# Top 34 Alpine Skiers of All Time

> Crystal globes and Olympic gold separate some of these racers; others built legends on a single winter or one terrifying downhill.

*By YPB Team · Published November 12, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-34-alpine-skiers-of-all-time*

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1. **Mikaela Shiffrin** — score 1000/1000
   American who holds the record for World Cup race wins with more than 100, has six overall titles and won Olympic gold in 2014, 2018 and 2026.
2. **Ingemar Stenmark** — score 640/1000
   Swedish technical skier with 86 World Cup wins, three overall titles (1976-78) and Olympic slalom and giant slalom gold in 1980.
3. **Annemarie Moser-Pröll** — score 640/1000
   Austrian with six World Cup overall titles, 62 World Cup wins and the 1980 Olympic downhill gold.
4. **Pirmin Zurbriggen** — score 605/1000
   Swiss all-rounder with four World Cup overall titles and the 1988 Olympic downhill gold.
5. **Nancy Greene** — score 567/1000
   Canadian who won the first two women's World Cup overall titles (1967, 1968) and Olympic giant slalom gold in 1968.
6. **Renate Götschl** — score 539/1000
   Austrian speed specialist with 46 World Cup wins and the 2000 World Cup overall title.
7. **Petra Vlhová** — score 524/1000
   Slovak technical skier who won the 2021 World Cup overall title and Olympic slalom gold in 2022.
8. **Tina Maze** — score 524/1000
   Slovenian who scored a single-season record 2,414 World Cup points in 2012-13 and won downhill and giant slalom gold at the 2014 Olympics.
9. **Toni Sailer** — score 524/1000
   Austrian who won all three alpine gold medals at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics.
10. **Anja Pärson** — score 524/1000
   Swede who won World Cup races in all five disciplines, overall titles in 2004 and 2005 and Olympic slalom gold in 2006.
11. **Marco Odermatt** — score 475/1000
   Swiss all-rounder who won Olympic giant slalom gold in 2022 and five straight World Cup overall titles from 2021-22 to 2025-26.
12. **Maria Höfl-Riesch** — score 475/1000
   German with three Olympic golds (slalom and super combined in 2010, super combined in 2014) and the 2011 World Cup overall title.
13. **Rosi Mittermaier** — score 419/1000
   West German who won downhill and slalom gold plus giant slalom silver at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics and the 1976 World Cup overall title.
14. **Aksel Lund Svindal** — score 419/1000
   Norwegian with two World Cup overall titles and Olympic golds in super-G (2010) and downhill (2018).
15. **Vreni Schneider** — score 354/1000
   Swiss technical skier with three Olympic golds (giant slalom and slalom in 1988, slalom in 1994) and 55 World Cup wins.
16. **Franz Klammer** — score 354/1000
   Austrian downhiller who won Olympic gold on home snow at Innsbruck 1976 and took 25 World Cup downhill wins.
17. **Ted Ligety** — score 354/1000
   American giant slalom specialist with Olympic golds in combined (2006) and giant slalom (2014).
18. **Lara Gut-Behrami** — score 354/1000
   Swiss all-rounder with World Cup overall titles in 2016 and 2024 and Olympic super-G gold in 2022.
19. **Jean-Claude Killy** — score 354/1000
   French skier who swept downhill, giant slalom and slalom gold at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics and won the first two World Cup overall titles in 1967 and 1968.
20. **Kjetil André Aamodt** — score 279/1000
   Norwegian all-rounder who won eight Olympic medals, four of them gold, between 1992 and 2006.
21. **Hermann Maier** — score 279/1000
   Austrian nicknamed the Herminator who won super-G and giant slalom gold at Nagano 1998 days after a downhill crash and took four World Cup overall titles.
22. **Sofia Goggia** — score 279/1000
   Italian downhiller who won Olympic downhill gold in 2018 and four World Cup downhill season titles.
23. **Lasse Kjus** — score 279/1000
   Norwegian who won World Cup overall titles in 1996 and 1999 and 1994 Olympic combined gold, and took medals in all five events at the 1999 World Championships.
24. **Benjamin Raich** — score 279/1000
   Austrian who won Olympic slalom and giant slalom gold in 2006 and the 2006 World Cup overall title.
25. **Deborah Compagnoni** — score 279/1000
   Italian who won gold at three straight Olympics: super-G in 1992 and giant slalom in 1994 and 1998.
26. **Alberto Tomba** — score 190/1000
   Italian technical skier with three Olympic golds (slalom and giant slalom in 1988, giant slalom in 1992) and 50 World Cup wins.
27. **Bode Miller** — score 190/1000
   American who won World Cup overall titles in 2005 and 2008 and six Olympic medals, including super combined gold in 2010.
28. **Gustav Thöni** — score 190/1000
   Italian with four World Cup overall titles in the 1970s and Olympic giant slalom gold in 1972.
29. **Katja Seizinger** — score 190/1000
   German speed skier with Olympic downhill golds in 1994 and 1998 and two World Cup overall titles.
30. **Marc Girardelli** — score 190/1000
   Austrian-born skier racing for Luxembourg who won five World Cup overall titles between 1985 and 1993.
31. **Federica Brignone** — score 190/1000
   Italian with World Cup overall titles in 2020 and 2025 who won super-G and giant slalom gold at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.
32. **Marcel Hirscher** — score 0/1000
   Austrian who won eight consecutive World Cup overall titles (2012-2019) and Olympic combined and giant slalom gold in 2018.
33. **Lindsey Vonn** — score 0/1000
   American speed specialist with four World Cup overall titles and the 2010 Olympic downhill gold who came back from retirement in 2024.
34. **Janica Kostelić** — score 0/1000
   Croatian who won three golds at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, added a fourth in 2006 and took three World Cup overall titles.

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