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Carry Geijssen
Carry Geijssen (Carolina Cornelia Catharina Geijssen-Langkruis), Dutch long-track speed skater born 1947 in Amsterdam; won the 1968 Grenoble 1000 m in 1:32.6, the first Dutch Olympic speed skating gold, plus 1500 m silver.
Carsten Embach
Carsten Embach (born 1968, Stralsund), German four-man bobsleigh brakeman; Olympic gold 2002 Salt Lake City with André Lange, bronze 1994 Lillehammer with Wolfgang Hoppe; four world titles; later German national head coach until 2010.
Carved turn
Carved turn: ski turn in which the ski follows its sidecut arc with no lateral skidding, leaving a thin line in the snow. Enabled by deep-sidecut shaped skis (Elan SCX, 1991); core technique of modern alpine skiing.
Casey Dawson
Casey Dawson (born 2000), American long-track speed skater from Park City, Utah; Olympic team pursuit bronze (Beijing 2022) and silver (Milano Cortina 2026), 2025 world team pursuit champion, first individual 5000m World Cup win in Calgary 2025.
Cassie Sharpe
Cassie Sharpe (Cassandra Sharpe, born 1992) is a Canadian freestyle halfpipe skier, 2018 PyeongChang Olympic gold medalist, 2022 Beijing silver medalist, two-time world championship silver medalist, and first woman to land a switch cork 720 in competition.
Cathy Turner
Cathy Turner (Nikki Newland), American short track speed skater born 1962 in Rochester, NY; won Olympic 500 m gold in 1992 and 1994 plus relay silver and bronze, four medals total, Hall of Fame 2003.
Catriona le May Doan
Catriona Le May Doan, Canadian long track speed skater born 1970 in Saskatoon; won 500m gold at Nagano 1998 and Salt Lake City 2002, first Canadian to defend an individual Olympic gold, first woman under 38 seconds, 500m world record holder 1997-2007.
Cesana Pariol
Cesana Pariol: artificially refrigerated bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track at Cesana Torinese near Torino, built for the 2006 Winter Olympics (1,435 m, 19 curves), modified after 2005 test-event crashes, homologated 31 October 2005, later abandoned.
Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick, American speed skater born 1977 in Texas, five-time Olympic medalist and 2006 5,000 m gold medalist, who first won 50 inline skating world titles with the double-push technique.
Chae Ji-Hun
Chae Ji-Hun (채지훈, Chae Ji-Hoon), born 1974 in Seoul, is a retired South Korean short track speed skater, 1994 Olympic 500 m champion and 1995 world allround champion, later a US team coach and ISU technical committee member.
Chairlift
A chairlift is an aerial ropeway carrying passengers on chairs hung from a circulating rope, used mainly at ski resorts; the first was built at Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1936.
Chalet Girl
Chalet Girl (German title Powder Girl) is a 2011 British-Austrian-German romantic comedy directed by Phil Traill, starring Felicity Jones as a former skateboarder who becomes a chalet maid, learns snowboarding, and enters the Ticket to Ride contest while falling for Ed Westwick's character.
Chamonix
Chamonix (Chamonix-Mont-Blanc), French Alpine town in Haute-Savoie at the foot of Mont Blanc; birthplace of mountaineering, host of the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924, founding site of FIS, and a major ski resort.
Chandra Crawford
Chandra Crawford (born 1983, Canmore, Alberta) is a Canadian cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist in the freestyle sprint at Turin 2006, three-time Olympian, and founder of Fast and Female.
Charles Bouvier
Charles Bouvier (1898–1964) was a Swiss sportsman who played football for Servette FC and Switzerland, then won four-man bobsleigh gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Charles Hamelin
Charles Hamelin (born 1984, Lévis, Quebec), Canadian short track speed skater; six Olympic medals including four gold across five Games, tied with Cindy Klassen as Canada's most decorated Winter Olympian; retired 2022.
Charles Mathiesen
Charles Mathiesen (1911-1994), Norwegian speed skater from Drammen; won 1936 Olympic 1500 m gold in 2:19.2, beating Ivar Ballangrud, and set a 10,000 m world record of 17:01.5 at Hamar in 1940.
Charley Jewtraw
Charley Jewtraw (Charles Henry Jewtraw, 1900-1996), American speed skater from Lake Placid, New York; won the 500 m in 44.0 seconds on 26 January 1924 at Chamonix, becoming the first Winter Olympic gold medalist.
Charlie White (figure skater)
Charlie White (born 1987, Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American ice dancer; with Meryl Davis he won 2014 Olympic gold, 2010 silver, and world titles in 2011 and 2013, the first U.S. team to do both.
Charlotte Kalla
Charlotte Kalla, full name Marina Charlotte Kalla, is a Swedish former cross-country skier who won nine Olympic medals at three Winter Games from 2010 to 2018.
Chemmy Alcott
Chemmy Alcott (Chimene Mary Alcott-Crawford, born 1982, Hove) is a British former alpine ski racer, four-time Winter Olympian 2002-2014, first Briton to win a World Cup run, now BBC Ski Sunday presenter.
Chiara Betti
Chiara Betti (born 2002, Trento) is an Italian short track speed skater of Fiamme Gialle; at Milano Cortina 2026 she won Olympic gold in the mixed relay and silver in the women's relay, with world and European relay medals.
Chinese Figure Skating Championships
Chinese Figure Skating Championships (全国花样滑冰锦标赛), China's annual national figure skating championship run by the CFSA, held late December in northern China; crowns champions in singles, pairs, and ice dance and feeds selection for Worlds, Four Continents, Asian Winter Games, and Olympics.
Chloe Kim
Chloe Kim (born 2000) is an American halfpipe snowboarder, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2018, 2022) and 2026 silver medalist, first woman to defend Olympic halfpipe gold and first athlete to win all four major snowboarding titles.
Choi Eun Gyeong
Choi Eun Gyeong (최은경), born 1984, South Korean short track speed skater; two Olympic relay golds (2002, 2006), two 1,500 m silvers, world records at Salt Lake City 2002; distinct from the 1971 field hockey namesake.
Choi Min Gyeong
Choi Min Gyeong (최민경, Choi Min-Kyung), born 1982 in Seoul, is a short track speed skater who won 2002 Olympic relay gold for South Korea with a 4:12.793 world record and competed for France at the 2006 Games. Distinct from skater Choi Min-jeong.
Choi Min-jeong (최민정)
Choi Min-jeong (최민정), born 1998, South Korean short track speed skater; seven Olympic medals (four gold, most by a Korean Olympian), four overall world titles, 1,500m world record 2:14.354.
Chris Fridfinnson
Chris Fridfinnson (Kristmundur Numi/Kristjan Fridfinnson, 1898-1938), Canadian ice hockey rover with the Winnipeg Falcons; won the first Olympic ice hockey gold at Antwerp 1920 and scored in the 12-1 final against Sweden.
Chris Mazdzer
Chris Mazdzer, born 1988 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is an American luger who won men's singles silver at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, a first for American and non-European men.
Chris Witty
Chris Witty (Christine Diane Witty, born 1975) is an American speed skater and track cyclist, 2002 Olympic 1,000 m gold medalist in world record time (1:13.83), with 1998 silver and bronze, and a ninth American to compete in both Summer and Winter Games.