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Ice rink
Ice rink: any level refrigerated sheet of ice, indoors or outdoors, for hockey, curling, figure skating, or recreation. First artificial rink London 1841 (Kirk); first mechanically frozen, Gamgee's Glaciarium, 1876.
Ice skate
Ice skate: boot-mounted blade for gliding on ice, used in figure skating, hockey, and speed skating. Evolved from bone runners to metal blades, hollow-ground edges, and the hinged clap skate.
Ice skating
Ice skating: gliding on ice on bladed boots, spanning figure skating, speed skating, short track, and synchronized skating under the ISU (founded 1892). Covers Olympic history, judging, blade physics, ice preparation, and injuries.
Ice stock sport
Ice stock sport (Eisstockschießen) is an Alpine sliding sport related to curling, played on ice in winter and asphalt in summer. Governed by the IFI (founded 1950, 40+ countries), it features team, target, and distance disciplines with a 566 m record.
Ida Ingemarsdotter
Ida Ingemarsdotter (born 1985, Sveg) is a retired Swedish cross-country skier, sprint specialist for Aasarna IK; Olympic relay gold and team sprint bronze at Sochi 2014, world team sprint gold 2011, retired 2019, later national team coach.
Ids Postma
Ids Postma (Ids Hylke Postma), Dutch long-track speed skater born 1973 in Dearsum, Friesland. Olympic 1000 m gold and 1500 m silver at Nagano 1998; world allround champion 1997 and 1998; first 5000 m single-distance world champion; retired 2004, married Anni Friesinger.
Igman Olympic Jumps
Igman Olympic Jumps: ski jumping complex at Malo Polje, Mount Igman near Sarajevo, built by the Gorišek brothers for the 1984 Winter Olympics; destroyed in the Bosnian War, now ruins beside a recreational ski centre.
Ignaz Gschwentner
Ignaz Gschwentner, Austrian speed skater (born 2002, Innsbruck), USCI club sprinter; gold in mixed team sprint at Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics, 29th in 500 m at Milano Cortina 2026, Austrian 500 m record 35.20.
Igor Malkov
Igor Malkov (Игорь Алексеевич Малков), Soviet speed skater born 1965 in Pervouralsk; 1984 Sarajevo Olympic 10,000 m gold at 19 years 9 days and 5,000 m silver; 10,000 m world record holder 1984-1986.
Ihar Zhaliasouski
Ihar Zhaliasouski (Igor Zhelezovsky, Ігар Жалязоўскі), Belarusian speed skater, 1963-2021; record six World Sprint titles, 1,000 m Olympic bronze 1988 and silver 1994, four world records.
Iivo Niskanen
Iivo Niskanen (born 1992, Oulu) is a Finnish cross-country skier with five Olympic medals, three gold (team sprint 2014, 50 km 2018, 15 km 2022), and 2017 world 15 km classic title.
Ilia Kulik (Илья Александрович Кулик)
Ilia Kulik (Илья Александрович Кулик), born 1977 in Moscow, Russian figure skater, 1998 Nagano Olympic champion in men's singles, 1995 European champion, 1996 World silver medalist, coached by Tatiana Tarasova.
Ilia Malinin
Ilia Malinin (born 2004), the "Quad God," is an American figure skater, first to land a quadruple Axel in competition (2022) and seven quads in one program (2025 GP Final), three-time World champion and 2026 Olympic team gold medalist.
Ilves
Ilves (Finnish for lynx) is a Tampere multi-sport club founded 10 April 1931 by Niilo Tammisalo; its ice hockey team has won 16 Finnish titles, and the club claims 164 SM medals. Not the Estonian skier Kristjan Ilves.
Ilya Tregubov
Ilya Tregubov (Илья Александрович Трегубов, born 2002) is a Russian cross-country skier, Youth Olympic gold medalist in the 10 km classic at Lausanne 2020, distinct from hockey's Ivan and weightlifting's Viktor Tregubov.
Im Hyo Jun
Im Hyo Jun (임효준, later Lin Xiaojun 林孝埈), born 1996 in Daegu, is a short track speed skater who won 1500m gold and 500m bronze for South Korea at PyeongChang 2018, then naturalized Chinese in 2020 and skated for China at Milan-Cortina 2026.
Ina Bauer (element)
Ina Bauer (element): figure skating two-footed edge move with one foot on a forward edge and the other on a parallel backward edge, named for German skater Ina Bauer; used in choreographic sequences and solo ice dance edge elements.
Indoor ski slope
An indoor ski slope is a real-snow skiing facility built inside a building, ranging from beginner hills to snow domes with slopes of several hundred meters.
Inga Artamonova (Инга Григорьевна Артамонова)
Inga Artamonova (Инга Григорьевна Артамонова, later Voronina), Soviet speed skater, 1936–1966, four-time world allround champion (1957, 1958, 1962, 1965), 1500 m world record holder, never an Olympian, stabbed to death by her husband Gennady Voronin in Moscow.
Ingeborg Forbregd
Ingeborg Forbregd (born 2003) is a Norwegian curler from Oppdal CK, 2020 Winter Youth Olympics mixed team gold medalist at Lausanne, world junior bronze medalist 2023 and 2024, and Norwegian women's national team second and alternate.
Ingemar Stenmark
Ingemar Stenmark, born Jan Ingemar Stenmark in 1956, is a Swedish alpine ski racer with a record 86 World Cup wins in slalom and giant slalom.
Inger Aufles
Inger Aufles (Inger Reidun Aufles, née Døving), Norwegian cross-country skier born 1941 in Valldal. Olympic relay gold and 10 km bronze at Grenoble 1968, relay bronze at Sapporo 1972, world relay silver 1966.
Inger Helene Nybraten
Inger Helene Nybråten, born 1960, is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier who won relay gold at the 1984 Olympics and 1982 World Championships, adding two Olympic relay silvers.
Ingo Appelt
Ingo Appelt names two figures: an Austrian bobsledder (born 1961, Innsbruck), 1992 Albertville four-man Olympic gold medalist, and a German comedian (born 1967, Essen) of RTL Samstag Nacht fame.
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (born 1990 in Gjøvik, Norway) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who won Olympic gold and the overall FIS Cross-Country World Cup in 2019.
International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation
International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF), formerly FIBT, founded Paris 1923, Lausanne-based governing body for bobsleigh and skeleton; distinct from the identically abbreviated billiards federation; president Heike Groesswang from 2026.
International Luge Federation
International Luge Federation (FIL, Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course), founded 1957 in Davos, is the world governing body for artificial track, natural track, and alpine luge; Olympic sport since 1964, led by Einars Fogelis.
International Ski and Snowboard Federation
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation, also known as the Fédération Internationale de Ski, is the world governing body for skiing and snowboarding, founded in 1924 and headquartered in Oberhofen, Switzerland.
Iouri Podladtchikov
Iouri Podladtchikov (I-Pod, Юрий Подладчиков), Russian-born Swiss halfpipe snowboarder born 1988, won Sochi 2014 Olympic gold with 94.75 using his invented YOLO flip, ending Shaun White's reign.
Ippolito Sanfratello
Ippolito Sanfratello, Italian long-track speed skater born 1973 in Piacenza, former eight-time inline skating world champion, won Olympic gold in the men's team pursuit at Torino 2006 with Anesi, Fabris, and Donagrandi.