Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde is a Dutch retired speed skater who specialised in sprinting. He won an Olympic gold medal in 2002.
Mary Angela Docter is an American speed skater from Madison, Wisconsin. She competed in four Olympic Games, placing sixth in the 3,000 meter in 1980 and 1984.
Bonnie Kathleen Blair is a retired American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, winning five gold medals and one bronze medal.
Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, which is still a record for a speed skater. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Winter Olympics and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. She was the most successful athlete at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1960 Games with her compatriot Yevgeny Grishin.
Christa Luding-Rothenburger is a former speed skater and track cyclist. She was born in Weißwasser, East Germany. Luding is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and the first female to win a medal in both the Summer and Winter Games. She is the only athlete to win Winter and Summer Olympic medals in the same year (1988), a feat that is no longer possible due to the staggering of the Winter and Summer Olympic years. In speed skating, she is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, while she is an Olympic silver medallist in cycling.
Igor Nikolayevich Zhelezovski or Ihar Mikałajevič Žalazoŭski was a Soviet and Belarusian speed skater, considered to be one of the best sprinters in the history of the sport.
Donna L. Weinbrecht won the first gold medal awarded in the first Olympic mogul competitions in freestyle skiing, which were held at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Weinbrecht grew up in West Milford, New Jersey. She was also World Champion in 1991 and a five-time World Cup moguls season champion.
Angela Stahnke-Hauck is a German speed skater who has won many titles. She also competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. She is married with handball-player Stephan Hauck and competed at three Winter Olympics.
Kim So-Hee is a retired female South Korean short track speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics. She won one Gold medal and one Bronze medal from the Olympics. She is the 1992 Overall World Champion for Short-track speed skating, and is the first Woman from South Korea to have become one.
Angela Cutrone is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics.
Ye Qiaobo is a Chinese speed skater. She was born in Changchun, Jilin. She competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Stephanie Beckert is a long-distance speed skater from Germany. She had a fourth place standing at the 2008–09 women's 3000/5000 m World Cup. At the 2010 Winter Olympics she won one gold and two silver medals.
Krisztina Egyed is a Hungarian speed skater who competed at the 1992, 1994, 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics representing Hungary. She specializes in the women's 500 metres, women's 1000 metres and women's 1500 metres speed skating events. She was also the flag bearer for Hungary at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.
Nana Takagi is a Japanese speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.
Peggy Ann Clasen is a former American female speed skater. She was primarily a sprint speed skater, and competed at the World Sprint speed skating Championships from 1990 to 1993.
Ewa Wasilewska also known as Ewa Borkowska, Ewa Justyna Borkowska or Ewa Borkowska-Wasilewska is a former Polish female speed skater. She competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics representing Poland.
Oksana Ravilova is a Russian speed skater. She competed at the 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Cerasela Simona Hordobețiu is a Romanian speed skater. She competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Karen Gardiner-Kah is an Australian short track speed skater and long track speed skater.
