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FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1958, 15th edition, Bad Gastein, Austria, 2–9 February 1958; Toni Sailer won downhill, giant slalom, and combined gold plus slalom silver; Josl Rieder won the slalom; first live-televised major sports event in Austria.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962, held in Chamonix, France, 11–18 February; 18th edition with eight races in downhill, slalom, giant slalom, and combined for men and women.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966, held at Portillo, Chile, August 4–14, 1966; 19th edition, the only alpine worlds in the Southern Hemisphere; 160 athletes from 22 countries; France won 16 of 24 medals, Killy and Goitschel starred.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1968–1982 (odd-year classic era)

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1968–1982 were editions whose Olympic-year races doubled as the Winter Olympics alpine events, with standalone championships at St. Moritz 1974 and Garmisch 1978.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985–1999 (super-G era)

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985–1999 comprise eight editions from Bormio 1985 to Vail 1999, an era defined by the super-G's 1987 debut and an odd-year calendar.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001–2009

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001–2009 were five biennial world championships in alpine skiing, held at St. Anton, St. Moritz, Bormio, Åre, and Val d'Isère.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011–2019

Held across five editions from Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 to Åre 2019, the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships saw Marcel Hirscher achieve seven gold medals, tying the men's record.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021, 46th edition, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 7-21 February 2021. Austria led the medals; Kriechmayr took the men's speed double, Gut-Behrami won two golds, and parallel events debuted.

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2023

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2023, Courchevel-Méribel, 47th alpine skiing world championships, 6-19 February 2023; Switzerland led the medal table, Odermatt and Shiffrin starred, USA won the mixed team parallel.

FIS Cross-Country Long-Distance Cup

The FIS Cross-Country Long-Distance Cup, historically the FIS Marathon Cup, was a season-long points competition over ski marathons run by FIS and Worldloppet from 1999/2000.

FIS Cross-Country Sprint Cup

The FIS Cross-Country Sprint Cup is the sprint-discipline sub-classification of the FIS Cross-Country World Cup, won by the athlete with the most sprint points over the season.

FIS Cross-Country World Cup

FIS Cross-Country World Cup: annual FIS cross-country skiing series with distance and sprint standings, Crystal Globe titles, Tour de Ski stage race, 100-to-1 points, equal men's and women's distances since 2022/23.

FIS Cross-Country World Cup champions and records

The FIS Cross-Country World Cup is the International Ski Federation's season-long ranking series in cross-country skiing, with Overall, Distance, and Sprint titles plus a Nations Cup; an unofficial series dates to 1973–74.

FIS Cross-Country World Cup seasons (men's)

The men's FIS Cross-Country World Cup is a season-long points series organized by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, first held in 1981/82; Johannes Høsflot Klæbo leads career wins with 98.

FIS Cross-Country World Cup seasons (women's)

The FIS Cross-Country World Cup seasons for women record overall crystal globe champions since 1982, led by Elena Välbe with five titles and Marit Bjørgen with 114 race wins.

FIS Cross-Country World Cup venues and host towns

The FIS Cross-Country World Cup venues are the European host towns staging the season-long circuit, including Ruka's floodlit opener and the Tour de Ski's Final Climb at Val di Fiemme.

FIS Cup (ski jumping)

The FIS Cup is the entry-level international ski jumping series run by the International Ski Federation, below the Continental Cup, where one point earns Continental Cup eligibility.

FIS Freestyle Junior World Ski Championships

FIS Freestyle Junior World Ski Championships: annual FIS junior world titles in Moguls, Dual Moguls, Aerials and team events. Held 2026 in Airolo (SUI), 2025 in Almaty, 2027 in Arxan and Duved-Åre.

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021: world titles held across Idre Fjall, Rogla, Almaty, and Aspen after Zhangjiakou's COVID cancellation; Kingsbury and Eileen Gu won twice.

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2023

Bakuriani 2023 FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships, held in Bakuriani, Georgia, 19 February to 5 March 2023; 30 medal events, about 700 athletes from 40+ nations, first FIS World Championship hosted by Georgia.

FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, biennial world championships for freestyle skiing first held in 1986 in Tignes, France; distinct from the X Games and the FIS Freeride World Championships first held in 2026.

FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup park-and-pipe disciplines (halfpipe, slopestyle, big air)

The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup park-and-pipe disciplines are halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air, an annual FIS circuit from late November to late March with a pooled overall title.

FIS Freestyle Skiing Continental Cup circuits

The FIS Freestyle Skiing Continental Cups are international freestyle skiing series sanctioned by FIS that sit below the World Cup, including the Nor-Am and Europa Cups.

FIS Nordic Combined World Cup

FIS Nordic Combined World Cup: annual FIS series combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing, November to March, with Gundersen, Compact, and Mass Start formats and a women's circuit since 2020.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, Liberec, Czech Republic, 18 Feb–1 Mar 2009: 47th edition, 20 events in cross-country, ski jumping, Nordic combined; Norway led with 12 medals (5 gold), 60 medals to 15 nations.

FIS Race series

The FIS Race series is the entry level of international alpine skiing, sitting below the five Continental Cups and giving athletes their first results on the FIS Points List.

FIS Ski Flying World Championships

The FIS Ski Flying World Championships are a biennial world championship in ski flying, the largest-hill variant of ski jumping, first held at Planica in Yugoslavia in 1972.

FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup

FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC), ski jumping's second-tier series since 1993, below the World Cup; 100-to-1 point scale, seven periods, men's COC and women's Intercontinental Cup, gateway to World Cup and Olympic starts.

FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix

FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix, the summer ski jumping series (Sommer Grand Prix) held July-October on plastic-matted hills since 1994; women's tour since 2012; counts for World Cup team qualification, not World Cup points.

FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

FIS Ski Jumping World Cup: the top annual ski jumping and ski flying series since 1979-80 (women from 2011-12), scored by distance, style, wind and gate points toward the crystal globe, with the Four Hills Tournament and Raw Air.