Winter and ice sports

Eddie Edwards

Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards (Michael Thomas Edwards, born 1963) is a British former ski jumper, the first Briton in Olympic ski jumping, last in both Calgary 1988 events, namesake of the IOC qualification rule that ended his Olympic career.

Eddie Olczyk

Eddie Olczyk, born 1966 in Chicago, played 16 NHL seasons, won the 1994 Stanley Cup with the Rangers, coached the Penguins, and became NBC's and TNT's lead hockey analyst.

Eddie the Eagle (film)

Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 British-American biographical comedy-drama directed by Dexter Fletcher, starring Taron Egerton as ski jumper Michael Edwards and Hugh Jackman as his fictional coach.

Edgar Grospiron

Edgar Grospiron, French freestyle moguls skier born 1969, first Olympic moguls champion (Albertville 1992), bronze 1994, three world titles, 38 World Cup wins; later headed the French Alps 2030 organizing committee until his 2026 resignation.

Eduard Scherrer

Eduard Scherrer (1890–1972), Swiss bobsledder from Leysin, Vaud; won the first-ever Olympic bobsled gold in the four-man event at Chamonix 1924 with Neveu and the Schläppi brothers after winning a sled in a raffle; his only international competition.

Edvin Anger

Edvin Anger (born 2002, Hedemora, Sweden) is a Swedish cross-country sprint skier for Åsarna IK, 2020 Youth Olympic sprint champion, 2025 Les Rousses World Cup winner, and second in the 2024-25 World Cup overall behind Klæbo.

Edy Hubacher

Edy Hubacher, full name Eduard Hubacher, is a Swiss athlete born in 1940 who won bobsled gold and bronze at the 1972 Winter Olympics after competing in track and field.

Edy Reinalter

Edy Reinalter (Romedi Peter Reinalter, 1920-1962), Swiss alpine skier of Guardia Grischa; won the first Olympic men's slalom at St. Moritz 1948 in 2:10.3, still the only Swiss male slalom Olympic champion.

Eero Mantyranta

Eero Mantyranta (Eero Antero Mäntyranta; 1937–2013) was a Finnish cross-country skier who won seven Olympic medals, three of them gold, at three Winter Games from 1960 to 1968.

Egil Gjelland

Egil Gjelland (born 1973, Voss) is a Norwegian biathlete, 2002 Olympic relay gold and 1998 relay silver medalist, 2005 world relay champion, later coach of Norwegian, Czech, and Italian women's teams.

Egon Zimmermann

Egon Zimmermann (1939-2019), Austrian alpine skier, Egon Zimmermann II, won the 1964 Innsbruck Olympic downhill in 2:18.16 and the 1962 Chamonix giant slalom world title; later hotelier in Lech.

Eileen Gu (谷爱凌)

Eileen Gu (谷爱凌, Gu Ailing), born 2003 in San Francisco, is a freestyle skier competing for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air; six Olympic starts, three golds and three silvers, most decorated Olympic freestyle skier.

Einar Hedegart

Einar Hedegart, Norwegian skier born 2001 in Levanger; 2023 IBU Junior Worlds biathlon triple medalist who won two golds and a bronze in cross-country at Milano Cortina 2026, then returned to biathlon in April 2026.

Eirik Kvalfoss

Eirik Kvalfoss, born 1959 in Voss, Norway, is a former biathlete, 1984 Olympic 10 km sprint champion at Sarajevo and three-time world champion (1982, 1983, 1989), also overall World Cup winner.

Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya

Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya (Екатерина Александровская), Katia, Russian-born Australian pair skater with Harley Windsor; 2017 World Junior champion, first Australian ISU title, PyeongChang 2018 Olympian, died 2020 aged 20.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

Ekaterina Gordeeva (Екатерина Гордеева), Russian pair figure skater born 1971; with husband Sergei Grinkov won 1988 and 1994 Olympic gold and four world titles; solo pro after his 1995 death. Not the journalist Katerina Gordeeva.

Ekkehard Fasser

Ekkehard Fasser (1952–2021), Swiss bobsleigh pilot, four-man Olympic champion at Calgary 1988 (3:47.51), 1983 world and European champion, 1985/86 World Cup winner; retired after the gold.

Elana Meyers Taylor

Elana Meyers Taylor, American bobsled pilot, six-time Olympic medalist and 2026 Milan Cortina monobob gold medalist at 41; most decorated woman in Olympic bobsled and most decorated Black Winter Olympian.

Elena Kostyleva

Elena Kostyleva (Елена Костылева), Russian junior women's singles figure skater; two-time Russian junior champion training under Evgeni Plushenko; known for quad toe loop, quad salchow, and triple axel at a young age.

Elena Runggaldier

Elena Runggaldier (born 1990, Bolzano) is a retired Italian ski jumper, 2011 Oslo World Championship silver medalist on the normal hill, the first Italian world medalist in the sport, and a Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 Olympian.

Elis Wiklund

Elis Wiklund (1909–1982), Swedish cross-country skier, 50 km world champion 1934 in Sollefteå and Olympic 50 km gold medalist at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, leading a Swedish sweep of the top four; later coach, shopkeeper, and ski wax maker.

Elisa Confortola

Elisa Confortola, Italian short track speed skater (born 2002, Sondalo), Fiamme Oro club. 2026 Olympic mixed relay gold and women's 3000 m relay silver; European 1500 m champion Gdansk 2024.

Elise Christie

Elise Christie, Livingston-born British short track speed skater; 2017 overall world champion (first European woman), 500m world record 42.335, three Olympics without a medal, retired December 2021.

Elizabet Tursynbaeva

Elizabet Tursynbaeva, born in Moscow in 2000, is a Kazakh figure skater who in 2019 became the first woman to land a clean quadruple Salchow at Worlds, taking silver.

Elizabeth Swaney

Elizabeth Marian "Liz" Swaney is an American freestyle skier who competed for Hungary in the women's ski halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing 24th and last.

Ellie Kam

Ellie Wong Kam (born 2004, Yokota Air Force Base, Japan) is an American pair skater; with Danny O'Shea she is 2024 U.S. champion and 2026 Olympic team event gold medalist.

Ellie van den Brom

Ellie van den Brom (Elisabeth Margot van den Brom, born 1949, Amsterdam) is a Dutch former long-track speed skater who competed at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics and held the 1,000 m world record, 1:30.0, from February 1969 to January 1970.

Elvis Stojko

Elvis Stojko (born 1972) is a Canadian figure skater, three-time world champion (1994, 1995, 1997) and two-time Olympic silver medalist (1994, 1998), first to land quad-double and quad-triple jump combinations in competition.

Ema Klinec

Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper (born 1998, Kranj), two-time Youth Olympic gold medalist 2016, 2021 world normal hill champion, women's ski flying world record holder 226 m at Vikersund, three-time Olympian.