Born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, on May 2, 1983, Tina Maze is the most successful Slovenian World Cup Alpine Ski racer in history.
Maze made her World Cup debut at age 15 in Slovenia in January 1999, in a Giant Slalom race at Maribor.
She won 26 World Cup races and the World Cup Overall title in 2013.
Maze competed in all five alpine skiing disciplines, and she is one of seven female racers who has won in all five World Cup disciplines and one of three to do so in a single season (2013).
With four medals (two gold and two silver), Tina Maze is the most decorated Slovenian skier at the Winter Olympics. At the Olympic Winter Games held in 2014 in Sochi, Tina Maze, and Dominique Gisin made headlines by becoming the first Alpine skiers in history to share gold in the Women’s Downhill. Maze also won the gold medal in Giant Slalom in Sochi 2014.
Tina Maze also won four gold and five silver medals at the Alpine World Ski Championships.
At the 2009 Alpine World Ski Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, Maze won a silver medal in the Giant Slalom, her first medal.
At the 2011 Alpine World Ski Championships held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Tina Maze won the silver medal in the Super Combined finishing +0.09 seconds behind Anna Fenninger. Six days later she added her first gold medal in the Giant Slalom beating Federica Brignone by +0.09 seconds.
The 2012-2013 season was her record-breaking season. These included the most podium finishes in a single season with 24, -the previous record was held by Hermann Maier (22) and Hanni Wenzel and Pernilla Wiberg for women (18)-, the most top-five finishes, 31, compared to 24 for Hermann Maier and Pernilla Wiberg, and the largest points difference to the second-placed woman, 1,313, compared to 743 for Hermann Maier and 578 for Lindsey Vonn.
She began the winter season with a win in the opening giant slalom in Sölden, and the best skier of the winter ended the record-breaking season in the same way she started it, with an inspiring win in the giant slalom in Lenzerheide.
Apart from Vreni Schneider in the winter of 1988-1989, she is the only woman to have finished every giant slalom in a season on the podium. She was also the only woman to have remained at the top of the overall standings for the entire season, a feat only achieved in the Men's World Championship by Bode Miller.
At the 2013 Alpine World Ski Championships held in Schladming, Austria, she won the gold medal in Super-G in the first race at Planai. Three days later she won the silver medal in Super Combined. Maze won another silver medal in Giant Slalom, beaten by Tessa Worley.
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015, held in Vail-Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA, were her last and best overall performance at a World Championship. She started winning a silver medal in the Super-G and continued winning gold in the Downhill and Super Combined.
After a season off, On October 20, 2016, in Soelden, Maze announced her retirement from competitive skiing. She officially ended her career in Maribor, Slovenia, on January 7, 2017, in a Giant Slalom at the venue where she made her Alpine Ski World Cup debut in 1999.
Tina Maze Statistics
Olympic Winter Games Starts: 13
Olympic Winter Games Medals: 4
Olympic Winter Games Victories: 2
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Starts: 32
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Podiums: 9
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Victories: 4
FIS World Cup Starts: 401
FIS World Cup Podiums: 81
FIS World Cup Victories: 26
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