Learn all you need to know about the Alpine skiing Olympic qualification system, including important dates and the number of competitors in each event.
306 of the world’s top skiers will compete for honors and the biggest sporting prize—an Olympic medal—at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina.
The men’s races will take place at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio, while the women’s events will take place at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Although they were part of the Beijing 2022 schedule, the men’s and women’s Alpine combined events, as well as the mixed team parallel event, have been dropped from the Milano Cortina 2026 schedule.
At Milano Cortina 2026, men and women will compete in ten different medal events, including downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and team combined.
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At Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, alpine skiing had its Olympic debut; however, only the Alpine combined for men and women was contested. St. Moritz 1948 added slalom and downhill to the program, while Oslo 1952 introduced giant slalom and Calgary 1988 saw the debut of super-G.
The sport has produced many legends over the years, such as Germany’s three-time Olympic champions Katja Seizinger and Maria Hofl-Riesch, the Italians Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni, who each have three Olympic gold medals, and Norway’s Kjetil Andre Aamodt, the most decorated Alpine skiing athlete at the Games.
The sport’s most recent talents include defending super-G champion Lara Gut-Behrami, two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin, and Austrians Matthias Mayer and Johannes Strolz, who have won three and two Olympic gold medals, respectively.
Learn all there is to know about the Alpine skiing Olympic qualification system, including the number of competitors in each event and the qualification schedule.
