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Top Female Skiers in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

  • Writer: Raúl Revuelta
    Raúl Revuelta
  • Nov 4
  • 8 min read

Updated: Nov 15

Mikaela Shiffrin, the Greatest Skier of All Time
Mikaela Shiffrin. Picture: Ski Paradise

Leading the group of top female skiers in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is Mikaela Shiffrin, a record-holder with more than 100 victories. Federica Brignone and Lara Gut-Behrami, who were the overall champions in the 2024-2025 and 2023-2024 seasons, respectively, along with Lindsey Vonn, round out the group of active skiers in this elite selection.


In a breathtaking display of talent and determination, Mikaela Shiffrin (Vail, Colorado, March 13, 1995), the winningest alpine skier of all time, reached an incredible milestone last season, claiming 101 wins in 281 races at the Alpine World Ski Cup. Shiffrin claimed her 101 World Cup win in Sun Valley on 27 March 2025.



Mikaela Shiffrin is an all-rounder who has won races in all disciplines. In December 2018, in Lake Louise, 23-year-old Shiffrin became the first skier ever to win in all six FIS World Cup disciplines: Slalom, Parallel Slalom, Combined, Giant Slalom, Super-G, and Downhill.

The 29-year-old US skier has a record of 64 Slalom, 22 Giant Slalom, 5 Super-G, 4 Downhill, 3 City Events, 2 Parallel Slalom, and 1 Alpine Combined.

She finished on the podium 157 times in 281 Alpine Ski World Cup starts. No male or female skier has claimed more podiums in the World Cup than Mikaela Shiffrin.


Mikaela Shiffrin has won the Overall Crystal Globe five times: 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023. Only Marcel Hirscher (8), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (6), and Marc Girardelli (5) won the Overall World Cup at least five times. She goes past Lindsey Vonn as the American with the most Big Globes to her name.


Shiffrin has won 16 Crystal Globes (5 Overall, 8 in Slalom, 2 in Giant Slalom, and 1 in Super-G).


Annemarie Moser-Proell (Kleinarl, Salzburg, March 27, 1953) is a former World Cup Alpine ski racer from Austria and the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with an all-time women's record of six overall titles, including five consecutively  (1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1979). She won 62 World Cup events, ranking her third behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn on the Women's victory record.

Shortly before the start of the 1975-1976 winter season, Annemarie Moser-Pröll surprisingly announced her retirement. She had spent several months caring for her father, who was suffering from lung cancer and died in June 1976. As a result, she missed the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck. Before the start of the 1976-1977 season, she announced her comeback. On December 9, 1976, she made her season debut at the opening race in Val d'Isère, finishing third in the slalom. A week later, she won the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo. This allowed her to immediately re-establish herself among the world's elite, although she missed out on the overall World Cup title twice in a row.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Annemarie Moser-Pröll fulfilled her dream of becoming an Olympic champion by winning the Downhill event. She announced her retirement from competitive skiing at the end of the season.


Lindsey Vonn (St. Paul, Minnesota, October 18, 1984) is one of the world's most successful ski racers. Vonn has 82 Alpine Ski World Cup victories, 138 World Cup podiums, and 20 World Cup titles, including four Overall World Cup Crystal Globes (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012), eight Downhill Crystal Globes (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016), five Super-G (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015), and three Alpine Combined Crystal Globes (2010, 2011, and 2012).

Lindsey Vonn is one of six women to have won Alpine Ski World Cup races in all five disciplines of Alpine Skiing: Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, and Super Combined.

After nearly six years of retirement, Vonn returned to the Alpine Ski World Cup stage on December 21, 2024, finishing 14th in the Super-G in St Moritz.

Lindsey Vonn achieved in the final Super-G of the 2024-2025 season in Sun Valley her first podium in 2656 days, over seven years, since she finished third in a Super-G in Are in March 15, 2018. With her second place, she became the oldest podium finisher in the Alpine Ski World Cup.


Verena "Vreni" Schneider is a former Swiss alpine ski racer and one of the most successful female ski racers in history. She dominated the sport during the late 1980s and early 1990s. A specialist in Giant Slalom and Slalom, Schneider was a three-time overall winner of the Alpine Ski World Cup and won eleven discipline titles. Over her career, she achieved an impressive 55 World Cup race victories, placing her fourth on the all-time list behind Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn, and Annemarie Moser-Pröll.

Schneider's accomplishments also include five Olympic medals, of which three are gold (Calgary 1988 GS and SL, and Lillehammer 1994 SL), and six medals from the Alpine World Ski Championships, including three gold. Throughout her eleven-year career on the Alpine Ski World Cup circuit, she secured at least one podium finish in all five disciplines.

In the 1988-1989 winter season, Schneider won 14 World Cup races, a record that stood until Mikaela Shiffrin surpassed it in the 2018-2019 season. Schneider holds the record for five discipline titles in Giant Slalom, while her previous records of 34 Slalom race wins and 20 Giant Slalom race wins were broken by Marlies Schild in 2013 and Mikaela Shiffrin in 2023, respectively.


Janica Kostelić is a former Croatian alpine ski racer who achieved remarkable success in her sport. She won the overall World Cup three times and earned five World Championship titles. With four gold and two silver medals, she is the most successful female alpine ski racer in Olympic history. Kostelić accomplished 30 World Cup race victories and boasts an impressive total of 55 podium finishes.

She is also one of only seven women to have won World Cup events across all disciplines (1 in Downhill, 1 in Super-G, 20 in Slalom, 2 in Giant Slalom, and 6 in Combined). Furthermore, she is the first Croatian athlete to ever win a medal at the Olympic Winter Games, and to this day, she remains the only female alpine skier to have won four Olympic gold medals—three in Salt Lake City in 2002 and one in Turin in 2006.


Petra Kronberger is a former Austrian alpine ski racer known for her remarkable achievements in the sport. She won two Olympic gold medals at the Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games and was the World Champion in Downhill skiing at Saalbach in 1991. Additionally, she won the overall World Cup title three times and secured a total of 16 World Cup race victories, along with an impressive 35 podium finishes.

During the 1990-1991 winter season, Kronberger's performance was exceptional. In December and January alone, she won a total of eight races, including two each in Downhill, Super-G, and Slalom, as well as one each in Giant Slalom and Combined events. With her Super-G victory on December 9, 1990, in Zauchensee, she became the first female skier to win races in all disciplines (6 in Downhill, 2 in Super-G, 3 in Slalom, 3 in Giant Slalom, and 2 in Combined) and achieved this remarkable feat within a single season.

On December 28, 1992, 23-year-old Kronberger announced her retirement, citing a "lack of motivation." This decision surprised many. Given her significant achievements in sports, she was honored as Austria's Sportswoman of the Year in 1990, 1991, and 1992.


Katja Seizinger is a former German alpine ski racer who is renowned for her remarkable achievements in the sport. With 36 World Cup victories and 76 podium finishes, she ranks among the most successful athletes in Alpine Ski World Cup history and is recognized as the best German skier, surpassing Maria Höfl-Riesch.

Seizinger is a three-time Olympic champion, having won gold medals in Downhill at the Lillehammer 1994 Olympic Winter Games, as well as in both Downhill and Combined events at the Nagano 1998 Olympics. Additionally, she claimed a World Championship title in Super-G at Morioka in 1993.

Throughout her career, she twice won the overall Alpine Ski World Cup and secured nine discipline titles. She also earned a Junior World Championship title. Katja Seizinger was honored as German Sportswoman of the Year three times, in 1994, 1996, and 1998.


Lara Gut-Behrami is a Swiss alpine ski racer known for her outstanding achievements in the sport. She has won a total of eight medals at the World Championships, including two gold, three silver, and three bronze. Additionally, she earned bronze medals at both the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where she also claimed the gold medal in the Super-G event.

In the Alpine Ski World Cup, Gut-Behrami has secured the overall title twice, in the 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 winter seasons. She has also won the Super-G title six times and the Giant Slalom title once. Notably, in 2008, at just 17 years old, she became the youngest winner of a Super-G World Cup race.

With her Sun Valley's victory in the Giant Slalom last season, she became the first woman to do the Alpine Skiing 'triple-double' – 10+ World Cup wins in three disciplines (10 GS, 13 DH, and 24 SG). Hermann Maier (24 SG, 15 DH, 14 GS) and Pirmin Zurbriggen (11 combined, 10 DH, 10 SG) are the only men to have done it.

Since the 2012-2013 winter season, the 34-year-old Swiss skier has secured at least one race win in every season except for 2018-2019. She has claimed 48 World Cup race victories and is in fifth place on the all-time women's list. The only four women with more World Cup wins than her are some of the biggest legends in Alpine skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin (101), Lindsey Vonn (82), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (62), and Vreni Schneider (55).

Gut-Behrami has 101 Alpine Ski World Cup podiums to her name. She became the sixth woman to reach 100 World Cup podiums after Mikaela Shiffrin (157), Lindsey Vonn (138), Annemarie Proell (114), Renate Goetschl (110), and Vreni Schneider (101).




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