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Don't base it on the number of victories. Some of these skiers won a lot of races simply by hanging around for a long time. And keep in mind that the Super-G -- where Vonn won 27 of her 77 races -- wasn't added as a discipline in World Cup skiing until 1975, so someone like Annemarie Moser-Proll is at a disadvantage in the career totals.

Stenmark is a good case in point. He's certainly a legend, but I don't think he's even among the top 10 male alpine skiers. In addition to simply having a longer career than most, he was a lot like Alberto Tomba in that didn't even compete in the speed events for most of his career.

The best male alpine skier of all time was Pirmin Zurbriggen -- hands down. He "only" had 40 World Cup victories, but he won four overall World Cup titles and competed in all of the alpine disciplines. At the age of 21 he became the first man ever to win races in all of the disciplines, and his career numbers aren't as high as some others because he was only 27 years old when he retired after winning his fourth overall title.

The best male alpine skier of all time was Pirmin Zurbriggen -- hands down.

I would disagree......on his 10 years on the tour he only won 4 overall titles with the slalom never being one of his victories.

Marc Girardelli on the other hand won 5 overall titles, which included Slalom, Giant Slalom and the Downhill..........

As far as tour victories, Girardelli won 3 Downhill, 9 Super G's, 7 Giant Slaloms, 16 Slaloms and 11 combined victories.