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Jonna Sundling
Jonna Sundling is a Swedish cross-country skier born in 1994, who specializes in sprint but also wins distance races, earning two Olympic titles and seven World Championship gold medals.
Jonny Moseley
Jonny Moseley, American freestyle skier born 1975 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; 1998 Nagano Olympic moguls gold medalist with the 360 mute grab, 2002 fourth with the Dinner Roll, later TV host and NBC analyst.
Jonny Nilsson
Jonny Nilsson (Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson, 1943–2022), Swedish speed skater; Olympic 10,000 m gold at Innsbruck 1964 (15:50.1), world allround champion 1963 at Karuizawa, five world records, later founded a professional skating league.
Jordan Pierre Gilles
Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Canadian short track speed skater born 1998 in Fleurimont, Quebec; Olympic gold medalist in the men's 5000m relay at Beijing 2022 and 2025 world champion in the same event.
Jordan Stolz
Jordan Stolz is an American long track speed skater who holds the 1000m world record and won two Olympic gold medals and a silver at Milan Cortina 2026.
Jorg Hoffmann (olympedia 86702)
Jörg Hoffmann (born 1963, Sondershausen) is a German former luger; with Jochen Pietzsch he won 1988 Olympic doubles gold, 1984 bronze, and four world titles for East Germany. Not the swimmer of the same name.
Jørgen Graabak
Jørgen Nyland Graabak (born 1991) is a retired Norwegian nordic combined skier, the only one with four Olympic golds (Sochi 2014, Beijing 2022) plus two silvers, three world team titles, and retirement in May 2025.
Jorien ter Mors
Jorien ter Mors is a retired Dutch speed skater, born in 1989, who won three Olympic gold medals and one bronze in both short track and long track.
Jorn Wenzel
Jorn Wenzel (Jörn Wenzel), born 2004 in Freital, Germany, is a bobsledder and Bundespolizei officer who won gold as brakeman in the four-man at the 2026 Winter Olympics with pilot Johannes Lochner.
Jorrit Bergsma
Jorrit Bergsma, Dutch long-track speed skater born 1986 in Aldeboarn, specialist in the 5,000m, 10,000m, and mass start; five Olympic medals including Sochi 2014 10,000m gold and, at 40, the oldest long-track Olympic champion with mass start gold at Milano Cortina 2026.
Josef Feistmantl
Josef Feistmantl (1939–2019), Austrian luger from Absam, Tirol; with Manfred Stengl the first Olympic doubles luge champion at Innsbruck 1964, 1969 world singles champion, 1976 Innsbruck flame lighter.
Josef Polig
Josef Polig, Italian alpine skier born 1968 in Vipiteno (Sterzing), won surprise gold in the combined at the 1992 Albertville Olympics; World Cup racer 1988–95, nicknamed Joe-Speck, later a food-products distributor.
Joséphine Pagnier
Joséphine Pagnier is a French ski jumper, born in 2002 in Pontarlier, who won two World Cup events in 2023/24 and set the French record at 181 meters.
Josie Baff
Josie Baff (Josephine Louise Baff, born 2003, Cooma NSW) is an Australian snowboard cross rider from Jindabyne; 2026 Olympic champion, Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic gold medallist, and 2023 world championship silver medallist.
Joss Christensen
Joss Christensen, born in 1991, is an American freestyle skier who won the first Olympic gold medal in men's slopestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Ju Min Jin
Ju Min Jin (주민진) is a retired South Korean short track speed skater. She won gold in the women's 3000 m relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Juan Jesus Gutierrez
Juan Jesús Gutiérrez Cuevas, Spanish cross-country skier born 1969 in Reinosa, Cantabria; competed in five Winter Olympics (1992-2006), flagbearer at Nagano 1998, three-time Marcialonga winner; distinct from Mexican sprinter Juan Jesús Gutiérrez Vallín.
Judith Wyder
Judith Wyder (born 1988, Bern) is a Swiss trail runner and former orienteer who won the 2019 Golden Trail World Series after recovering from a stroke.
Juha Mieto
Juha Mieto (born 1949, Kurikka), Finnish cross-country skier nicknamed Mietaa; 1976 Olympic relay gold, 1980 15 km silver lost to Thomas Wassberg by 0.01 s, nine championship medals, later Finnish MP 2007–2011.
Juhani Jarvinen
Juhani Järvinen (Jouko Juhani Järvinen), Finnish speed skater, 1935–1984; 1959 World Allround champion in Oslo, 1500 m world record 2:06.3 (1959–1966), three-time Olympian 1956–1964.
Julia Dujmovits
Julia Dujmovits (born 1987, Güssing, Austria) is an Austrian snowboarder, Sochi 2014 Olympic parallel slalom gold medallist, first Burgenland Winter Olympic champion, two-time world championship silver medallist, retired 2022.
Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso, also Julia Marie Mancuso-Fish, "Super Jules," is a retired American alpine skier born 1984 in Reno: 2006 Olympic giant slalom gold, four Olympic medals, seven World Cup wins, retired 2018.
Julia Taubitz
Julia Taubitz, German luger (born 1996, Annaberg-Buchholz), 2026 Olympic gold medalist in women's singles and mixed team relay, eight-time world champion, five-time consecutive overall World Cup winner.
Julius Skutnabb
Julius Ferdinand Skutnabb (1889-1965), Finnish speed skater, won the 10,000 m at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics, plus 5,000 m silver and allround bronze, and 5,000 m silver at St. Moritz 1928; oldest male speed skating Olympic medalist.
Jung Dong-hyun (정동현)
Jung Dong-hyun (정동현; also Jeong Dong-hyeon), born in 1988, is a South Korean slalom and giant slalom skier who has raced at five consecutive Winter Olympics from 2010 to 2026.
Juris Šics
Juris Šics (born 1983, Sigulda) is a Latvian luger who raced doubles with brother Andris Šics, winning Olympic silver 2010 and two bronzes 2014 across five Games, retiring after 2021/22.
Justin Kripps
Justin Kripps (born 1987, Na'alehu, Hawaii) is a Canadian bobsleigh pilot who tied for two-man Olympic gold at PyeongChang 2018 (3:16.86) and won four-man bronze at Beijing 2022, later coaching Canada's team.
Justin Olsen
Justin Olsen (born 1987, Lubbock, Texas) is an American bobsledder, three-time Olympian, and 2010 Vancouver four-man gold medalist with the Night Train; later a pilot at PyeongChang 2018 and USOPC Hall of Fame inductee.
Justine Braisaz Bouchet
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, born 1996 in Albertville, France, is a French biathlete, 2022 Olympic mass start champion and five-time world champion with 22 World Cup wins; competed as Justine Braisaz at PyeongChang 2018.
Justine Dufour Lapointe
Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born 1994, Montreal) is a Canadian freestyle skier, 2014 Sochi Olympic moguls champion and 2018 silver medallist, sister of Chloé and Maxime, later a two-time Freeride World Tour champion (2023, 2025).