International Ski Federation

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The International Ski Federation/Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS)^[1] is the main international organisation of ski sports. Founded by 14 member nations in 1924 in Chamonix, France, today it has a membership of 101 national ski associations and is based in Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland.

The federation organises the following ski sport disciplines, for which it oversees World Cup competitions and World Championships:

• Alpine Skiing (incl Alpine combined)
  • Downhill
  • Super-G (Super Giant Slalom)
  • Giant Slalom (GS)
  • Slalom
• Nordic skiing
  • Cross-country skiing (aka XC skiing)
  • Ski jumping
  • Nordic combined
  • Telemark skiing
• Others/Extreme
  • Freestyle skiing
  • Speed skiing
  • Roller skiing
  • Snowboarding

An exception from the ski sports organised by FIS is the rising-popularity discipline of Biathlon (XC skiing + rifle shooting), which has its own organisation, the International Biathlon Union (IBU).

See also: Skiing topics

Notes

1. ^  The French acronym FIS is used in all languages. FIS has three "official" languages, English, French and German.

External links

• FIS official website