Major honours
France is the nation that created the World Cup circuit itself. Journalist Serge Lang conceived it in 1966 with coach Bob Beattie and French team director Honore Bonnet, and the circuit ran its first season in 1967, with France's Jean-Claude Killy winning the inaugural Crystal Globe with 12 wins from 16 races. Killy then swept downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the following year's home Olympics in Grenoble, becoming only the second racer ever to sweep all three golds after Toni Sailer. Jean Vuarnet had earlier redefined speed-discipline aerodynamics with the tucked 'egg' position he popularized at Squaw Valley in 1960, and more recently Alexis Pinturault has continued the technical lineage with multiple world championship titles in giant slalom and combined. Chamonix, host of the first Winter Olympics in 1924, remains one of the sport's symbolic birthplaces.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
The disqualification controversy between Killy and Austria's Karl Schranz at the 1968 home Olympics in Grenoble remains the most famous confrontation between the two nations.