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Letitia de Jong
Letitia de Jong, born 1993 in Veenwouden, is a Dutch sprint speed skater, twice world team sprint champion (2019, 2020) and holder of the 1:24.02 team sprint world record with Kok and Leerdam.
Lev Lazarev
Lev Lazarev (Лев Лазарев; born 2009) is a Russian junior figure skater competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN2); he won JGP Xi'an and Bangkok 2026 with 250.21 and 260.90 points and qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final.
Li Qishi
Li Qishi (李奇时), Chinese long-track speed skater born 1993 in Jilin; 2014 and 2022 Olympian (1500 m, 1000 m, mass start, team pursuit) and former team sprint world record holder (1:24.65, 2015).
Li Xiangning
Li Xiangning (李香凝), Chinese figure skater born 2000 in Qiqihar; 2016 Youth Olympic team gold medalist and 22nd in women's singles at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
Lidiya Skoblikova
Lidiya Skoblikova (Лидия Павловна Скобликова), Soviet speed skater born 1939 in Zlatoust; six Olympic golds (1960, 1964), first woman to sweep all four events at one Games, nicknamed Ural Lightning.
Lift ticket
A lift ticket, also called a lift pass or ski pass, grants a skier access to a resort's lifts for a day, several days, or a season.
Liliya Vasilyeva
Liliya Vasilyeva (Лилия Леонидовна Васильева), Russian cross-country skier born 1994 in Mozhga, Udmurtia; competed for ROC at Beijing 2022, 15th in the 10 km classic; Eastern Europe Cup winner; not the runner, swimmer, or gymnast Vasilyeva.
Lina Andersson
Lina Marie Andersson (born 1981, Malmberget, Sweden), Swedish cross-country skier; won gold in the women's team sprint with Anna Dahlberg at the Turin 2006 Olympics, with World Championship silvers in 2005 and 2009; retired 2011.
Lina Cheryazova
Lina Cheryazova (Лина Черязова), Uzbek freestyle aerials skier born 1968 in Tashkent, won the first Olympic women's aerials gold at Lillehammer 1994, still Uzbekistan's only Winter Olympic medal; world champion 1993, died 2019 in Novosibirsk.
Linda Johnson Blair
Linda Johnson Blair (Linda Marie Johnson-Blair), born 1971 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, is a Canadian long track speed skater who competed at the 1994 Lillehammer (500 m, 26th) and 1998 Nagano Olympics (500 m 13th, 1,000 m 21st). Not the American speed skater Bonnie Blair.
Linda Zingerle
Linda Zingerle (born 2002, San Candido, Italy) is an Italian biathlete, daughter of Andreas Zingerle; 2020 Youth Olympic mixed relay gold and pairs relay silver, 2022 junior world relay gold, 2025 European bronze medals.
Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis (born 1985) is an American snowboard cross racer, five-time Olympian, six-time world champion, and two-time Beijing 2022 gold medalist, famous for her 2006 Torino celebratory-grab fall and 16-year redemption.
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn (born 1984) is an American alpine skier, Olympic downhill gold medalist (Vancouver 2010), and record-setting 82-time World Cup winner who retired in 2019, returned in 2024 as the oldest World Cup winner, and crashed at the 2026 Olympics.
Lisa Buckwitz
Lisa Buckwitz (Lisa-Marie Buckwitz), German bobsledder born 1994 in Berlin; 2018 Olympic two-woman gold as brakewoman to Mariama Jamanka, 2026 silver as pilot with Neele Schuten, 2024 world champion and monobob European champion.
Lisa Marie Hirner
Lisa-Marie Hirner (born 2003, Leoben, Austria), Austrian nordic combined athlete and ski jumper for SC Erzbergland; double 2020 Youth Olympic gold medalist, 2025 World Championship bronze medalist, and 2026 Olympic ski jumper.
Lisa Theresa Hauser
Lisa Theresa Hauser (born 1993, Kitzbühel) is an Austrian biathlete, first Austrian biathlon world champion (mass start, Pokljuka 2021), with six World Cup wins, four Olympics, retired March 2026.
Lisa Vittozzi
Lisa Vittozzi (born 1995 in Pieve di Cadore) is an Italian biathlete who won the 10 km pursuit at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, Italy's first biathlon gold.
Liselotte Landbeck
Liselotte Landbeck (1916-2013), Austrian-born speed skater and figure skater for Belgium; first woman under 1 minute at 500 m, five world records, 1933 unofficial world allround champion, fourth at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
List of figure skaters (women's singles)
Women's singles figure skating: Olympic and elite female skaters. Held since 1908 (Madge Syers first champion); Sonja Henie won three golds; US leads medals; Alysa Liu won 2026 gold, first American champion since 2002.
List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in men's cross-country skiing
List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in men's cross-country skiing: all-time and per-championship medal tables. Norway leads with 134 golds; Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo swept all six 2025 Trondheim titles for 15 career golds.
List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Nordic combined medalists: men's Gundersen events since the early championships; women debuted at Oberstdorf 2021 (Gyda Westvold Hansen first champion), Mixed Team debuted 2023, Falun 2027 adds Team Sprint.
List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in women's cross-country skiing
Women's cross-country skiing medalists at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, held since the women's 10 km debut at Falun 1954; at Trondheim 2025 Sweden swept all six women's golds, including team sprint and 4x7.5 km relay.
List of highest scores in figure skating
Highest scores in figure skating: best ISU Judging System totals, free skates, and short programs. Ilia Malinin leads men with 333.76 total and 238.24 free skate; Kaori Sakamoto leads 2025/26 ladies at 238.28.
List of New England ski areas by vertical drop
List of New England ski areas by vertical drop; Killington VT leads at 3,076 ft, then Sugarloaf ME 2,820 ft and Smugglers' Notch VT 2,610 ft; covers 94 lift-served areas across six states, down to 200 ft hills.
List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing, contested since Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936; also known as Olympic alpine skiing medal tables. Austria leads all-time with 132 medals; Aamodt holds the men's record of eight, Kostelić four golds among women.
List of Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
List of Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing: all medal events since Chamonix 1924, formats (sprint, skiathlon, mass start, relay), all-time leaders Bjørgen, Dæhlie, Klæbo, nation tables, and 2026 Milan-Cortina results.
List of Olympic medalists in figure skating
List of Olympic medalists in figure skating: champions since London 1908 and Chamonix 1924 in men's and women's singles, pairs, ice dance (1976), and team event (2014); USA leads with 57 medals; 2026 champions Shaidorov, Liu, Miura/Kihara, Fournier Beaudry/Cizeron.
List of Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic long-track speed skating medalists, 1924 Chamonix to Milano Cortina 2026; 14 events, Netherlands leads with 146 medals, Ireen Wüst most decorated at 13, Jordan Stolz and Francesca Lollobrigida set 2026 records.
List of ski areas and resorts in Europe
Ski areas and resorts in Europe: about 3,900 resorts, half the world's total, led by Ski amadé (609 km piste), Les Trois Vallées, and Dolomiti Superski (1,200 km); concentrated in the Alps and facing snow-reliability decline.
List of ski areas and resorts in the United States
Ski areas and resorts in the United States: about 470 operating areas across 37 states, tracked by the National Ski Areas Association, spanning Northeast, Midwest, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific West markets, with growing reliance on snowmaking amid warming winters.