Ski Racing World Cup Title Winners - Men's Slalom

The list of winners of the FIS Skiing Slalom since the event started back in the late 60's are as follows:

Only one winner here, the legendary Swede Ingemar Stenmark, way out in front of the rest with eight titles, four ahead of the next best, Alberto Tomba.

Andre Myhrer's victory in 2012 had elevated Sweden to the top of the table above Austria, with 10 slalom titles, although obviously 8 of the Swedish titles have been won by the legend that is Ingemar Stenmark. However, young Austrian Marcel Hirscher's dominance of the 2013 season and then also the 2014 title has put Austria back on top with 11 titles, and these will surely be the first of many titles for the Austrian superstar. Some of the years have had joint winners from the same nationality, when this has occurred we've counted this as just one title for that nation. So, for instance, in 1969 France effectively had 3 Slalom champions, as 3 out of the 4 joint winners were French (Russel, Penz and Augert), but we've just counted this as a single title for France.

Marcel Hirscher's second place in Lenzerheide in the final race of the season wrapped up the title for the Austrian and also meant that he had achieved a podium finish in every slalom race of the season, an incredible effort for a technical event where just one mistake can see you disqualified or heavily punished by the clock.

It looked like a straight race between Kostelic and Hirscher for the slalom title, until both had nightmares in the 1st run at the final race in Schladming and handed the title to a disbelieving Andre Myhrer, as the Swede's back-to-back wins in the final two races landed him the crystal globe.