17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) [1] was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, [3] having won five Winter Olympic medals (four gold), nine World Championship medals (five gold), and 22 Finnish Championship ...
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.
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.
Here are listed most successful cross-country skiers in the history of each medal-winning national team – according to the gold-first ranking system and by total number of World Championships medals (one skier if he holds national records in both categories or few skiers if these national records belongs to different persons).
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (93) is the most successful male cross-country skier of all time in terms of victories.. In 44 official World Cup seasons, as of 2 February 2025, 947 individual races (641 distance, 265 sprint, 41 stage events) for men were held.
Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway is the most-decorated Olympic alpine skier with eight medals (four gold, two silver, two bronze). He was the oldest gold medalist (age 34 in 2006) in Olympic alpine skiing, [ 6 ] until passed by several months in 2014 by Mario Matt , also 34. [ 7 ]