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International Ski Federation

The International Ski Federation / Federation 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.

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
  • giant slalom
  • slalom
• Nordic Skiing
  • cross-country 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, which has its own organisation, IBU.

See also: skiing topics

Footnotes

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

External links

• FIS Homepage

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