Achieving a medal in just one of the Summer and Winter Olympics is an extraordinary achievement in itself, but only a select few have been able to make an impact on both stages.
Eddie Eagan
American Eddie Eagan remains the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Games.
Eagan won light-heavyweight boxing gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp before achieving success in the four-man bobsleigh at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Christa Luding-Rothenburger
German speed skater and cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger became the first female athlete to achieve medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, and she remains the only individual to win a medal in both Games in the same year.
Winning the first of her four Winter Olympic medals in women's speed skating at Sarajevo 1984, Luding-Rothenburger won gold in the 1000m speed skating at Calgary 1988 and then claimed silver in the women's track cycling sprint in Seoul six months later.
Jacob Tullin Thams
Norwegian Olympian won gold in ski jumping at the inaugural Winter Olympics at Chamonix 1924 and 12 years later he finished second in the men's 8-metre sailing at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.
Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes boasts multiple medals across both the Summer and Winter Games.
The Canadian won two bronze medals at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, finishing third in the women's cycling road race and time trial.
Hughes then returned to speed skating, which she gave up to pursue a career in cycling at the age of 16, and won bronze in the 5000m at Salt Lake City 2002.
She returned for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and went even better, achieving gold in the 5000m and silver in the team pursuit, before rounding off her Olympic career with another bronze in the 5000m at Vancouver 2010.
Lauryn Williams
Many track and field stars have gone down the bobsleigh route towards the end of their sprinting careers and Lauryn Williams is proof that success on the track can lead to glory on the ice.
Williams achieved silver in the women's 100m at the 2004 Athens Games and the American got her hands on gold at London 2012 in the women's 4 x 100m relay, having ran the anchor leg in the qualification round.
Two years later she embarked on her first Winter Olympics appearance and won silver in the two-woman bobsleigh alongside Elana Meyers in Sochi.
Eddy Alvarez
A noticeable theme with the other athletes mentioned in this article is that the two sports in which they accomplished success are somewhat intertwined.
For Eddy Alvarez, speed skating and baseball couldn't be any further apart.
Alvarez won silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the men's short track speed skating 5000m relay before pursuing a professional baseball career. He made his MLB debut with the Miami Marlins in the same year he was selected to represent USA in the baseball at Tokyo 2020, where they finished runner-up to Japan.
Alexandra Burghardt
Alexandra Burghardt emulated Lauryn Williams in achieving an Olympic medal in athletics and bobsleigh, although the German athlete accomplished the feat in reverse order.
Burghardt won silver in the two-woman bobsleigh at Beijing 2022 before returning to athletics, where she won gold in the 4 x 100m relay at the 2022 European Championships.
Two years later she represented Germany at Paris 2024 where she collected a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 100m relay.
