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FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021
FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021: world titles held across Idre Fjall, Rogla, Almaty, and Aspen after Zhangjiakou's COVID cancellation; Kingsbury and Eileen Gu won twice.
FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2023
Bakuriani 2023 FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships, held in Bakuriani, Georgia, 19 February to 5 March 2023; 30 medal events, about 700 athletes from 40+ nations, first FIS World Championship hosted by Georgia.
FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, biennial world championships for freestyle skiing first held in 1986 in Tignes, France; distinct from the X Games and the FIS Freeride World Championships first held in 2026.
FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup park-and-pipe disciplines (halfpipe, slopestyle, big air)
The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup park-and-pipe disciplines are halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air, an annual FIS circuit from late November to late March with a pooled overall title.
FIS Freestyle Skiing Continental Cup circuits
The FIS Freestyle Skiing Continental Cups are international freestyle skiing series sanctioned by FIS that sit below the World Cup, including the Nor-Am and Europa Cups.
FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
FIS Nordic Combined World Cup: annual FIS series combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing, November to March, with Gundersen, Compact, and Mass Start formats and a women's circuit since 2020.
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, Liberec, Czech Republic, 18 Feb–1 Mar 2009: 47th edition, 20 events in cross-country, ski jumping, Nordic combined; Norway led with 12 medals (5 gold), 60 medals to 15 nations.
FIS Race series
The FIS Race series is the entry level of international alpine skiing, sitting below the five Continental Cups and giving athletes their first results on the FIS Points List.
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
The FIS Ski Flying World Championships are a biennial world championship in ski flying, the largest-hill variant of ski jumping, first held at Planica in Yugoslavia in 1972.
FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup
FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC), ski jumping's second-tier series since 1993, below the World Cup; 100-to-1 point scale, seven periods, men's COC and women's Intercontinental Cup, gateway to World Cup and Olympic starts.
FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix
FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix, the summer ski jumping series (Sommer Grand Prix) held July-October on plastic-matted hills since 1994; women's tour since 2012; counts for World Cup team qualification, not World Cup points.
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup: the top annual ski jumping and ski flying series since 1979-80 (women from 2011-12), scored by distance, style, wind and gate points toward the crystal globe, with the Four Hills Tournament and Raw Air.
FIS Snowboard World Championships
FIS Snowboard World Championships, held jointly with Freestyle and Freeski, biennial in odd years; first held 1996 in Lienz, Austria; next in Montafon 2027, Zhangjiakou 2029, with annual editions planned from 2032.
FIS Snowboard World Cup
The FIS Snowboard World Cup is an annual series of international snowboarding competitions run by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, awarding crystal globes across disciplines since 1994.
Florence Baverel Robert
Florence Baverel-Robert (born Florence Baverel, 1974, Pontarlier) is a retired French biathlete, France's first individual Olympic biathlon champion, winning sprint gold at Turin 2006.
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
Annual ISU figure skating championship (Four Continents Championships) for skaters from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, held since 1999 in men's, women's, pairs, and ice dance; 2026 in Beijing, 2027 in Astana.
Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships, an ISU short track title event for non-European members; 2025 edition held November 8-9, 2024 at Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City, with 500/1000/1500 m and relay events.
Four Continents Speed Skating Championships
The Four Continents Speed Skating Championships is an annual long-track speed skating championship for non-European skaters, created by the ISU in 2019 and first held in 2020.
Four Hills Tournament
Four Hills Tournament (Vierschanzentournee), annual ski jumping series since 1953 at Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck, Bischofshofen; Golden Eagle won on total points; first women's edition 2026/27.
Francesca Lollobrigida
Francesca Lollobrigida, Italian long-track speed skater born 1991 in Frascati, great-niece of actress Gina Lollobrigida. Double Olympic champion (3000m, 5000m) at Milan-Cortina 2026, silver and bronze at Beijing 2022, 5000m world champion 2025.
Francesco Friedrich
Francesco Friedrich (born 1990, Pirna, Germany), nicknamed Friedrich der Große, is a German bobsleigh pilot with four Olympic golds and two silvers, double 2018 and 2022 champion, and record 16-time world champion.
Francisco Fernández Ochoa
Francisco 'Paquito' Fernández Ochoa (1950–2006), Spanish alpine skier who won the 1972 Sapporo Olympic slalom in 1:49.27, Spain's only Winter Olympic gold; brother of medalist Blanca Fernández Ochoa.
Franck Piccard
Franck Piccard (born 1964) is a French former alpine ski racer who won the first Olympic super-G gold at Calgary in 1988 and took three Olympic medals.
Franco Nones
Franco Nones (Francesco Nones, born 1941), Italian cross-country skier; won 30 km gold at Grenoble 1968, first Italian Olympic cross-country champion and first winner from outside Scandinavia or the USSR.
Francois Drolet
François Drolet, Canadian short track speed skater, Nagano 1998 Olympic gold medallist in the men's 5000m relay with Bédard, Campbell, and Gagnon; 1996 and 1997 world relay medallist; later Nagano Skate general manager.
Francois Hamelin
François Hamelin, born 1986 in Lévis, Quebec, is a retired Canadian short track speed skater, brother of Charles Hamelin, and 2010 Vancouver Olympic gold medalist in the men's 5000 m relay.
Francois Louis Tremblay
François-Louis Tremblay, born 1980 in Alma, Quebec, is a retired Canadian short track speed skater, nicknamed The Boucherville Bomber, with five Olympic medals including 5000 m relay gold at Salt Lake City 2002 and Vancouver 2010.
Franjo von Allmen
Franjo von Allmen (born 2001, Zweisimmen, Switzerland) is a Swiss downhill and super-G skier who won three gold medals at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics and the 2025 world downhill title.
Frank Luck
Frank Luck (born 1967, Schmalkalden) is a German biathlete who competed for East Germany and Germany, winning Olympic relay gold in 1994 and 1998, three Olympic silvers, and 11 World Championship titles, retiring after the 2004 Oberhof relay.
Frank Peter Roetsch
Frank-Peter Roetsch, born 1964 in Güstrow, is a German biathlete who swept the 10 km sprint and 20 km individual at the 1988 Calgary Olympics for East Germany, took 1984 silver, and won three World Cup overall titles.