The Japanese teen has three wins across two different disciplines - boulder and lead - so far this World Cup season.

British snowboarder Mia Brookes became slopestyle world champion at the age of 16, and looks set to be one of the sport’s leading lights for many years to come. Born in Sandbach in the north of ...

Elfriede Steurer was Austrian champion in 100 metres (1948 and 1952), 200 metres (1954), 4×100 relay (1943 and 1954), and 80 metres hurdles (1943-1948, 1950, 1953, and 1954). In the 1950 European ...

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Miguel Altube was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1979 Pan American Games as well as of the silver medal winning teams at the 1983 and 1987 Pan American Games.

Alexander Cushing, a landowner in Squaw Valley – an uninhabited valley overlooking Lake Tahoe and perched 1,900 metres above sea level in California’s Sierra Nevada and 300 kilometres east of San ...

Bill Olson ski jumped for the USA at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics. He competed for the University of Denver, winning three consecutive NCAA ski jumping championships from 1954-56. Olson won the ...

Sven Johanson came to the United States in 1951 from Korpika, Sweden. He tried to make the 1956 US Olympic team, after winning the 1955 North American cross-country championships, but did not get ...

Reinhard Wendemuth was a member of the West German eights at the 1972 München Olympics that finished a disappointing fifth. In 1976 he finished fourth, again with the eights, but with a different crew ...

Elaine Tanner was arguably Canada’s biggest swimming phenomenon of the late-1960s, beginning with her breakout performance at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. She had been swimming ...

József Merényi first emerged in Hungarian national competition in 1946, and would remain active on that level for 15 years. His first breakthrough came in 1949, placing 4th at the national ...

Trace Worthington was an early legend in freestyle skiing. He was named Freestyle Skier of the Year by Ski Racing magazine from 1992-95 and was International Skier of the Year in 1993. During his ...