title: Hermann Maier
Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová
Truls Ove Karlsen
Macarena Simari Birkner
Janette Hargin
Mathias Berthold
Serge Lang (skiing)
Gabriel Gorce
Irene Epple
1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup
sentences: Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.
 Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (both in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999: 2, and 2005).
 His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank second on the men's all-time list behind Ingemar Stenmark's 86 victories.
 s of 2013 , he holds the record for the most points in one season by a male alpine skier, from 2000–2013, he also held the title of most points in one season by any alpine skier, with 2000 points from the 2000 season.
Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová (born 30 September 1959 in Kežmarok) is a Slovak former alpine skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Winter Olympics, 1980 Winter Olympics, and 1984 Winter Olympics.
In December 1980 she won an Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill in Altenmarkt, becoming the first east European skier to win a World Cup race.
 Her best performance at the Olympics was a fifth place in the downhill in 1984.
 Since retiring from competition she has served as president of the Slovak Skiing Association, as a member of the Slovak Olympic Committee Executive Board, as a member of the International Ski Federation Alpine Commission, and as Deputy Chef de Mission for the Slovak team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
 She is the mother of alpine skier Jana Gantnerová.
Truls Ove Karlsen (born 25 April 1975 in Oslo) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier.
 He made his Alpine Skiing World Cup debut in Sölden in 2001.
 He made a total of 143 World Cup starts, finishing third in a slalom in Sestriere in December 2002 and scoring his only World Cup win in a slalom in Kranjska Gora in February 2004, leading home team-mate Tom Stiansen in a Norwegian one-two ahead of Austrian Mario Matt.
 His best World Cup seasons were 2003 and 2004, where he finished eighth in the slalom standings.
 His best results at the Alpine Skiing World Championships were achieved at the 2007 Championships in Åre, where he finished sixth in the giant slalom and seventh in the slalom.
 He represented Norway at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
 Karlsen announced his retirement from competition in February 2013.
 Since then he has worked as a personal trainer.
 He graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in History and Psychology in 2004, and started studies for a master's degree in law at the University of Oslo in 2013.
Macarena Simari Birkner (born November 22, 1984) is a female skier from Argentina.
 She has represented Argentina in 2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympics, in the Alpine skiing events.
 She also took part in the 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup, where she came 20th in the Women's Combined, and in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009.
 She is the sister of fellow alpine skiers Cristian Simari Birkner and María Belén Simari Birkner.
 She was in a relationship with British former alpine skier Noel Baxter, with whom she has a child.
 Simari Birkner, has set an impressive record having completed all the five Alpine Ski events in both 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
 She shares this record with pluri-medalist Tina Maze.
Janette Hargin (born 4 October 1977, Stockholm) is a Swedish former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
 During her alpine skiing career she won six Swedish national titles and scored six top ten finishes in alpine skiing World Cup races, including a career best of second in a combined in Åre in 2002.
 At the 2002 Winter Olympics she finished 25th in the downhill, 27th in the super-G and 31st in the giant slalom, whilst in 2006 she finished 12th in the combined, 17th in the downhill and 22nd in the super-G.
 Her best result in an Alpine Skiing World Championships was a 12th in the super-G in 2003.
Mathias Berthold (born 18 May 1965) is an Austrian former alpine skier who specialised in the slalom.
 He competed in the 1980s and 1990s.
 His career included twenty-three FIS World Cup starts and one FIS World Cup Podium.
 He subsequently became a coach, serving as coach of the German women's team for a period of seven years, culminating in the team winning three gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
 He was then head coach of the Austrian men's alpine skiing team for four seasons, leading them to two golds at the 2014 Winter Olympics, three overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles (won by Marcel Hirscher) and eight World Championship medals, before announcing his departure in April 2014.
 Shortly afterwards the German Ski Association announced that Berthold would rejoin them as head coach for their men's alpine team.
Serge Lang (June 6, 1920 – November 21, 1999) was a French journalist, alpine skier, and the founder of the alpine skiing World Cup.
 As a journalist he covered alpine skiing, cycling, and other sports for five major publications.
 In the mid-1960s, he envisioned a season-long series of ski races, which became the World Cup skiing circuit.
 He continued to guide the growth of the World Cup and the sport of ski racing over the next two decades.
Gabriel Juan Gorce Yepes (born 2 August 1990 in Madrid) is a visually impaired Spanish B2 classified para-alpine skier.
 He has had several guide skiers including Aleix Suñé, Félix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer.
 He competed in the European Cup and the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup, at the 2009 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
 He was also a competitor in the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
Irene Epple-Waigel (born 18 June 1957) is a German former alpine skier.
 She won a total of 11 Alpine Skiing World Cup races and two World Cups, in giant slalom and combined (both in 1982).
 She also won a silver medal at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in giant slalom.
 In the 1978 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the silver medal in the downhill.
 On 9 January 1983 she won the first women's World Cup Super-G race, held in Verbier.
The 32nd World Cup season began in October 1997 in Tignes, France, and concluded in March 1998 at the World Cup Finals in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
 The overall winners were Hermann Maier of Austria and Katja Seizinger of Germany.

Question: Question: One of the winners of the 1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup held the record for the most point in one season by a male alpine skier in what year? 

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 Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.
 Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (both in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999: 2, and 2005).
 His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank second on the men's all-time list behind Ingemar Stenmark's 86 victories.
 s of 2013 , he holds the record for the most points in one season by a male alpine skier, from 2000–2013, he also held the title of most points in one season by any alpine skier, with 2000 points from the 2000 season. 

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 Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová (born 30 September 1959 in Kežmarok) is a Slovak former alpine skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Winter Olympics, 1980 Winter Olympics, and 1984 Winter Olympics.
In December 1980 she won an Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill in Altenmarkt, becoming the first east European skier to win a World Cup race.
 Her best performance at the Olympics was a fifth place in the downhill in 1984.
 Since retiring from competition she has served as president of the Slovak Skiing Association, as a member of the Slovak Olympic Committee Executive Board, as a member of the International Ski Federation Alpine Commission, and as Deputy Chef de Mission for the Slovak team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
 She is the mother of alpine skier Jana Gantnerová. 

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 Macarena Simari Birkner (born November 22, 1984) is a female skier from Argentina.
 She has represented Argentina in 2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympics, in the Alpine skiing events.
 She also took part in the 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup, where she came 20th in the Women's Combined, and in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009.
 She is the sister of fellow alpine skiers Cristian Simari Birkner and María Belén Simari Birkner.
 She was in a relationship with British former alpine skier Noel Baxter, with whom she has a child.
 Simari Birkner, has set an impressive record having completed all the five Alpine Ski events in both 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
 She shares this record with pluri-medalist Tina Maze. 

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 Janette Hargin (born 4 October 1977, Stockholm) is a Swedish former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
 During her alpine skiing career she won six Swedish national titles and scored six top ten finishes in alpine skiing World Cup races, including a career best of second in a combined in Åre in 2002.
 At the 2002 Winter Olympics she finished 25th in the downhill, 27th in the super-G and 31st in the giant slalom, whilst in 2006 she finished 12th in the combined, 17th in the downhill and 22nd in the super-G.
 Her best result in an Alpine Skiing World Championships was a 12th in the super-G in 2003. 

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 Mathias Berthold (born 18 May 1965) is an Austrian former alpine skier who specialised in the slalom.
 He competed in the 1980s and 1990s.
 His career included twenty-three FIS World Cup starts and one FIS World Cup Podium.
 He subsequently became a coach, serving as coach of the German women's team for a period of seven years, culminating in the team winning three gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
 He was then head coach of the Austrian men's alpine skiing team for four seasons, leading them to two golds at the 2014 Winter Olympics, three overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles (won by Marcel Hirscher) and eight World Championship medals, before announcing his departure in April 2014.
 Shortly afterwards the German Ski Association announced that Berthold would rejoin them as head coach for their men's alpine team. 

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 Gabriel Juan Gorce Yepes (born 2 August 1990 in Madrid) is a visually impaired Spanish B2 classified para-alpine skier.
 He has had several guide skiers including Aleix Suñé, Félix Aznar and Arnau Ferrer.
 He competed in the European Cup and the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup, at the 2009 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
 He was also a competitor in the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. 

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 Irene Epple-Waigel (born 18 June 1957) is a German former alpine skier.
 She won a total of 11 Alpine Skiing World Cup races and two World Cups, in giant slalom and combined (both in 1982).
 She also won a silver medal at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in giant slalom.
 In the 1978 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the silver medal in the downhill.
 On 9 January 1983 she won the first women's World Cup Super-G race, held in Verbier. 

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 The 32nd World Cup season began in October 1997 in Tignes, France, and concluded in March 1998 at the World Cup Finals in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
 The overall winners were Hermann Maier of Austria and Katja Seizinger of Germany. 

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Answer: 2013