Jakub Hrones etched his name into the history books by becoming the first to successfully execute a triple flip off a rail (officially titled a Switch Boardslide Switch Triple Underflip 1170). "Kuba", as he is affectionately called, hails from the ski resort town of...
Davide Lewton Brain is the first Monegasque figure skater to qualify for the World Championships. He had already competed at the junior world championship level in 2017 and 2018, but qualified at the senior level in 2024 after skating competitively for 11 years. While...
Italian skijumper Alex Insam returns to the Pho3nix Athlete Program roster. after having been supported by the Pho3nix Foundation during his Beijing 2022 campaign. He holds the Italian record of 232.5 metres in Ski Flying, set in Planica in 2017, after which he made...
Nadja Pasternack is a former shotput, javelin throw, and 100-metre sprint athlete who has found her calling in the winter sport of bobsleigh. She placed 6th in her Winter Olympics debut in Beijing, then followed up with silver at the 2023 IBSF European Championships....
Anastasiia Shepilenko started skiing at the age of 3, encouraged by parents who were both retired professional skiiers. Soon she progressed from play to competition and began winning races, national championships, and international events. Forced to postpone her...
In 2022 Donovan Carillo became the first Mexican in 30 years to qualify for the Winter Olympics, reaching the free skate final in Beijing. The only Mexican skater to qualify for three World Championship free skate finals, he is also the first Mexican skater to land a...
Maximilien Drion moved from Belgium to Switzerland when he was 10 years old and discovered his passion for ski mountaineering and trail running. His first World Cup victory in 2021 and the International Olympic Committee's decision to include ski mountaineering in the...
What once was just a dream to compete for an Olympic medal is now an objective within reach for Robin Galindo, who aims to compete at ski mountaineering's debut in Milano Cortina. Competing in ski mountaineering from the age of 13, the 24-year-old from the Vercors has...
Freestyle skiing is more than just a sport to Tim Aufdermauer: it's a dream that he's been chasing since the age of 12 inspired by athletes like Bobby Brown and Henrik Harlaut. Growing up in Kerns, Obwalden with parents passionate about skiing as certified ski...
Oriol Cardona Coll is the 2023 sprint world champion and 2022 and 2024 European sprint champion, winning all three championship races successively. Passionate about sport from his youth, he started in athletics, skyrunning, and Alpine ski before finding his place in...
Maria Bukowska-Chyc is a European Cup bronze medalist and has multiple Polish Championships medals under her belt. After achieving the best result of her career finishing 8th in the World Cup this season, she stands as the highest ranked female Polish Alpine...
Polish cross-country skier Izabela Marcisz has competed at world championship level multiple times in the U23 and junior categories, winning both U23 gold and silver. In her Winter Olympic debut in Beijing, she finished 16th in the individual races and 9th in the team...
At the age of 17 Kamilla Kozuback became the first Hungarian snowboarder ever to compete at the Winter Olympics, placing 17th in Beijing in the Big Air category. She also competed in the other two freestyle snowboard events to become one of two female snowboarders in...
Emily Arthur loves not just competing, but also all aspects of snowboarding in and out of the halfpipe. She has already competed at two Winter Olympics, debuting at the Youth Olympics in Pyeongchang and then placing 11th in Beijing. She has been nominated for Female...
A bobsleigh athlete from Australia, Sarah Blizzard has competed internationally and already has one Olympics under her belt. After competing nationally in athletics since 2012 and making an unprecedented four consecutive Stawell Gift finals, she was recruited for...