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Fyodor Klimov
Fyodor Klimov (Фёдор Александрович Климов), born 1990 in Leningrad, is a retired Russian pair skater who with Ksenia Stolbova won 2014 Sochi Olympic team gold and pairs silver, plus world and European medals, and later coached.
Fyodor Simashov
Fyodor Simashov (Фёдор Петрович Симашёв, also Simashev/Simasjov), 1945-1997, Soviet cross-country skier from Tatarstan; 1972 Olympic relay gold and 15 km silver, 1970 world relay champion, twelve Soviet titles.
Fyodor Terentyev
Fyodor Terentyev (Фёдор Михайлович Терентьев), Soviet cross-country skier, 1956 Cortina Olympic relay gold medalist and 50 km bronze medalist; died 1963 aged 37 before the Innsbruck Games.
Gabi Zange Schonbrunn
Gabi Zange-Schönbrunn (Gabriele Schönbrunn, born 1961), East German speed skater; three Olympic bronzes (1984, 1988 3,000 m; 1988 5,000 m), 1984 European allround champion, four world records.
Gabriella Papadakis
Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer born 1995 in Clermont-Ferrand; with Guillaume Cizeron won 2022 Olympic gold, five world titles, first ice dance team over 200 points; partnership ended December 2024.
Gabriella Paruzzi
Gabriella Paruzzi (born 1969, Udine), Italian cross-country skier from Tarvisio; Olympic gold 30 km classic Salt Lake City 2002 after Lazutina's doping disqualification, four relay bronzes, and 2004 World Cup overall champion.
Gabrielle Daleman
Gabrielle Daleman (born 1998, Toronto) is a Canadian figure skater, 2018 Olympic team gold medalist, 2017 World bronze medalist, and two-time Canadian champion who returned to competition in fall 2025 after three injury seasons.
Gaetan Boucher
Gaétan Boucher, Canadian long track speed skater born 1958 in Charlesbourg, Quebec; four Olympic medals including 1,000m and 1,500m gold at Sarajevo 1984, first Canadian man with individual Winter Olympic gold.
Galina Kukleva
Galina Alekseyevna Kukleva (Галина Алексеевна Куклева), Russian biathlete (1972–2026), 1998 Nagano Olympic sprint champion, three-time Olympic medalist, six world championship medals, 23 World Cup wins, retired 2003.
Galina Kulakova
Galina Kulakova (Галина Алексеевна Кулакова, born 1942), Soviet cross-country skier from Udmurtia; four Olympic golds among eight medals 1968–1980, Sapporo 1972 triple, five world titles, first Women's World Cup winner 1978–79, 1976 ephedrine disqualification.
Galina Stepanskaya
Galina Stepanskaya (Галина Андреевна Степанская), Soviet speed skater born 1949 in Leningrad; 1976 Innsbruck Olympic 1,500 m champion in 2:16.58 and 1976 world record holder at 3,000 m and mini combination. Not the rower Stepanova or swimmer Prozumenshchikova-Stepanova.
Gang Yun Mi
Gang Yun Mi (강윤미, Kang Yun-Mi), born 1988 in Seoul, is a retired South Korean short track speed skater, 2006 Turin Olympic 3,000 m relay gold medalist and 2005 world championship medalist; distinct from the North Korean gymnast of the same name.
Gao Tingyu
Gao Tingyu (高亭宇), born 1997 in Yichun, China, is a long track speed skater; 500m Olympic champion (34.32 OR) at Beijing 2022 and bronze medalist at PyeongChang 2018, the first Chinese male Olympic medalist and champion in speed skating.
Geir Karlstad
Geir Karlstad, Norwegian former long-track speed skater (born 1963), 1992 Albertville Olympic 5000 m gold and 10000 m bronze, five world records, 1986 Oscarstatuetten, national coach 1998–2002.
Gennady Karponosov
Gennady Karponosov (Геннадий Карпоносов, born 1950) is a Soviet ice dancer who with wife Nataliya Linichuk won 1980 Olympic gold, 1978-79 world and 1979-80 European titles, then coached champions in the USA.
Geoffrey Mason
Geoffrey Mason names two Americans: Geoffrey Travers Mason (1902–1987), 1928 St. Moritz five-man bobsleigh gold medalist recruited by newspaper ad, and Geoffrey Sheridan Mason (1940–2026), ABC producer of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage coverage, 24 Emmys.
Georg Fleischhauer
Georg Fleischhauer (born 1988) is a German bobsleigh brakeman who won two-man and four-man gold with pilot Johannes Lochner at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Georg Hackl
Georg Hackl, "Hackl Schorsch" (born 1966, Berchtesgaden), German luger; Olympic gold 1992, 1994, 1998 and silver 1988, 2002 in men's singles; first Olympian to medal in one individual event at five straight Games; later German and Austrian coach.
Georg Hettich
Georg Hettich, born 1978, German nordic combined skier, nicknamed Schorsch; 2006 Torino Olympic champion in the individual Gundersen with gold, silver, and bronze medals; also 2002 and 2006 team silver medalist.
Georg Thoma
Georg Thoma (born 20 August 1937, Hinterzarten) is a German Nordic combined skier, 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic champion, 1964 bronze medalist, 1966 world champion, three-time Holmenkollen winner, uncle of Dieter Thoma.
Georgeta Popescu
Georgeta Popescu (born 2002, Câmpina, Romania) is a Romanian bobsledder, gold medalist in girls' monobob at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in St. Moritz, and Romania's first gold medalist at Lausanne 2020.
Gerard Kemkers
Gerard Kemkers (Geert Gerrit Kemkers, born 1967, Groningen) is a Dutch speed skater who won 5000 m bronze at the 1988 Calgary Olympics and later coached Sven Kramer and Ireen Wüst, infamously causing Kramer's 2010 Vancouver disqualification.
Gerard van Velde
Gerard van Velde (Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde), Dutch long-track speed skater born 1971 in Wapenveld; 2002 Olympic 1000 m champion in world-record 1:07.18 after a 1998 clap-skate retirement and comeback; later coach of Michel Mulder and Femke Kok.
Gerda Weissensteiner
Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian luger and bobsleigh pilot born 1969 in Bolzano; Olympic luge gold at Lillehammer 1994 and bobsleigh bronze at Turin 2006, the only Italian with Olympic medals in two winter disciplines.
Gerhard Haidacher
Gerhard Haidacher, Austrian bobsledder born 1963 in Innsbruck, won four-man gold at the 1992 Albertville Olympics in Ingo Appelt's Austria 1 by 0.02 seconds, Austria's only Olympic bobsleigh gold, plus 1993 world silver.
German Figure Skating Championships
German Figure Skating Championships (Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen), Germany's annual national figure skating championships run by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union; 127th edition held December 2025 in Oberstdorf, 128th scheduled for Krefeld 2026.
Gertrude Meredith
Gertrude Meredith was an American pair skater who competed with Joseph Savage, finishing seventh at the 1932 Winter Olympics and winning US pairs bronze in 1932 and 1933.
Giacomo Conti
Giacomo Conti (1918–1992) was an Italian Air Force officer and bobsledder who won gold in the two-man bob at the 1956 Winter Olympics, racing with pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa.
Gian Simmen
Gian Simmen, born 1977 in Chur, Switzerland, is a halfpipe snowboarder who won the first Olympic gold in men's halfpipe at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games.
Gianni Romme
Gianni Romme (born 1973, Lage Zwaluwe) is a Dutch former speed skater, double 1998 Nagano Olympic champion at 5,000 and 10,000 m in world records, 2002 silver medalist, seven-time single distance world champion.