Tina Maze (born May 2, 1983) achieved outstanding results in her remarkable career, placing her among the greatest alpine skiers of all time. In the World Cup, she won 26 races – 14 in giant slalom, 4 in slalom, 4 in downhill, 3 in combined, and 1 in super-G – and stood on the podium 81 times. She had the most top-three finishes in giant slalom (28), followed by slalom (17), super-G (17), downhill (11), combined (6), and two parallel slalom events. At the Olympic Games and World Championships, she won 13 medals, including six gold and seven silver. The peak of her career was the 2012/2013 season, when she set a World Cup record with 2,414 points, surpassing Hermann Maier’s 13-year-old record.
Tina Maze began competing in the World Cup at the age of 15, and her first podium came on January 4, 2002, in Maribor, where this photograph was taken by photojournalist Igor Modic. Modic is an exceptional photographer who has worked for over 50 years at the newspaper house Delo, and part of his remarkable photographic work is preserved in a museum.
