What ski racer won more consecutive World Cup Championships and also won a 1976 Winter Olympic gold medal?
Franz Klammer
Franz Klammer
Franz Klammer (born 3 December 1953) is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria.
 Klammer overwhelmingly dominated the downhill event for four consecutive World Cup seasons (1975-78).
 He was the gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, winning the downhill at Patscherkofel by a margin of 0.33 seconds with a time of 1:45.73.
 He won 25 World Cup downhills, including four on the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbühel.
 He holds the record for the most victories (four) on the full course at Kitzbühel.
Franz Heinzer
Franz Heinzer (born April 11, 1962 in Rickenbach, Schwyz, Switzerland) is a former alpine ski racer, who specialized in downhill.
 He was World Cup champion in downhill three consecutive seasons (1991, 1992, 1993), second only to Franz Klammer (4 consecutive).
 He won a total of 15 World Cup downhill races, fourth behind Klammer (25), Peter Müller (19) and Stephan Eberharter (18).
 Together with Franz Klammer, Toni Sailer, Jean Claude Killy, Karl Schranz and Stephan Eberharter, he is considered among the best downhill racers of all time.
 He also won the season title in Super-G in 1991.
2014 Winter Olympics medal table
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held in Sochi, Russia, from 7 February to 23 February.
 A total of 2,873 athletes from 88 nations participated in 98 events in 7 sports across 15 different disciplines.
 Of all athletes, 187 of them representing 26 different countries won medals.
 The Netherlands achieved four podium sweeps in the speed skating, dominating the men's 500 metres, men's 5,000 metres, men's 10,000 metres, and women's 1,500 metres, surpassing the previous record of two podium sweeps.
 Host nation Russia matched the Soviet Union's 1976 achievement of thirteen gold medals and achieved the leading position on the medal table, making the 2014 Winter Games the fourth where the host nation topped the gold medal count.
 Slovenia won its first gold medal in alpine skiing, in the first Winter Olympic gold medal tie.
 Luger Armin Zöggeler of Italy became the first athlete to achieve six Winter Olympic medals over six consecutive games, all achieved at the men's singles event. Diann Roffe
Diann Roffe (born March 24, 1967), also known as Diann Roffe-Steinrotter, is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from the United States.
 Born in Warsaw, New York, she won the Super G at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
 Roffe also won the silver medal in the giant slalom at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France and a gold medal in the GS at the 1985 World Championships in Bormio, Italy at age 17.
 Though she did gain place 8 in the World Cup Giant Slalom Race on March 7, 1984, at Lake Placid (and place 9 in the same discipline on December 15, 1984, at Madonna di Campiglio), she was unknown more or less, when she did compete in that race on February 6 (bib-number 19 is significant for not one of the best racers in that discipline).
 In the progress of the race she finished 5th after the first leg (but only 0.27 sec.
 behind leading teammate Eva Twardokens who finished 3rd at last).
 In the second leg, Diann was outclass - clocked in 1:09.35 she had a margin of 0.77 second in that leg (and altogether 0.60 sec.)
 to the second placed Elisabeth Kirchler. Janica Kostelić
Janica Kostelić (] ; born 5 January 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medalist from Croatia.
 In addition to the Olympics, she has won five gold medals at the World Championships.
 In World Cup competition, she has won thirty individual races, three overall titles, three slalom titles, and four (unofficial) combined titles.
 Kostelic's accomplishments in professional skiing have led some commentators, writers, and fellow ski racers to regard her as the greatest female ski racer of all time.
[a] Marcel Hirscher
Marcel Hirscher (born 2 March 1989) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer.
 Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007.
 He competes primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G. Winner of a record six consecutive World Cup titles, Hirscher has also won nine medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships (six gold) and a silver medal in slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Piero Gros
Piero Gros (born 30 October 1954) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northwestern Italy.
 He won the gold medal in slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, and was the World Cup overall champion in 1974. Benjamin Raich
Benjamin Raich (born 28 February 1978 in Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol) is a retired champion World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Austria.
 With 14 medals won at Winter Olympics and World Championships, 36 World Cup race victories (in all disciplines except downhill), one first place and five second places in the World Cup overall ranking, three victories of the slalom World Cup, three victories of the combined World Cup, two victories of the giant slalom World Cup and the highest score of career World Cup points (ahead of Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt), he is considered among the best alpine racers in World Cup history. Ted Ligety
Theodore Sharp "Ted" Ligety (born August 31, 1984) is an American alpine ski racer, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an entrepreneur, having cofounded Shred Optics.
 Ligety won the combined event at the 2006 Olympics in Turin and the giant slalom race at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
 He is also a five-time World Cup champion in giant slalom (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014).
 Ligety won the gold medal in the giant slalom at the 2011 World Championships.
 He successfully defended his world title in giant slalom in 2013 in Schladming, Austria, where he also won an unexpected gold medal in the super-G and a third gold medal in the super combined.
 Through October, 2015, he has 25 victories (24 in giant slalom and 1 super combined) and 51 podiums in World Cup competition. Kathy Kreiner
Katharine Kreiner-Phillips (born May 4, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.
 She won the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
 First out of the gate on Friday the 13th, Kreiner prevented double gold medalist Rosi Mittermaier from sweeping the women's alpine events, as Mittermaier won the silver medal.