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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.
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.
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.
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.
A 5-time Olympian, Norwegian skier Marit Bjørgen has 15 Olympic medals, including 8 golds, which is a Winter Olympics record in itself. She had begun competing at 7 and also has 18 World Championship gold medals. Her use of an anti-asthma drug once caused doping rumors.
Anna Fenninger is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. She then won a silver medal at the subsequent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Veith also won three gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal at the World Championships.
Austrian alpine ski racer Ulrike Maier was not just a 2-time Olympian but also a 2-time World Champion. Back when she competed, she was the only mother in the World Cup circuit. She died after breaking her neck in a downhill race in Germany at age 26.
Therese Johaug is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has won four Olympic gold medals. With 14 World Championship gold medals under her belt, Johaug is one of the most successful Norwegian cross-country skiers of all time. Although her 18-month suspension for doping in 2016 tarnished her image somewhat, Therese Johaug has remained an inspiration to many budding cross-country skiers.
A 2-time Olympic silver medalist, Norwegian alpine ski racer Ragnhild Mowinckel is known for her association with the club SK Rival. She also has a World Championship bronze and 3 Junior World Championship gold medals in her kitty. A cruciate ligament injury had halted her career briefly.
Ilka Štuhec is a Slovenian alpine ski racer best known for winning the gold medal in the women's downhill competition at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships. Ilka Štuhec has also represented her country at other important tournaments like Olympic Games.
Austrian World Cup alpine ski-racer Katharina Liensberger is the present world champion in women’s slalom and parallel giant slalom competitions, the two technical events that she specialises in. She achieved her first World Cup career victories at 2020-2021 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Other feats of Liensberger include winning silver for slalom and gold with team at the 2022 Olympics.
Olympic bronze medalist cross-country skier Heidi Weng also has 5 gold medals at the World Championships. The Norwegian sports star is also a senior champion in fell running. She began ski-touring at age 3 and is close to her cross-country skier sister Merete. She is fond of cycling, too.
