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The first world championships in alpine skiing were held in 1931. During the 1930s, the event was held annually in Europe, until interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, preventing a 1940 event. An event was held in 1941, but included competitors only from nations from the Axis powers or nations not at war with them. The results were later ...
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. Austrian alpine skier Annemarie Moser-Pröll is the first person to reach 40 World Cup victories while Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark is the first male to do so.
Disciplines were introduced in World Cup: downhill, giant slalom and slalom in 1967; Combined and parallel slalom in 1975; super-G in 1982, super-combined in 2006 and renamed to alpine combined in 2015. Five skiers have won races in all five main disciplines: Marc Girardelli, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Bode Miller, Kjetil André Aamodt and
It surely ranked among the best and most joyous five minutes in Alpine skiing history for the Swiss men's team and fans at the race they prize above all. Marco Odermatt, the superstar of men’s ...
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.
Swiss skier Loic Meillard posted the fastest first-run time in a rain-affected men's World Cup night giant slalom Tuesday as his teammate and overall World Cup leader Marco Odermatt finished nine ...
Combined would not award another World Cup discipline championship until after the introduction of the "Super Combined" (downhill/slalom) or "Alpine combined" (Super G/slalom) races, but that championship would only last from the 2006/07 season until it was again eliminated after the 2011/12 season.
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie). [1]