100+
Most World Cup victories, all-time
Shiffrin reached 100 victories in the Sestriere slalom on 23 February 2025, having passed Stenmark's 86 at Kronplatz in January 2023. No other racer of either sex has reached 90.
Alpine skiing keeps unusually clean records, because the sport has been timed to the hundredth of a second for decades and the World Cup has run continuously since 1967. The complication is comparability: courses change between years, snow conditions swing the fastest recorded times, and race calendars have grown from around a dozen events a season to roughly forty, which inflates modern career totals against historical ones.
The records below split into three groups: career and season marks from the World Cup, championship medal counts from the Olympics and world championships, and course-specific benchmarks from the classic venues. The classic-course records are the least likely to fall, because course preparation, snow injection and start-gate positions differ from year to year and several were set on unusually fast surfaces in the 1990s.
Records
86
Most World Cup victories, men
Split 46 giant slaloms and 40 slaloms. Stenmark never contested the speed disciplines seriously, meaning the total was compiled from roughly half the available races each season.
8
Most consecutive overall Crystal Globes
Hirscher won every men's overall title for eight straight seasons, breaking Marc Girardelli's men's record of five. Annemarie Moser-Proll's five in a row from 1971 leads the women's list.
6
Most overall Crystal Globes, women
Five consecutive titles from 1971 to 1975, then retirement at 25, a comeback, and a sixth in 1979. Lindsey Vonn's four is the closest any woman has come since.
17
Most wins in a single season
Shiffrin won 17 of the races she entered in 2018-19 across slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and parallel. Vreni Schneider's 14 from 16 starts in 1988-89 is the highest win rate.
2,204
Most World Cup points in a season, women
The highest points total ever recorded by any racer. The modern maximum is theoretically far higher, but no racer has ever scored across all six disciplines at this level in one winter.
2,042
Most World Cup points in a season, men
Odermatt broke Hermann Maier's 2,000-point men's record from 1999-2000, scoring in downhill, super-G and giant slalom in the same campaign.
8
Most Olympic alpine skiing medals
Four golds and four other medals across five Winter Games. Aamodt also won Olympic super-G three times, in 1992, 2002 and 2006, at ages 20 and 34.
4 each
Most Olympic alpine golds
Kostelic won three golds and a silver at Salt Lake City in 2002 alone, then defended the combined title in 2006 — the largest single-Games haul in alpine history.
12
Most world championship golds
The German won twelve individual world titles in six seasons before the war, plus Olympic combined gold at Garmisch in 1936. No racer since has come within four.
43
Most downhill World Cup wins, women
The largest total by any woman in a single discipline other than Shiffrin's slalom record, and roughly double the next name on the all-time women's downhill list.
161.9 km/h
Fastest speed in a World Cup downhill
Recorded by the Frenchman on the Haneggschuss section of the Lauberhorn at Wengen, the fastest speed ever measured in an alpine World Cup race.
5
Most Hahnenkamm downhill wins
The Swiss won the Streif downhill in 1998, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012, more than any racer in the history of the sport's most demanding classic.
1:51.58
Streif course record, Kitzbuhel
Set on an exceptionally fast surface over the 3,312-metre course. Winning times in most years since have been several seconds slower, and the record has stood for nearly three decades.
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