- Irving Jaffee: American 5,000 and 10,000 meter speed skating gold medalist in the 1932 Olympics. First Jew to win a medal in the Winter Olympics.
- Sarah Hughes: American 2002 Olympic gold medalist in Ladies’ Single figure skating.
- Oksana Baiul: Ukrainian Ladies’ Singles figure skating gold medalist in the 1994 Olympics. Unaware she was Jewish until 2003.
- Sacha Cohen: American 2006 silver medalist in Ladies’ Singles figure skating.
- Victor Zinger: Gold medalist as part of the 1968 Soviet Union ice hockey team (goal tender).
- Irina Slutskaya: Russian silver medalist in the 2002 Olympics, and bronze medalist in the 2006 Olympics, both in Ladies’ Singles figure skating.
- Sarah DeCosta Hays: American gold medalist in 1998 and silver medalist in 2002 for the women’s ice hockey team.
- Gennadi Karponosov and Natalya Linichuk: 1980 Soviet Union gold medalists in Pairs Ice Dancing.
- Ilia Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva: 2002 Russian silver medalists in Pairs Ice Dancing.
- Alain Calmat: 1964 French silver medalist in Men’s Singles figure skating.
There is no book just about Jewish winter olympians, here is a book on Jewish sports heros.
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