Winter Sports Legends
Alpine skiing, cross-country and winter Olympics legends.
The All-Time Greatest Winter Sports Players
Ranked by career honours, records and our FSP GOAT Score.
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All Winter Sports Athletes
Browse 56 of the greatest winter sports players of all time.
Austrian
Marcel Hirscher
Alpine Skier
Austrian alpine skiing legend who won eight consecutive World Cup overall titles and dominated slalo…
Norwegian
Aksel Lund Svindal
Alpine Skier
Norwegian alpine skiing champion whose fearless downhill racing, powerful physique and multiple Worl…
Norwegian
Kjetil André Aamodt
Alpine Skier
Norwegian alpine skiing legend and the most decorated alpine ski racer in Olympic history with four …
Austrian
Hermann Maier
Alpine Skier
Austrian alpine skiing legend nicknamed 'The Herminator' whose explosive power, devastating downhill…
Italian
Alberto Tomba
Alpine Skier
Italian alpine skiing legend nicknamed 'Tomba la Bomba' whose extraordinary flamboyance, devastating…
Swiss
Pirmin Zurbriggen
Alpine Skier
Swiss alpine skiing legend who dominated the sport in the mid-1980s, winning the 1988 Olympic downhi…
French
Jean-Claude Killy
Alpine Skier
French alpine skiing legend who swept all three individual events at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics, win…
Swiss
Vreni Schneider
Alpine Skier
Swiss alpine skiing legend who won three Olympic gold medals across the 1988, 1994 and 1998 Games an…
Swiss
Lara Gut-Behrami
Alpine Skier
Swiss alpine skiing superstar and World Cup overall champion whose exceptional versatility across sp…
Italian
Federica Brignone
Alpine Skier
Italian alpine skiing champion whose exceptional versatility, consistent World Cup performances and …
Italian
Sofia Goggia
Alpine Skier
Italian downhill specialist whose fearless attacking style and multiple World Cup victories have est…
Japanese
Yuzuru Hanyu
Figure Skater
Japanese figure skating legend whose two Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, extraordinary technic…
Russian
Evgeni Plushenko
Figure Skater
Russian figure skating legend whose flamboyant jumps, technical mastery and multiple World and Europ…
American
Brian Boitano
Figure Skater
American figure skating legend whose 1988 Olympic gold medal, famous battle with Brian Orser and ext…
American
Scott Hamilton
Figure Skater
American figure skating champion whose compact, powerful style, back flip signature move and four Wo…
American
Dick Button
Figure Skater
American figure skating legend who was the first person to land a double Axel in competition in 1948…
South Korean
Kim Yuna
Figure Skater
South Korean figure skating legend whose extraordinary technical ability, artistic grace and two Oly…
Russian
Alina Zagitova
Figure Skater
Russian figure skating champion who won the 2018 Olympic title as a 15-year-old teenager, combining …
Norwegian
Johannes Thingnes Bø
Biathlete
Norwegian biathlon superstar and multiple World Championship gold medallist who is considered the fi…
Norwegian
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
Cross-Country Skier
Norwegian cross-country skiing legend who has produced the most dominant performances in Olympic and…
Norwegian
Therese Johaug
Cross-Country Skier
Norwegian cross-country skiing superstar who dominated women's cross-country skiing across a decade,…
German
Felix Loch
Luge
German luge legend who is the most successful luge athlete in Olympic and World Championship history…
German
Georg Hackl
Luge
German luge legend nicknamed 'Hacki' who won three consecutive Olympic gold medals from 1992 to 2002…
American
Lindsey Jacobellis
Snowboard Cross
American snowboard cross legend whose eight World Championship wins and long-awaited Olympic gold at…
Japanese
Ayumu Hirano
Halfpipe Snowboarder
Japanese halfpipe snowboarding champion whose extraordinary amplitude, technical difficulty and mult…
New Zealander
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Slopestyle / Big Air
New Zealand snowboard slopestyle champion and the most decorated female snowboarder in Olympic histo…
Austrian
Anna Gasser
Big Air / Slopestyle
Austrian snowboard big air and slopestyle legend whose three Olympic gold medals and fearless innova…
Czech
Ester Ledecká
Snowboard / Alpine Ski
Czech prodigy who made history by winning Olympic gold in both snowboard parallel giant slalom AND a…
American
Chloe Kim
Snowboarder
Snowboarding's golden girl — two consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medals and the sport's most celeb…
Swedish
Ingemar Stenmark
Alpine Skier
86 World Cup wins — the most by any male alpine skier in history.…
Austrian
Toni Sailer
Alpine Skier
The first to win three alpine gold medals at a single Winter Olympics — the founding legend of Austr…
Austrian
Franz Klammer
Downhill Skier
The Innsbruck 1976 downhill — the most watched and most celebrated single run in alpine skiing histo…
German
Katarina Witt
Figure Skater
Two Olympic gold medals — the most glamorous and commercially successful figure skater of the Cold W…
Norwegian
Sonja Henie
Figure Skater
Three consecutive Olympic gold medals — the figure skater who turned the sport into show business.…
American
Apolo Anton Ohno
Short Track Speed Skater
The most decorated American Winter Olympian — eight medals across three Games.…
American
Picabo Street
Downhill Skier
The most famous American female skier — Olympic gold and comeback from a near-career-ending knee inj…
Norwegian
Björn Dæhlie
Cross-Country Skier
The most successful Winter Olympian in history — eight gold medals across three Games.…
Norwegian
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Biathlete
The most decorated biathlete in Olympic history — 13 medals across six Olympics.…
Polish
Kamil Stoch
Ski Jumper
Three Olympic gold medals and the Four Hills Tournament — Poland's greatest Winter Olympian.…
Canadian
Tessa Virtue
Ice Dancer
The most decorated figure skater in Olympic history — five medals with Scott Moir.…
British
Torvill and Dean
Ice Dance
The most celebrated partnership in the history of figure skating and British Winter Olympic history …
American
Mikaela Shiffrin
Alpine Skier
The most successful alpine skier in history — over 90 World Cup victories and multiple Olympic gold …
American
Lindsey Vonn
Alpine Skier
82 World Cup victories and four overall World Cup titles — Lindsey Vonn is the most successful femal…
American
Eric Heiden
Speed Skater
Five gold medals at Lake Placid 1980 across every speed skating distance — the greatest single-Games…
German
Claudia Pechstein
Speed Skater
Nine Olympic medals and the most decorated Winter Olympian in German history — Claudia Pechstein com…
American
Shaun White
Snowboarder
Three Olympic halfpipe gold medals — Shaun White's dominance of snowboard halfpipe from Turin 2006 t…
French
Martin Fourcade
Biathlete
Five Olympic gold medals and seven consecutive World Cup overall titles — Martin Fourcade is the gre…
American
Tara Lipinski
Figure Skater
The youngest Olympic figure skating champion in history — won gold at Nagano 1998 at just 15 years a…
American
Michelle Kwan
Figure Skater
The most decorated figure skater in US history — five World Championship titles, nine US National Ch…
Norwegian
Marit Bjørgen
Cross-Country Skier
The most decorated Winter Olympian in history — 15 Olympic medals including 8 gold across five Games…
Croatian
Janica Kostelić
Alpine Skier
The most decorated alpine skier from any non-traditional skiing nation — four Olympic gold medals, t…
Dutch
Ireen Wüst
Speed Skater
The most decorated Dutch Winter Olympian — six Olympic gold medals across five Games from 2006 to 20…
American
Bonnie Blair
Speed Skater
America's most decorated female Winter Olympian — five Olympic gold medals across three Games and th…
Japanese
Shizuka Arakawa
Figure Skater
Japan's most celebrated figure skater and the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold medal in f…
Chinese
Eileen Gu
Freestyle Skier
The most commercially successful Winter Olympic athlete of the modern era — two gold medals and one …
American
Nathan Chen
Figure Skater
Olympic champion at Beijing 2022 and three-time World Champion — the most technically advanced men's…
Winter Sports Nations
American
15
athletes
Norwegian
9
athletes
Austrian
5
athletes
German
4
athletes
Italian
3
athletes
Swiss
3
athletes
Japanese
3
athletes
French
2
athletes