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Nor-Am Cup
Nor-Am Cup (NAC), the FIS North American continental cup in alpine skiing for Canada and the USA, Race Level 1 below the World Cup; season winners on the World Cup point scale earn personal World Cup starts.
Nora Midtsundstad
Nora Midtsundstad (born 2003, Kongsvinger) is a Norwegian ski jumper for Vaaler IF. Youth Olympic mixed team gold 2020, three Continental Cup wins in 2022, World Cup debut Oberhof 2022.
Norbert Hahn
Norbert Hahn (born 1954, Elbingerode) is a German luger who won Olympic doubles gold with Hans Rinn at Innsbruck 1976 and Lake Placid 1980, plus world and European titles, then coached German luge nationally.
Nordic combined
Nordic combined: winter sport pairing ski jumping and cross-country skiing, decided by the Gundersen method (1 jump point = 4 seconds). Olympic since Chamonix 1924; no women's event; cut from the 2030 Olympic program.
Nordic combined at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Nordic combined at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is the ski jumping plus cross-country skiing medal program at the world championships, held since 1925.
Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics, also called the Gundersen format, combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing; a men-only discipline at every Games since Chamonix 1924, Norway leads with 35 medals, and the IOC removed it from the 2030 program.
Nordic combined at the Winter Youth Olympics
Nordic combined at the Winter Youth Olympics is the youth version of the sport combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing, held since the first Games in 2012.
Nordic combined in Japan
Japan's history in Nordic combined, the Olympic ski jumping and cross-country discipline, where Japan has won 7 Olympic medals, including consecutive team golds at Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994.
Nordic Figure Skating Championships
The Nordic Figure Skating Championships, known as The Nordics, is an annual figure skating competition for the five Nordic ISU members, held alongside the open Nordics Open event.
Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing: the winter sport family of cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined, governed by FIS since 1924; free-heel bindings, Gundersen scoring, Olympic since Chamonix 1924.
Noriaki Kasai (葛西紀明)
Noriaki Kasai (葛西紀明, born 1972, Shimokawa, Japan) is a Japanese ski jumper active since 1988; eight straight Olympics, three Olympic medals, 1992 Ski Flying world champion, oldest World Cup winner.
Oceane Michelon
Oceane Michelon, French biathlete (born 2002, Chambéry), double Olympic champion at Milan-Cortina 2026 in mass start and women's relay plus sprint silver, 2025 world relay champion, IBU Cup overall winner 2023-24.
Odd Martinsen
Odd-Willy Martinsen (1942–2025), Norwegian cross-country skier nicknamed Stafett-Martin; 1968 Olympic relay gold and 30 km silver, 1976 relay silver, five World Championship medals, Holmenkollen Medal 1969, FIS Cross-Country Committee chairman 1986–2002, father of Bente Skari.
Oddbjørn Hagen
Oddbjørn Hagen was a Norwegian Nordic combined and cross-country skier who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and world titles in 1934 and 1935.
Oh Se Jong
Oh Se Jong (오세종), South Korean short track speed skater (1982–2016), Olympic gold medalist in the men's 5,000 m relay at Torino 2006 and world relay champion in 2002 and 2003; died in a Seoul motorcycle accident.
Oksana Baiul (Оксана Сергіївна Баюл-Фаріна)
Oksana Baiul (Оксана Сергіївна Баюл-Фаріна), born 1977 in Dnipro, is the Ukrainian figure skater who won 1993 Worlds and the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic gold, Ukraine's first, beating Nancy Kerrigan by 0.10 point.
Oksana Kazakova
Oksana Kazakova (Оксана Казакова), born in 1975 in Leningrad, is a Russian pair skater who won the gold medal in pairs at the 1998 Winter Olympics with Artur Dmitriev.
Oksana Masters
Oksana Masters is an American Paralympic athlete, born in Ukraine in 1989, who has competed in rowing, cycling, cross-country skiing, and biathlon, winning 24 career medals.
Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium
Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium (大倉山ジャンプ競技場), Sapporo, Japan: large hill K123/HS137, opened 1932 as Okura-Schanze, 1972 Olympic 90 m venue, World Cup site with lift and Olympic Museum.
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad (born 1982, Askim) is a Norwegian former cross-country sprint skier, Ørje IL: 2014 Sochi Olympic sprint gold, 2009 Liberec world sprint and team sprint champion, three sprint World Cup globes, retired 2018, later national coach.
Olaf Hampel
Olaf Hampel, born 1965 in Bielefeld, is a German former bobsledder who won Olympic gold in the four-man bob at Lillehammer 1994 and Nagano 1998.
Olaf Zinke
Olaf Zinke (born 1966, Bad Muskau) is a German former speed skater, SC Dynamo Berlin, who won surprise 1,000 m gold at Albertville 1992 in 1:14.85, 0.01 s ahead of Kim Yun-man; two-time Olympian.
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete born 1974, won 14 Olympic medals including 8 golds across six Games (1994–2014), swept all four biathlon events at Salt Lake City 2002, and took 94 World Cup wins before retiring in 2018.
Ole Ellefsæter
Ole Ellefsæter (Ole Martin Ellefsæter, 1939–2022), nicknamed Uteligger, Norwegian cross-country skier and steeplechase runner; double 1968 Grenoble Olympic gold (50 km, 4×10 km relay), 1966 world relay champion, first Norwegian Vasaloppet winner (1971).
Oleg Bozhev
Oleg Bozhev (Олег Фелевич Божьев), Soviet speed skater born 1961 in Moscow; 1984 Olympic 1,500 m bronze, 1984 World All-round champion, 1,500 m world record 1:53.26; later Russian national head coach.
Oleg Domichek
Oleg Domichek (Олег Евгеньевич Домичек), Russian biathlete born 2002 in Biysk, Altai Krai; 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic champion in the boys' 12.5 km individual and mixed relay silver medalist, later a Russian championship medalist.
Oleg Vasilyev
Oleg Vasilyev (Олег Кимович Васильев), Soviet/Russian pair skater with Yelena Valova: 1984 Olympic champion, 1988 silver, three world titles; later coached 2006 Olympic champions Totmianina and Marinin.
Olena Pidhrushna
Olena Pidhrushna (Олена Підгрушна, also Bilosiuk), Ukrainian biathlete born 1987 in Legnica, Poland; 2014 Sochi Olympic relay gold, 2013 world sprint champion, three-time Olympian, retired 2026.
Olga Danilova
Olga Danilova (Ольга Валерьевна Данилова), Russian cross-country skier born 1970, two-time 1998 Olympic champion and four-time world relay champion; career ended by a 2002 darbepoetin disqualification. Not the tennis player Olga Danilovic.
Olga Fatkulina
Olga Fatkulina (Ольга Александровна Фаткулина), born 1990 in Chelyabinsk, is a Russian sprint speed skater, 2013 world 1000m champion, Sochi 2014 500m silver medalist (later disqualified, then restored by CAS), and 2022 ROC opening flagbearer.