Skiers

Tina Maze is a Slovenian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the 2014 Olympics. Maze also won two silver medals at the 2010 Olympic Games and is considered the most successful Slovenian ski racer. Maze also won four gold medals at the World Championships and was named Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year six times.

Aksel Lund Svindal is a former alpine ski racer. A two-time World Cup champion, Svindal is widely regarded as the best Norwegian alpine skier of all time. During the course of his illustrious career, Aksel Lund Svindal won two Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and an Olympic bronze medal. He also won five gold medals at World Championships.

Marcel Hirscher is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer. He is best known for winning two gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Marcel Hirscher also has an Olympic silver medal under his belt and is currently a seven-time World Champion. Hirscher has also won four silver medals in the World Championships so far.

Hermann Maier is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. A three-time world champion, Hermann Maier is often counted among the best alpine ski racers of all time.

Franz Klammer is an Austrian former alpine ski racer best known for winning a gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Austria. He also won two gold medals and a silver medal at the World Championships. Franz Klammer did much to foster the popularity of alpine ski racing, for which he was considered a hero by fans in Austria.

Henrik Kristoffersen is a Norwegian alpine ski racer known for winning a silver medal at the 2018 Olympics. Prior to his appearance in Pyeongchang, Kristoffersen had won a bronze medal at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. In 2016, Kristoffersen became the first male racer to emerge victorious in six World Cup slalom races in a single season in 24 years.

A 2-time Olympic medalist and a Junior World Champion, Norwegian alpine ski racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is associated with the club Lommedalens IL. He has also won the Downhill and Super-G World Cup titles. He is passionate about the environment, too, and has been a Syngenta Group ambassador.

Austrian alpine ski racer Matthias Mayer is not just a 3-time Olympic gold medalist but also a Junior World Championship silver medalist. The son of Olympic super-G silver medalist alpine ski racer Helmut Mayer, he was destined to take up the sport. He has a bronze medal in the Olympics, too.

Known for both his speed and technical expertise, Norwegian ski racer Kjetil Andre Aamodt has won 8 Olympic medals, including 4 golds. He is also a 5-time World Champion, has won a World Cup race in each of the 5 disciplines, and has been named to the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.

One of the most prominent figures in men’s alpine skiing, Marc Girardelli initially competed for Austria but then switched to representing Luxembourg due to coaching-related disagreements. He has won 4 World Championship gold medals and 2 Olympic silver medals for Luxembourg. He is also a 5-time overall World Cup winner.

Candide Thovex is a French skier, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. He is best known for his freestyle skiing movies and point of view videos that often go viral on the internet. Candide Thovex came into prominence at age 16, when he completed a jump over Utah's Chad's gap. Thovex is widely regarded as one of the best freeskiers of all time.

Kjetil Jansrud is a Norwegian alpine ski racer best known for winning a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He also has two silver and two Olympic bronze medals under his belt. Kjetil Jansrud is also a world champion, having won a gold medal at the 2019 World Championships in Åre, Sweden.

Hansi Hinterseer is an Austrian former alpine skier turned singer, actor, and entertainer. As a skier, he won six alpine skiing World Cup races and the silver medal at the world championship in 1974. In the 1980s, he became a technical sports commentator and started a career as a singer and actor in the following decade.  

Retired Austrian alpine ski racer Annemarie Moser-Pröll is not just an Olympic gold medalist but has also been a 4-time World Champion. The elder sister of former Olympic alpine skier Cornelia Pröll, she also held the record of winning 6 overall World Cup titles, with 5 of them being consecutive wins.

Lasse Kjus is a Norwegian retired alpine ski racer who won two overall World Cup titles, three World Championship gold medals, and one Olympic gold medal during his career. His combined total of 16 World Championship and Olympic medals makes him the second-most successful alpine ski racer. In 2015, Kjus was inducted into the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.

Zali Steggall is an Australian lawyer turned politician. She has been serving as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Division of Warringah since 2019. She is a former Olympic athlete as well and is considered Australia's most internationally successful alpine skier. She became a lawyer after retiring from skiing and eventually entered politics as well. 

Norwegian cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo was 21 when he won 3 gold medals at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and later won 2 more Olympic golds. He became the youngest male Olympic champion in the sport. The sports star had started skiing at age 2 and was also passionate about football.

Petra Vlhová is a Slovak alpine ski racer who won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships in the Giant slalom event. She became the first Slovak skier to win the World Cup overall title in 2021 as well as the gold medal in the 2022 Olympics in China in the slalom event.

Benjamin Raich is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. A three-time world champion, Raich had also won five gold medals at the Junior World Ski Championships between 1996 and 1998. Benjamin Raich is regarded as one of the greatest alpine racers in World Cup history.