Winter and ice sports

Miho Takagi (高木美帆) (speed skater)

Miho Takagi (髙木美帆, born 1994, Makubetsu, Hokkaido) is a retired Japanese speed skater with a record 10 Olympic medals (2 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze), 1500 m world record 1:49.83, and 2026 People's Honor Award.

Mika Myllyla

Mika Myllylä (1969–2011), Finnish cross-country skier, nicknamed Karpasi; Olympic 30 km gold at Nagano 1998, three golds at Ramsau 1999, six Olympic and nine World Championship medals; career ended by the 2001 Lahti HES doping scandal; admitted career-long EPO use; died in Kokkola in 2011.

Mikael Kingsbury

Mikaël Kingsbury, 'The King of Moguls', Canadian freestyle skier born 1992 in Quebec. Five Olympic medals (gold 2018 moguls, gold 2026 dual moguls, three silvers), 100 World Cup wins, 29 Crystal Globes, nine world titles; retired 2026.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Mikaela Shiffrin, American alpine ski racer born 1995, record holder for most World Cup wins (108+, passing Ingemar Stenmark in 2023), three Olympic golds in slalom and giant slalom.

Mike Ireland

Mike Ireland (Michael James Grant Ireland, born 1974) is a Canadian long track speed skater, four-time Olympian (1994-2010), 2001 world sprint champion, and 1,000 m world record holder (1:08.34, Calgary, March 2001).

Mike Schmid

Mike Schmid (Michael Schmid, born 1984, Frutigen, Switzerland), Swiss ski cross freestyle skier; first Olympic champion in men's ski cross at Vancouver 2010, 2010 World Cup overall winner, retired 2015, later Swiss national team coach.

Mikhail Devyatyarov

Mikhail Devyatyarov (Михаил Талгатович Девятьяров), born 1959, Soviet cross-country skier; won 1988 Calgary Olympic gold in the 15 km classical and relay silver; father of skier Mikhail Devyatyarov Jr.

Mikhail Ivanov (olympedia 101321)

Mikhail Petrovich Ivanov (Михаил Петрович Иванов), Russian cross-country skier born 1977 in Ostrov, Pskov; 2002 Olympic 50 km classical gold medalist after Mühlegg's disqualification, 2001 Lahti world bronze.

Mikhail Karnaukhov

Mikhail Karnaukhov (Михаил Карнаухов) names two athletes: a Belarusian ice hockey goaltender born 1994 (Dinamo Minsk, KHL) and a Russian luger born 2002, 2020 Youth Olympic gold and bronze medalist.

Mikkel Remsøy

Mikkel Remsøy (Mikkel Maximilian Remsøy), Norwegian alpine skier born 2002, Bærum Skiklubb; shared Youth Olympic combined gold at Lausanne 2020 with Auguste Aulnette; World Cup debut Kitzbühel 2023.

Military patrol

Military patrol, or military ski patrol, a team skiing-and-shooting sport; official medal event only at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics (Switzerland gold), demonstration in 1928, 1936, 1948; precursor of biathlon.

Mirai Nagasu

Mirai Nagasu (長洲未来, born 1993) is an American figure skater, 2008 U.S. champion and two-time Olympian who landed the first triple Axel by an American woman at the Olympics, winning 2018 team bronze.

Miriam Kastlunger

Miriam Kastlunger is a retired Austrian luger, born in Innsbruck in 1994, who won the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics girls' singles luge title on her home track.

Mirja Hietamies

Mirja Hietamies (1931-2013), Finnish cross-country skier Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies-Eteläpää; 10 km silver at Oslo 1952, first Olympic women's cross-country race, and 3x5 km relay gold at Cortina 1956.

Mirjam Puchner

Mirjam Puchner (born 1992, Schwarzach im Pongau) is a retired Austrian alpine speed skier. Olympic Super G silver at Beijing 2022, world downhill silver at Saalbach 2025, two World Cup downhill wins, retired June 2026.

Mirko Vuillermin

Mirko Vuillermin (born 1973, Aosta) is an Italian retired short track speed skater, 1994 Lillehammer 5000 m relay Olympic champion and 500 m silver medalist, 1993 world record holder.

Mitsuki Ono

Mitsuki Ono (小野光希), Japanese snowboard halfpipe rider born 2004 in Saitama; 2020 Youth Olympic gold, Beijing 2022 ninth, Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic bronze, World Championship bronzes 2023 and 2025, World Cup overall champion 2023 and 2024.

Mo Ji Su

Mo Ji-Su (모지수, also Mo Ji-Soo), born 1969, is a South Korean short track speed skater who won gold in the inaugural Olympic men's 5000 m relay at Albertville 1992 in a world-record 7:14.02, and later coached Lee Jung-su.

Mogul skiing

Mogul skiing: freestyle skiing discipline on steep bump-covered courses, judged on turns (60%), air (20%), speed (20%); Olympic medal event since Albertville 1992, dual moguls added 2026.

Monika Gawenus Holzner Pflug

Monika Gawenus Holzner Pflug, born 1954 in Munich, West German speed skater; Olympic 1000 m gold at Sapporo 1972 as Monika Pflug, World Sprint champion 1972, competed at five Winter Games 1972-1988.

Monique Garbrecht Enfeldt

Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 1968, Potsdam) is a German sprint speed skater, five-time World Sprint champion, 2002 Olympic 500 m silver and 1992 1,000 m bronze medalist, and former 1,000 m world record holder.

Mont Tremblant Resort

Mont Tremblant Resort, Tremblant, Station Mont Tremblant: four-season ski resort in Quebec's Laurentians, 90 minutes north of Montreal, with a European-style pedestrian village, 102 trails, 645 m vertical, and Ski Magazine's repeated Best Resort in Eastern North America ranking.

Montell Douglas

Montell Douglas (born 1986, Lewisham) is a British dual Olympian: 100m sprinter and British record holder (11.05) at Beijing 2008, then brakewoman for Mica McNeill, finishing 17th in two-woman bobsleigh at Beijing 2022, the first British woman at both Summer and Winter Games.