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The 2002 Winter Olympics
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...

, officially known by the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

 as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, was an international multi-sport event
Multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the modern Olympic Games.Many...

 held in Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

, United States, from February 8 through February 24, 2002. A total of 2399 athletes from 77 National Olympic Committee
National Olympic Committee
National Olympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games...

s (NOCs) participated at the Games in 78 events across 15 disciplines.

New events were contested in these Games; skeleton
Skeleton (sport)
Skeleton is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down, during which athletes experience forces up to 5g. It originated in St. Moritz, Switzerland as a spin-off from the popular British sport of Cresta Sledding...

 (introduced for the first time at the 1928 Winter Olympics
1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 11–19, 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics held on its own as they were not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics...

 and not contested since 1948
1948 Winter Olympics
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II; it had been twelve years since the last Winter Games in 1936...

) was re-introduced with events for both men and women, while women's bobsleigh was added to the program. The 78 events in Salt Lake City were an increase from 68 in Nagano at the 1998 Winter Olympics
1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7 to 22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Seventy-two nations and 2,176 participans contested in seven sports and 72 events at 15 venues. The games saw the introduction of Women's ice...

. Both men and women competed at these Games, with 886 female and 1513 male athletes competing.

A total of 407 athletes won at least one medal at the Games. Athletes from Norway
Norway at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Norway competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. The nation enjoyed its best ever results , most notably in the biathlon events, when Ole Einar Bjørndalen swept all four gold medals....

 topped the medal table with the most gold medals, winning 13 golds out of 25 total medals. Germany
Germany at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Germany competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.-Medalists:Germany finished second in the medal ranking with 12 gold medals. The 36 total medals won by German athletes were the most of any nation at these Games, as well at a Winter Olympics...

 won the most medals overall with 36, of which 12 were gold. Host nation the United States
United States at the 2002 Winter Olympics
The United States was the host nation for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.These Games were by far the best home Winter Games for the United States, earning 34 total medals, nearly triple their best previous hauls at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, and the 1932...

 won 34 medals, 10 of them gold. Athletes from 24 of the 77 participating NOCs won at least one medal; and competitors from 18 won at least one gold medal. Athletes from Australia
Australia at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Australia competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, winning two gold medals the nation's best performance at the Winter Games prior to Vancouver.-Medalists:- Overview :...

 and China
China at the 2002 Winter Olympics
The People's Republic of China competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. The team excludes athletes from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, which competed separately as Hong Kong, China. China won its first Winter Olympic gold medal at these Games...

 won their respective nations' first Winter Olympic gold medals, while the Croatian
Croatia at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Croatia competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. Janica Kostelić won four medals , a record for the most medals ever won by a woman skier at a single Olympics...

 and Estonian
Estonia at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Estonia competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.-Medalists:-Men's:- Cross-country skiing:-Men's:-Women's:- Figure skating:- Nordic combined:* Jens Salumäe...

 delegations each won their first Winter Olympic medals of any color. Of the 407 medalists, 55 athletes won more than one medal of any color at the Games. Of the multiple medalists, 31 won at least one gold medal, and 13 won multiple gold medals.

Georg Hackl
Georg Hackl
Georg Hackl is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion. He is known affectionately as Hackl-Schorsch or as the Speeding Weißwurst a reference to what he looks like in his white bodysuit coming down the luge at fast speeds.Hackl was born in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.He won...

 of Germany finished in second in the men's luge singles event, becoming the first athlete to win a medal at five consecutive Games in the same individual event. The United States teams, in the four-man bobsleigh event, won the country's first bobsleigh medals in 46 years. The 2002 Games also saw the first Winter Olympics gold medalists of African origin: Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team...

 of the United States in the women's bobsleigh event, and Canada
Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Canada competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games.These games were the second best ever for Canada, as they finished in fourth place in the medal standings with 17 medals, seven of which were gold.-Medalists:-4th...

's Jarome Iginla
Jarome Iginla
Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . A six-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals, points, and games played, and is second in assists to Al MacInnis...

 in men's ice hockey. The Games were affected by doping problems; four medalists were stripped of their medals as a result of doping disqualifications. Additionally, a judging scandal
2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
At the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, the figure skating competition was the source of much controversy and one of the immediate causes for the revamp of scoring in figure skating.-The competition:...

 in figure skating
Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
-Full Results:Referee:* Sally-Anne StaplefordAssistant Referee:* Junko HiramatsuJudges: Wendy Langton Merja Kosonen Janet Allen Nicolae Bellu Yuri Kliushnikov Volker Waldeck Alexander Penchev Mieko Fujimori Evgenia Bogdanova Jarmila Portová -Ladies:Hughes, fourth after the technical program, skated...

 led to the declaration of joint Olympic champions in the pairs event. Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a Norwegian professional biathlete. He is often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1992, he won his first career medal at the junior world championships. A year later In 1993, after winning a record three junior world championship titles, Bjørndalen...

 was the Games' most decorated athlete, winning four gold medals; Janica Kostelić
Janica Kostelic
Janica Kostelić is a retired alpine ski racer from Croatia. She is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics , and the only woman to win three alpine skiing gold medals in one Olympics ....

 was the best-performing female athlete with three golds and a silver medal. Finnish
Finland at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Finland competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. The nation won all Nordic combined events, most notably Samppa Lajunen, in the individual events.-Medalists:- Alpine skiing:MenWomen- Biathlon:Men...

 athlete Samppa Lajunen
Samppa Lajunen
Samppa Lajunen is a retired Finnish Nordic combined athlete who competed during the late 1990s and early 2000s....

 became the first person to win three Nordic combined gold medals at a single Olympics, while Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann is a Swiss ski jumper, and double Olympic Champion at both 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics.Ammann was born in Grabs, Switzerland, to Margit and Heinrich Ammann and raised in Unterwasser, Switzerland. He has two brothers and three sisters. He married Yana Yanovskaya on 25 June 2010...

 of Switzerland
Switzerland at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Switzerland competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.-Medalists:- Alpine skiing:MenMen's combinedWomenWomen's combined- Biathlon:MenMen's 4 x 7.5 km relay...

, who had not won a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event before the Games, was the surprise performer, winning the gold medal on both the normal and large hills.
Contents
  1. Alpine skiing
  2. Biathlon
  3. Bobsleigh
  4. Cross-country skiing
  5. Curling
  • Figure skating
  • Freestyle skiing
  • Ice hockey
  • Luge
  • Nordic combined
  • Short track
  • Skeleton
  • Ski jumping
  • Snowboarding
  • Speed skating
  • Medal winner changes      Medal leaders      References

    Alpine skiing

    Men's downhill
    Men's combined
    Men's Super-G
    Men's giant slalom
    Men's slalom
    Women's downhill
    Women's combined
    Women's Super-G
    Women's slalom
    Women's giant slalom

    Biathlon

    Men's 20 km individual
    Men's 10 km sprint
    Men's 12.5 km pursuit
    Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

    Halvard Hanevold
    Halvard Hanevold
    Halvard Hanevold , is a Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion. Hanevold won the bronze medal in the men's 20 km individual and the silver medal in the men's 10 km sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics.He also medaled in biathlon events at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter...


    Frode Andresen
    Frode Andresen
    Frode Andresen is a Norwegian biathlete and a cross-country skier. He now resides in Hønefoss, and trains with the Ringkollen Skiklubb.-Early life:...


    Egil Gjelland
    Egil Gjelland
    Egil Gjelland is a former Norwegian biathlete. He is olympic champion in the biathlon relay from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Ole Einar Bjørndalen
    Ole Einar Bjørndalen
    Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a Norwegian professional biathlete. He is often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1992, he won his first career medal at the junior world championships. A year later In 1993, after winning a record three junior world championship titles, Bjørndalen...


    Ricco Groß
    Peter Sendel
    Peter Sendel
    Peter Sendel is a former German biathlete. At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Sendel was a part of the German team that won the gold medal...


    Sven Fischer
    Sven Fischer
    Sven Fischer is a former German biathlete. He trained with the WSV Oberhof club, and was coached by Frank Ullrich and Fritz Fischer and Klaus Siebert...


    Frank Luck
    Frank Luck
    Frank Luck is a former German biathlete. Frank Luck started early with cross country skiing, but in 1980 he went over to biathlon. By 1988 at the age of 21 he had already qualified for the Winter Olympics in Calgary, where he finished sixth in the sprint event...


    Gilles Marguet
    Gilles Marguet
    Gilles Marguet is a French biathlete.He was born in Pontarlier. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he won a bronze medal with the French relay team, in 4 x 7.5 km relay.-References:...


    Vincent Defrasne
    Vincent Defrasne
    Vincent Defrasne is a French biathlete. He won a gold medal in the 12.5 km pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and a bronze medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Julien Robert
    Julien Robert
    Julien Robert is a French biathlete.As a member of the French team, he won bronze at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin....


    Raphaël Poirée
    Raphaël Poirée
    Raphaël Poirée is a retired French biathlete who was active from 1999 to 2007. With his 44 World cup victories and several World Championship medals he ranks among the most successful biathletes ever.-Biography:...

    Women's 15 km individual
    Women's 7.5 km sprint
    Women's 10 km pursuit
    Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

    Katrin Apel
    Katrin Apel
    Katrin Apel is a retired German biathlete. , . Apel now resides in Gräfenroda, and is a member of the SV Eintracht Frankenhain club...


    Uschi Disl
    Uschi Disl
    Ursula Disl is a former German biathlete. , . She resides with her Swedish boyfriend Tomas Söderberg in Austria, and like most German Nordic skiers, is in the military as a border patrol guard...


    Andrea Henkel
    Andrea Henkel
    Andrea Henkel is a German biathlete and the younger sister of Manuela Henkel, a successful cross-country skier. She trains at SV Großbreitenbach...


    Kati Wilhelm
    Kati Wilhelm
    Kati Wilhelm is a German former professional biathlete. Like most German biathletes she is also a member of the German Armed Forces with the rank of master sergeant...


    Ann-Elen Skjelbreid
    Ann-Elen Skjelbreid
    Ann-Elen Skjelbreid is a former Norwegian biathlete from the Hålandsdal area in the Norwegian municipality of Fusa. She is the sister of Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée and is married with fellow Norwegian biathlete Egil Gjelland...


    Linda Tjørhom
    Gunn Margit Andreassen
    Gunn Margit Andreassen
    Gunn Margit Aas Andreassen is a Norwegian biathlete.-Biathlon career:She has won two Olympic medals, bronze in Nagano 1998 and silver in Salt Lake City 2002. Both in biathlon relay...


    Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée
    Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée
    Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée from Hålandsdal, Fusa, near the city of Bergen in western Norway, is a former career biathlete. , . On 20 March 2006, Poirée announced her retirement, effective at the end of the season which ended on 26 March at the Holmenkollen...


    Olga Pyleva
    Galina Koukleva
    Galina Koukleva
    Galina Alekseyevna Koukleva or Kukleva is a former Russian biathlete. At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. Koukleva won a gold medal on the 7.5 km sprint, and was in addition a part of the team that won a silver medal on the relay...


    Svetlana Ishmouratova
    Svetlana Ishmouratova
    Svetlana Irekovna Ishmouratova is a Russian biathlete. She lives in Chelyabinsk and is a soldier by profession.Ishmouratova won the gold in the women's 15 km individual contest at the 2006 Winter Olympics.- Biography :...


    Albina Akhatova
    Albina Akhatova
    Albina Khamitovna Akhatova is a Russian biathlete.At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won bronze medals in the 10 km pursuit and 15 km individual; she originally finished fourth in the individual but was promoted when her teammate Olga Pyleva was disqualified after failing a doping...


    Bobsleigh


    Two-man

    Christoph Langen
    Christoph Langen
    Christoph Langen is a German bobsledder who competed for the West German and German national team from 1985 to 2005...


    Markus Zimmermann
    Markus Zimmermann
    Markus Zimmermann is a German former bobsledder who competed from 1984 to 2004. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won four medals with two golds , one silver , and one bronze...


    Christian Reich
    Christian Reich
    Christian Reich is a Swiss bobsledder who competed from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won a silver medal in the two-man event with teammate Steve Anderhub at Salt Lake City in 2002.Reich also won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one silver...


    Steve Anderhub
    Steve Anderhub
    Steve Anderhub is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He won a silver medal in the two-man event with teammate Christian Reich at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Martin Annen
    Martin Annen
    Martin Annen is a bobsledder who competed from 1996 to 2006. Competing in two Winter Olympics, Annen won a total of three bronze medals ....


    Beat Hefti
    Beat Hefti
    Beat Hefti is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a total of three bronze medals ....

    Four-man

    André Lange
    André Lange
    André Lange is a retired German bobsledder and the most successful bob pilot of all time who competed at senior level from 1998 to 2010. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has won four gold medals. He was born in Ilmenau, Thuringia....


    Enrico Kühn
    Enrico Kühn
    Enrico Kühn is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1995. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Kevin Kuske, André Lange and Carsten Embach....

     
    Kevin Kuske
    Kevin Kuske
    Kevin Kuske is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he has four gold medals and one silver medal....

     
    Carsten Embach
    Carsten Embach
    Carsten Embach is a German bobsledder who competed from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the four-man event with a gold in 2002 and a bronze in 1994....


    Todd Hays
    Todd Hays
    Todd Hays and raised in Del Rio, Texas is an American bobsledder who competed from 1994 to 2006. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

     
    Randy Jones 
    Bill Schuffenhauer
    Bill Schuffenhauer
    Bill Schuffenhauer is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002.-Early years:...

     
    Garrett Hines
    Garrett Hines
    Garrett Hines is an American bobsledder who has competed from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002....


    Brian Shimer
    Brian Shimer
    Brian Shimer is an American bobsledder who has competed from 1985 to 2002. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

     
    Mike Kohn
    Mike Kohn
    Mike Kohn is an American bobsledder who has competed since 1990. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

     
    Doug Sharp
    Doug Sharp
    Doug Sharp is an American bobsledder who has competed from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....

     
    Dan Steele
    Dan Steele
    Dan Steele is an American bobsledder and track and field athlete who competed from the early 1990s to 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002...

    Two-woman

    Jill Bakken
    Jill Bakken
    Jill Bakken is an American Olympic bobsledder who has competed since 1994. As driver, she and partner Vonetta Flowers won the gold medal in Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics for the U.S...

     
    Vonetta Flowers
    Vonetta Flowers
    Vonetta Flowers is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team...


    Sandra Prokoff 
    Ulrike Holzner
    Ulrike Holzner
    Ulrike Holzner is a German bobsledder who competed in the early 2000s. She won a silver medal in the two-woman event with teammate Sandra Prokoff at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Susi Erdmann
    Susi Erdmann
    Susi Erdmann is an East German-German luger and bobsledder who competed from 1977 to 1998 in luge, then since 1999 in bobsleigh...

     
    Nicole Herschmann
    Nicole Herschmann
    Nicole Herschmann is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002....


    Cross-country skiing

    Men's 2 × 10 kilometre pursuit

    None awarded
    Men's 15 kilometre classical
    Men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start
    Men's 50 kilometre classical
    Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay

    Anders Aukland
    Anders Aukland
    Anders Aukland is a professional Norwegian cross-country skier who has won both Olympic and World Championship gold medals. He lives in Oslo....


    Frode Estil
    Frode Estil
    Frode Estil is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. He currently lives in Meråker with his wife Grete whom he married in the summer of 2001. They have two sons, Bernhard, born in August 2002, and Konrad. Estil was classical specialist and also a specialist at succeeding in World Championships...


    Kristen Skjeldal
    Kristen Skjeldal
    Kristen Skjeldal is an Olympic champion and cross country skier from Norway. He has won three olympic medals: two gold and one bronze. He won his first gold medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville...


    Thomas Alsgaard
    Thomas Alsgaard
    Thomas Alsgaard is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. Alsgaard is regarded by many as the best performer of the skate-style in cross-country skiing and many of today's best skiers have studied his technique...


    Fabio Maj
    Fabio Maj
    Fabio Maj is an Italian cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2004. He won two silver medals in the 4 x 10km relay at the Winter Olympics...


    Giorgio Di Centa
    Giorgio Di Centa
    Giorgio Di Centa is an Italian cross country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the individual 50 km freestyle race...


    Pietro Piller Cottrer
    Pietro Piller Cottrer
    Pietro Piller Cottrer is an Italian cross-country skier who won gold medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He was born at Sappada, province of Belluno....


    Cristian Zorzi
    Cristian Zorzi
    Cristian Zorzi is an Italian cross country skier who excels at sprint ski races. He is nicknamed Zorro, for his exuberant character....


    Jens Filbrich
    Jens Filbrich
    Jens Filbrich is a German cross-country skier who has been competing since 1998. He won two medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics with a silver in 2006 and a bronze in 2002...

     
    Andreas Schlütter
    Andreas Schlütter
    Andreas Schlütter is a German cross-country skier who has been competing since 1993. He won 2 medals in the 4 × 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics with a silver in 2006 and a bronze in 2002...


    Tobias Angerer
    Tobias Angerer
    Tobias Angerer is a German cross country skier, and skies with the SC Vachendorf club. He graduated from the Skigymnasium Berchtesgaden in 1996. His occupation is "Sports Soldier"...


    René Sommerfeldt
    René Sommerfeldt
    René Sommerfeldt is a German cross-country skier who competed from 1994 to 2010. He won 2 medals in the 4 x 10 km relays at the Winter Olympics with a silver in 2006 and a bronze in 2002...

    Men's sprint
    Women's 2 × 5 kilometre pursuit
    Women's 10 kilometre classical
    Women's 15 kilometre freestyle mass start
    Women's 30 kilometre classical
    Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay

    Manuela Henkel
    Manuela Henkel
    Manuela Henkel is a German cross-country skier who has competed since 1994. She won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Her best individual finish was 12th in the Individual sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...


    Viola Bauer
    Viola Bauer
    Viola Bauer is a retired German cross-country skier who competed from 1995 to 2007...


    Claudia Kunzel
    Claudia Künzel
    Claudia Nystad is a German top-level woman cross country skier. She represents the sports club WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal...


    Evi Sachenbacher

    Marit Bjørgen
    Marit Bjørgen
    Marit Bjørgen is a Norwegian cross country skier and triple olympic champion from Midtre Gauldal, Norway. Bjørgen is the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history, with twenty-four victories. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with forty-eight...


    Bente Skari
    Bente Skari
    Bente Skari, née Martinsen, is a former cross country skier from Nittedal, Norway. She is one of the most successful cross country skiers ever.-Career:...


    Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen
    Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen
    Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen is a Norwegian cross-country skier. Her first Olympic medal was a silver 4 × 5 km at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she took the bronze medal in the 10 km classical interval start event...


    Anita Moen
    Anita Moen
    Anita Moen, sometimes shown as Anita Moen-Guidon is a former Norwegian Cross-country skier who competed from 1987 to 2003...


    Andrea Huber
    Andrea Huber
    Andrea Huber is a Swiss cross-country skier who competed from 1993 to 2004. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and finished 27th in the individual sprint at those same games....

     
    Laurence Rochat
    Laurence Rochat
    Laurence Rochat is a Swiss cross-country skier who has competed since 1996. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and had her best individual finish with a 15th place in the Individual sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.Rochat's best...


    Brigitte Albrecht Loretan
    Brigitte Albrecht Loretan
    Brigitte Albrecht Loretan is a Swiss cross-country skier who has competed from 1992 to 2002. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and had her best individual finish with a 7th place in the 30 km event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in...


    Natascia Leonardi Cortesi
    Natascia Leonardi Cortesi
    Natascia Leonardi Cortest is a Swiss cross-country skier and Ski mountaineering who has competed since 1988 in the World Cup circuit. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and had her best individual finish with a 10th place in the 30 km...

    Women's sprint

    Curling

    Men's

    Pål Trulsen
    Pål Trulsen
    Pål Trulsen is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion....


    Lars Vågberg
    Lars Vågberg
    Lars Vågberg is a Norwegian curler from Bærum.Vågberg began his international curling career in Sweden. In his first international tournament, he was the second Mikael Hasselborg's 1990 European Curling Championships winning team...


    Flemming Davanger
    Flemming Davanger
    Flemming Davanger is a Norwegian curler from Bærum.In his third World Junior Curling Championships in 1983, Davanger, playing second Pål Trulsen's Norwegian team picked up a silver medal, losing to Canada's John Base in the final...


    Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
    Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
    Bent Ånund Ramsfjell is a Norwegian curler from Asker. He is the younger brother of Eigil Ramsfjell, multiple curling world champion and bronze medallist atthe 1998 Winter Olympics competition in Nagano....


    Torger Nergård
    Torger Nergård
    Torger Nergård is a Norwegian curler.Nergård has curled professionally since 1987 and currently plays third for Team Thomas Ulsrud. At Junior level, he played third at the 1991 and 1992 World Junior Curling Championships for Thomas Due, and skipped his own team in 1996...


    Kevin Martin
    Kevin Martin (curler)
    Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...


    Don Walchuk
    Don Walchuk
    Donald J. Walchuk is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. Until April 26, 2006, Walchuk played third for Kevin Martin's team.Walchuk joined up with Martin prior to the 1996 season...


    Carter Rycroft
    Carter Rycroft
    Carter Rycroft is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic team, skipped by Kevin Martin that won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics...


    Don Bartlett
    Don Bartlett
    Donald "Don" Bartlett is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.Until April 26, 2006, Barlett played lead for Kevin Martin....


    Ken Tralnberg
    Ken Tralnberg
    Kenneth Tralnberg is a Canadian curler and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He lives in St. Albert, Alberta....


    Andreas Schwaller
    Christof Schwaller
    Christof Schwaller
    Christof Schwaller is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Markus Eggler
    Markus Eggler
    Markus Eggler is a retired Swiss curler from Münchenstein.Eggler was the skip of the Swiss team at the 1986, 1987 and 1989 World Junior Curling Championships. At the 1989 event, he won a bronze medal. He then skipped the Swiss team at the World Curling Championships in 1991, 1992 and 1994...


    Damian Grichting
    Damian Grichting
    Damian Grichting is a Swiss curler.Grichting plays in first position and is right-handed.- Teammates :2002 Salt Lake City Olympic GamesAndreas Schwaller, SkipChristof Schwaller, Third...


    Marco Ramstein
    Marco Ramstein
    Marco Ramstein is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.He played for the Swiss team that received a silver medal at the 2001 world championships....

    Women's

    Rhona Martin
    Rhona Martin
    Rhona Martin MBE is a Scottish curler who has skipped the Scotland women's team at both the European and World Championships, but is most famous as the skip of the Great Britain team that claimed the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002.-Early career:For a long time best known in...


    Deborah Knox
    Deborah Knox
    Deborah "Debbie" Knox is a Scottish curler from Lochgelly.Knox was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She played third for Rhona Martin. She was also a member of the team again at the 2006 Winter Olympics as an alternate, however the team did not medal.-References:...


    Fiona MacDonald
    Fiona MacDonald
    Fiona MacDonald is a Scottish curler and Olympic champion, born in Paisley. She received a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...


    Janice Rankin
    Janice Rankin
    Janice Rankin MBE is a Scottish curler and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, with team mates Rhona Martin , Deborah Knox, Fiona MacDonald and Margaret Morton.-References:...


    Margaret Morton
    Margaret Morton
    Margaret Morton is a Scottish curler and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. with team mates Rhona Martin , Deborah Knox, Fiona MacDonald and Janice Rankin.-References:...


    Luzia Ebnöther
    Luzia Ebnöther
    Luzia Ebnöther, born , is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...


    Mirjam Ott
    Mirjam Ott
    Mirjam Ott is skip of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in several Olympic Games contests and has won numerous awards in many other curling events worldwide...


    Tanya Frei
    Tanya Frei
    Tanya Frei is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...


    Laurence Bidaud
    Laurence Bidaud
    Laurence Bidaud is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...


    Nadia Röthlisberger

    Kelley Law
    Kelley Law
    Kelley Law formerly known as Kelley Atkins and Kelley Owen is a Canadian curler from Coquitlam, British Columbia...


    Julie Skinner
    Julie Skinner
    Julie Skinner is a Canadian curler and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Georgina Wheatcroft
    Georgina Wheatcroft
    Georgina Wheatcroft is a Canadian curler.Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1985 for British Columbia...


    Diane Nelson
    Cheryl Noble
    Cheryl Noble
    Cheryl Noble is a Canadian curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Figure skating

    Men's singles
    Women's singles
    Pairs

    Elena Berezhnaya
    Anton Sikharulidze
    Anton Sikharulidze
    Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze is a Russian pair skater. With Elena Berezhnaya, he is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion....

     


    Jamie Salé
    Jamie Salé
    Jamie Rae Salé is a Canadian pair skater. With partner David Pelletier, she is a 2002 Olympic Champion and the 2001 World Champion. Salé & Pelletier's Olympic gold medal was shared with the Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating...


    David Pelletier
    David Pelletier
    David Jacques Pelletier is a Canadian pairs figure skater. With his partner Jamie Salé, he was the co-gold medal winner at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games...

    None awarded
    Shen Xue
    Shen Xue
    Shen Xue is a female Chinese pair skater. With her partner and husband Zhao Hongbo, Shen is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2002 & 2006 Olympic bronze medalist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents Champion and a six-time Grand Prix Final champion.Shen and Zhao were the first...


    Zhao Hongbo
    Zhao Hongbo
    Zhao Hongbo is a male Chinese pair skater. With his partner and wife Shen Xue, Zhao is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2002 & 2006 Olympic bronze medalist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents Champion and a six-time Grand Prix Final champion.Shen and Zhao were the first...

    Ice dancing

    Marina Anissina
    Marina Anissina
    Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina is a French-Russian ice dancer. With partner Gwendal Peizerat, she is the 2002 Olympic champion.- Career :...


    Gwendal Peizerat
    Gwendal Peizerat
    Gwendal Peizerat is a French ice dancer. With Marina Anissina, he is the 2002 Olympic champion, the 1998 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2000 World Champion, and a six-time French National Champion.-Biography:...


    Irina Lobacheva
    Irina Lobacheva
    Irina Viktorovna Lobacheva is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Ilia Averbukh, she is the 2002 Olympic silver medalist, the 2002 World Champion and the 2003 European Champion.- Career :...


    Ilia Averbukh
    Ilia Averbukh
    Ilia Iziaslavovich Averbukh is a Russian ice dancer. With Marina Anissina, he is the 1990 & 1992 World Junior champions. With former wife Irina Lobacheva, he is the 2002 Olympic silver medalist, the 2002 World Champion and the 2003 European Champion.- Career :Averbukh started skating because of...


    Barbara Fusar-Poli
    Barbara Fusar-Poli
    Barbara Fusar-Poli is an Italian ice dancer. With partner Maurizio Margaglio, she is the 2001 World champion, 2001 European champion, and 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. They won eight Italian titles and competed at three Olympics.-Career:Early in her career, Fusar-Poli competed with Matteo Bonfa...


    Maurizio Margaglio
    Maurizio Margaglio
    Maurizio Margaglio is an Italian ice dancer. With partner Barbara Fusar-Poli, he is the 2001 World champion, 2001 European champion, and 2002 Olympic bronze medalist. They won eight Italian titles and competed at three Olympics.- Competitive career :Early in his career, Margaglio competed with...



    Freestyle skiing

    Men's moguls
    Men's aerials
    Women's moguls
    Women's aerials

    Ice hockey

    Men's team

    Ed Belfour
    Ed Belfour
    Edward John Belfour is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.Belfour was born in Carman, Manitoba and grew up playing hockey. He played junior hockey for the Winkler Flyers before going to the University of North Dakota where he helped the school win the NCAA championship in the...


    Rob Blake
    Rob Blake
    Robert Bowlby Blake is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11 season-stint with...


    Eric Brewer
    Martin Brodeur
    Martin Brodeur
    Martin Pierre Brodeur is a French-Canadian ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League career with the New Jersey Devils. In his 19-year tenure with the Devils, he has won three Stanley Cup championships and has been in the playoffs every year but two...


    Theoren Fleury
    Theoren Fleury
    Theoren Wallace "Theo" Fleury is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers, and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League , Tappara of Finland's SM-liiga, and the Belfast Giants of the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League...


    Adam Foote
    Adam Foote
    Adam David Vernon Foote is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He was best known for his physical presence and gritty play as a stay-at-home defenceman....


    Simon Gagné
    Simon Gagné
    Simon Gagné is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League . Prior to Los Angeles, he spent the first 10 seasons of his NHL career with the Philadelphia Flyers and another with the Tampa Bay Lightning.Drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior...


    Jarome Iginla
    Jarome Iginla
    Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . A six-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals, points, and games played, and is second in assists to Al MacInnis...


    Curtis Joseph
    Curtis Joseph
    Curtis Shayne Joseph is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He last played for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League....


    Ed Jovanovski
    Ed Jovanovski
    Edward Jovanovski is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman of Macedonian descent, an alternate captain for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League ....


    Paul Kariya
    Paul Kariya
    Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey winger who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League . Known as a skilled and fast-skating offensive player, he played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators and St...


    Mario Lemieux
    Mario Lemieux
    Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is acknowledged to be one of the best players of all time. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006...


    Eric Lindros
    Eric Lindros
    Eric Bryan Lindros is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Lindros played junior hockey in the OHL for the Oshawa Generals prior to being selected first overall in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques...


    Al MacInnis
    Al MacInnis
    Allan MacInnis is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman who played 23 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues. A first round selection of the Flames in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, he went on to become a 13-time All-Star...


    Scott Niedermayer
    Scott Niedermayer
    Scott Niedermayer is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for two teams: the New Jersey Devils and the Anaheim Ducks. Niedermayer was known for his skating stride, and ability for leading or joining the offensive rush...


    Joe Nieuwendyk
    Joe Nieuwendyk
    Joseph Nieuwendyk is the general manager of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League and a retired Canadian ice hockey player...


    Owen Nolan
    Owen Nolan
    Owen Liam Nolan is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, who is currently a free agent. He has played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames and the Minnesota Wild before signing with...


    Michael Peca
    Michael Peca
    Michael Anthony "Mike" Peca is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League . He most recently played for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. He has also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple...


    Chris Pronger
    Chris Pronger
    Christopher Robert Pronger is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League . Originally selected 2nd overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, Pronger has played for Hartford, the St...


    Joe Sakic
    Joe Sakic
    Joseph Steven "Joe" Sakic is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and current hockey executive. He played his entire National Hockey League career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. In his 20-year tenure, Sakic won the Stanley Cup twice, captured numerous NHL...


    Brendan Shanahan
    Brendan Shanahan
    Brendan Frederick "Shanny" Shanahan is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger who currently serves as the National Hockey League's Vice President of Hockey and Business Development and head disciplinarian. Originally drafted by the New Jersey Devils second overall in the 1987 NHL Entry...


    Ryan Smyth
    Ryan Smyth
    Ryan Alexander Gordon Smyth is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League...


    Steve Yzerman
    Steve Yzerman
    Stephen Gregory "Steve" Yzerman is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League...


    Tony Amonte
    Tony Amonte
    Anthony Lewis Amonte is a retired American professional ice hockey player. He played right wing for the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and the Calgary Flames, all of the National Hockey League...


    Tom Barrasso
    Tom Barrasso
    Thomas Patrick Barrasso is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender who played 18 seasons for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and St...


    Chris Chelios
    Chris Chelios
    Christos Kostas Tselios is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently the Executive Advisor to Ken Holland, the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, a role that Steve Yzerman held before leaving to become general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning.Chelios played...


    Adam Deadmarsh
    Adam Deadmarsh
    Adam Deadmarsh is a former Canadian-American professional ice hockey player who played in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche and the Los Angeles Kings. He is currently an Assistant Coach to Joe Sacco for the Avalanche...


    Chris Drury
    Chris Drury
    Christopher Drury is an American retired professional ice hockey player. Drury is a Hobey Baker Award-winner with Boston University, a Calder Trophy winner with the Colorado Avalanche, a Stanley Cup champion with the Avalanche, a two-time Olympic silver medalist with the United States, and a...


    Mike Dunham
    Mike Dunham
    Michael Dunham is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently the goaltending coach for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...


    Bill Guerin
    Bill Guerin
    William Robert Guerin is an American former professional ice hockey player and current player development coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Guerin played eighteen seasons in the National Hockey League winning two Stanley Cup championships with the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins teams...


    Phil Housley
    Phil Housley
    Phillip Francis Housley is a former American ice hockey player who played for the Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks, and Toronto Maple Leafs...


    Brett Hull
    Brett Hull
    Brett Andrew Hull is a former Canadian-American NHL player and the former Executive Vice President of the Dallas Stars. He is the son of Bobby Hull and nephew of Dennis Hull, both former NHL players. Hull is also known as "The Golden Brett," which is a play off of his father's nickname, "The...


    John LeClair
    John LeClair
    John Clark LeClair is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins...


    Brian Leetch
    Brian Leetch
    Brian Joseph Leetch is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 18 National Hockey League seasons with the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Boston Bruins. He is generally considered one of the top defensemen in NHL history, being particularly noted for his...


    Aaron Miller
    Aaron Miller
    Aaron Michael Miller is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. Over the course of his fourteen year career in the National Hockey League, Miller played for four teams: the Quebec Nordiques, who eventually relocated and became the Colorado Avalanche, the Los Angeles Kings, and the...


    Mike Modano
    Mike Modano
    Michael Thomas Modano, Jr. is a retired American professional ice hockey player, who most notably played for the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars franchise. He is the all-time goal-scoring and points leader amongst American-born players in the NHL, as well as the last active player in the NHL...


    Tom Poti
    Tom Poti
    Thomas Emilio Poti is an ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. He attended Saint Peter-Marian High School for two years. A graduate of the Cushing Academy, Poti moved on to play for Boston University of Hockey East...


    Brian Rafalski
    Brian Rafalski
    Brian Christopher Rafalski is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 15 professional ice hockey seasons for five teams: 11 in the National Hockey League for two teams , three in SM-liiga for two teams prior to entering the NHL, and one in Elitserien for...


    Mike Richter
    Mike Richter
    Michael Thomas Richter is a former ice hockey goaltender. One of the most successful American-born goaltenders in history, he is best known for having led the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup title in 1994 and for repeatedly representing the United States in international play. Due to his...


    Jeremy Roenick
    Jeremy Roenick
    Jeremy Shaffer "J.R." Roenick is a former American professional ice hockey player who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League . He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks over the course of his 18 NHL...


    Brian Rolston
    Brian Rolston
    Brian Lee Rolston is a professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. He has won a Stanley Cup Championship with the New Jersey Devils in 1995, and the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 playing for Team USA...


    Gary Suter
    Gary Suter
    Gary Lee Suter is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. He played his junior hockey for the Dubuque Fighting Saints, high school hockey at Culver Military Academy and then moved on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison...


    Keith Tkachuk
    Keith Tkachuk
    Keith Matthew Tkachuk is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played for four teams and three franchises in his 19-year career. He is one of only four American-born players to score 500 goals, and is the sixth American player to score 1,000 points.- Playing career :Tkachuk began...


    Doug Weight
    Doug Weight
    Douglas Daniel Weight is a retired American professional ice hockey player who is currently an Assistant Coach and Special Assistant to the General Manager for the New York Islanders. During his 19-year National Hockey League career, he played for the New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Carolina...


    Mike York
    Mike York
    Michael York is an American professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for the Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga .-Playing career:...


    Scott Young

    Maxim Afinogenov
    Maxim Afinogenov
    Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a member of the SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League . Known for his blistering skating speed, he was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres 69th overall in 1997 and played nine seasons with the club. He played...


    Ilya Bryzgalov
    Ilya Bryzgalov
    Ilya Nikolayevich Bryzgalov is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League after being acquired by the team on June 7, 2011. He was selected in the second round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 44th overall, by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.In...


    Pavel Bure
    Pavel Bure
    Pavel Vladimirovich Bure is a retired Russian professional ice hockey right winger. Nicknamed "The Russian Rocket" for his speed, Bure played for 12 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers...


    Valeri Bure
    Valeri Bure
    Valeri Vladimirovich Bure is a retired professional ice hockey right winger from Russia. He played ten seasons in the National Hockey League...


    Pavel Datsyuk
    Pavel Datsyuk
    Pavel Valerievich Datsyuk is a professional ice hockey player from Russia and alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League . He is known for his stick-handling and is considered the best two-way forward in the game today, having won the Frank J. Selke Trophy in the...


    Sergei Fedorov
    Sergei Fedorov
    Sergei Viktorovich Fedorov is a Russian professional ice hockey forward and occasional defenceman...


    Sergei Gonchar
    Sergei Gonchar
    Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League...


    Darius Kasparaitis
    Darius Kasparaitis
    Darius Kasparaitis is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman. Known by the nickname Kaspar, he has dual citizenship in both the United States and Russia, and he has played for the Russian national ice hockey team.- Playing career :Kasparaitis left Lithuania for Russia at age 14 after...


    Nikolai Khabibulin
    Nikolai Khabibulin
    Nikolai Ivanovich Khabibulin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League...


    Ilya Kovalchuk
    Ilya Kovalchuk
    Ilya Valerevich Kovalchuk is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger who is an alternate captain of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League. Drafted first overall in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers, he began his NHL career in 2001–02 with Atlanta and was...


    Alexei Kovalev
    Alexei Kovalev
    Alexei Vyacheslavovich "Alex" Kovalev is a Russian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League....


    Igor Kravchuk
    Igor Kravchuk
    Igor Aleksandrovich Kravchuk is a Russian former ice hockey defenceman, who spent several seasons in the National Hockey League and also competed internationally for the USSR and Russia.-Playing career:...


    Oleg Kvasha
    Oleg Kvasha
    Oleg "The Chosen One" Kvasha is a Russian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...


    Igor Larionov
    Igor Larionov
    Igor Nikolayevich Larionov is a Russian retired professional ice hockey player, known as The Professor. Along with Viacheslav Fetisov, he was instrumental in breaking the barrier that stopped Soviet players from joining the National Hockey League . He primarily played the centre position, and is...


    Vladimir Malakhov
    Vladimir Malakhov (ice hockey)
    Vladimir Igorevich Malakhov is a Russian retired professional ice hockey player currently under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League...


    Daniil Markov
    Daniil Markov
    Daniil Yevgenyevich "Danny" Markov is a professional ice hockey player and current captain for Vityaz Chekhov of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...


    Boris Mironov
    Boris Mironov
    Boris Olegovich Mironov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is the younger brother of Dmitri Mironov.-Playing career:Mironov began his hockey career with five seasons playing for HC CSKA Moscow...


    Andrei Nikolishin
    Andrei Nikolishin
    Andrei Vasilievich Nikolishin is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Sokil Kyiv of the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine...


    Yegor Podomatsky
    Yegor Podomatsky
    Yegor Gennadievich Podomatsky is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender. His first name is sometimes transliterated as Egor.-Awards:* RHL Rookie of the Year: 1996-1997...


    Sergei Samsonov
    Sergei Samsonov
    Sergei Viktorovich Samsonov is a Russian professional ice hockey forward who is currently an unrestricted free agent.- Playing career :Samsonov was drafted by the Boston Bruins eighth overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Boston drafted Joe Thornton first overall in the same draft...


    Oleg Tverdovsky
    Oleg Tverdovsky
    Oleh Fedorovych "Oleg" Tverdovsky is a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Early years:...


    Alexei Yashin
    Alexei Yashin
    Alexei Valeryevich Yashin is a Russian professional ice hockey player. He is currently a member of CSKA Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League...


    Alexei Zhamnov
    Alexei Zhamnov
    Alexei Yuryevich Zhamnov is a Russian former professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League for the Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins...

    Women's team

    Dana Antal
    Dana Antal
    Dana Antal is a women's ice hockey player. She won a gold medal with Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Prior to joining the Canadian national team, she played collegiate hockey for Cornell University. In her first season, she was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and...


    Kelly Bechard
    Kelly Bechard
    Kelly Bechard is a women's ice hockey player. Bechard competed for Canada at the World Championships in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, she competed for Canada at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City...


    Jennifer Botterill
    Jennifer Botterill
    Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...


    Thérèse Brisson
    Therese Brisson
    Thérèse Brisson is a women's ice hockey player. Brisson played for the Canadian National women's ice hockey team from 1993 to 2005. Brisson was the second oldest member of Team Canada’s gold medal winning team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City...


    Cassie Campbell
    Cassie Campbell
    Cassie Campbell-Pascall is a former Canadian female ice hockey player. She was the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal...


    Isabelle Chartrand
    Isabelle Chartrand
    Isabelle Chartrand is a women's ice hockey player. Chartrand competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City before her 24th birthday. Chartrand was one of the youngest members of the team...


    Lori Dupuis
    Lori Dupuis
    Lori Dupuis is a Canadian women's ice hockey player.-Playing career:She was born in raised just outside of Cornwall, Ontario. Dupuis is a former member of the Cornwall Wolverines of the OWHA. She started with the Wolverines at the age of 10, and won Provincial "C" and "B" Championships...


    Danielle Goyette
    Danielle Goyette
    Danielle Goyette is a retired women's ice hockey player, and has been on the Canadian national team.-Hockey Canada:...


    Geraldine Heaney
    Geraldine Heaney
    Geraldine Heaney is an Irish-Canadian ice hockey head coach and retired defenceman. She is head coach for the University of Waterloo women's hockey team...


    Jayna Hefford
    Jayna Hefford
    Jayna Hefford is a women's ice hockey player. Hefford played forward for the Canadian women's team at the Winter Olympics in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010...


    Becky Kellar
    Becky Kellar
    Becky Kellar is a women's ice hockey player. She currently plays for Burlington in the Canadian Women's Hockey League....


    Caroline Ouellette
    Caroline Ouellette
    Caroline Ouellette is a Canadian ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's ice hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars...


    Cherie Piper
    Cherie Piper
    Cherie Piper is a Canadian ice hockey player residing in Markham, Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and plays for the Brampton Thunder of the Canadian Women's Hockey League...


    Cheryl Pounder
    Cheryl Pounder
    Cheryl Pounder is a women's ice hockey player. Pounder plays defense for the Canadian Women's Hockey League's Mississauga Chiefs, and competed in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics....


    Tammy Lee Shewchuk
    Tammy Lee Shewchuk
    Tammy Lee "Barbie" Shewchuk is a women's ice hockey player. Shewchuk was a member of the 2000 and 2001 gold medal teams at the Women’s World Hockey Championships. She also competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and contributed with two points as Canada captured the Gold Medal...


    Sami Jo Small
    Sami Jo Small
    Sami Jo Small is a women's ice hockey player.-Hockey Canada:Small is a three time Olympian, acting as a third goaltender on the Canadian women's hockey team at Turin and Nagano.-CWHL:...


    Colleen Sostorics
    Colleen Sostorics
    Colleen Sostorics is a retired Canadian women's ice hockey defenseman. She has played extensively for Canada at the international level, including three Olympic gold medals...


    Kim St-Pierre
    Kim St-Pierre
    Kim St-Pierre is a women's ice hockey player.-McGill:In 1998-99, she was the top rookie for the McGill Martlets women's ice hockey team...


    Vicky Sunohara
    Vicky Sunohara
    Vicky Sunohara is a three-time Olympian and is known as one of Canada's all-time most popular female ice hockey players. She was once considered to be the best female ice hockey player in the world and was described as the "Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey"...


    Hayley Wickenheiser
    Hayley Wickenheiser
    Hayley Wickenheiser is a women's ice hockey player from Canada. She was the first woman to play full time professional hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team...


    Chris Bailey
    Chris Bailey (ice hockey)
    Chris Bailey is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Bailey finished her career with the Providence Friars with 27 goals, 49 assists, and 76 points.-External links:*...


    Laurie Baker
    Laurie Baker (ice hockey)
    Laurie Baker is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-Awards and honors:...


    Karyn Bye
    Karyn Bye
    Karyn L. Bye is an ice hockey player. She was the alternate captain of the 1998 Winter Olympics gold-medal winning United States Women's Hockey Team. She has been a member of the US National Team since 1992...


    Julie Chu
    Julie Chu
    Julie Chu is an American Olympic ice hockey player who plays the position of forward on the United States women's ice hockey team and the Montreal Stars. Chu's hometown is Fairfield, Connecticut, although she resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts during her college years while playing hockey for...


    Natalie Darwitz
    Natalie Darwitz
    Natalie Darwitz is an American ice hockey player. Natalie has been the Captain of the US Women's National Team since the start of the 2007-08 season...


    Sara Decosta
    Sara Decosta
    Sara DeCosta is an American ice hockey player from Warwick, Rhode Island, an alumna of Toll Gate High School. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics....


    Tricia Dunn-Luoma
    Tricia Dunn-Luoma
    Tricia Dunn-Luoma is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry.-External links:*-References:...


    Cammi Granato
    Cammi Granato
    Catherine Michelle "Cammi" Granato is a retired American female ice hockey player and one of the first women to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2010....


    Courtney Kennedy
    Courtney Kennedy
    Courtney Kennedy is an American ice hockey player. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics....


    Andrea Kilbourne
    Andrea Kilbourne
    Andrea Kilbourne-Hill is an American ice hockey player. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.A native of Saranac Lake, New York, Kilbourne attended Northwood School in Lake Placid. She played ice hockey at the school until her graduation in 1998. She then attended Princeton...


    Katie King
    Shelley Looney
    Shelley Looney
    Shelley Looney is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Looney played collegiately at Northeastern University from 1991–94, winning multiple awards including ECAC All-Star, 1993 ECAC Tournament MVP and ECAC...


    Sue Merz
    Sue Merz
    Sue Merz is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-External links:*...


    Allison Mleczko
    Allison Mleczko
    Allison Mleczko , is an American ice hockey player. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.Mleczko is a graduate of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut....


    Tara Mounsey
    Tara Mounsey
    Tara Mounsey is an American hockey defenseman who played for the United States Women's Olympic Hockey Team, winning a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.Mounsey played high school hockey at Concord High...


    Jenny Potter
    Jenny Potter
    Jenny Schmidgall-Potter is an American ice hockey player. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, silver medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics, and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics...


    Angela Ruggiero
    Angela Ruggiero
    Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...


    Sarah Tueting
    Sarah Tueting
    Sarah Tueting is an American ice hockey player. She played goalie for the United States women's national ice hockey team. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She grew up in Winnetka, Illinois a Northern suburb of Chicago. She attended...


    Lyndsay Wall
    Lyndsay Wall
    Lyndsay Wall is an American ice hockey player. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics....


    Krissy Wendell
    Krissy Wendell
    Krissy Wendell is an American women's ice hockey player. During the 2004-05 season, Krissy Wendell set an NCAA record for most shorthanded goals in one season with 7. After graduating from Minnesota, she had the career record for most shorthanded goals in a career with 16...


    Annica Åhlén
    Annica Ahlen
    Annica Ahlen is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. Ahlen first represented Sweden internationally at the 1990 IIHF Women's World Championship. In total, she has played in 16 world championships games, with a record of 7 wins, 8 losses and 1 tie...


    Lotta Almblad
    Anna Andersson
    Gunilla Andersson
    Gunilla Andersson
    Gunilla Andersson is an ice hockey player from Sweden. Andersson play Defenceman position for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team...


    Emelie Berggren
    Kristina Bergstrand
    Ann-Louise Edstrand
    Ann-Louise Edstrand
    Ann-Louise Edstrand is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-References:...


    Joa Elfsberg
    Joa Elfsberg
    Joa Elfsberg is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. -References:...


    Erika Holst
    Erika Holst
    Erika Holst is a Swedish ice hockey player. She is a member of the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics....


    Nanna Jansson
    Nanna Jansson
    Nanna Jansson is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-References:...


    Maria Larsson
    Maria Larsson
    Maria Larsson is Swedish politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Party . She is a trained schoolteacher, and is married with three children. She has been a Member of Parliament since 1998 representing Jönköping County, and vice party leader of the Christian Democrat Party since 2003...


    Ylva Lindberg
    Ylva Lindberg
    Ylva Lindberg is a Swedish ice hockey player. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics....


    Ulrica Lindström
    Kim Martin
    Kim Martin
    Kim Kristine Martin is a goaltender for the Sweden women's national ice hockey team. She plays her club hockey with AIK's women's team and has also played with Hammarby IF's junior men's team...


    Josefin Pettersson
    Maria Rooth
    Maria Rooth
    Maria Rooth is a Swedish ice hockey player. She is the only University of Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey player to have her jersey retired above the ice of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center...


    Danijela Rundqvist
    Danijela Rundqvist
    Danijela Rundqvist is a Swedish ice hockey player.-Career:Rundqvist plays hockey at the forward position. She was trained in Kälvesta Iof. In 2001, she joined AIK IF...


    Evelina Samuelsson
    Evelina Samuelsson
    Evelina Samuelsson is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-References:...


    Therese Sjölander
    Therese Sjölander
    Eva Therése Sjölander is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-External links:*, Feb. 13, 2008....


    Anna Vikman
    Anna Vikman
    Anna Vikman is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-References:...


    Luge

    Men's singles
    Women's singles
    Doubles

    Patric Leitner
    Patric Leitner
    Patric-Fritz Leitner is a German luger who competed from 1998 to 2010. Together with Alexander Resch he won the men's doubles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. They also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing sixth...


    Alexander Resch
    Alexander Resch
    Alexander Resch is a German luger who competed from 1998 to 2010. Together with Patric Leitner, he won the men's doubles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. They also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing sixth...


    Mark Grimmette
    Brian Martin
    Brian Martin (luger)
    Brian Martin is an American luger who competed from 1990 to 2010. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 2002 and a bronze in 1998....


    Chris Thorpe
    Chris Thorpe
    Chris Thorpe is an American luger who competed from 1989 to 2002. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 1998 and a bronze in 2002....


    Clay Ives
    Clay Ives
    James "Clay" Ives is a Canadian-born American luger who competed from the early 1990s until his 2002 retirement. Competing in three Winter Olympics , he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City...



    Nordic combined

    Sprint
    Individual Gundersen
    Team

    Jari Mantila
    Jari Mantila
    Jari Mantila is a Finnish nordic combined athlete who competed from 1992 to 2003. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics...


    Hannu Manninen
    Hannu Manninen
    Hannu Kalevi Manninen is a Finnish nordic combined athlete. Debuting at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer at the age of 15, he took his first medal three years later at the age of 18 when he won silver in the 4 x 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships...


    Jaakko Tallus
    Jaakko Tallus
    Jaakko Tapio Tallus is a nordic combined athlete from Finland who won gold and silver medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics...


    Samppa Lajunen
    Samppa Lajunen
    Samppa Lajunen is a retired Finnish Nordic combined athlete who competed during the late 1990s and early 2000s....


    Björn Kircheisen
    Björn Kircheisen
    Björn Kircheisen is a nordic combined athlete from Germany who has competed since 2000...


    Georg Hettich
    Georg Hettich
    Georg Hettich is a German nordic combined skier and Olympic medalist....


    Marcel Höhlig
    Marcel Höhlig
    Marcel Höhlig is a Nordic combined athlete from Germany who has competed since 2000. He won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 4 x 5 km team Competition.-External links:...


    Ronny Ackermann
    Ronny Ackermann
    Ronny Ackermann is a successful German Nordic combined skier.Ackermann started to learn to ski when he was five years old and took up ski-jumping two years later. As of 2004, he belongs to the team of Rhöner WSV Dermbach...


    Christoph Bieler
    Christoph Bieler
    Christoph Bieler is an athlete from Austria competing in Nordic combined who has competed since 1996. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the 4 x 5 km team event with a gold in 2006 and a bronze medal in 2002...


    Michael Gruber
    Mario Stecher
    Mario Stecher
    Mario Stecher is an Austrian Nordic combined skier who has competed since 1994. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won three medals in the 4 x 5 km team event with two golds and a bronze...


    Felix Gottwald
    Felix Gottwald
    Felix Gottwald is an Austrian Nordic combined athlete who competed from 1994 to 2007 and then returned to compete in 2009...


    Short track speed skating

    Men's 500 metres
    Men's 1000 metres
    Men's 1500 metres
    Men's 5000 metre relay

    Jonathan Guilmette
    Jonathan Guilmette
    Jonathan Guilmette is a Canadian short track speed skater who won silver in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...


    Marc Gagnon
    Marc Gagnon
    Marc Gagnon is a French Canadian short track speed skater. He is a four-time Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three Olympic gold medals....


    François-Louis Tremblay
    François-Louis Tremblay
    François-Louis Tremblay is a Canadian short track speed skater and five-time Olympic medalist who competed at the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics....


    Mathieu Turcotte
    Mathieu Turcotte
    Mathieu Turcotte is a Canadian athlete. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec.Turcotte rose to fame within Canada, upon winning the bronze in the men's 1000 m in the short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, with a time of 1:30.563 , and winning a gold as part...


    Éric Bédard
    Éric Bédard
    Éric Bédard is a Canadian short track speed skater who has won 4 Olympic medals . He participated in three individual events at the 2006 Winter Olympics and finished fourth in the 500 meters. He also led a team into the 5000 meter relay, winning the silver medal...


    Nicola Franceschina
    Nicola Franceschina
    Nicola Franceschina is an Italian short track speed skater who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, in the 2002 Winter Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics.He was born in Bormio....


    Nicola Rodigari
    Nicola Rodigari
    Nicola Rodigari is an Italian short track speed skater who competed in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.He was born in Tirano....


    Fabio Carta
    Fabio Carta
    Fabio Carta is an Italian short track speed skater who competed in the 1998, the 2002, and the 2006 Winter Olympics.-1998 Olympics:...


    Maurizio Carnino
    Maurizio Carnino
    Maurizio Carnino is an Italian short track speed skater and speed skater who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics, in the 1998 Winter Olympics, in the 2002 Winter Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics.He was born in Turin....


    Michele Antonioli
    Michele Antonioli
    Michele Antonioli is an Italian short track speed skater who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics and in the 2002 Winter Olympics.He was born in Bormio....


    Li Jiajun
    Li JiaJun
    Li Jiajun is a Chinese short track speed skater who has won 5 Olympic medals - two silver and three bronze. He has been a two-time Overall World Champion for 1999 and 2001....


    Feng Kai
    Feng Kai
    Feng Kai is a Chinese short track speed skater, who won bronze medals in the 5000 m relay at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.-External links:*...


    Guo Wei
    Guo Wei (speed skater)
    Guo Wei is a Chinese short track speed skater.At the 2002 Winter Olympics he won a bronze medal in 5000 m relay, together with teammates Feng Kai, Li Jiajun, and Li Ye.-External links:*...


    Li Ye
    An Yulong
    An Yulong
    An Yulong is a Chinese short track speed skater, who won medals in the 500 m and 5000 m relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics. He also skated for the bronze medal-winning relay team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.-External links:*...

    Women's 500 metres
    Women's 1000 metres
    Women's 1500 metres
    Women's 3000 metre relay

    Choi Eun-Kyung
    Choi Eun-Kyung
    Choi Eun-Kyung is a South Korean short track speed skater. She is a double Olympic Champion in relays and a two-time Overall World Champion for 2003 and 2004....


    Choi Min-Kyung
    Choi Min-Kyung
    Choi Min-Kyung is a South Korean short track speed skater.She who won a gold medal in the 3000 m relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics, together with teammates Choi Eun-Kyung, Park Hye-Won and Joo Min-Jin.She competed for France at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-External links:*...


    Park Hye-Won
    Park Hye-Won
    Park Hye-Won is a retired South Korean short track speed skater.-Early career:Park started skating at the age of 10...


    Joo Min-Jin
    Joo Min-Jin
    Joo Min-Jin is a retired South Korean short track speed skater.She who won a gold medal in the 3000 m relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics, together with teammates Choi Eun-Kyung, Park Hye-Won and Choi Min-Kyung.-External links:*...


    Yang Yang (A)
    Yang Yang (A)
    Yang Yang is a former Chinese short track speed skater and current IOC member. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2002 Winter Olympics and a five-time Overall World Champion for 1998-2002. She was formerly a member of the Chinese national short track team...


    Yang Yang (S)
    Yang Yang (S)
    Yang Yang is a Chinese Olympic speed skater.Yang Yang competed as a short track speed skater for the Chinese national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics, the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. By coincidence, she had a contemporary on the Chinese short track team also named Yang Yang...


    Sun Dandan
    Sun Dandan
    Sun Dandan is a Chinese short track speed skater, who won silver medals in the 3000 m relay at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.-External links:*...


    Wang Chunlu
    Wang Chunlu
    Wang Chunlu is a Chinese short track speed skater. She won medals in the 500 m and 3000 m relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She had also already won a relay silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, at the age of 19.-External links:*...


    Isabelle Charest
    Isabelle Charest
    Isabelle Charest is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics, in the 1998 Winter Olympics, and in the 2002 Winter Olympics....


    Alanna Kraus
    Alanna Kraus
    Alanna Kraus is a Canadian short track speed skater. She won the bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in short-track speed skating for the women's 3000 m relay. She competed in three individual events at the 2002 Games...


    Amélie Goulet-Nadon
    Amélie Goulet-Nadon
    Amélie Goulet-Nadon is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics....


    Marie-Eve Drolet
    Marie-Eve Drolet
    Marie-Eve Drolet is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics....


    Tania Vicent
    Tania Vicent
    Tania Vicent is a Canadian short track speed skater, who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On February 22, along with Alanna Kraus, Anouk Leblanc-Boucher and Kalyna Roberge, Vicent won a silver medal for Canada in the 3000m relay...


    Skeleton

    Men's
    Women's

    Ski jumping

    Normal hill individual
    Large hill individual
    Large hill team

    Sven Hannawald
    Sven Hannawald
    Sven Hannawald is a former German ski jumper who competed from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. Hannawald won the Four Hills Tournament once. He also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, as well as three medals each in the Olympic Winter Games and the FIS Ski-Flying World...


    Stephan Hocke
    Stephan Hocke
    Stephan Hocke is a German ski jumper who has competed since 2001. He won a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event....


    Michael Uhrmann
    Michael Uhrmann
    Michael Uhrmann is a German ski jumper who has competed since 1995. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in the team large hill event at Salt Lake City in 2002....


    Martin Schmitt
    Martin Schmitt
    Martin Schmitt is one of Germany's most successful ski jumpers. Beginning his competitive career at the Furtwangen area skiing club in Germany, his and Sven Hannawald's successes made their sport one of the most popular in the country...


    Matti Hautamäki
    Matti Hautamäki
    Matti Antero Hautamäki is a Finnish ski jumper.-Biography:Matti made his first ski-jumping attempts at the age of seven near his home town of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and his friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti followed them...


    Veli-Matti Lindström
    Veli-Matti Lindström
    Veli-Matti Lindström is a Finnish ski jumper who has competed since 1999. He won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the team large hill event....


    Risto Jussilainen
    Risto Jussilainen
    Risto Jussilainen is a retired Finnish ski jumper. He won a silver medal in the team large hill event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


    Janne Ahonen
    Janne Ahonen
    Janne Petteri Ahonen is a former Finnish ski jumper who has competed in the world cup between 1992-2011. A legendary ski jumper, he is widely considered one of the best and most successful athletes in the history of the sport...


    Damjan Fras
    Damjan Fras
    Damjan Fras is a Slovenian ski jumper who has competed since 1990. He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event....


    Primož Peterka
    Primož Peterka
    Primož Peterka is a former Slovenian ski jumper. He has won 15 World Cup events, making him the second most successful Slovenian winter sports athlete and one of the most successful Slovenian sports personalities.-Career:...


    Robert Kranjec
    Robert Kranjec
    Robert Kranjec is a Slovenian ski jumper who has competed since 1998. He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event....


    Peter Žonta
    Peter Žonta
    Peter Žonta is a Slovenian ski jumper who competed from 1996 to 2005. He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the team large hill event....



    Snowboarding

    Men's halfpipe
    Men's parallel giant slalom
    Women's halfpipe
    Women's parallel giant slalom

    Speed skating

    Men's 500 metres
    Men's 1000 metres
    Men's 1500 metres
    Men's 5000 metres
    Men's 10000 metres
    Women's 500 metres
    Women's 1000 metres
    Women's 1500 metres
    Women's 3000 metres
    Women's 5000 metres

    Medal winner changes

    A. Alain Baxter
    Alain Baxter
    Alain Baxter is a professional skier from Scotland. He specialises in the slalom discipline.-Background:He is the son of Iain and Sue Baxter, who were both British Ski Team members, and was born in Edinburgh. He is named after the 70s French skiing star Alain Penz...

    , representing Great Britain
    Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.-Medallists:...

    , originally placed third and was awarded the bronze medal. However, Baxter tested positive for methamphetamine
    Methamphetamine
    Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...

    , and was stripped of his medal. Baxter was later cleared of intentionally doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport
    Court of Arbitration for Sport
    The Court of Arbitration for Sport is an international arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sport. Its headquarters are in Lausanne and its courts are located in New York, Sydney and Lausanne, Switzerland...

     (CAS), but was not re-awarded his medal. Benjamin Raich
    Benjamin Raich
    Benjamin Raich is a champion alpine ski racer who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, Italy...

     was promoted to bronze.

    B. Johann Mühlegg
    Johann Mühlegg
    Johann Mühlegg is a Spanish top level cross-country skier who has competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999...

     of Spain
    Spain at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Spain competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.- Alpine skiing:Women- Cross-country skiing:MenPursuit1 Starting delay based om 10 km C. results. C = Classical style, F = Freestyle- Snowboarding:...

     originally won the 10 km/10 km pursuit, but nine days after the race he failed a doping test following his gold medal win in the 50 km classical race. In 2003, a CAS ruling against Mühlegg allowed the International Olympic Committee
    International Olympic Committee
    The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

     to strip him of his other medals. Norwegians Frode Estil
    Frode Estil
    Frode Estil is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. He currently lives in Meråker with his wife Grete whom he married in the summer of 2001. They have two sons, Bernhard, born in August 2002, and Konrad. Estil was classical specialist and also a specialist at succeeding in World Championships...

     and Thomas Alsgaard
    Thomas Alsgaard
    Thomas Alsgaard is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. Alsgaard is regarded by many as the best performer of the skate-style in cross-country skiing and many of today's best skiers have studied his technique...

    , who had originally tied in a dead heat for silver, were promoted to gold, while fourth-placed Per Elofsson
    Per Elofsson
    Per Eilert Elofsson is a Swedish cross-country skier who competed from 1997 to 2004. He won a bronze medal in the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....

     was promoted to bronze.

    C. Mühlegg had also won gold in the 30 km mass start event, and lost it following the CAS ruling in December 2003. Christian Hoffmann
    Christian Hoffmann
    Christian Hoffmann is a former Austrian cross country skier who competed since 1994. He won the bronze medal in the 50km at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...

    , Mikhail Botvinov
    Mikhail Botvinov
    Mikhail Botvinov is a Russian-born Austrian cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2007 for both Russia and Austria. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a silver in the men's 30 km freestyle mass start event in 2002 and a bronze in the men's 50 km freestyle mass start in 2006...

     and Kristen Skjeldal
    Kristen Skjeldal
    Kristen Skjeldal is an Olympic champion and cross country skier from Norway. He has won three olympic medals: two gold and one bronze. He won his first gold medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville...

     were all promoted one position each into gold, silver and bronze respectively.

    D. Mühlegg won gold in the 50 km, but after the podium ceremony it emerged that he had failed a test for darbepoetin alfa
    Darbepoetin alfa
    Darbepoetin alfa is a synthetic form of erythropoietin. It stimulates erythropoiesis and is used to treat anemia, commonly associated with chronic renal failure and cancer chemotherapy...

    , and was immediately stripped of his medal. Mikhail Ivanov, Andrus Veerpalu
    Andrus Veerpalu
    Andrus Veerpalu is a former and so far the most successful Estonian male cross country skier.On 17 February 2006 he won his second Winter Olympics gold medal , becoming the fourth Estonian to have won two Olympic gold medals Andrus Veerpalu (born 8 February 1971 in Pärnu) is a former and so far...

     and Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
    Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
    Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed since 1993.A classical technique specialist, Hjelmeset's biggest success is the gold medal in the 50 km event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo...

     were elevated to gold, silver and bronze respectively.

    E. Russian
    Russia at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Russia competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. With a total of 13 medals, this was the worst showing by the country in the Winter Games. The Russian public believed that the judging was biased against Russian athletes...

     skiier Olga Danilova
    Olga Danilova
    Olga Danilova is a Russian cross country skier who competed from 1991 until she was banned for using performance enhancing drugs in 2002...

     had finished the event in first, ahead of compatriot Larissa Lazutina and Canada's Beckie Scott
    Beckie Scott
    Rebecca "Beckie" Scott, MSM is a retired Canadian cross-country skiing athlete and as of February 23, 2006, an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu....

    . In June 2003, a Swiss court ruled that the IOC could reclaim Lazutina's silver medal for a positive test for darbepoetin, promoting Scott to silver and Kateřina Neumannová
    Katerina Neumannová
    Kateřina Neumannová is a retired Czech cross country skier. She was a flatwater canoeist and downhill skier before moving to cross country skiing at sixteen...

     to bronze. The CAS then ruled in December that Danilova's medal could also be retrieved for her failed darbepoetin test, leading to another change in the event standings. Scott and Neumannová were both promoted again, with Viola Bauer
    Viola Bauer
    Viola Bauer is a retired German cross-country skier who competed from 1995 to 2007...

     now getting the bronze.

    F. Lazutina's silver medal in the 15 km event was also forfeited in 2003 following the Swiss court's ruling. Neumannová was again a beneficiary, being promoted to silver, while Lazutina's teammate Yuliya Chepalova was promoted to bronze.

    G. Lazutina won gold in the 30 km classical race, but because of her failed doping test was stripped of the medal just hours after the race. Gabriella Paruzzi
    Gabriella Paruzzi
    Gabriella Paruzzi is a retired Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 2006 and formerly skied with the C.S. Forestale club. She skied in World Cup events, and won the Women's Overall World Cup in 2004....

     was promoted to gold, Stefania Belmondo
    Stefania Belmondo
    Stefania Belmondo is an Italian former cross-country skier.-Debut:Belmondo was born in Vinadio, in the province of Cuneo , the daughter of a housewife and an electric company employee....

     to silver and Bente Skari
    Bente Skari
    Bente Skari, née Martinsen, is a former cross country skier from Nittedal, Norway. She is one of the most successful cross country skiers ever.-Career:...

     to bronze.

    H. Canada's Salé and Pelletier finished second based on the original judges' scores. However, following the revelation of a massive judging scandal
    2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal
    At the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, the figure skating competition was the source of much controversy and one of the immediate causes for the revamp of scoring in figure skating.-The competition:...

    , the original scores were thrown out and Salé and Pelletier were elevated to joint-gold with the Russian pair.

    Medal leaders

    Athletes who won at least two gold medals or three total medals are listed below by number of medals won, followed by number of gold, silver, and bronze.
    Athlete Nation Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
    Biathlon
    Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The 2002 Winter Olympic Games Biathlon were held at Soldier Hollow.-10 km Sprint:Without any misses with the shooting, Bjørndalen wins his second gold of the Games.-12.5 km Pursuit:...

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    Alpine skiing
    Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics consisted of ten events held near Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. The downhill, Super G, and combined events were held at Snowbasin, the giant slalom at Park City, and the slalom at Deer Valley...

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    Nordic combined
    Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics, consisted of three events held over ten days, from 9 February to 22 February. The ski jumping part took place in Park City, while the cross-country part took place in Soldier Hollow.-Medal table:-Events:...

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    Biathlon
    Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The 2002 Winter Olympic Games Biathlon were held at Soldier Hollow.-10 km Sprint:Without any misses with the shooting, Bjørndalen wins his second gold of the Games.-12.5 km Pursuit:...

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    Short track speed skating
    Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating. All events were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.-Medal table:-Men's events:-Women's events:-References:*...

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    Speed skating
    Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was held over fourteen days, from 9 February to 23 February. Ten events were contested at the Utah Olympic Oval.-Medal table:-Men's events:-Women's events:-Records:...

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    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia...

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    Short track speed skating
    Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating. All events were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.-Medal table:-Men's events:-Women's events:-References:*...

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    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia...

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    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia...

    1 1 1 3
    Alpine skiing
    Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics consisted of ten events held near Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. The downhill, Super G, and combined events were held at Snowbasin, the giant slalom at Park City, and the slalom at Deer Valley...

    1 1 1 3
    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia...

    1 1 1 3
    Speed skating
    Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was held over fourteen days, from 9 February to 23 February. Ten events were contested at the Utah Olympic Oval.-Medal table:-Men's events:-Women's events:-Records:...

    0 2 1 3
    Nordic combined
    Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics, consisted of three events held over ten days, from 9 February to 22 February. The ski jumping part took place in Park City, while the cross-country part took place in Soldier Hollow.-Medal table:-Events:...

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    Speed skating
    Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was held over fourteen days, from 9 February to 23 February. Ten events were contested at the Utah Olympic Oval.-Medal table:-Men's events:-Women's events:-Records:...

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    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia...

    2 0 0 2
    Alpine skiing
    Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics consisted of ten events held near Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. The downhill, Super G, and combined events were held at Snowbasin, the giant slalom at Park City, and the slalom at Deer Valley...

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    Ski jumping
    Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    2002 Winter Olympic Games Ski jumping-Medal table:- Events :-References:*...

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    Biathlon
    Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics
    The 2002 Winter Olympic Games Biathlon were held at Soldier Hollow.-10 km Sprint:Without any misses with the shooting, Bjørndalen wins his second gold of the Games.-12.5 km Pursuit:...

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