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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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Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier, nicknamed "The Herminator," survived a violent high-speed crash in the downhill event at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, cartwheeling through two protective fences after losing control at close to 65 miles per hour — and then won gold medals in the giant slalom and super-G just days later at the same Games. That combination of a spectacular, potentially career-ending crash followed almost immediately by two Olympic golds made Maier one of the most talked-about athletes of the 1998 Winter Olympics, and it established a reputation for physical toughness that defined the rest of his career. Maier won four overall World Cup titles and 54 individual World Cup races across his career, a total built on rare versatility across both the technical and speed disciplines, before a serious 2001 motorcycle accident that nearly cost him his leg forced another comeback — one that included a return to World Cup-winning form in 2003. His combination of raw power on the speed disciplines and surprising technical ability in giant slalom, plus two separate comebacks from career-threatening injuries, is why Maier is still frequently ranked among the two or three greatest alpine skiers in the sport's modern history.
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