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⛷️Marco Odermatt vs Jean-Claude Killy

Head to head · Ski Racing

Marco Odermatt
#7

Marco Odermatt

Switzerland · 2018-present

VS
#12

Jean-Claude Killy

France · 1961-1968

Stat by stat

40+ World Cup wins 18
4 Overall World Cup titles 2
3 World Championship golds 2
1 Olympic golds 3
1 Olympic medals 3

Bars are scaled to the leader in this list.

The verdict

Marco Odermatt leads 3 of 5 categories. Our all-time ranking places Marco Odermatt at #7 and Jean-Claude Killy at #12.

Head-to-head FAQ

Who leads more shared metrics?
Marco Odermatt leads 3 of 5 shared teaching metrics on this page.
How do the published ranks compare?
Marco Odermatt is ranked #7; Jean-Claude Killy is ranked #12 in this sport’s GOAT list.
Are these live stats?
No — bars and FAQ answers are editorial, scaled teaching marks. Open the GOAT lab to rescale your own selection.

The case for Marco Odermatt

The best all-round male racer since Maier and the man who broke his points record. Odermatt won four consecutive overall Crystal Globes from 2022 to 2025, and in 2022-23 scored 2,042 points, passing the 2,000 Maier set in 1999-2000, while winning globes in giant slalom, super-G and downhill in the same seasons — the rarest achievement in modern racing, since the technical and speed disciplines now demand almost separate training programmes. He won Olympic giant slalom gold at Beijing in 2022 and world titles in downhill and giant slalom at Courchevel-Meribel in 2023, adding a further giant slalom world title at Saalbach in 2025. As of the end of the 2024-25 season he had passed 40 World Cup victories while still in his twenties, and he carries the Swiss team's speed programme, the strongest in the sport, on his results.

The case for Jean-Claude Killy

The shortest great career on this list and one of the most concentrated. Killy won the first two World Cup overall titles in 1967 and 1968, taking 12 of 16 races in the inaugural season — a proportion of a calendar no racer has since approached — and then swept downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968, matching Toni Sailer as the only men to win all three at one Games. He finished with 18 World Cup victories in a circuit that barely existed yet, plus the world combined titles of 1966 and 1968. He retired at 24 and became the sport's first modern commercial star, later co-presiding over the 1992 Albertville Games and sitting on the IOC. His ranking here reflects an obvious limitation of era rather than of talent: there simply was no long circuit for him to dominate.

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