
10th: Sofia Goggia, 188,800 Instagram followers: The rise of the Italians in recent years can be seen in the example of Sofia Goggia: The downhill specialist missed the 2014 Olympics because of a cruciate ligament rupture. 2018 was her year: downhill gold at the Olympic Games, overall victory in the downhill World Cup, after all fourth place in the overall World Cup. And she is also more successful on Instagram than her male colleagues from Italy: Dominik Paris, the best Italian alpine skiing professional, has "only" 65,600 followers.

9th: Kjetil Jansrud, 202,500 Instagram followers: Together with Henrik Kristoffersen and Aksel Lund Svindal, Kjetil Jansrud belongs to the Norwegian triumvirate among the world's top alpine athletes. With five Olympic medals - including one in gold - he has been one of the top athletes for years.

8th: Ted Ligety, 276,900 Instagram followers: The US-American is the athletic outsider in this ranking. In the overall World Cup 2017/18 he placed only 40th, yet on Instagram he outdoes almost all of the top athletes. No wonder: the 34-year-old two-time Olympic champion has a great career behind him and has successfully made his comeback despite protracted back problems. Can he attack the world's best once again?

7th: Anna Veith, 345,900 Instagram followers: Anna Veith became a winter sports star under her maiden name Anna Fenninger. The Austrian is the talk of the town with her commitment to animal welfare, but recently, she has been less successful in sports. With 15th place in the overall women's World Cup 2017/18 she was behind all other women in our top 10 ranking.

6th: Felix Neureuther, 354,600 Instagram followers: A German athlete makes it into the top 10 Instagram alpine athletes. Felix Neureuther remains the German winter sports figurehead number one even at the age of 34. And fans of biathlete Miriam Neureuther (formerly Gössner) will also get a glimpse into the life of the winter sports couple.

5th: Lara Gut, 397,300 Instagram followers: After a long injury break, Lara Gut returned in 2017/18 and has not yet been able to follow up on her most successful times. She managed a World Cup victory last season, though. In summer of 2018, Gut married Valon Behrami, the Swiss national soccer player.

4th: Aksel Lund Svindal, 450,600 Instagram followers: With 35 years, Aksel Lund Svindal is the old hand of the men's World Cup. And the Norwegian could end his career rather quickly: during season preparation, he announced that he would end his career immediately if he had the impression that it he couldn't keep up anymore. The overall World Cup winner of 2007 and 2009 is as popular as ever. No other Norwegian athlete has more Instagram followers than Svindal.

3rd: Marcel Hirscher, 476,400 Instagram followers: The dominator of the Men's World Cup in recent years is also the most successful skier on Instagram. The Austrian Marcel Hirscher won the Great Crystal Ball for the overall World Cup in the last seven years.

2nd: Mikaela Shiffrin, 607,200 Instagram followers: Mikaela Shiffrin is the rising star of the winter sports scene. At the age of 23, the US American is already two-time Olympic champion and three-time World champion. Shiffrin, who is rather calm and down-to-earth in public, is already an advertising face for world brands such as Oakley, Bose, Longines or Barilla.

1st Lindsey Vonn, 1.6 Mio Instagram followers: At the age of 33, Lindsey Vonn enters her last World Cup season. Above all, she has one goal: to crack the 86 World Cup victories of Swedish Ingemar Stenmark. To achieve this, the Olympic champion and two-time World champion has to win four more races. On Instagram she is already unbeaten: Vonn, who is often represented in the Yellow Press because of her private life, is by far the Instagram queen of winter sports.
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