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Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics (Sochi): ten events at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park; slopestyle and parallel slalom debuted; Kotsenburg, Anderson, Wild, Samkova, Podladtchikov won gold; United States led the medal table.
Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics (PyeongChang): 10 events at Phoenix Snow Park, 10–24 February 2018, 244 athletes from 29 nations; big air debuted, parallel slalom dropped; United States led with 7 medals.
Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at Beijing 2022: 11 events, 5–15 February 2022, at Genting Snow Park and Big Air Shougang; 230 athletes from 30 nations; mixed team snowboard cross debuted; Austria and USA won 3 golds each, Canada 6 medals.
Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's slopestyle
Men's snowboard slopestyle at Beijing 2022, Genting Snow Park, 6-7 February 2022: Max Parrot (CAN) gold 90.96, Su Yiming (CHN) silver 88.70, Mark McMorris (CAN) bronze 88.53, with a knee-grab judging controversy.
Snowboarding at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics: 11 events in halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, snowboard cross, and parallel giant slalom at Livigno Snow Park, February 5–18, 2026.
Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics is the FIS-governed snowboard program contested since Nagano 1998, growing to 11 events by 2026 and known for scrutinized freestyle judging.
Snowboarding culture
Snowboarding culture is the lifestyle subculture that grew up around snowboarding, shaped by skateboarding, surfing, and punk do-it-yourself ethics, and marked by distinctive dress, slang, and risk-taking.
Snowcat
Snowcat: genericized term from the Tucker Sno-Cat trademark for tracked snow vehicles. Covers groomers (PistenBully, Prinoth), utility and passenger models, specs, grooming science, costs, and electric models.
Snowmaking
Snowmaking, also called technical or artificial snow production, uses snow guns (fan and air–water types) to make snow from water and air at wet-bulb temperatures below about −1.5 °C; invented in 1934, it now equips most Alpine and US ski slopes.
Snowslide
A snowslide is an avalanche consisting largely or entirely of snow, in contrast to avalanches of ice, rock, earth, or mud; the word is an Americanism dating to about 1845.
Sofia Dzepka
Sofia Dzepka (София Дзепка, Sofiia Dzepka), Russian women's singles figure skater born 2009 in Moscow; Individual Neutral Athlete, 2026 ISU Junior Grand Prix winner at Xi'an and Bangkok, quad toe loop, PB 213.28.
Sofia Goggia
Sofia Goggia (born 1992, Bergamo) is an Italian alpine skier, Olympic downhill champion PyeongChang 2018, silver Beijing 2022, bronze Milano Cortina 2026, four downhill World Cup titles.
Sofia Mabergs
Sofia Mabergs, now Sofia Scharback, Swedish curler born 1993, lead for Team Hasselborg; two Olympic golds (2018, 2026) and bronze (2022) in women's curling.
Sofya Tikhonova
Sofya Tikhonova (Софья Дмитриевна Тихонова), Russian ski jumper born 1998 in St. Petersburg; 2016 Youth Olympic gold and silver medalist who also competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
Song Seok Wu
Song Seok Wu (송석우, also Song Seok-U), born 1983, South Korean short track speed skater; 2006 Turin Olympic gold in the men's relay and multiple world championship medals.
Sonja Edström-Ruthström
Sonja Edström-Ruthström (1930-2020), Swedish cross-country skier from Luleå, nickname "Trollet". Won 3 Olympic medals: 10 km and relay bronze at Cortina 1956, first Swedish woman Olympic skiing medalist, and 3x5 km relay gold at Squaw Valley 1960.
Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie (1912–1969), Norwegian figure skater and film star, won three straight Olympic golds (1928, 1932, 1936) and ten consecutive world titles, then starred in Hollywood films and ice shows.
South American Cup (alpine skiing)
The South American Cup is a FIS alpine skiing continental cup held each Southern Hemisphere winter in Argentina and Chile, run since 1989 as a development rung toward the World Cup.
Soviet Figure Skating Championships
The Soviet Figure Skating Championships, also called the championship of the USSR (первенство СССР), were the Soviet Union's national championships, first held in 1924 and last held in Kiev in December 1991.
Speed skating
Speed skating: racing on ice over set distances, governed by the ISU (founded 1892) and split into long track (400 m oval, pairs against the clock) and short track. Olympic since 1924; Netherlands leads with 146 medals.
Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
Men's 500 m long track speed skating, Torino 2006 Olympics, 13 February, Oval Lingotto. Joey Cheek (USA) won gold in 1:09.76 total over two races; Dorofeyev (RUS) silver, Lee Gang-Seok (KOR) bronze.
Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
Men's 500 m long track speed skating, Vancouver 2010 Olympics, 15 February 2010, Richmond Olympic Oval; Mo Tae-Beom (South Korea) won gold in 1:09.82 over two runs, ahead of Nagashima and Kato of Japan.
Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres
Men's 10,000 m long track speed skating, Sochi 2014 Olympics, 18 February at Adler Arena. Jorrit Bergsma won in 12:44.45, an Olympic and lowland world record, leading a record fourth all-Dutch podium sweep over Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong.
Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
Women's 1000 m long track speed skating at Sochi 2014, held 13 February at Adler Arena. Zhang Hong (CHN) won gold in 1:14.02, China's first speed skating gold, ahead of Ireen Wüst and Margot Boer.
Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres
Women's 500 m speed skating, Sochi 2014: Lee Sang-Hwa (KOR) retained her title in 74.70 (37.42 + 37.28 OR) ahead of Olga Fatkulina (RUS) and Margot Boer (NED), becoming the third woman to defend the Olympic 500 m crown.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start
Men's mass start, 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Gangneung Oval, 24 February 2018. Inaugural Olympic edition, 24 skaters, 16 laps, points format; Lee Seung-Hoon (KOR) won gold, Bart Swings silver, Koen Verweij bronze.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
Women's 1000 m long track speed skating, PyeongChang 2018 (14 February 2018, Gangneung Oval). Jorien ter Mors (NED) won in Olympic record 1:13.56; Nao Kodaira and Miho Takagi (JPN) took silver and bronze.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
Women's 1500 m long track speed skating, PyeongChang 2018: Ireen Wüst (NED) won gold in 1:54.35 at Gangneung Oval on 12 February 2018, ahead of Miho Takagi and Marrit Leenstra, becoming the most successful Dutch Olympian.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres
Women's 500 m speed skating, PyeongChang 2018, 18 February, Gangneung Oval: Nao Kodaira won gold in Olympic record 36.94, beating Lee Sang-Hwa (37.33) and Erbanová (37.34).
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start
Women's mass start speed skating, 2018 PyeongChang Olympics debut, 24 February 2018, Gangneung Oval. Nana Takagi (JPN) won gold, Kim Bo-Reum (KOR) silver, Irene Schouten (NED) bronze; 24 skaters, 16 laps, sprint points format.