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Giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS): technical alpine skiing discipline with gates 20–30 m apart, 250–450 m vertical drop, two-run combined-time format, ~80 kph; also the snowboard head-to-head event parallel giant slalom, Olympic since 1998/2002.
Gilmore Junio
Gilmore Junio (born 1990, Calgary) is a Canadian long track speed skater, three-time Olympian in the 500m (2014, 2018, 2022), known for giving his Sochi 2014 1000m spot to Denny Morrison, who won silver.
Gints Berzins
Gints Bērziņš (Gints Berzins), born 2002 in Sigulda, is a Latvian luger: 2020 Youth Olympic boys' singles gold medalist, 7th at Beijing 2022 and 10th at Milan-Cortina 2026, and 2025 U23 world champion.
Giorgio di Centa
Giorgio Di Centa, Italian cross-country skier (born 1972, Tolmezzo), brother of Manuela Di Centa; double gold medalist at Turin 2006 in the 50 km freestyle and 4x10 km relay, plus 2002 relay silver, five Olympics 1998-2014.
Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta (born 1959, Cavalese) is an Italian former cross-country skier, 1994 Lillehammer Olympic relay gold medalist, with four Olympic medals and two world relay silvers.
Giuliano Razzoli
Giuliano Razzoli, "Razzo del circo bianco", Italian alpine skier born 1984; 2010 Vancouver Olympic slalom gold (1:39.32), third Italian Olympic slalom champion after Gros and Tomba; 2014 DNF, 2022 8th.
Go Gi Hyeon
Go Gi Hyeon (고기현, also Ko Gi-Hyun), born 1986, South Korean short track speed skater; 2002 Olympic 1500 m gold and 1000 m silver, first women's Olympic 1500 m short track champion, later sports administrator and referee.
Gondola lift
Gondola lift, or aerial ropeway, monocable detachable gondola; cable-suspended cabins circulating between terminals for ski areas and urban transit; capacities to 6,000 pphpd, speeds to 8 m/s, makers Doppelmayr and Leitner-Poma.
Gong Sang Jeong
Gong Sang Jeong (공상정, 孔尙貞, Kong Sangjeong), born 1996, South Korean short track speed skater, former Taiwanese ethnic Chinese naturalized in 2011; won 2014 Sochi Olympic gold in the women's 3000m relay; retired 2021.
Göran Claeson
Göran Claeson (Rolf Göran Claeson), Swedish speed skater born 1945, Södermalms IK; 1972 Olympic 1,500 m bronze at Sapporo, 1973 World and European Allround champion, 1969 allround world record, Oscar Mathisen Trophy 1973.
Gottfried Diener
Gottfried Diener (1926–2015), Swiss bobsledder of the Zürcher Bob Club; won four-man gold at the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympics and World titles in 1954 and 1955; later IAU crossbow president 1965–1999.
Gracie Gold
Gracie Gold (born 1995) is an American figure skater, two-time U.S. champion (2014, 2016) and 2014 Sochi Olympic team event bronze medalist who finished fourth individually, later returning from a 2017-18 mental health hiatus.
Graeme Fish
Graeme Fish, Canadian long track speed skater born 1997 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; set the 10,000m world record 12:33.86 at the 2020 World Single Distances Championships and won 2024 Four Continents 5000m gold.
Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final: ISU season-culminating event since 1995-96 (first held in Paris as Champions Series Final). Top six per discipline qualify via points from six GP events; 2026 Final in Chongqing, China.
Grandvalira
Grandvalira is the largest ski resort in the Pyrenees, in Andorra, also called Grand Valira. Formed in 2003 by merging Pas de la Casa-Grau Roig and Soldeu-El Tarter, it has 215 km of slopes across seven sectors and a single ski pass.
Grass skiing
Grass skiing (グラススキー, Grasski) is alpine skiing on grass slopes using short caterpillar-track skis, invented in 1960s Germany by Josef Kaiser, FIS-recognized since 1985, with World Championships since 1979 and events in Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined.
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Gregor Schlierenzauer (born 1990, Rum, Tirol) is an Austrian former ski jumper, record World Cup winner with 53 individual victories, two overall titles, two Four Hills wins, and four Olympic medals.
Gretchen Fraser
Gretchen Fraser, born Gretchen Kunigk, was an American alpine ski racer who won the 1948 Olympic slalom at St. Moritz, the first American gold medal in alpine skiing.
Große Olympiaschanze (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
The Große Olympiaschanze is a ski jumping hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, built for the 1936 Winter Olympics and today hosting the New Year's jump of the Four Hills Tournament.
Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain, "The Peak of Vancouver," is a 1,231 m North Shore peak in North Vancouver, BC, with the Skyride tramway (opened 1966), a ski area, and the grizzly bear Refuge for Endangered Wildlife; distinct from Cypress and Mount Seymour.
Gstaad
Gstaad (Saanenland, canton of Bern) is an upmarket Swiss ski resort at 1,050 m in the municipality of Saanen, centre of a ten-village destination with 200–220 km of slopes, separate Glacier 3000 glacier skiing, the Menuhin Festival and Swiss Open tennis, and prime property among Europe's most expensive.
Guildford Flames
Guildford Flames, English ice hockey club founded 1992-93, based at 2,000-seat Guildford Spectrum, EIHL member since 2017-18, coached by Paul Dixon, 5th in 2025-26 with 64 points.
Guillaume Bastille
Guillaume Bastille (born 1985, Rivière-du-Loup) is a retired Canadian short track speed skater, nicknamed Bass, Olympic 5,000 m relay gold medallist at Vancouver 2010 and 2012 world relay champion in Shanghai.
Gulmarg
Gulmarg, Kashmir: high-altitude ski resort in the Pir Panjal range near Srinagar, home of the Gulmarg Gondola to Apharwat Peak (3,979 m), ~1,400 cm snowfall a season, founded as a ski club in 1927.
Gunde Svan
Gunde Svan (born 1962), Swedish cross-country skier; four Olympic golds (Sarajevo 1984, Calgary 1988), seven world titles, five World Cup overall crowns, 30 World Cup wins; later TV presenter.
Gundersen method
Gundersen method: Nordic combined scoring system, also called the Gundersen format, created by Norway's Gunder Gundersen and used since Calgary 1988; converts ski jumping points into staggered cross-country start times (1 point = 4 seconds individual, 1.33 seconds team), first finisher wins.
Gunilla Jacobsson
Gunilla Jacobsson, later Gunilla Sjöström (born 1946, Göteborg), Swedish speed skater for IK Wega who competed in all four women's events at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics, placing sixth in the 500 m and 1,000 m.
Gunnar Eriksson
Gunnar Eriksson (Krång Erik Gunnar Eriksson, 1921-1982), Swedish cross-country skier of IFK Mora; 1948 Olympic relay gold and 18 km bronze, 1950 world 50 km champion. Not the IOC member Gunnar Ericsson or the AIK footballer.
Gunter Traub
Günter Traub (born 13 March 1939, Schweinfurt) is a German speed and roller speed skater, two-time all-around world record holder (1963, 1968), four-time West German champion, Olympian in 1964 and 1968, later US and Italian national coach and fitness coach to Formula 1 drivers.
Gunther Huber
Günther Huber, born 1965 in Brunico, Italy, is an Italian former bobsledder who won two-man gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and bronze in 1994.