1924 - 1933
2 February 1924 – Chamonix (FRA) : The official birth of FIS at the first Winter Olympic Games
1931 – Mürren (SUI): A women’s category included in a FIS World Ski Championships, of Alpine Skiing
For the love of snow sports since 1924
FIS general Facts & Figures
100 years
6 Olympic Winter Sports
3 Paralympic Winter Sports
New FIS discipline:
Freeride Skiing and Snowboarding
137 National Ski Associations
76 full members
61 associated members
2 new associated members (Guinea-Bissau
and Qatar)
+30,500 licensed athletes
724 licensed Para athletes and 132 licensed guides
Aerials
Danielle Scott (AUS) successfully defended her World Cup title and secured back-to-back crystal globes.
On the men's side, China's Qi Guangpu's dominated the 2023-24 season, earning him his third aerials World Cup title – the first since 2017.
Credit: Mateusz Kielpinski
Alpine Skiing
Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI) claimed the Overall, Giant Slalom, and Super-G globes. Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) collected another Slalom title, while Cornelia Huetter (AUT) won her first Downhill crystal globe.
Marco Odermatt collected four of the five globes up for grabs (Overall, Giant Slalom, Super-G, and Downhill), while Manuel Feller (AUT) won the Slalom title.
Credit: Agence Zoom
Alpine Snowboard
Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) dominated the women’s category by winning all three individual crystal globes in the same season for the first time in her career – the first woman to do so since Patrizia Kummer (SUI) in 2014.
On the men’s side, Austria’s Benjamin Karl captured the overall and PGS globes, while South Korea’s Sangho Lee clinched his first PSL globe and second career globe after winning the overall title in 2021-22
Credit: Miha Matavz
Cross-Country
Jessie Diggins (USA) enjoyed a career-best season by winning the Overall and Distance globes and the Tour de Ski. She won six World Cups and landed 12 podiums in total.
Linn Svahn (SWE) made a remarkable comeback this season, claiming the globe for the best Sprinter of the Year. Harald Østberg Amundsen (NOR) joined all World Cup weekends to snatch the Overall World Cup title, followed by his countryman Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, who also claimed the Sprint crystal globe.
Credit: NordicFocus
Freeski Halfpipe
Alex Ferreira (USA) walked away from 2023-24 with his second career Halfpipe crystal globe, while also becoming the first pipe skier on the men’s side to win the Freeski overall title. On top of that, with his nine career victories, Ferreira now sits tops on the men’s rankings and behind only Gu on the all-time Freeski Halfpipe World Cup wins list.
Eileen Gu (CHN) claimed the women’s Halfpipe crystal globe in 2023-24 on the strength of four wins and a runner-up finish, while ending up just behind Gremaud on the overall standings.
Credit: Chad Buchholz
Freeski Park
Mathilde Gremaud (SUI) became the first woman to win three Freeski crystal globes in a single season by claiming the Slopestyle, Big Air, and Overall trophies. She set new benchmarks for most Freeski victories in a season (six), most podiums in a season (nine, out of nine starts), and total points (840).
On the men’s side, the American squad was dominant, with Ferreira, Alex Hall. and Mac Forehand sweeping the men’s Freeski overall podium, Hall taking the Big Air crystal globe, and Forehand nabbing the Slopestyle trophy.
Credit: Christian Stadler
Grass Skiing
The Grass Skiing World Cup 2023 featured four stages, and the Czech Republic dominated, clinching all the final rankings in the men's, women's, and nations’ categories.
(Pictured: Czech Martin Bartak competing at home in Predklasteri)
Credit: Martin Štěpánek
Moguls
Mikael Kingsbury (CAN), the “King of Moguls” sealed his 90th World Cup victory at the final event of the season, setting a personal record with ten wins in a single season and setting a new record for the most World Cup wins by a male athlete across any FIS Olympic discipline.
On the women's side, Jakara Anthony, who dominated the past World Cup campaign with 14 victories—breaking Hannah Kearney’s all-time record—completed an extraordinary hat trick by winning all three Crystal Globes in Moguls, Dual Moguls, and Overall standings.
Credit: Mateusz Kielpinski
Nordic Combined
Jarl Magnus Riiber (NOR) had the most successful World Cup season of his career, crowned by claiming his 5th crystal globe as the Overall World Cup winner with 1870 points. He broke the all-time record with ten victories in a row, as well as his own record by winning 16 of 21 individual events.
On the women's side, Ida Marie Hagen (NOR) won 9 of the 15 Individual events, after claiming her maiden World Cup win in Ramsau in December 2023. She collected a total of 1440 points and won the Overall World Cup for the first time in her career.
Credit: NordicFocus
Para Alpine Skiing
Johannes Aigner and his guide Nico Haberl (AUT) secured the Overall and the Giant Slalom globes in the Men Vision Impaired category. Johannes’ sisters, Veronika and her guide Elisabeth, dominated the technical disciplines in the Women Vision Impaired category, while Alexandra Rexova and her guide (SVK) claimed the Overall globe.
The queen and king of the Standing category were Ebba Aarsjoe (SWE) and Arthur Bauchet (FRA). In the Sitting category, it was a first Overall globe for Jeroen Kampschreur (NED), and the third for Anna-Lena Forster (GER).
Credit: Toshihisa Yagi
Para Cross-Country
The 2023-24 season was marked by the return of multiple Paralympic and World Champion Oksana Masters (USA), who tasted victory again at her first race in Toblach, Italy. One of her fiercest rivals, Anja Wicker (GER), claimed the Overall globe of the Women Sitting category.
On the men’s side, Giuseppe Romele (ITA) in the Men Sitting category and Jake Adicoff (USA) in the Men VI category both lifted the globe for the first time.
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Para Snowboard
Brenna Huckaby Clegg (USA) won all three globes at stake in the Women Lower-Limb Category: Overall, Snowboard Cross, and Banked Slalom. She led the way for a dominant American team to win the nations’ standings in both men’s and women’s categories.
The most consistent athletes in their categories, Elliott Noah (USA, Men LL1) and Emanuel Perathoner (ITA, Men LL2) both claimed their first Overall Globe.
Credit: Simo Vilhunen
Ski Cross
David Mobaerg (SWE) claimed the crystal globe in a nail-biting finale where everything was still up for grabs, relegating the formidable Reece Howden (CAN) to second place in both the race and the Overall World Cup standings.
On the women's side, the Ski Cross Queen Sandra Naeslund (SWE) continued her incredible streak, building on her record for the most consecutive World Cup victories in any ski discipline, finishing with 19. She was forced to forfeit the season because of knee problems, opening the way to a Canadian battle, ultimately won by Marielle Thompson.
Credit: GEPA
Ski Jumping
From the very first competition of the season in Ruka (FIN), Stefan Kraft (AUT) made it clear that he would be the man to beat this winter, having built a lead that he would maintain through the whole season.
On the women’s side, Josephine Pagnier (FRA), Eva Pinkelnig (AUT), Yuki Ito (JPN), Alexandria Loutitt (CAN), and Nika Prevc (SLO) were all in contention until the end, with Nika ultimately claiming the overall title.
Credit: NordicFocus
Snowboard Cross
Chloé Trespeuch (FRA) came out on top of the women’s Overall rankings after several near-misses over the years.
The biggest story of the season took place on the men’s side, where Eliot Grondin put together the most successful men’s season in World Cup history to claim the first SBX crystal globe for Canada in a decade.
Credit: Miha Matavz
Snowboard Halfpipe
The Japanese tandem of Mitsuki Ono and Ruka Hirano went back-to-back in the globe department, adding to their 2022-23 triumphs. Ono had one second-place result followed by three straight victories on her way to her repeat globe, while Hirano had podiums in four of his five starts, bringing his career totals to 16 top-3s in 22 World Cups entered.
Credit: Phillip Ruggli
Snowboard Park
Liam Brearley became the first Canadian in World Cup history to claim a Slopestyle title as part of a breakout season that saw him take two victories and a ninth-place finish.
The women’s and men’s Big Air titles went to reigning slopestyle World Champion Mia Brookes (GBR) and Kira Kimura (JPN), respectively.
Credit: Chad Buchholz
Speed Skiing
The season started on the world-record speed track in Vars, with Ricardo
Adarraga (ESP) reaching 190 km/h in the first runs.
Simone Origone (ITA) left
no chance for the competition, securing his 15th globe: a record for a single FIS
discipline.
In the women’s category, world record holder Valentina Greggio (ITA) showcased her exceptional skills, winning all the World Cup races of the season and claiming her 6th Crystal Globe.
Credit: Louis Billy
Telemark
For the very first time, the elusive globe dream came true for Jasmin Taylor (GBR), in both Overall and Sprint. She achieved 11 podium finishes and 5 World Cup wins this season.
On the men’s side, with the exact same records of podium finishes and World Cup wins, Elie Nabot (FRA) also claimed his first Overall globe.
Credit: Sam Decout
The 2023-24 season in numbers
The 2023-24 season in numbers
616 FIS World Cup races across all disciplines
166 FIS World Cup venues
147 Globes and Cups
77 Globe winners / 2023-24 champions
Inside FIS
In January 2024, we announced the release of our newly developed FIS Impact Programme, a sustainability action plan to guide FIS and its key stakeholders through the current and future global sustainability challenges. The Impact Programme has been designed to be a holistic, 360-degree approach to sustainability. Alongside its environmental elements, FIS has also recognized the equal importance of social and economic change and has included several action points and goals on these fronts.
The Programme, which is available here, covers the period 2024-2026 and includes short-, mid-, and long-term projects and goals. It will serve as a roadmap for the coming years, helping FIS to ensure that the next generation can continue enjoy winter snow sports in their natural environment.
The full remaining revenue of the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 was recognized in 2023, which resulted in a higher operating profit than expected: CHF 31.4 million.
After the accounting adjustment for unrealized foreign exchange losses of almost CHF 4 million, some financial gains/losses, as well as some extraordinary and non-recurring income/expenses, we ended the year with a profit of CHF 28.3 million. The profit after special distribution will be carried forward to the next years.
In 2023, an ordinary distribution of about CHF 5 million was paid out to the National Ski Associations (NSAs). In addition, FIS supported the NSAs with a special distribution of CHF 7.5 million and paid out CHF 5 million in prize money, totaling an amount of CHF 17.5 million.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.774 | 12.803 | 12.809 | 12.858 | 12.855 | 12.843 | 10.500 | 15.622 | 17.360 | 17.500 |
As the Junior Nordic World Championships took place in February 2024 in Planica, a crucial component of the event was dedicated to clean sport awareness and education. This year, efforts were made to educate young athletes and their entourage about the importance of anti-doping measures, a mandatory element of the World Anti-Doping Code and the International Standard for Education by WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency).
The International Testing Agency (ITA), in collaboration with the FIS, led the initiative through education ambassador Florence Schelling, a former winter sports athlete.
Anti-Doping in numbers (May 2024 – April 2025)
- 1213 in-competition tests
- 2656 out-of-competition tests
It has been a very busy year for the FIS Media & Marketing division, which has been catalyzing value creation and growth through a few key initiatives
- the centralization of the FIS World Cup media rights
- developing and enhancing our commercial partnership program
- accelerating the transformation of our digital platforms and content
- the further improvement of our international broadcast product
Facts & Figures
SOCIAL MEDIA
- 2.5M followers across all FIS social media channels
- +37% followers year-on-year
- 16.5K posts
- +71% posts than the previous season
Milestones
Decade by decade, moments that define a glorious centennial story
Timeline
1934 - 1943
1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER): Alpine Skiing became an Olympic discipline
1954 - 1963
1956 – Cortina d’Ampezzo (ITA): The first Olympic Games in Italy, where the Winter Games will be held for the third time 70 years later, in Milano Cortina 2026
1944 - 1953
1953 - Germany and Austria: The first edition of the Four Hills Tournament
1974 - 1983
1977 – Sainte-Croix (SUI): The first FIS Junior World Ski Championships, in Nordic. The Alpine Juniors followed five years later in Auron, France
1964 - 1973
1966 – Portillo (CHI): The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup was born at the first – and only –World Championships held in the Southern Hemisphere
1994 - 2003
1996 – Lienz (AUT): The first FIS Snowboard World Championships, two years after having been recognized as a FIS discipline
1984 - 1993
1983 – Sydney (AUS): The Siitonen’s skating style – rather accidentally created by Finn Pauli Siitonen – was officially permitted
1986 – Tignes (FRA): First FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
2014 - 2023
2022: Para snow sports joins the FIS family with Para Alpine Skiing, Para Cross-Country Skiing, and Para Snowboarding
2004 - 2013
2006 – Germany, Italy, and Switzerland: First edition of the FIS Tour de Ski, won by Tobias Angerer (GER) and Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)
2008 – Cape Town (RSA): The FIS Family grows to 110 nations, much because of worldwide development programs
Timeline
1924 - 1933
2 February 1924 – Chamonix (FRA) : The official birth of FIS at the first Winter Olympic Games
1931 – Mürren (SUI): A women’s category included in a FIS World Ski Championships, of Alpine Skiing
1934 - 1943
1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER): Alpine Skiing became an Olympic discipline
1944 - 1953
1953 - Germany and Austria: The first edition of the Four Hills Tournament
1954 - 1963
1956 – Cortina d’Ampezzo (ITA): The first Olympic Games in Italy, where the Winter Games will be held for the third time 70 years later, in Milano Cortina 2026
1964 - 1973
1966 – Portillo (CHI): The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup was born at the first – and only –World Championships held in the Southern Hemisphere
1974 - 1983
1977 – Sainte-Croix (SUI): The first FIS Junior World Ski Championships, in Nordic. The Alpine Juniors followed five years later in Auron, France
1984 - 1993
1983 – Sydney (AUS): The Siitonen’s skating style – rather accidentally created by Finn Pauli Siitonen – was officially permitted
1986 – Tignes (FRA): First FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
1994 - 2003
1996 – Lienz (AUT): The first FIS Snowboard World Championships, two years after having been recognized as a FIS discipline
2004 - 2013
2006 – Germany, Italy, and Switzerland: First edition of the FIS Tour de Ski, won by Tobias Angerer (GER) and Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)
2008 – Cape Town (RSA): The FIS Family grows to 110 nations, much because of worldwide development programs
2014 - 2023
2022: Para snow sports joins the FIS family with Para Alpine Skiing, Para Cross-Country Skiing, and Para Snowboarding