Renate Götschl is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and the silver medal in the combined.
Michaela Dorfmeister is an Austrian former alpine ski racer who competed in the Olympic Games and World Cup. Her specialities were both the downhill and the super-G disciplines, although she skied in and had success in giant slalom.
Alexandra Meissnitzer is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were the downhill, super-G, and giant slalom disciplines.
Régine Cavagnoud was a World Cup alpine ski racer from France. She was the World Cup and World Champion in Super-G in 2001. Later that year, Cavagnoud was involved in a high-speed collision while training and died two days later. She competed at three Winter Olympics and five world championships.
Andrea Fischbacher is a retired alpine ski racer from Austria.
Elisabeth Görgl is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.
Klaus Kröll is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. He specialized in the speed events of downhill and super-G and won the World Cup downhill season title in 2012. He competed in three Winter Olympics and three World Championships.
Christina Weirather is a retired Liechtensteiner World Cup alpine ski racer. She won a bronze medal in Super-G for Liechtenstein at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Nicole "Nici" Schmidhofer is an Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer. She specializes in the downhill and super-G events.
Max Franz is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, he focuses on the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.
Matthias Mayer is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion.
Sofia Goggia is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specialises in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She is a two-time Olympic downhill medalist — gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first one for an Italian woman — and four-time World Cup downhill title winner.
Cornelia "Conny" Hütter is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.
Corinne Suter is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
Vincent Kriechmayr is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of super-G and downhill.
Christine Scheyer is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Hohenems, Vorarlberg, she specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G, and also the combined. Scheyer made her World Cup debut in December 2014 and achieved her first podium in January 2017, a win in the downhill at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee.
Jasmine Flury is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G. Flury won gold in downhill at the 2023 World Championships.
Kira Weidle is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.She made her World Cup debut in January 2016 and attained her first podium in November 2018. Weidle won the silver medal in the downhill at the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Nina Ortlieb is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer, and specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She is the daughter of Patrick Ortlieb, the Olympic gold medalist in downhill in 1992 and world champion in 1996.
The women's downhill in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eight events, including the final. The tentative schedule called for eleven events, but a new event, the team combined, which was scheduled for 16 February 2024 in Crans Montana, was cancelled and converted into an additional downhill on the final schedule, increasing the planned schedule to twelve. However, as discussed below in the season summary, cancellations reduced that number during the season. The season champion was Cornelia Hütter of Austria, ending a string of three straight season triumphs by Sofia Goggia of Italy, who was injured just after the midpoint of the season but still finished third.
