# 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.
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

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 | 100 | 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 | FIS Alpine World Ski Championships |
| Super-G | FIS Alpine World Ski Championships |
| Giant slalom | FIS Alpine World Ski Championships |
| Slalom | FIS Alpine World Ski Championships |
| Parallel | FIS Alpine World Ski Championships |
Nordic skiing :
| Disciplines | World Championships |
| Cross-country skiing | FIS Nordic World Ski Championships |
| Ski jumping | FIS Nordic World Ski Championships |
| Nordic combined | FIS Nordic World Ski Championships |
| Ski flying | FIS Ski Flying World Championships |
Freestyle skiing :
| Disciplines | World Championships |
| Moguls | FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships |
| Aerials | FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships |
| Skicross | FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships |
| Half-pipe | FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships |
| Big air | FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships |
| Ski Ballet/Acro Ski | (defunct with FIS) |
Snowboarding :
| Disciplines | World Championships |
| Parallel giant slalom | FIS Snowboarding World Championships |
| Parallel slalom | FIS Snowboarding World Championships |
| Big air | FIS Snowboarding World Championships |
| Slopestyle | FIS Snowboarding World Championships |
| Snowboard cross | FIS Snowboarding World Championships |
| Half-pipe | FIS Snowboarding World Championships |
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 |
| Freeride skiing | Freeride World Tour |
| 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, early international cross-country races (Adelboden, 1903), international participation at Holmenkollen (1903) 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. 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. 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)
* 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

| # | 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 |
| 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
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* Morocco
* Mexico
* Moldova
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* Mongolia
* Montenegro
* Nepal
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
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* Pakistan
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* Portugal
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* Romania
* Russia
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* Slovakia
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* South Africa
* Spain
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* 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

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)