Winter and ice sports

List of world records in speed skating

List of world records in speed skating, also called ISU long track world records: official fastest times per distance. As of January 2026, Stolz holds 1:05.37 (1000m), Eitrem 5:58.52 (5000m), Kok 36.09 (500m women).

Livigno

Livigno (Little Tibet), Italian Alpine ski resort in Lombardy near Switzerland at 1,816 m: duty-free village, 115 km of slopes on Carosello 3000 and Mottolino, freestyle and snowboard venue of Milano Cortina 2026.

Liz Lemley

Liz Lemley (Elizabeth Lemley, born 2006, Vail, Colorado) is an American freestyle moguls skier, 2026 Olympic gold medalist in women's moguls and bronze in dual moguls, and double 2024 Youth Olympic champion; 2022 FIS Rookie of the Year.

Lizzy Yarnold

Lizzy Yarnold, also known as Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, is a retired British skeleton athlete who won Olympic gold at Sochi 2014 and defended her title at PyeongChang 2018.

Lloyd Eisler

Lloyd Edgar Eisler Jr. (born 1963, Seaforth, Ontario), Canadian pair skater; with Isabelle Brasseur won Olympic bronze 1992 and 1994, 1993 World gold, five Canadian titles; earlier partners Lorri Baier and Katherina Matousek.

Loena Hendrickx

Loena Hendrickx (born 1999) is a Belgian figure skater, the 2024 European champion who took World silver in 2022 and bronze in 2023, the first Belgian World medalist since 1948.

Lorenz Nieberl

Lorenz Nieberl (Lenz, 1919–1968), West German bobsledder of SC Riessersee; double Olympic gold medalist at Oslo 1952 in two-man (with Anderl Ostler) and four-man, plus 1951 world titles.

Lotte van Beek

Lotte van Beek (Charlotte Willemijn van Beek, born 1991, Zwolle) is a retired Dutch speed skater: 2014 Olympic team pursuit gold and 1500 m bronze, 2018 team pursuit silver, 2018 European 1500 m champion.

Lou Jeanmonnot

Lou Jeanmonnot (born 1998, Pontarlier) is a French biathlete, 2025/26 World Cup overall crystal globe winner, two-time 2026 Olympic relay champion, and silver medalist in the 15 km individual at Milan-Cortina.

Luc Alphand

Luc Alphand (born 1965, Briançon) is a French former alpine skier who won the 1997 World Cup overall title and four discipline globes, then became a racing driver, winning the 2006 Dakar Rally and racing nine 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Luca Aerni

Luca Aerni (born 1993, Châtel-Saint-Denis) is a Swiss alpine skier, 2017 world champion in alpine combined and 2018 Olympic team event gold medalist, racing slalom and giant slalom.

Luca Spechenhauser

Luca Spechenhauser, born 2000 in Sondalo, Italy, is an Italian short track speed skater (C.S. Carabinieri). Olympic mixed relay gold and 5000m relay bronze at Milan-Cortina 2026; 1000m bronze at the 2024 World Championships.

Lucas Braathen

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, born 2000 in Oslo, Brazilian alpine skier racing for Brazil after leaving Norway; 2022/23 slalom globe, first Brazilian World Cup win (Levi 2025), giant slalom gold at Milano Cortina 2026.

Lucas Makowsky

Lucas Makowsky (Lucas Markian Makowsky), Canadian long track speed skater born 1987 in Regina, Saskatchewan; won 2010 Vancouver Olympic gold in men's team pursuit with Morrison and Giroux, retired 2014.

Luciano De Paolis

Luciano De Paolis, Italian bobsledder born 1941 in Rome, won double gold at Grenoble 1968 as brakeman for Eugenio Monti in the two-man and four-man bob, later European and world four-man champion.

Lucille Opitz

Lucille Opitz, born 1977 in Berlin, is a German former speed skater who won gold in the women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.

Ludowika Jakobsson Eilers

Ludowika Jakobsson Eilers (Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers, 1884-1968), German-born Finnish pairs figure skater; with husband Walter Jakobsson won Olympic gold 1920 (Finland's first), silver 1924, and three world titles (1911, 1914, 1923).

Luge

Luge: winter sliding sport, French for sled, in which athletes race supine, feet first, down an ice track at about 100 mph without brakes; Olympic since 1964 Innsbruck, governed by the FIL, with singles, doubles, and team relay events.

Luge at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Luge at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics (Lausanne/St. Moritz): five events at the natural-ice Olympia Bob Run, 17–20 January 2020. Germany won three golds; Latvia's Gints Berzins took men's singles gold, his country's first of the Games.

Luge at the Winter Olympics

Luge at the Winter Olympics is a sliding sport where athletes race sleds down an icy track at about 100 mph, an Olympic event since 1964.

Luge World Cup

Luge World Cup (EBERSPÄCHER Luge World Cup), annual FIL artificial-track luge series since 1977/78 in singles, doubles, and team relay; Olympic qualification basis; Eberspächer title sponsor since 2020/21.

Luka Berulava

Luka Berulava (ლუკა•ბერულავა), Georgian pair skater born 2002 in Moscow; 2026 Olympic pairs silver with Anastasiia Metelkina, Georgia's first Winter Olympic medal; 2022 World Junior champion with Karina Safina.

Lukas Nydegger

Lukas David Nydegger, German skeleton racer born 2002 in Filderstadt; 2020 Lausanne Youth Olympic champion, two-time junior world and two-time U20 world champion, RC Berchtesgaden, fourth at 2025 Cortina World Cup.

LW10

LW10 (LW10-1, LW10-2, Nordic LW10/LW10.5) is the most severe para sit-skiing classification: minimal or absent trunk muscle function, assessed by the FIS Board Test or Nordic test-table-test, raced with factored timing.

LW6/8

LW6/8 is a Paralympic skiing sport class (LW = Locomotor Winter) for standing athletes with one-arm impairments, competing on two skis with one pole; subcategories LW6/8-1 (above elbow) and LW6/8-2 (below elbow).

Lydia Lassila

Lydia Lassila (nee Ierodiaconou), born 1982, Australian aerial skier; Olympic gold Vancouver 2010, bronze Sochi 2014, first Australian woman at five Winter Games, 2009 World Cup champion, BodyICE founder.

Lydia Wideman

Lydia Wideman (Wideman-Lehtonen), Finnish cross-country skier, 1920-2019; won the first women's Olympic cross-country gold, the 10 km at Oslo 1952 in 41:40, leading a Finnish podium sweep.

Lynn-Holly Johnson

Lynn-Holly Johnson (born 1958, Chicago) is an American actress and former figure skater, star of Ice Castles, The Watcher in the Woods, and Bond girl Bibi Dahl in For Your Eyes Only (1981).

Lyubov Kozyreva (olympedia 53130)

Lyubov Kozyreva-Baranova (Любовь Козырева-Баранова, née Vatina, 1929–2015), Soviet cross-country skier; first Soviet Winter Olympic champion (1956 10 km) and first Soviet world champion skier (1954), with 1 gold and 3 silver Olympic medals.