First woman to win individual gold medals in different sports at a Winter Olympics

Ester Ledecká (Czech Republic) made history at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, by winning gold in the Alpine skiing Super-G on 17 February and the snowboarding parallel giant slalom on 24 February. She became the third athlete to win in two sports at one Winter Olympics, following in the footsteps of Norwegian skiers Thorleif Haug in 1924 (Cross-country 18 and 50 km, and the Nordic combined) and Johan Grøttumsbråten (Cross-country 18 km and Nordic combined) in 1928.

Ledecká caused the upset of the 2018 Games by winning the Super-G on a pair of borrowed skis, beating defending champion Anna Veith by 0.01 seconds. She had never before made the podium for an international-level ski race.