Winter and ice sports

Ted Ligety

Ted Ligety (Theodore Sharp Ligety, born 1984, Salt Lake City) is a retired American alpine ski racer, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2006 combined, 2014 giant slalom), five-time world champion, and 25-time World Cup winner who founded Shred Optics.

Telecabin

Telecabin: term for cable-suspended passenger lifts, especially the Ramsar Telecabin (تله کابین رامسر) in Mazandaran, Iran; a 2 km, 12-minute lift from the Caspian coast to 700 m, opened 2008.

Telemark skiing

Telemark skiing, a free-heel ski discipline from 19th-century Norway credited to Sondre Norheim, uses the lunging Telemark turn; FIS races combine Classic, Sprint, and Parallel Sprint formats with judged technique.

Tenley Albright

Tenley Albright (born 1935), American figure skater and surgeon; first US woman to win the world figure skating title (1953) and Olympic gold (1956), after polio; later Harvard-trained general surgeon.

Terje Langli

Terje Bjarte Langli, Norwegian cross-country skier born 1965 in Steinkjer; first World Champion in the 10 km classical (Val di Fiemme 1991), 1992 Olympic relay gold and 30 km bronze.

Tess Ledeux

Tess Ledeux (born 2001, Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a French freestyle skier in slopestyle and big air; 2022 Olympic big air silver medalist, three-time world champion, first woman to land a double cork 1620, and tied for most X Games medals by a woman skier.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancers, five-time Olympic medalists (gold 2010, 2018), three-time world champions, most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history, retired 2019.

Tessa Worley

Tessa Worley, French-Australian alpine skier (born 1989, Annemasse), giant slalom specialist; double world champion 2013 and 2017, 16 World Cup wins, two crystal globes, retired March 2023.

Teun Boer

Teun Boer (born 2001, Nijmegen) is a Dutch short-track speed skater, Olympic 5000 m relay champion at Milan-Cortina 2026, 2023 world mixed relay champion, and double 2024 European champion.

The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 Universal biographical drama directed by Larry Peerce, starring Marilyn Hassett as paralyzed skier Jill Kinmont and Beau Bridges as Dick Buek, adapted from E. G. Valens's biography A Long Way Up.

Therese Johaug

Therese Johaug (born 1988), Norwegian cross-country skier from Dalsbygda, IL Nansen; 4 Olympic golds, 14 world titles, 89 World Cup wins, four Tour de Ski titles; 18-month clostebol ban; retired 2025.

Thibault Anselmet

Thibault Anselmet (born 1997, Chambéry) is a French ski mountaineer and army sergeant; first Olympic mixed relay champion and sprint bronze medalist at Milan-Cortina 2026, with three overall World Cup titles (2023-2025).

Thibe Deseyn

Thibe Deseyn, born 2003 in Sierre, is a Swiss ski mountaineer. She won gold and silver at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, world championship golds in 2023 and 2025, and her first ISMF World Cup podium in December 2025.

Thobias Fredriksson

Thobias Fredriksson (Karl Daniel Thobias Fredriksson), born 1975, Swedish cross-country sprint skier; 2006 Olympic team sprint gold with Björn Lind, 2006 sprint bronze, 2003 world sprint champion, brother of Mathias Fredriksson.

Thomas Alsgaard

Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier born 1972 in Lørenskog, won five Olympic and six World Championship golds from 1994 to 2003, pioneered skating technique, and took the 1997/98 World Cup overall.

Thomas Bos

Thomas Bos (born 1968, The Hague) is a retired Dutch speed skater, 11th in the 10,000 m at the 1992 Albertville Olympics, who set the 3000 m world record of 3:56.16 in Calgary on 3 April 1992.

Thomas Bussard

Thomas Bussard (born 2002) is a Swiss ski mountaineer who won gold in the boys' individual race and mixed relay at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Thomas Kohler

Thomas Köhler (born 1940, Zwickau) is an East German former luger, the first to win Olympic gold in both singles (1964) and doubles (1968 with Bonsack), later DTSB vice president and 2010 doping confessor.

Thomas Krol

Thomas Krol, Dutch speed skater born 1992 in Deventer, Olympic 1000m gold and 1500m silver at Beijing 2022, two-time 1500m world champion; retired 2024 to become a KLM pilot.

Thomas Morgenstern

Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper (born 1986, Spittal an der Drau), three-time Olympic champion 2006 and 2010, 23 World Cup wins, retired 2014 after crashes, later competitive helicopter pilot.

Thomas Nadalini

Thomas Nadalini (born 2002, Trento) is an Italian short track speed skater with Fiamme Oro; 2026 Olympic mixed relay gold and men's relay bronze medalist, 2020 Youth Olympic relay bronze medalist.

Thomas Schroll

Thomas Schroll (born 1965, Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian bobsledder, Olympic four-man gold medalist at Albertville 1992 with Ingo Appelt, Harald Winkler, and Gerhard Haidacher; also 1995 world silver medalist.

Thomas Stangassinger

Thomas Stangassinger, called Stani, Austrian slalom specialist born 1965 in Hallein; 1994 Lillehammer Olympic slalom champion over Alberto Tomba, 1999 Slalom World Cup winner, 1991 and 1993 World Championship medalist.

Thomas Wassberg

Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier born 1956, four Olympic golds (15 km 1980, 50 km and relay 1984, relay 1988) and three world titles; famous for beating Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds at Lake Placid 1980.

Thorleif Haug

Thorleif Haug (1894–1934), Norwegian skier from Lier nicknamed Skikongen; won 18 km, 50 km, and Nordic combined gold at the 1924 Chamonix Olympics, with six Holmenkollen 50 km wins; ski jumping bronze later reassigned to Anders Haugen.

Timberline Lodge

Timberline Lodge, National Historic Landmark hotel on Mount Hood, Oregon at 6,000 ft, built 1936-1938 by WPA labor, dedicated by FDR in 1937, The Shining exterior, R.L.K. and Company operator since 1955.

Timi Zajc

Timi Zajc is a Slovenian ski jumper, born in 2000, who won Olympic mixed team gold at Beijing 2022 and became world large hill champion at Planica in 2023.

Timothy Loubineaud

Timothy Loubineaud, French long track speed skater born 1996, former inline champion; set 5000m world record 6:00.23 in Salt Lake City 2025 and placed 4th in the 10,000m at Milan-Cortina 2026.

Tina Maze

Tina Maze (Klementina Maze, born 1983) is a retired Slovenian alpine skier, double 2014 Olympic champion (downhill, giant slalom), 2013 overall World Cup winner with a record 2,414 points, and 26-time World Cup race winner.