Winter Olympics 3 Flashcards
Who won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 2010 Games in the women’s skeleton event becoming the first British individual gold medalist at a Winter Olympics for 30 years?
AMY WILLIAMS
Which ice hockey player nicknamed “The Great One” was the final Olympic torchbearer at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
WAYNE GRETSKY
Who won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 2014 Games in the women’s skeleton event?
LIZZY YARNOLD
Who officially opened the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City?
GEORGE W BUSH
With 13 medals which Norwegian biathlete has won the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympics?
OLE EINAR BJORNDALEN
Which American ski racer won his sixth Olympic medal a bronze medal in the super-G race in 2014 at the age of 36?
BODE MILLER
Who won Great Britain’s only medal at the 2006 Games a silver medal in the women’s skeleton?
SHELLEY RUDMAN
The alpine skiing events at the 2010 Games were held at which ski resort 120 km north of Vancouver?
WHISTLER
Who was the skip of the Great Britain women’s curling team that won the gold medal at the 2002 Games?
RHONA MARTIN
Who carried the Great Britain flag at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Games?
RHONA MARTIN
At the 2010 Games who became the first American woman to win Olympic gold in downhill skiing?
LINDSEY VONN
Which Australian short track speed skater won a gold medal in the 1000 m at the 2002 Games when all four other competitors in the final crashed out in the last turn? This was the first ever gold medal won by a Southern Hemisphere country.
STEVEN BRADBURY
Following the 2014 Games which country has won the most medals (and the most gold medals) in the history of the Winter Olympics?
NORWAY
Which is the biggest country in terms of population to have contested the Winter Olympics but never won a medal?
INDIA
Which Croatian is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics (in 2002 and 2006)?
JANICA KOSTELIC
Born in Oslo who is the only alpine skier to win eight Olympic medals including three gold medals in the Super G between 1992 and 2006?
KJETIL ANDRE AAMODT
Which British short track speed skater was disqualified in all three events she entered at the 2014 Games?
ELISE CHRISTIE
With a total of nine Olympic medals Claudia Pechstein is the most successful Olympic athlete male or female of all-time in which event?
SPEED SKATING
Powder (a hare) Copper (a coyote) and Coal (a bear) were the mascots for which Winter Olympics?
2002 (SALT LAKE CITY)
Who became the first Briton to win an Olympic medal in a snow event after winning bronze in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics?
JENNY JONES
Which British skier failed a drug test after finishing third in the men’s slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics resulting in him being controversially stripped of the bronze medal?
ALAIN BAXTER
Competing under the name Vanessa Vanakorn and representing Thailand who finished last of the 67 racers who completed the giant slalom at the 2014 Games?
VANESSA-MAE
Which country has won the gold medal in women’s ice hockey at every Games from 2002 to 2014?
CANADA
Who was the skip of the Great Britain men’s curling team which won a silver medal at the 2014 Games?
DAVID MURDOCH
The captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins who scored the winning goal in overtime in the men’s ice hockey final at the 2010 Games?
SIDNEY CROSBY
Which reigning monarch competed in the bobsleigh event at five consecutive Winter Olympics between 1988 and 2002?
ALBERT II PRINCE OF MONACO
Which country won eight of the 12 gold medals and a total of 23 medals in the speed skating events at the 2014 Games?
NETHERLANDS
Known as the “flying tomato” which American snowboarder won the gold medal in the halfpipe at both the 2006 and 2010 Games where he performed a trick known as the Double mctwist 1260?
SHAUN WHITE
Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada’s first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil in which event at the 2010 Games?
MOGULS
Which American skier won the women’s slalom at the 2014 Games becoming the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history aged 18?
MIKAELA SHIFFRIN
At the 2002 Games which event was held for men for the first time since 1948 and for women was held for the first time ever?
SKELETON
Which city in South Korea lost in the bidding process to Sochi in 2014 but has subsequently been awarded the 2018 Games?
PYEONGCHANG
Vonetta Flowers became the first black person to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics as part of the winning USA team in which event at the 2002 Games?
(TWO-WOMAN) BOBSLEIGH
Which Russian figure skater has won four Olympic medals including the gold medal in the men’s singles at the 2006 Games?
EVGENI PLUSHENKO
In 2010 which speed skater broke Bonnie Blair’s record for most medals won by a US Winter Olympian?
APOLO OHNO
Which country won six of the eight gold medals in short track speed skating at the 2006 Games?
SOUTH KOREA
At the 2002 Games which country set a record for most total medals at a Winter Olympics with 36? The record was broken by the USA in 2010.
GERMANY
Who won the first-ever gold medal in women’s ski jumping at the 2014 Games?
CARINA VOGT
What nationality was luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili who died in a training accident before the 2010 Games?
GEORGIAN
The first-ever tie for a gold medal in any Olympic alpine event occurred in the women’s downhill in 2014 when Tina Maze recorded the same time as which Swiss skier?
DOMINIQUE GISIN
Which Swiss ski jumper won gold medals in both the Individual Normal Hill and Individual Large Hill events at both the 2002 and 2010 Games?
SIMON AMMANN
In the figure skating pairs competition at the 2002 Games which Canadian pair were initially awarded the silver medal but were upgraded to the gold medal after a French judge admitted she had been pressured into awarding the long program to the Russian pair Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze?
JAMIE SALE AND DAVID PELETTIER
Winner of the Four Hills Tournament a record five times which Finnish ski jumper never won an individual Olympic medal placing fourth three times?
JANNE AHONEN
American snowboarder Seth Westcott won the first-ever gold medal in which event at the 2006 Games and successfully defended the title in 2010?
SNOWBOARD CROSS
Which Norwegian female cross-country skier was the most successful athlete at the 2010 Winter Olympics winning five medals including three gold medals?
MARIT BJOERGEN
What nationality is Haralds Silovs who became the only athlete to compete in two different disciplines (long track and short track speed skating) on the same day at the 2010 Games?
LATVIAN
Which member of the USA bobsleigh team which won the silver medal at the 2014 Games also won a silver medal in the women’s 100 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
LAURYN WILLIAMS
Who became the only Canadian Olympian to win five medals in a single Olympic Games and the first female speed skater to win five medals in a single Games at the 2006 Winter Olympics?
CINDY KLASSEN
‘Hot. Cool. Yours.’ was the motto of which Winter Olympics?
2014 (SOCHI)
Which Italian cross-country skier who won 10 Olympic medals lit the Olympic Flame at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Games?
STEFANIA BELMONDO
