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Justyna Kowalczyk
Justyna Kowalczyk-Tekieli is a Polish former cross-country skier who competed at four Winter Games, won five Olympic medals including two golds, and took four overall World Cup titles.
Jutta Leerdam
Jutta Leerdam, Dutch long-track speed skater (born 1998, 's-Gravenzande), Olympic 1000m champion in record 1:12.31 and 500m silver at Milano Cortina 2026, Beijing 2022 1000m silver, three-time world 1000m champion, engaged to Jake Paul.
Kaetlyn Osmond
Kaetlyn Osmond (born 1995, Marystown, NL) is a Canadian figure skater, 2018 World champion, 2018 Olympic team gold and singles bronze medalist, 2014 team silver, retired 2019.
Kai Mahler
Kai Mahler (born 1995, Fischenthal, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss freestyle skier in big air, slopestyle, and halfpipe; 2012 Youth Olympic halfpipe gold medalist, 2014 Sochi Olympian, four X Games Big Air medals, two World Cup big air wins, retired 2020.
Kai Verbij
Kai Verbij (Kai Yagi, 八木開), born 1994, is a Dutch sprint speed skater, 2017 world sprint champion with the 136.065 sprint-combination world record, and 2022 Olympic Visa Award winner for sportsmanship.
Kaija Mustonen
Kaija Mustonen (born 1941, Helsinki) is a Finnish speed skater, the most successful Finnish woman in the sport, with four Olympic medals: 1,500 m gold at Grenoble 1968, silvers at 1,500 m 1964 and 3,000 m 1968, and 1,000 m bronze 1964.
Kaila Kuhn
Kaila Kuhn (born 2003, Boyne City, Michigan) is an American freestyle aerials skier, 2026 Olympic mixed team gold medalist, two-time 2025 world champion, and first-time World Cup winner at Lake Placid in 2026.
Kaillie Humphries
Kaillie Humphries (Kaillie Simundson Armbruster, born 1985) is a Canadian-American bobsled pilot, the only three-time Olympic gold medalist in women's bobsled: two-woman golds 2010/2014 for Canada, inaugural monobob gold 2022 for the USA.
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Kaisa Mäkäräinen (born 1983, Ristijärvi) is a retired Finnish biathlete, the most successful in Finnish history: three overall World Cup titles (2011, 2014, 2018), 2011 pursuit world champion, 27 World Cup wins, retired March 2020.
Kaitlyn Farrington
Kaitlyn Farrington, American snowboarder born 1989 in Hailey, Idaho; won women's halfpipe gold at Sochi 2014 with 91.75; retired January 2015 after congenital cervical stenosis was found following a fall in Austria.
Kalevi Hamalainen
Kalevi Nikolai Hämäläinen (1932–2005), Finnish cross-country skier; Olympic 50 km gold at Squaw Valley 1960 in 2:59:06.3 and world 30 km gold at Lahti 1958; later dropped by Finnish selectors.
Kalle Jalkanen
Kalle Jalkanen (1907–1941), Finnish cross-country skier of Lahden Hiihtoseura; anchor of Finland's gold-medal 4x10 km relay at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 and 50 km world champion at Lahti 1938; killed by a mine in the Continuation War.
Kamil Stoch
Kamil Wiktor Stoch is a retired Polish ski jumper, born in Zakopane in 1987, who won three Olympic gold medals and two overall World Cup titles before retiring in 2026.
Kamila Valieva
Kamila Valieva, Russian figure skater (born 2006), 2022 European champion and Beijing 2022 team gold medallist; set eight world records, first woman to land an Olympic quad, banned four years for trimetazidine.
Karen Chen (陈楷雯)
Karen Chen (陈楷雯), born 1999 in Fremont, California, is an American women's singles figure skater, 2017 U.S. champion, two-time Olympian, and Beijing 2022 Olympic team gold medalist awarded after the Valieva doping case.
Kari Swenson
Kari Swenson (born 1962) is an American former biathlete from Bozeman, Montana, 1984 and 1985 U.S. champion, and relay bronze medalist at the first women's 1984 Biathlon World Championships; she survived a 1984 kidnapping and became a veterinarian.
Kari Traa
Kari Traa, born 1974 in Voss, Norway, is a former freestyle moguls skier: 2002 Olympic champion, 1998 bronze and 2006 silver medalist, four-time world champion, and founder of the Kari Traa sportswear brand.
Karin Enke Kania
Karin Enke Kania is a German former speed skater, born 1961 in Dresden, who competed for East Germany and won eight Olympic medals, including three gold, at the 1980, 1984, and 1988 Winter Games.
Karine Ruby
Karine Ruby (1978–2009), French snowboarder, first woman to win Olympic snowboarding gold (Nagano 1998 giant slalom), six-time world champion, 67 World Cup wins; died in a Mont Blanc crevasse fall.
Karl Ake Asph
Karl-Åke Asph, born 2 February 1939 in Avesta, Sweden, is a former cross-country skier of IFK Mora who won 4x10 km relay gold at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics in his only Games, skiing the first leg, and also won the 1967 Lidingöloppet.
Karl Schnabl
Karl Schnabl (born 1954, Villach, Austria) is an Austrian ski jumper and sports medicine physician; first Austrian Olympic ski jumping gold, large hill, Innsbruck 1976, plus normal hill bronze.
Karsten Brannasch
Karsten Brannasch (born 1966, Altdöbern) is a German bobsledder, 1994 Lillehammer Olympic four-man gold medalist with pilot Harald Czudaj, Olaf Hampel, and Alexander Szelig; also 1989 European silver and 1995 European bronze.
Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt, born 1965 in Staaken, East Germany, is a German figure skater with Olympic golds 1984 and 1988, four World and six European titles, 1994 comeback, Emmy winner, Hall of Famer.
Katerina Neumannova
Kateřina Neumannová (Katerina Neumannova), Czech cross-country skier born 1973 in Písek; Torino 2006 Olympic 30 km gold, first Czech woman's winter Olympic title, plus 4 silver and 1 bronze, two world titles, 18 World Cup wins, and Atlanta 1996 mountain bike Olympian.
Katharina Althaus
Katharina Althaus, since 2023 Katharina Schmid, German ski jumper born 1996 in Oberstdorf; two Olympic silvers (2018, 2022 normal hill), 2023 World Champion, seven world titles, 22 World Cup wins, retiring after 2026.
Katharina Gallhuber
Katharina Gallhuber, Austrian alpine skier (SC Göstling-Hochkar, FIS 56367), slalom specialist; 2018 PyeongChang Olympic slalom bronze and team parallel silver; also competed at Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026.
Katharina Huber
Katharina Huber, Austrian alpine skier born 1995 in Leoben, slalom specialist with Sportunion Waidhofen an der Ybbs; double Olympic gold medalist (Beijing 2022 mixed team, Milan-Cortina 2026 team combined with Ariane Rädler), no World Cup win.
Katharina Liensberger
Katharina Liensberger, Austrian alpine skier (born 1997, Feldkirch), slalom and giant slalom specialist; 2022 Olympic mixed team champion, 2021 double world champion, 2021 World Cup slalom title holder.
Kathy Kreiner
Kathy Kreiner is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer who won women's giant slalom gold at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, upsetting the favorite Rosi Mittermaier.
Katja Seizinger
Katja Seizinger (Katja Weber), born 1972 in Datteln, German alpine skier; three Olympic golds including back-to-back downhill titles 1994/1998, 36 World Cup wins, overall champion 1996 and 1998.