Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Due to the mountainous terrain, alpine skiing is a prominent sport in Austria. Similar sports such as snowboarding or ski jumping are also widely popular and Austrian athletes such as Annemarie Moser-Proll, Hermann Maier and Toni Sailer are widely regarded as some of the greatest alpine skiers of all time. Austria has been the number 1 ski jumping nation for several years. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 it took all 5 gold medals.