Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics
Governing body	FIS
Events	10 (men: 5; women: 5)
Winter Olympics
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026
Medalists

Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in even-numbered non-Olympic years. During this period, the Olympic medalists received an additional medal of the same colour from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

The giant slalom was introduced at the 1950 World Championships and at the Olympics in 1952; both programs dropped the combined event, but it returned in 1954 at the World Championships as a "paper" race, using the results of the slalom, giant slalom, and downhill. At the Olympics from 1956 through 1980, World Championship medals were awarded by the FIS in the combined event. It returned as a stand-alone event (one run of downhill, two runs of slalom) at the Olympics in 1988, which also debuted the one-run super-G. The combined event was run on an FIS points system at the Olympics through 1992, then was changed to total time of the three runs. The super combined debuted in 2010, which reduced the slalom portion to one run and the event to one day.

Since 1985, the World Championships have been scheduled every odd-numbered year, independent of the Winter Olympics. At the World Championships, the combined returned as a stand-alone event in 1982 and the super-G debuted in 1987. The combined event went from points to total time in 1996 (postponed from 1995), and changed to super combined in 2007.

Hosts

Year	City	Nation	Additional designation
1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany
1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1948
1952	Oslo	Norway	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1952
1956	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1956
1960	Squaw Valley	United States	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1960
1964	Innsbruck	Austria	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1964
1968	Grenoble	France	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1968
1972	Sapporo	Japan	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1972
1976	Innsbruck	Austria	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1976
1980	Lake Placid	United States	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1980
1984	Sarajevo	Yugoslavia
1988	Calgary	Canada
1992	Albertville	France
1994	Lillehammer	Norway
1998	Nagano	Japan
2002	Salt Lake City	United States
2006	Torino	Italy
2010	Vancouver	Canada
2014	Sochi	Russia

Events

Event	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	22	Years
Men's combined				•	•										•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10
Men's downhill					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	18
Men's slalom					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	18
Men's giant slalom						•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	17
Men's super-G															•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8
Women's combined				•	•										•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10
Women's downhill					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	18
Women's slalom					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	18
Women's giant slalom						•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	17
Women's super-G															•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8
Total events				2	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Medal table

See also: List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing

NOCs in italics no longer compete at the Winter Olympics

Through 2014

1	Austria (AUT)	34	39	41	114
2	Switzerland (SUI)	20	19	20	59
3	United States (USA)	16	19	9	44
4	France (FRA)	15	15	15	45
5	Italy (ITA)	13	9	8	30
6	Germany (GER) ^	12	7	7	26
7	Norway (NOR)	10	9	10	29
8	Sweden (SWE)	5	2	9	16
9	Croatia (CRO)	4	6	0	10
10	Canada (CAN)	4	1	6	11
11	West Germany (FRG) ^	3	5	1	9
12	Liechtenstein (LIE)	2	2	5	9
13	Slovenia (SLO)	2	2	3	7
14	United Team of Germany (EUA) ^	2	1	2	5
15	Spain (ESP)	1	0	1	2
16	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	2	0	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	2	0	2
18	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
22	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Total		143	144	141	428

^ Germany has competed at the Winter Olympic Games under various names; all of which are listed separately. Banned from the 1948 games (as was Japan), they competed as Germany in 1952, though only represented by West Germany. From 1956 through 1964, they were known as the Unified Team of Germany (EUA), which included East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1968 through 1988, separate Olympic teams were fielded and West Germany competed as the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). East Germany had only one competitor in alpine skiing (Eberhard Riedel in 1968), who did not medal. Following the reunification of 1990, they have competed at the Olympics as Germany, starting in 1992. Through 2014, Germany has a total of 40 medals in alpine skiing (17 gold, 13 silver, 10 bronze).

Age records

Several age-related records were recently set in 2014:

• Bode Miller (36) oldest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; bronze in super-G.
• Mikaela Shiffrin (18) youngest gold medalist in slalom in Olympic alpine skiing; gold in slalom.
• Mario Matt (34) oldest gold medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; gold in slalom.
• Henrik Kristoffersen (19) youngest male medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; bronze in slalom.

These records continue:

• Michela Figini (17) youngest gold medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; gold in downhill in 1984.
• Traudl Hecher (16) youngest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; bronze in downhill in 1960.
• Toni Sailer (20) youngest male gold medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; won slalom, giant slalom, and downhill in 1956.

See also

• Alpine skiing World Cup
• FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
• List of Olympic venues in alpine skiing

External links

• FIS-Ski.com – Alpine skiing results – Winter Olympics
• Sports Reference – Winter Olympics – Alpine skiing
• Ski-db.com – results – Winter Olympics
  • Olympic medalists – men
  • Olympic medalists – women