FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

Alpine Ski World Cup
GenreAlpine skiing
Location(s)Europe and North America[a]
Inaugurated5 January 1967 (1967-01-05) (Men)
7 January 1967 (1967-01-07) (Women)
Organised byInternational Ski Federation
(FIS)
SponsorAudi Quattro

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international sport of Alpine skiing competitions. It was launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts that included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie). It was backed by then FIS president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo in Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon. The first race took place on 5 January 1967 in Berchtesgaden, West Germany, a slalom won by Heinrich Messner of Austria. Jean-Claude Killy of France and Nancy Greene of Canada were the overall winners for the first two seasons.

Rules

There are four disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, super G, and downhill. The fifth event, the combined, employs the downhill and slalom. Competitors attempt to achieve the best time in all the disciplines.

The current scoring system has been in place since the 1991–92 season. In every race points are awarded to the top 30 racers: 100 points for the winner, 80 for second, 60 for third, winding down to 1 point for 30th place. The racer with the most points at the end of the season wins the overall big crystal globe, represented by a 9 kilogram crystal globe.[1] A smaller crystal globe is awarded in each individual disciplines, with a 3.5 kg crystal globe.

Overall winners

Men

Women

Discipline winners

  • The four main diciplines

Men

Women

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "FIS NewsFlash, Edition 72, April 26th, 2006". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.

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