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Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Shiffrin surpassed Ingemar Stenmark's long-standing record of 86 World Cup wins in March 2023, and has continued to extend the record well past 100 wins since, a total now considered the most statistically dominant career in alpine skiing history across either gender. She's won multiple Olympic gold medals, including slalom golds at the 2014 Sochi and 2018 Pyeongchang Games, along with six overall World Cup titles, a combination of single-event specialization and season-long, multi-discipline consistency that few skiers in the sport's history have matched simultaneously. Shiffrin's technical slalom ability is widely regarded as among the most precise the sport has ever produced, and unlike many of history's great technical specialists, she's also won World Cup races in speed disciplines like downhill and super-G, giving her wins across every event alpine skiing offers rather than concentrated dominance in just one or two. Her father's death in 2020 and a series of serious crashes, including a frightening high-speed fall at the 2024 World Cup season, have tested her career at multiple points, and her ability to return to record-breaking form after each setback is a significant part of why she's now widely considered the greatest alpine skier, male or female, in the sport's history.
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Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba, nicknamed "La Bomba," won gold medals in both the slalom and giant slalom at the 1988 Calgary Olympics as a 21-year-old, announcing himself as the sport's next dominant technical skier and instantly becoming one of Italy's biggest sports stars. He added a third Olympic gold in giant slalom at the 1992 Albertville Games and a silver in slalom, then closed his Olympic career with another slalom silver at the 1994 Lillehammer Games, giving him five total Olympic medals across three consecutive Winter Games — a level of Olympic-cycle consistency few technical skiers have matched. Tomba's flamboyant, outsized personality off the slopes — confident to the point of brash, and a fixture of Italian tabloid coverage for his personal life as much as his skiing — made him one of the sport's most recognizable global stars during an era when alpine skiing drew some of its largest television audiences. He won 50 World Cup races across his career, concentrated almost entirely in slalom and giant slalom, and his combination of technical dominance, Olympic longevity, and larger-than-life public persona made him Italian winter sports' biggest star for the better part of a decade.
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