International Ski Federation

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
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

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

External links

FIS Homepage