The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (, FIS) is the highest international governing body for skiing and snowboarding. It was previously known as the International Ski Federation () until 26 May 2022 when the name was changed to include snowboard.

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.

Most World Cup wins Athletes with at least 50 event wins in any of the FIS World Cups:

RankWinsDisciplineCode1 Amélie Wenger-Reymond164 Telemark skiingTM2 Marit Bjørgen114 Cross-country skiingCC3 Mikaela Shiffrin110 Alpine skiingAL4 Conny Kissling106 Freestyle skiingFS5 Mikaël Kingsbury87 Freestyle skiingFS6 Ingemar Stenmark86 Alpine skiingAL7 Lindsey Vonn82 Alpine skiingAL Therese Johaug82 Cross-country skiingCC9 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo74 Cross-country skiingCC10 Karine Ruby67 SnowboardingSB Marcel Hirscher67 Alpine skiingAL Jarl Magnus Riiber67 Nordic combinedNK13 Sara Takanashi63 Ski jumpingJP14 Annemarie Moser-Pröll62 Alpine skiingAL15 Phillipe Lau58 Telemark skiingTM Simone Origone58 Speed skiingSS17 Jan Bucher57 Freestyle skiingFS Jan Němec57 Grass skiingGS19 Vreni Schneider55 Alpine skiingAL20 Hermann Maier54 Alpine skiingAL21 Gregor Schlierenzauer53 Ski jumpingJP Edoardo Frau53 Grass skiingGS23 Alberto Tomba50 Alpine skiingAL Justyna Kowalczyk50 Cross-country skiingCC

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 skiingDisciplines World Cup World Championships Olympics Alpine combined FIS Alpine Ski World CupFIS Alpine World Ski ChampionshipsYes Downhill Super-G Giant slalom Slalom

+Nordic skiing Disciplines World Cup World ChampionshipsOlympics Cross-country skiing FIS Cross Country World CupFIS Nordic World Ski ChampionshipsYes Ski jumping FIS Ski Jumping World CupYes Nordic combined FIS Nordic Combined World CupYes Ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Cup FIS Ski Flying World ChampionshipsNo +Freestyle skiingDisciplines World Cup World Championships Olympics Moguls FIS Freestyle Ski World CupFIS Freestyle World Ski ChampionshipsYesDual moguls Aerials Ski Cross Halfpipe Big air +SnowboardingDisciplines World Cup World Championships Olympics Parallel giant slalom FIS Snowboard World CupFIS Snowboarding World ChampionshipsYes Parallel slalom Big air Slopestyle Snowboard cross Halfpipe +FreerideDisciplinesWorld CupWorld ChampionshipsOlympicsFreeride skiingFreeride World TourFIS Freeride World ChampionshipsNoFreeride snowboarding +TelemarkDisciplinesWorld CupWorld ChampionshipsOlympicsSprintFIS Telemark World CupFIS Telemark World ChampionshipsNoClassicParallel sprintTeam parallel sprint +Para Disciplines World Championships Para alpine skiing FIS Para Alpine World Championships Para cross-country skiing FIS Para Cross-Country 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 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,Edgeworth, Ron (1994) "The Nordic Games and the Origins of the Olympic Winter Games" Citius, Altius, Fortius early international cross-country races (Adelboden, 1903), international participation at Holmenkollen (1903)Vaage, Jakob (1968) The Holmenkollen Ski Jumping Hill and the Ski Museum Oslo: Tanum OCLC 492547534 Page 19 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 18 February 1910, in Christiania, Norway by delegates from ten countries to the first International Ski Congress.FIS Congress History at FIS 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 2 February 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 ( 24–26 February 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.Ski-ing and Olympism Olympic Review 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

Presidents

# Name Nationality Term1.Ivar Holmquist 1924–19342.Nicolai Ramm Østgaard 1934–19513.Marc Hodler 1951–19984.Gian Franco Kasper 1998–20215.Johan Eliasch 2021–20266.Alexander Ospelt 2026–present

Members

Russia and Belarus suspension

In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, in March 2022 the FIS banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in international competitions.

In October 2025 the FIS decided not to allow them to compete even as Individual Neutral Athletes in qualification events for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Later that year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled against this blanket exclusion, and FIS announced it would comply by allowing eligible Russian and Belarusian competitors to take part in Olympic qualifying races under neutral status.

Official FIS ski museums 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.

List of FIS ski museums

FIS Skimuseum Damüls, Vorarlberg (Austria) FIS-Winter!Sport!Museum! Mürzzuschlag (Austria) FIS-Landes-Skimuseum Werfenweng (Austria) FIS-Ski-Museum Vaduz (Liechtenstein)

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

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