International Ski and Snowboard Federation

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation, also known as FIS (French: Fédération Internationale de Ski et de Snowboard), is the highest international governing body for skiing and snowboarding. It was previously known as the International Ski Federation (Fédération Internationale de Ski) until 26 May 2022 when the name was changed to include snowboard.^{[9][2][10][11]}

International Ski and Snowboard Federation

Sport	Skiing[1] and Snowboarding[2]
Jurisdiction	International
Membership	132 members[1]
Abbreviation	FIS
Founded	2 February 1924; 100 years ago (1924-02-02)[1] in Chamonix, France
Affiliation	IOC[3]
Headquarters	Marc Hodler House Blochstrasse 2 Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland
President	Johan Eliasch
Vice president(s)	Roman Kumpost (2021)[4] Dexter Paine (2021)[5] Aki Murasato (2016)[6] Peter Schroecksnadel (2021)[7]
Secretary	Michel Vion
Operating income	CHF 14.6 million (2018)[8]
Official website
www.fis-ski.com
Official languages: English, French, German and Russian[3]

Founded on 2 February 1924 in Chamonix, France during the inaugural Winter Olympic Games, FIS is responsible for the Olympic skiing disciplines, namely Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding. The FIS is also responsible for setting the international competition rules. The organization has a membership of 132 national ski associations, and is based in Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland.^[9]

Most World Cup wins

At least 50 World Cup wins in all disciplines run by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation for men and women:

Rank		Wins	Discipline	Code
1	Amélie Wenger-Reymond	164	Telemark skiing	TM
2	Marit Bjørgen	114	Cross-country skiing	CC
3	Conny Kissling	106	Freestyle skiing	FS
4	Mikaela Shiffrin	95	Alpine skiing	AL
5	Mikaël Kingsbury	87	Freestyle skiing	FS
6	Ingemar Stenmark	86	Alpine skiing	AL
7	Lindsey Vonn	82	Alpine skiing	AL
	Therese Johaug	82	Cross-country skiing	CC
9	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	74	Cross-country skiing	CC
10	Karine Ruby	67	Snowboarding	SB
	Marcel Hirscher	67	Alpine skiing	AL
	Jarl Magnus Riiber	67	Nordic combined	NK
13	Sara Takanashi	63	Ski jumping	JP
14	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	62	Alpine skiing	AL
15	Phillipe Lau	58	Telemark skiing	TM
	Simone Origone	58	Speed skiing	SS
17	Jan Bucher	57	Freestyle skiing	FS
	Jan Němec	57	Grass skiing	GS
19	Vreni Schneider	55	Alpine skiing	AL
20	Hermann Maier	54	Alpine skiing	AL
21	Gregor Schlierenzauer	53	Ski jumping	JP
	Edoardo Frau	53	Grass skiing	GS
23	Alberto Tomba	50	Alpine skiing	AL
	Justyna Kowalczyk	50	Cross-country skiing	CC

Updated as of 3 February 2024

Ski disciplines

The federation organises the following ski sport disciplines, for which it oversees the FIS Games as well as World Cup competitions and World Championships:

Alpine skiing

Disciplines	World Championships
Alpine combined	FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
Downhill
Super-G
Giant slalom
Slalom
Parallel

Nordic skiing

Disciplines	World Championships
Cross-country skiing	FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Ski jumping
Nordic combined
Ski flying	FIS Ski Flying World Championships

Freestyle skiing

Disciplines	World Championships
Moguls	FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
Aerials
Skicross
Half-pipe
Big air
Ski Ballet/Acro Ski	(defunct with FIS)

Snowboarding

Disciplines	World Championships
Parallel giant slalom	FIS Snowboarding World Championships
Parallel slalom
Big air
Slopestyle
Snowboard cross
Half-pipe

Para

Disciplines	World Championships
Para-alpine skiing	FIS Para Alpine World Championships
Para-nordic	FIS Para Nordic World Championships
Para-snowboard	FIS Para Snowboard World Championships

Others

Disciplines	World Championships
Grass skiing	FIS sprint slalom, giant slalom, super combined, super-G, parallel slalom – World Cup (s)
Speed skiing	FIS speed skiing championships
Telemark skiing	Sprint, classic, parallel sprint, team parallel sprint – World Cup (s)
Masters	FIS World Criterium Masters (amateur, senior)
Roller skiing	(amateur, senior)

FIS Congress history

Founding and the first years

After ski club federations and national associations were created in Norway (1883 and 1908), Russia (1896), Bohemia and Great Britain (1903), Switzerland (1904), United States, Austria and Germany (all in 1905) and Sweden, Finland and Italy (all in 1908), and competitions had begun such as the Nordic Games,^[12] early international cross-country races (Adelboden, 1903), international participation at Holmenkollen (1903)^[13] and Club Alpin Français (CAF) International Winter Sports Weeks, an international Ski Congress was convened to develop standard rules for international competitive skiing.

The founding of a predecessor association, the International Ski Commission (CIS), was decided on February 18, 1910, in Christiania, Norway by delegates from ten countries to the first International Ski Congress.^[14] This Congress then met every year or so to hear from the CIS and refine and adopt rule changes. The commission was to consist of two members - a representative of Scandinavia and Central Europe. Ultimately, two Scandinavians sat on the commission. A year later, in March 1911, the first internationally valid set of rules was approved. At that time, the commission was enlarged to five members, and Oslo was elected as headquarters.

In 1913, the number of members of the commission was increased to seven: two Norwegians, two Swedes, a Swiss, a German and an Austrian.

On February 2, 1924, in Chamonix as part of the "International Winter Sports Week", which was later to be recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games, 36 delegates from 14 countries (Great Britain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Yugoslavia, Norway, Poland, Romania, US, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary and Italy) decided to found the FIS, which replaced the CIS.

Initially, the FIS was only responsible for Nordic skiing. FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1925 in Janské Lázně, Czechoslovakia, were given status as the first official World Championships. After the Scandinavian countries had relented, it was decided at the 11th FIS Congress (February 24–26, 1930 in Oslo) to also include alpine skiing (downhill, slalom and alpine combined) in the rules. This was upon a proposal by Great Britain, in which the British ski pioneer Arnold Lunn played a major role as co-founder of the Arlberg-Kandahar races. The simple sentence "Downhill and slalom races may be organized" was written into the rules - a sentence that was to change skiing in the long term.^[15] The first FIS Alpine World Ski Championships were held 19–23 February 1931 in Mürren, Switzerland.

Ski flying, a variation of ski jumping, was recognized as a discipline in 1938, but rules were not finalized until after World War II.

List of Ski Congresses

• 1910 – Christiania (I)^[16]
• 1911 – Stockholm (II)
• 1912 – Munich (III)
• 1913 – Bern/Interlaken (IV)
• 1914 – Christiania (V)
• 1922 – Stockholm (VI)
• 1923 – Prague (VII)
• 1924 – Chamonix (VIII)
• 1926 – Lahti (IX)
• 1928 – St. Moritz (X)
• 1930 – Oslo (XI)
• 1932 – Paris (XII)
• 1934 – Sollefteå (XIII)
• 1936 – Garmisch-Partenkirchen (XIV)
• 1938 – Helsinki (XV)
• 1946 – Pau (XVI)
• 1949 – Oslo (XVII)
• 1951 – Venice (XVIII)
• 1953 – Igls (XIX)
• 1955 – Montreux (XX)
• 1957 – Dubrovnik (XXI)
• 1959 – Stockholm (XXII)
• 1961 – Madrid (XXIII)
• 1963 – Athens (XXIV)
• 1965 – Mamaia (XXV)
• 1967 – Beirut (XVI)
• 1968 – Barcelona (XVII)
• 1971 – Opatija (XVIII)
• 1973 – Nicosie (XIX)
• 1975 – San Francisco (XXX)
• 1977 – Bariloche (XXXI)
• 1979 – Nice (XXXII)
• 1981 – Puerto de la Cruz (XXXIII)
• 1983 – Sydney (XXXIV)
• 1985 – Vancouver (XXXV)
• 1988 – Istanbul (XXXVI)
• 1990 – Montreux (XXXVII)
• 1992 – Budapest (XXXVIII)
• 1994 – Rio de Janeiro (XXXIX)
• 1996 – Christchurch (XL)
• 1998 – Prague (XLI)
• 2000 – Melbourne (XLII)
• 2002 – Portorož (XLIII)
• 2004 – Miami (XLIV)
• 2006 – Vilamoura (XLV)
• 2008 – Cape Town (XLVI)
• 2010 – Antalya (XLVII)
• 2012 – Kangwonland (XLVIII)
• 2014 – Barcelona (XLIX)
• 2016 – Cancún (L)
• 2018 – Costa Navarino (LI)
• 2021 – Online (LII)
• 2022 – Vilamoura (LIII)

Presidents

The Crystal Globe trophy awarded by the FIS to the winner of the Alpine Ski World Cup. Similar trophies are awarded in all FIS world cups.

Main article: List of Presidents of FIS

#	Name	Nationality	Term
1.	Ivar Holmquist	Sweden	1924–1934
2.	Nicolai Ramm Østgaard	Norway	1934–1951
3.	Marc Hodler	Switzerland	1951–1998
4.	Gian-Franco Kasper	Switzerland	1998–2021[17][18]
5.	Johan Eliasch	Great Britain  Sweden	2021–present

Members

•  Albania
•  Algeria
•  American Samoa
•  Andorra
•  Argentina
•  Armenia
•  Australia
•  Austria
•  Azerbaijan
•  Bahamas
•  Barbados
•  Belarus
•  Belgium
•  Bermuda
•  Bolivia
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina
•  Brazil
•  British Virgin Islands
•  Bulgaria
•  Cameroon
•  Canada
•  Cayman Islands
•  Chile
•  People's Republic of China
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica
•  Croatia
•  Cyprus
•  Czech Republic
•  Democratic People's Republic of Korea
•  Denmark
•  Dominica
•  Ecuador
•  Egypt
•  El Salvador
•  Eritrea
•  Estonia
•  Eswatini
•  Ethiopia
•  Fiji
•  Finland
•  France
•  Georgia
•  Germany
•  Ghana
•  Great Britain
•  Greece
•  Grenada
•  Guatemala
•  Guyana
•  Haiti
•  Honduras
•  Hong Kong
•  Hungary
•  Iceland
•  India
•  Iran
•  Ireland
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Jamaica
•  Japan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kenya
•  Republic of Korea
•  Kosovo
•  Kuwait
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Latvia
•  Lebanon
•  Lesotho
•  Liechtenstein
•  Lithuania
•  Luxembourg
•  Macau
•  North Macedonia
•  Madagascar
•  Malaysia
•  Malta
•  Morocco
•  Mexico
•  Moldova
•  Monaco
•  Mongolia
•  Montenegro
•  Nepal
•  Netherlands
•  New Zealand
•  Norway
•  Pakistan
•  Panama
•  Palestine
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Philippines
•  Poland
•  Portugal
•  Puerto Rico
•  Romania
•  Russia
•  San Marino
•  Senegal
•  Serbia
•  Slovakia
•  Slovenia
•  South Africa
•  Spain
•  Sri Lanka
•  Sudan
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Tajikistan
•  Thailand
•  Timor-Leste
•  Togo
•  Tonga
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Turkey
•  Ukraine
•  United States
•  Vanuatu
•  United States Virgin Islands
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Uruguay
•  Uzbekistan
•  Venezuela
•  Zimbabwe

Official FIS ski museums

Exhibit at the FIS Skimuseum Damüls in Vorarlberg (Austria)

As of 2017, there are 31 official FIS Ski Museums worldwide in 13 countries which are devoted to the history of skiing, taking into account the region's own history of skiing and tourism.^[19]

List of FIS ski museums

• FIS Skimuseum Damüls, Vorarlberg (Austria)^[20]
• FIS-Winter!Sport!Museum! Mürzzuschlag (Austria)^[21]
• FIS-Landes-Skimuseum Werfenweng (Austria)^[22]
• FIS-Ski-Museum Vaduz (Liechtenstein)^[23]

See also

• Alpine Skiing Europa Cup
• FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
• FIS Cross-Country World Cup
• FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup
• FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
• FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
• FIS Snowboard World Cup
• International Snowboard Federation

References

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4. "Roman Kumpost". FIS-ski.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
5. "Dexter Paine". FIS-ski.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
6. "Aki Murasato". FIS-ski.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
7. "Peter Schroecksnadel". FIS-ski.com. Retrieved 6 March 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
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10. "Behind the decision: It's all in a name". FIS-ski.com. 1 June 2022. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023. the General Assembly voted to formally change the name of the International Ski Federation to be the International Ski and Snowboard Federation ... Since the acronym FIS is widely recognised in the world of international sports, the Organization will remain FIS, but now with "Snowboard" as an official part of the long-form name.
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20. "Kulisse Pfarrhof Ski Museum | Culture | REGION". damuels.travel. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
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23. "Skimuseum ist Geschichte". Vaterland online. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

External links

• Official website
• International Ski and Snowboard Federation's channel on YouTube