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Winter Sports - Alpine Skiing
Alpine Skiing info - World Cup Men Winners
Alpine skiing or downhill skiing is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills. It has been contested s ince the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Various alpine skiing competitions have developed in the history of skiing as competitive skiing is broken up into two disciplines: racing and freestyle. Elite competitive skiers participate in the annual World Cup series, as well as the quadrennial Olympic Games and the biennial World Championships. Slalom, giant slalom (GS), super giant slalom (super-G), and downhill are the four racing disciplines, with downhill being the fastest event and slalom being the most technical.
In 2005, the FIS (Fédération Internationale de Ski) introduced a new event to the World Cup calendar called the super combined or super combi. Freestyle skiing incorporates events such as moguls, aerials, and sometimes "new-school" events such as halfpipe, big air, slopestyle, and skiercross. Together with extreme skiing, new-school freestyle skiing is also sometimes known as freeskiing.
Alpine Skiing Medal Record Table at the Winter Olympics
| Rank |
Nation |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
| 1 |
Austria (AUT) |
30 |
34 |
37 |
101 |
| 2 |
Switzerland (SUI) |
16 |
19 |
18 |
53 |
| 3 |
France (FRA) |
15 |
14 |
14 |
43 |
| 4 |
United States (USA) |
12 |
15 |
4 |
31 |
| 5 |
Italy (ITA) |
12 |
8 |
7 |
27 |
| 6 |
Norway (NOR) |
8 |
7 |
7 |
22 |
| 7 |
Germany (GER) |
8 |
4 |
4 |
16 |
| 8 |
Sweden (SWE) |
5 |
2 |
7 |
14 |
| 9 |
Croatia (CRO) |
4 |
3 |
0 |
7 |
| 10 |
Canada (CAN) |
4 |
1 |
5 |
10 |
| 11 |
West Germany (FRG) |
3 |
7 |
3 |
13 |
| 12 |
Liechtenstein (LIE) |
2 |
2 |
5 |
9 |
| 13 |
Germany (EUA) |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
| 14 |
Spain (ESP) |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 15 |
Luxembourg (LUX) |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Yugoslavia (YUG) |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| 17 |
Finland (FIN) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Japan (JPN) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| New Zealand (NZL) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Russia (RUS) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| 21 |
Slovenia (SLO) |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| 22 |
Australia (AUS) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Soviet Union |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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