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[1] Following the war, the championships were connected with the Olympics for several decades. From 1948 through 1982, the competition was held in even-numbered years, with the Winter Olympics acting as the World Championships through 1980, and a separate competition held in even-numbered non-Olympic years.
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 ...
Biathlon/CC Skiing: 37 in Pursuit, 35 in Sprint, 14 in Mass Start, 8 in Individual. [6] / 1 in Cross-Country Skiing. [7] 7: Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Norway: 95: 2016– Cross-Country Skiing: 55 in Sprint, 30 in Distance Races, 9 in Ski Tours. [8] 8: Therese Johaug Norway: 87: 2007– Cross-Country Skiing: 75 in Distance Races, 11 in Ski Tours ...
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.
She is one of only 5 Americans to ever win the World Cup overall title. In World Championships, she is the most decorated American alpine skier in history, having won the most medals (14) overall, a record seven of them gold. [90] She is also the first and only athlete—male or female—with wins in all six FIS Alpine Ski World Cup disciplines.
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).
Alpine skiing is an Olympic sport, contested at the Winter Olympic Games. The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included nordic skiing, but the first alpine skiing events were not held until 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [1] A combined event was held for both men and women in 1936.
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (95) is the most successful male cross-country skier of all time in terms of victories.. In 44 official World Cup seasons, as of 16 February 2025, 950 individual races (643 distance, 266 sprint, 41 stage events) for men were held.