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.
Bojan Križaj is a Slovenian, back then Yugoslavian, former alpine skier. During his international career he competed for the then-existing Yugoslavia. He competed at three Winter Olympics.
Annemarie Moser-Pröll is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with an all-time women's record of six overall titles, including five consecutively. She had most success in downhill, giant slalom and combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former alpine Olympian.
Piero "Pierino" Gros is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northwestern Italy. He won the gold medal in slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, and was the World Cup overall champion in 1974.
The slalom competition is shorter than the giant slalom, but is otherwise similar in emphasizing maneuverability. Slalom has been a part of all the Winter Olympics since 1936, although it was a part of the alpine combination that year. Only the downhill event has a longer history at the Winter Olympics. The men's slalom took place on 25 February and was the last of the Olympic alpine skiing competitions.
Joël Gaspoz is a Swiss former alpine skier.
Gustav Thöni is an Italian retired alpine ski racer.
Rudolf "Rudi" Nierlich was an Austrian alpine skier. Born in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, he won a total of eight races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, and was three times World Champion, in Slalom and giant slalom.
Willi Frommelt is a former Alpine skier from Liechtenstein who won a bronze medal in the slalom at the 1976 Olympics.
Kathrin Zettel is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer. She won many races and took a bronze medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In 2021 she was a partner in a company creating domestic size wind turbines in lower Austria.
Thomas Sykora is a former alpine skier from Austria.
Anton "Jimmy" Steiner is an Austrian former alpine skier.
Lea Sölkner is an Austrian former alpine skier who was World championship title in slalom in 1978.
Roswitha Stadlober is an Austrian former alpine skier.
Jean-Noël Augert is a French former alpine skier. He competed at the 1972 Olympics and finished in fifth place in the slalom and giant slalom.
Tessa Worley is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer and non-commissioned officer. She previously competed in all five alpine disciplines and specialised in giant slalom.
Elisabeth Görgl is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.
David Zwilling is an Austrian former alpine skier and world champion. He won a gold medal in the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1974 and finished second in the overall 1973 Alpine Skiing World Cup. He competed in the slalom and giant slalom at the 1972 Olympics and finished seventh in both events.
Fabienne Serrat is a former world champion alpine ski racer. At age 17, Serrat won two gold medals at the 1974 World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in the giant slalom and the combined events. During her World Cup career she had three victories, 37 podiums, and 124 top ten finishes.
