Hannelore (Hanni) Wenzel is a retired Liechtensteiner alpine ski racer. Wenzel is a former Olympic, World Cup, and world champion. She won Liechtenstein's first-ever Olympic medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and its first two Olympic gold medals four years later in Lake Placid, New York.
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
Ana Drev is a Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. She specializes in the giant slalom and started her first European Cup race at age 15 on February 24, 2001, in Rogla, Slovenia.
Anna Veith is an Austrian former alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She was the overall World Cup champion for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
Marcel Hirscher is an Austrian-born Dutch World Cup alpine ski racer. Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007. He competed primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G. Winner of a record eight consecutive World Cup titles, Hirscher has also won 11 medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships, seven of them gold, a silver medal in slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and two gold medals in the combined and giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Due to his record number of overall titles and many years of extreme dominance of both slalom and giant slalom, he is considered by many, including his former rivals Henrik Kristoffersen, Kjetil Jansrud and Alexis Pinturault, to be the best alpine skier in history. He won a total of 67 World Cup races, ranking second on the male all-time list.
Viktoria Rebensburg is a German retired World Cup alpine ski racer and the 2010 Olympic gold medalist in the giant slalom. Born in Tegernsee, Bavaria, she has three World Cup season titles, all in giant slalom.
Philipp Schörghofer is an Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer. He represented Austria at two Winter Olympics and four World Championships.
Gauthier de Tessières is a World Cup alpine ski racer from France, and has competed in two Winter Olympics and five World Championships. He made his breakthrough on the Alpine Skiing World Cup in a giant slalom in Val-d'Isère in December 2008, where after finishing 30th in the first run to narrowly qualify for the second run, he worked his way up to finish third overall, bettering his previous World Cup personal best of 15th. He won the silver medal in the super-G at the 2013 World Championships, after being added to the French team as an injury replacement. De Tessières announced his retirement from competition in January 2014 after he was not selected for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Mattias Hargin is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Stockholm, he competed mainly in slalom, and is the younger brother of Janette Hargin, who also raced for Sweden. Hargin was married to Swedish alpine free-skier Matilda Rapaport, who died in an avalanche in Chile in July 2016.
Sara Maria Hector is a Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer who is the reigning Olympic champion in giant slalom. She has competed at seven World Championships and won three medals in the team event.
Nicole "Nici" Schmidhofer is an Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer. She specializes in the downhill and super-G events.
Sanni Maaria Leinonen is a former alpine skier from Finland. She competes for Finland in technical events on the World Cup. She represented Finland at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 30th place in the giant slalom. Her best result on the World Cup was a 7th-place finish in the slalom at Maribor, Slovenia in 2010.
Tea Palić is a former Croatian alpine skier who competed in slalom and giant slalom. She competed for Croatia at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She finished 36th in the giant slalom, her only event at the Olympics.
Maja Klepić Jokanović is an alpine skier from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She competed as Maja Klepić for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 52nd place in the giant slalom.
Lizaveta Kuzmenka is an alpine skier from Belarus. She competed for Belarus at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 54th place in the giant slalom.
Kseniya Grigoreva is an alpine skier from Uzbekistan. She competed for Uzbekistan at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 58th place in the giant slalom.
Anne-Sophie Barthet is a French World Cup alpine ski racer and soldier. She competed for France at four Winter Olympics and five World Championships.
Fanny Chmelar is a German former alpine skier. Born in Weilheim in Oberbayern, she appeared in her first FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in the 2004–05 season. In her career, she had one World Cup podium finish, a second place in the slalom at Åre, Sweden in 2009. She competed for Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Claire Dautherives is an alpine skier from France. She competed for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She failed to finish in the slalom, her only event at the games. She has one top ten place on the World Cup, an eighth-place finish in the slalom at Lienz, Austria in 2007.
Alexander Schmid is a German World Cup alpine ski racer and 2023 World champion in parallel giant slalom. His older brother is another alpine skier Manuel Schmid, who specialised in the speed disciplines.
