With his third-place finish in the Wengen slalom, Henrik Kristoffersen has joined the elite club of podium legends. Ingemar Stenmark, Marcel Hirscher, Marc Girardelli and now, ex aequo, Henrik Kristoffersen: in the history of the Alpine Ski World Cup, only these four men have reached triple figures in top-three finishes. Henrik’s Heroes Hundred marks an interim milestone in the career of an exceptional athlete whose hunger for success is far from satisfied.
Just one week earlier, Kristoffersen had secured podium number 99 in Adelboden. Shortly thereafter, he was sidelined by the flu, hardly ideal conditions for making skiing history in Wengen. Yet this is precisely what defines his career: true superstars are revealed on their toughest days.
After the race, Henrik’s energy reserves were clearly running low, but with a hard-earned third place and the 100th podium finish of his career, he had achieved something truly remarkable.
A statement that sends a clear message: even after 264 World Cup races, 100 podiums (including 33 victories), Olympic and World Championship gold, Henrik Kristoffersen’s hunger for success remains far from satisfied.
More than 12 years have passed since the media first referred to Henrik Kristoffersen as a “new face on the podium” on November 17, 2013. Back then, the youngest athlete in the field carved his way to third place in the Levi slalom, finishing behind Marcel Hirscher and Mario Matt. It marked the beginning of an extraordinary career at the very top of the sport, one defined by consistency and an absence of major slumps. It also marked the start of a rivalry between two exceptional talents that would captivate the ski world for years. With a remarkable plot twist: after retiring from racing, Marcel Hirscher founded his own ski brand, VAN DEER–Red Bull Sports — and Henrik Kristoffersen, once his fiercest competitor, later joined him as part of the Race Team.
That only four men worldwide — Stenmark, Hirscher, Girardelli and now Henrik Kristoffersen — have reached the milestone of 100 World Cup podium finishes puts the achievement into perspective. In Henrik’s case, those podiums add up to 3 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds of pure adrenaline, his combined race time in giant slaloms and slaloms that ended on the podium. One might also call it his net working time.
11,549 direction changes between red and blue gates across 27,257 vertical meters. The equivalent of climbing more than three Mount Everests, had he chosen to become a mountaineer rather than an alpine ski racer.
And yet, Henrik’s highlights are still to come. He has won the Kitzbühel slalom twice and claimed victory at the legendary Schladming Night Race four times. From there, he heads to Italy as one of the top favorites, before the World Cup continues in Kranjska Gora. Known simply as “Kranjska” on the World Cup circuit, the venue has become Kristoffersen’s kingdom: in 2022, he won two giant slaloms there to complete a double. In 2025, he achieved his first-ever double of giant slalom and slalom at the same venue. In total, Kristoffersen has celebrated six victories in Kranjska Gora, with 15 of his 100 career podium finishes coming at this single location alone.