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Lyubov Sadchikova
Lyubov Ivanovna Sadchikova (Любовь Ивановна Садчикова), Soviet sprint speed skater (1951–2012); 1978 World Sprint champion in Lake Placid, 500 m world record holder 41.69 (1975, Medeo), 1976 Olympian.
Lyudmila Belousova
Lyudmila Belousova (Людмила Белоусова), Soviet pair skater with husband Oleg Protopopov; two Olympic golds (1964, 1968), four World and European titles (1965-68), defected to Switzerland 1979, died 2017.
Lyudmila Pakhomova
Lyudmila Pakhomova (Людмила Пахомова), Soviet ice dancer; with husband Aleksandr Gorshkov won the first Olympic ice dance gold, Innsbruck 1976, plus six World and six European titles; died of leukemia 1986.
Lyudmila Titova
Lyudmila Titova (Людмила Евгеньевна Титова), Soviet speed skater born 1946 in Chita; 1968 Olympic 500 m champion and 1,000 m silver medalist, 1972 500 m bronze, three 1,000 m world records.
Maddie Bowman
Maddie Bowman, also Maddison Michelle Bowman, American freestyle skier born 1994 in South Lake Tahoe; won the first Olympic women's halfpipe gold at Sochi 2014, placed 11th at PyeongChang 2018, retired 2020.
Madeleine Chamot Berthod
Madeleine Chamot Berthod, born 1 February 1931 in Morrens, Switzerland, alpine skier; won the 1956 Cortina Olympic downhill by 4.7 seconds, the largest women's margin in Olympic alpine history.
Madeleine Egle
Madeleine Egle, Austrian luger (born 1998, Hall in Tirol), Olympic relay silver and bronze medalist, 2024 European champion, suspended 20 months for whereabouts failures, comeback announced 2026.
Madge Syers
Madge Syers (Florence Madeleine Syers, née Cave, 1881-1917), British figure skater; first woman at the 1902 World Championships (silver behind Salchow), first ladies' world champion 1906-1907, and 1908 Olympic women's singles gold and pairs bronze medalist.
Madison Chock
Madison Chock (born 1992, Redondo Beach, California) is an American ice dancer skating with husband Evan Bates since 2011; Olympic team gold 2022 and 2026, three straight world titles 2023-2025, seven U.S. national titles.
Madison Hubbell
Madison Hubbell (Madison Hubbell, USA) is a retired American ice dancer who competed with Zachary Donohue at the 2018 and 2022 Olympics, winning Beijing 2022 ice dance bronze and the team gold, with three U.S. titles and three World medals, now a coach with Adrian Diaz.
Maelle Ricker
Maëlle Ricker is a Canadian former snowboarder who won gold in women's snowboard cross at Vancouver 2010, the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold on home soil.
Magda Julin
Magda Julin (1894-1990), Swedish figure skater born Magda Mauroy in Vichy, won the 1920 Antwerp Olympic women's singles gold while four months pregnant, the only Olympic skating champion never ranked first by any judge.
Magdalena Gwizdoń
Magdalena Gwizdoń, Polish biathlete born 1979 in Cieszyn, four-time Olympian (2006–2018) and first Polish woman to win a World Cup race (Östersund 2006, Sochi 2013 sprints); retired 2022, now a professional soldier.
Magdalena Matschina
Magdalena Matschina (born 2005, Bad Aibling) is a German luger in women's doubles. With Dajana Eitberger she won 2026 Olympic silver in doubles and team relay gold, after 2025 Worlds bronze and mixed silver.
Magdalena Neuner
Magdalena Neuner (Lena, later Magdalena Holzer), German biathlete born 1987: two 2010 Olympic golds, 12 World Championship golds, 34 World Cup wins, three overall titles; retired at 25 in 2012.
Magnar Solberg
Magnar Solberg (born 4 February 1937, Soknedal) is a Norwegian biathlete, the only one to win the Olympic 20 km individual twice, taking gold at Grenoble 1968 and Sapporo 1972, plus 1968 relay silver; he was a Trondheim police officer.
Magne Thomassen
Magne Arnfinn Thomassen (born 1941, Melhus) is a Norwegian speed skater, 1968 Olympic 500 m silver medalist at Grenoble, 1,500 m world record holder (2:02.5), and twice World Allround silver medalist.
Magnus Krog
Magnus Krog, Norwegian nordic combined skier (born 1987, Høydalsmo), Sochi 2014 Olympic team gold and individual bronze, three World Championship silvers, three World Cup wins; retired 2021.
Magnus Moan
Magnus Moan (Magnus Hovdal Moan), Norwegian Nordic combined athlete born 1983, four-time Olympic medalist with team gold at Sochi 2014, twelve World Championship medals, 25 World Cup wins, retired 2019, now a Viaplay commentator.
Maia Shibutani
Maia Shibutani (Maia Harumi Shibutani, born 1994), American ice dancer skating with brother Alex Shibutani; two-time 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, two-time U.S. champion, and 2025-26 comeback competitor.
Maiken Caspersen Falla
Maiken Caspersen Falla, born 1990, Norwegian cross-country sprint skier; 2014 Olympic sprint champion, 2018 silver and bronze, ten World Championship medals with five gold, 22 World Cup sprint wins, retired April 2022.
Maja Dahlqvist
Maja Dahlqvist, Swedish cross-country sprint skier (born 1994, Borlänge), Falun-Borlänge SK; five Olympic medals including 2026 team sprint gold with Jonna Sundling, three world team sprint titles, three Sprint World Cup globes.
Maki Tabata
Maki Tabata (田畑真紀), born 1974 in Mukawa, Hokkaido, is a Japanese long-track speed skater who competed at five Winter Olympics (1994-2014), won team pursuit silver at Vancouver 2010, and later won Asian track cycling gold.
Maksim Marinin
Maksim Marinin (Максим Викторович Маринин), born 1977 in Volgograd, Russian pair skater with Tatyana Totmyanina: 2006 Olympic pairs champion (204.48), two-time World champion 2004–2005, five-time European champion 2002–2006, fourth at Salt Lake City 2002.
Maksim Sokolovskii
Maksim Sokolovskii is a Kazakh ice hockey defenseman for the London Knights of the OHL, selected 27th overall in the 2026 NHL Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers.
Maksim Trankov
Maksim Trankov (Максим Леонидович Траньков), Russian pair skater born 1983 in Perm; two-time 2014 Sochi Olympic gold medalist with Tatyana Volosozhar (pairs and team event), 2013 world champion, later coach and Channel One commentator.
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is a large Eastern Sierra California ski resort near Mammoth Lakes with 3,500 skiable acres, an 11,053-foot summit, about 350 inches of annual snowfall, and a November-to-June season; founded by Dave McCoy in the 1940s–1950s.
Manabu Horii
Manabu Horii (堀井学), born 1972 in Muroran, is a Japanese speed skater who won 500 m bronze at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, set 1000 m world records, and later served in Japan's House of Representatives.
Manfred Schmid
Manfred Schmid (born 1944, Liezen, Austria), Austrian luger; Olympic singles champion and doubles silver medalist with Ewald Walch at Grenoble 1968; four-time Olympian and two-time world doubles champion.
Manfred Schnelldorfer
Manfred Schnelldorfer (born 1943, Munich), German figure skater, 1964 Olympic gold and World champion in men's singles; later national coach, pop singer, film actor, sports-shop owner.