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Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics: six events at Chamrousse, 9–17 February 1968. Jean-Claude Killy swept all three men's titles amid the Karl Schranz slalom disqualification controversy; France led the medal table.
Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics: six events on Mount Eniwa and Mount Teine, 5–13 February 1972. Karl Schranz was banned 28–14; Russi, Nadig, Thoeni, and Fernández Ochoa won gold.
Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics: six events, downhill, giant slalom, slalom for men and women, 5–14 February 1976. Franz Klammer won the downhill in 1:45.73; Rosi Mittermaier took two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics comprised six events on Whiteface Mountain at Lake Placid in February 1980, with Ingemar Stenmark and Hanni Wenzel each winning two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics: six medal events (downhill, giant slalom, slalom, men, and women) on Bjelašnica and Jahorina, 11–19 February 1984; USA led with 3 golds, Mahre twins went 1–2 in slalom, Jure Franko won Yugoslavia's first Winter medal.
Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics comprised ten events at Nakiska near Calgary, where super-G and combined debuted and Alberto Tomba and Vreni Schneider each won twice.
Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics: ten events, 9–22 February, at Val d'Isère, Méribel, and Les Menuires; Austria led the medals; Kronberger won two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics: 10 events, five each for men and women, at Kvitfjell (speed) and Hafjell (technical), 13–27 February 1994; Germany led with 3 golds, Norway swept the men's combined.
Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Nagano): 10 medal events, 9–21 February 1998, at Happo'one Hakuba and Shiga Kogen. Austria led with 11 medals; Hermann Maier won two golds after a downhill crash.
Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics comprised ten events held 10–23 February 2002 at Snowbasin, Deer Valley, and Park City near Salt Lake City.
Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics: 10 medal events, 12–25 February 2006, at Sestriere and San Sicario; 287 skiers from 60 NOCs; Austria led with 14 medals; Raich and Dorfmeister each won two golds.
Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: ten medal events at Whistler Creekside, 15–27 February 2010. Weather caused five postponements; Germany led with 3 golds, the US won 8 total medals, Canada none.
Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics consisted of ten medal events, five for men and five for women, held at Rosa Khutor near Sochi, Russia, in February 2014.
Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics: 11 medal events, 13–24 February 2018, at Jeongseon and Yongpyong Alpine Centres; Austria led with 3 golds; debut mixed team event won by Switzerland.
Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification
Alpine skiing qualification for PyeongChang 2018: FIS/IOC system allocating 320 quota places, max 22 per NOC and 14 per gender, via basic quota, top-30 World Cup Start List places, and the Olympic FIS Points List; 309 athletes from 80 nations competed.
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022, Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center, 7-20 February 2022: 11 events, Switzerland led with 9 medals (5 gold), Mayer won a third straight Olympic gold, Austria took the mixed team parallel.
Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification
Alpine skiing qualification, Beijing 2022 Olympics: FIS/IOC system allocating 306 quota places (153 per gender), max 22 per NOC, period 1 July 2019 to 16 January 2022, with reallocation rules and mixed team parallel eligibility.
Alpine skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, 7-18 February, ten events at Bormio's Stelvio and Cortina's Tofane. Replaced individual combined and mixed team parallel with team combined; Switzerland led with 9 medals; von Allmen won 3 golds.
Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics
Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics is a sport contested since 1936, where skiers race down gated courses in five disciplines governed by the FIS.
Altenberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track
Rennschlitten- und Bobbahn Altenberg (SachsenEnergie-Eiskanal): artificial-ice bobsleigh, skeleton, and luge track in the Kohlgrund, Saxony. Secret GDR project from 1982/83, rebuilt after design failure, world championships since 1991.
Alyona Mokhova
Alyona Mokhova (Алёна Александровна Мохова, born 2002), Russian biathlete. Won gold in the girls' 10 km individual and girls' sprint and silver in the mixed relay at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne.
Alysa Liu
Alysa Liu (刘美贤, born 2005) is an American figure skater, 2025 World champion and double 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic gold medalist in women's singles and team event, who retired at 16 in 2022 and returned in 2024.
Amanda Salzgeber
Amanda Salzgeber (born 2002, Hohenems, Austria), Austrian alpine skier, daughter of Anita Wachter and Rainer Salzgeber; 2020 Youth Olympic combined gold, European Cup racer; retired July 2025.
Amber Glenn
Amber Glenn (born 1999, Plano, Texas) is an American figure skater, three-time U.S. champion (2024-26), 2024 Grand Prix Final champion, and 2026 Olympic team event gold medalist; first openly LGBTQ+ U.S. women's champion and triple-Axel pioneer.
Amelie Klopfenstein
Amelie Klopfenstein (born 2002) is a Swiss alpine skier from La Neuveville, club Romand-Bienne, racing slalom and giant slalom. Double gold medalist (Super-G, giant slalom) and bronze at Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics; silver at Torino 2025 Universiade; European Cup and World Cup starter after a 2022 ACL injury.
Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner (born 1995, Trento) is an Italian curler, mixed doubles Olympic champion at Beijing 2022 and world champion 2025 with Stefania Constantini, bronze at Cortina 2026, and third for Joel Retornaz's Italian men's team.
Amy Purdy
Amy Purdy (born 1979), American Paralympic snowboarder who lost both legs to bacterial meningitis in 1999; Sochi 2014 snowboard cross bronze, PyeongChang 2018 silver and bronze, co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports and Dancing with the Stars runner-up.
Amy Williams
Amy Williams (born 1982, Cambridge) is a British skeleton racer who won gold at Vancouver 2010, Britain's first individual Winter Olympic gold in 30 years; retired 2012, later a TV presenter and MBE.
An Sang Mi
An Sang Mi (안상미), born 1979, is a South Korean short track speed skater who won gold in the women's relay at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics with a 4:16.260 world record, and later became a sports commentator.
Anastasiya Tsyganova
Anastasiya Tsyganova (Анастасия Владимировна Цыганова), Russian skeleton athlete born 2003 in Shchyokino; won girls' skeleton gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics; junior world champion, Master of Sports of Russia; distinct from the tennis player of the same name.