Notable past competitors include Roger Bushell who captained the Cambridge side and won the slalom event in 1931, and physicist Ondrej Krivanek who won the slalom in 1975. A number of Olympic skiers have also competed in the event including James Palmer-Tomkinson who won for Oxford in 1935 prior to competing in the 1936 Winter Olympics (the first Olympics at which Alpine Skiing was an event), his son Charles Palmer-Tomkinson who also won for Oxford in 1961 before attending the 1964 Winter Olympics, and V. Goodwin in 1955.