She has won two World Extreme Skiing Championships and has other winnings in the U.S. Reichhelm’s credentials take her far back into the world of skiing - showing the world that a women can ski just as hard as the boys and come out on top. That’s a very cool thing to do just by doing a sport I love.” Reichhelm says “A lot of people feel so empowered by their ski experience that it carries into the rest of their lives. For 18 years she has helped run numerous camps, the biggest being Ski With Kim, where women and big-mountain skiing comes first. Like many of the people on our list, Reichhelm is known equally for her medals under her belt as she is for helping advance the sport through teaching people new techniques and basic principals. Legends like Alberto Tomba and Phil Mahre may have given Miller his chance to succeed, but he took it a bit further by smashing their records. Ski team - and be successful - Miller and his “Team America” showed the world that it didn’t matter how much you partied - it just mattered how fast you could go. As one of the first athletes to break away from the U.S. In 2005, Miller won the World Cup Overall title for the second time in his career.Īlthough Miller is known in many circles as a hard-partying jerk, his influence in the ski community is far-reaching. He is also a four-time World Champion in four different disciplines and has a pair of silver medals from the 2002 Winter Olympics. Miller is said to be the most successful American skier in Alpine skiing, with 31 World Cup victories. Suzy Chapstick might not have been the most serious female skier of her time, but her good looks helped resorts book thousands of lift tickets in the 60s and 70s. All of her pursuits ended in 1988 as she was finally inducted into the United States National Ski Hall of Fame. She was also a three-time world freestyle skiing champion (1971-73). skier at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. In the 1970s, Chaffee was seen mostly on Chapstick commercials, but she also made appearances in James Bond movies (performing ski ballet in the opening credits) and in the tabloids as rumors that she was seeing a married Ted Kennedy swirled.Ĭhaffee’s skiing accolades are as impressive as her social ones. Her trademark blonde hair and spandex leotard urged young men around the country to get off the couch and onto the slopes. Suzy Chapstick did as much for the sport on television as she did in the race circuit. Other athletes have since followed his footsteps between the gates and off the slopes.
Instead of letting his skis come apart in the “skating step” between turns, Tomba kept them tight together, which created smoother turns. The spotlight and his success on the podium gave Tomba a well-known ego, as he claimed being “the new messiah of skiing.”Įgos aside, Tomba’s unique slalom style and large frame are really what revolutionized the event.
With his jet-black greased-back hair and Roman good looks, “la Bomba” never had trouble finding a party or a woman. Tomba’s influence on the ski world also comes through his trademark Italian swagger. It all started when at age 21, he beat his idol, Ingemar Stenmark in GS at the World Cup in Sestriere, Italy. He won three Olympic gold medals, two silver medals, a slalom World Championship, and 50 victories on the World Cup. “Tomba la Bomba’s” influence came through his total domination of the ski racing world in the late 80s and early 90s.
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