- Shani Davis
Shani Davis (born August 13, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American speed skater who competes in both short track and long track speed skating. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Davis became the first black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual sport (1,000-m) and the fifth black Winter Olympics medalist. He also won the silver in the 1,500-m. He won the allround World Allround Championships in both 2005 and 2006, after winning the silver medal in 2004, … - Joey Cheek
William Joseph Cheek (born June 22 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater. He specializes in the short and middle distances. Cheek's breakthrough was in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. During that tournament he won the bronze medal in the 1,000 meters and he missed the podium in the 1,500 meters by 0.08 seconds. - Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis (born August 19, 1985 in Danbury, Connecticut) is an American Snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont. Jacobellis is one of the most decorated and successful women's snowboarders currently active in the world today. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in her Women's Snowboard Cross Olympics debut. - Shizuka Arakawa
is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion and the 2004 World Champion. She is the first Japanese figure skater to win the Olympic gold medal in figure skating, and the second oldest woman to win the Olympic figure skating gold. On May 7, 2006 Arakawa announced her plans to retire from eligible figure skating, and she now skates professionally, and appears on Japanese TV as a skating sportscaster. - Ted Ligety
Ted Ligety (born August 31, 1984 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) is an American alpine skier. Ligety won the gold medal in the men's alpine combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in an upset victory after the two skiers favored to win the event couldn't keep up with Ligety's blistering slalom runs. He is the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing since Tommy Moe won the downhill in Lillehammer in 1994. - Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL, LL.D. (hon.) (born June 16, 1980 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian curler. Gushue along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam represented Canada in curling in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland 10-4, including a dramatic 6-point sixth end in the final match, which was conceded after the 8-end minimum stipulated under Olympic rules. - Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso (born March 9, 1984 in Reno, Nevada), is an American alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The daughter of Ciro Mancuso, she resides in Olympic Valley, California. - Joe Sakic
Joseph Steve Sakic (born July 7, 1969 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey center who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. In his 18-year tenure, Sakic has won two Stanley Cups, various NHL trophies and has been voted into 13 NHL All-Star Games. He is regarded as one of the strongest team leaders to ever play in the league, … - Benjamin Raich
Benjamin Raich (born February 28, 1978 in Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol) is an Austrian skier who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. - Lindsey Kildow
Lindsey C. Kildow (born October 18, 1985 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American alpine skier. While growing up ski racing in Vail, Colorado, her role model was Picabo Street. Her successes in skiing led to an Olympic Games debut in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. On February 13, 2006, while training for the downhill race at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Kildow crashed and was evacuated by helicopter to a nearby hospital. - Evgeni Plushenko
Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko, or Yevgeny Viktorovich Plyushchenko (born November 3, 1982 in Solnechny, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union (Russia) is a Russian figure skater, the seven-time National Champion, five-time European Champion, three-time World Champion, 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist, and four-time Grand Prix Final gold medalist. - Danny Kass
Daniel Kass (born on September 21, 1982 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey is a professional snowboarder from Vernon, NJ <sup></sup>. He is known for his stylish spins and flips in the half-pipe as well as his punk image. He was the first rider to successfully land back to back 1080s in competition, at the 2002 US Open, starting off what can best be described as a "firestorm" of halfpipe progression within the top tiers of the snowboard community. - Jennifer Heil
Jennifer Heil (born April 11, 1983) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She won the first gold medal for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics games in Turin, Italy. Giving Canada its first victory on the first full day of competition, Heil placed her title in the moguls event. Heil competed in her first Olympics at the 2002 Winter Olympics aged 18, finishing fourth in the moguls, just one-hundredth of a point out of a bronze medal. She took the 2002-03 season off due to injury, … - Russ Howard
Russell "Russ" Howard, ONL, LL.D. (hon.) (born: February 19, 1956 in Midland, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from Moncton, New Brunswick but originally from Penetanguishene, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour. Known for his gravelly voice, Howard has been to the Brier 13 times (8 as Ontario, 5 as New Brunswick), winning the title twice (both as Ontario). He is also a 2-time world champion, winning in 1987 and 1993. - Seth Wescott
Seth Wescott (born June 28, 1976 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American snowboarder. Wescott lives near Farmington, Maine and has trained in the mountains near Cordova, Alaska at times, along with Sugarloaf/USA in Maine. He began skiing at age eight, before turning to snowboarding at age ten. In 1989, after competing in both sports for a few years, he stopped skiing to focus mainly on snowboarding. - Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris (born 5 October 1981, Asiago, province of Vicenza) is an Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. Fabris is also a three-time Italian Allround Champion. At the 2006 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's 5,000 m event, Italy's first ever Olympic medal in speed skating. - Zach Lund
Zach Lund (born March 22, 1979) is an American male skeleton racer, who took part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup but did not compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics due to disqualification for using finasteride. He was stripped of his 2nd place finish in the Calgary World Cup event after testing positive for this medication, and a one year suspension was issued on February 10th 2006. - Graham Bell
Graham Bell (born 1966) was a professional skier in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Graham Bell was the younger and less successful of the two Bell brothers from Britain. He was the silver medalist in downhill at the 1984 World Junior Championships. At his peak he reached 86th in the FIS world rankings. Graham Bell was noted as a downhill specialist. Since retiring in 1998 Graham has become a pundit on both BBC and ITV sports coverage. - Mark Nichols
Mark Nichols, ONL, LL.D. (hon.) (born on January 1, 1980 in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian curler from St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Nichols currently plays third for Brad Gushue's team which is representing Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Nichols has played third for Gushue since 1999. With Gushue, Nichols has been to three Canadian Junior Curling Championships (winning in 2001) and three Briers (2003, 2004, 2005). - Jamie Korab
Jamie A. Korab, ONL, LL.D. (hon.) (born November 28, 1979 in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian curler. Korab was the lead for the Canadian men's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics skipped by Brad Gushue. Korab played in two Canadian Junior Curling Championships and three Briers before playing at the Olympics. At the 1997 Juniors, he played as a third for Randy Turpin. - Erik Guay
Erik Guay (born August 5, 1981 in Montreal) is a Canadian alpine skier from Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and is reported to ski at Mont Tremblant at Tremblant, Quebec. In Guay's best events, Super-G and downhill, he has finished in the top three in a number of World Cup races. He finished in second twice in 2005-06 in the Super-G and third once in downhill. In 2003, he finished 2nd in downhill once. - Michael Greis
Michael Greis is a German Olympic gold medalist in biathlon. Greis first competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 15th and 16th in the 10 km sprint and 12.5 km pursuit events in the biathlon. Greis won the World Cup in the individual category in 2004-2005, and was a member of the winning 4 x 7.5 km relay team in the 2004 Biathlon World Championships, and took silver in the individual 20 km category at the 2005 World Championships. - Thomas Grandi
Thomas Grandi (born December 27 1972 in Bolzano, Italy) is a Canadian alpine skier. He specializes in technical skiing (giant slalom and slalom skiing. Grandi started in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in the 1992-93 season. His first top ten finish in the World Cup came in December 1996 where he finished in 10th position in the Giant Slalom at Alta Badia in Italy. - Shannon Kleibrink
Shannon Kleibrink (born October 7, 1968 in Norquay, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Okotoks, Alberta. She and her team of third Amy Nixon, second Glenys Bakker, lead Christine Keshen and alternate Sandra Jenkins represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. They won a bronze medal. Kleibrink made her debut at the 1993 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national curling championship where her team of Sandra Jenkins, … - Duff Gibson
Duff Gibson (born on August 11, 1966 in Vaughan, Ontario) is a Canadian male skeleton racer, who took part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics. Duff Gibson was the 2006 Winter Olympic gold medalist in singles skeleton, narrowly beating out his teammate Jeff Pain. His victory made the 39-year old surpass ice hockey player Al MacInnis as the oldest gold medalist in Canadian Winter Olympic history. - Kelly Vanderbeek
Kelly VanderBeek (born January 21, 1983 in Kapuskasing, Ontario) is a Canadian alpine skier from Kitchener, Ontario. In 2002, VanderBeek won both the Super-G and the downhill events at the Nor-Am Cup. In both the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Championships, VanderBeek came third in the Super-G event. At the 2006 Winter Olympics she picked up a fourth place finish in the Super-G event. She only lost by 0.03 of a second. She will be playing in the 2010 Olympics. - Casey Fitzrandolph
Casey J. FitzRandolph (born January 21 1975 in Verona, Wisconsin) is an American speedskater. In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m. His best year so far was 2002. He won silver at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar and went on to become Olympic Champion on the 500 m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. - Emily Brydon
Emily Brydon (born on April 27 1980 in Fernie, British Columbia) is a Canadian alpine skier who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. - Giorgio di Centa
Giorgio Di Centa (October 7, 1972, Tolmezzo, province of Udine) is an Italian cross country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the individual 50 km freestyle race. He is brother to Olympic gold medallist Manuela. Giorgio Di Centa began to practice cross country skiing very early, in a family in which his elder brother Andrea was also a professional skier. At the age of 16 he became a member of the Junior team of Italy, … - Zhang Dan
Zhang Dan (born October 4, 1985 in Harbin, China) is a Chinese figure skater. She won the bronze medal in pairs at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships with partner Zhang Hao. She and her partner (who are unrelated) have twice won the World Junior title. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, they won a silver medal despite a bad fall for her in which she injured her knee, after which she decided to continue the program despite being in continued pain. - Sara Renner
Sara Renner (born April 10, 1976 in Golden, British Columbia) is a Canadian cross country skier who has competed since 1994. With Beckie Scott, she won the silver medal in the team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned her best individual finish of 8th in the 10 km classical event in those same games. Sara Renner is married to Italian-Canadian alpine skier Thomas Grandi. Grandi had family support out for himself and her wife during the Turin Olympics. - Toby Dawson
Toby Dawson (Korean: 김수철, Kim Soo-cheol, born 김봉석, Kim Bong-seok November 30, 1978 in Pusan, South Korea) is an American mogul skier. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. - Melody Davidson
Melody Davidson is the former head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team. She was also named the head coach of the gold medal winning 2006 Winter Olympics Canadian women's team. A graduate of the University of Alberta, she is also the head coach of the Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey team. - John Baldwin
John Baldwin, Jr. (born October 18, 1973 in Dallas, Texas) is an American figure skater. He currently competes in pairs figure skating with Rena Inoue, his partner both on and off the ice. They have twice won gold medals at the United States Figure Skating Championships and finished 7th at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Previously, he competed as a singles' skater, with a best finish of 9th at Nationals in 1995. - Chris Witty
Christine ("Chris") Diane Witty (born June 23 1975 in West Allis, Wisconsin) is an American speed skater and cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating. She is specialized in the short and middle distances, the 1000 and 1500 meters and won medals at these distances at the 1998 Winter Olympics. In 2002 she achieved her biggest success; she won the Olympic gold medal at the 1000 meters in Salt Lake City, … - Alisa Camplin
Ms Camplin retired from competitive skiing in 2006, leaving with 19 World Cup podium medals (ten gold, five silver and four bronze) and the Sir Donald Bradman Award. Alisa has an information technology degree and is now in her 12th year with IBM Australia where she is Manager of the Multi Vendor Maintenance and Technical Services Delivery Business. - Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers (born Vonetta Jeffery October 29, 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team. After several failed attempts, Flowers turned to bobsledding, and found success as a brakewoman almost immediately. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, … - Zhang Hao
Zhang Hao (born July 6, 1984 in Harbin, China) is a Chinese figure skater. He won the bronze medal in pairs at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships with partner Zhang Dan. He and his partner (who are unrelated) have twice won the World Junior title. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, they won a silver medal despite a bad fall for Zhang Dan, who courageously decided to continue the program. - Tanja Frieden
Tanja Frieden (born 6 February 1976 in Berne) is a Swiss snowboarder. She won a gold medal in the inaugural Snowboard Cross competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics. In the Snowboard Cross finals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Frieden was in second place well behind American Lindsey Jacobellis when Jacobellis crashed while attempting to showboat on the second to last jump. Frieden passed Jacobellis and won the gold medal. - Jeff Pain
Jeff Pain (born on December 14, 1970 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a Canadian male skeleton racer. He is regarded as the most successful male competitors in the history of the Canadian skeleton program. Pain has had an 11-year career with 15 World Cup podium finishes, 3 World Championship medals, and an Olympic silver medal. In the 2004-05 season he finished 1st overall in the world cup.
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