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Pernilla Wiberg is a Swedish former alpine ski racer and businesswoman. She competed on the World Cup circuit between 1990 and 2002, where she became one of the few all-event winners. Having won two Olympic gold medals, four World Championships and one World Cup overall title, she is one of the most successful alpine ski racers of the 1990s. On club level, she represented Norrköpings SK. She was born in Norrköping.
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 and the USA. It was soon backed by International Ski Federation president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon. The first World Cup ski race was held in Berchtesgaden, West Germany, on January 5, 1967. Jean-Claude Killy of France and Nancy Greene of Canada were the overall winners for the first two seasons.
Tina Maze is a retired Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer.
Chimene Mary "Chemmy" Crawford-Alcott is an English former World Cup alpine ski racer. She competed in all five disciplines: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom and combined.
Šárka Strachová is a retired Czech World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Benecko, she specializes in the slalom event. Strachová is the first alpine racer representing the Czech Republic to medal at the Winter Olympics and at the World Championships and just the second Czech alpine skier ever to medal in the Olympics.
Gertrud Gabl was an alpine skier from Austria. She competed in several events at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics with the best result of 9th place in the giant slalom in 1968.
Jenny Owens, from Sydney, Australia was an Australian Alpine Skier & freestyle skier who now lives in St Kilda, Victoria.
Manuela Mölgg is a retired alpine ski racer from Italy, a specialist in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a three-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event. Shiffrin is the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, at 18 years and 345 days.
Pamela Behr is a retired German alpine ski racer. She is the second youngest person ever to win an FIS Alpine Ski World Cup race, winning a slalom in Val d'Isere, France, in December 1972 at the age of 16 years, 79 days. It would be the only World Cup race win of her ten-year career. She won the silver medal in slalom at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1978 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Petra Vlhová is a Slovak World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
Marta Bassino is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. She competes in all disciplines, with a focus in giant slalom, in which she has won five World Cup races.
Adriana Jelinkova is a Dutch alpine ski racer. Jelinkova specializes in the technical events of giant slalom and slalom. Jelinkova made her World Cup debut on 16 December 2012.
Lisa Bremseth is a Norwegian alpine skier.
Laurence St. Germain is a Canadian World Cup alpine ski racer, and specializes in the technical events of Slalom and Giant slalom. She made her World Cup debut in November 2015.
Charlotte "Charlie" Guest is a Scottish World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom and competes occasionally in giant slalom.
Alice Robinson is a New Zealand World Cup alpine ski racer. At age sixteen, she competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, in giant slalom and slalom.
Lisae Agerer is an Italian female alpine skier, who won the Alpine Skiing Europa Cup in 2012.
Thea Louise Stjernesund is a Norwegian alpine ski racer.
Camilla Alfieri is a retired Italian alpine skier.
