If you can’t get enough athletics over the busy indoor season then perhaps you should take a look at the 2026 Winter Olympics, taking place in Milan this month.
You may be able to spot a few familiar faces as many athletics stars are set to swap the track for the snow and ice as they compete at the Winter Olympics from 6 February.
Austria – Christania Williams
Jamaican born Christania Williams will also be joining the exclusive group of athletes to have competed at a summer and winter Games, but this time, she will be representing Austria.
She was part of Jamaica’s Rio 2016 Olympics silver medal winning 4x100m team and the London 2017 World Athletics Championships 4x100m bronze medal winners.
[From left to right: Veronica Campbell-Brown, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Christania Williams]
At Rio 2016, she also reached the 100m final and competed alongside her countrywomen Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who placed first and third respectively.
Williams now trains at the sports centre in St. Pölten in Lower Austria, after moving to country due to it being where her partner, Philipp Unfried, lives.
She will make her winter Games debut in the two-woman bobsleigh, alongside pilot Katrin Beierl who has won European medals but is yet to win the coveted Olympic hardware.
Belgium - Maximilien Drion du Chapois
Ski mountaineering is a new event added to the Winter Olympics this year and competing in the event for Belgium is Maximilien Drion du Chapois, who is certainly familiar with winning gold at a competition's inaugural event.
After racing over 47.7km of undulating terrain Drion du Chapois won the El Passo 2022 European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, which included 2550m of vertical gain, in 3:43:01 which was 54 seconds faster than his next opponent.
This was the first European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, and Drion du Chapois' win in the men's event prevented a French sweep of the medals.
He will be the only athlete representing the nation in ski mountaineering, but is part of a wider record-breaking team of 30 athletes competing at the Milan Cortina Games.
Germany - Talea Prepens and Georg Fleischhauer
The German bobsleigh team will also feature two athletes who know there way around the track, with Talea Prepens and Georg Fleischhauer both set to compete in Milan.
Prepens represented Germany at the Nairobi 2017 World U18 Championships, where she won gold over 200m in 23.51.
She went on to also medal at the Boras 2019 European U20 Athletics Championships in the 4x100m, and the Tallin 2021 European U23 Athletics Championships also in the 4x100m, alongside some individual age group fourth place finishes.
Last summer she also competed at the World University Games, winning bronze again in the 4x100m, shortly before winning another bronze in January 2026, but this time it was at the bobsleigh European championships.
Now she’ll be making her Olympic debut, alongside Kim Kalicki, with strong hopes of making the podium.
Fleischhauer, however, is no stranger to the international bobsleigh stage as in the last three years he has won one world gold, four silvers, and a bronze, as well as two European golds, and three silvers.
But you may know him from running the 400m hurdles, where he competed on the world stage, even placing sixth in a very tight race at the Helsinki 2012 European Athletics Championships.
He will be racing in one of Germany’s three four-man sleds heading to the Games, where they will expect to pick up multiple medals.
Great Britain – Ashleigh Nelson and Adele Nicoll
The two-woman bob for Team GB will be made up of two British athletics stars, as Ashleigh Nelson and Adele Nicoll partner up in hopes of a medal.
Nelson is a two-time World Championship 4x100m medallist, European 4x100m champion, and 100m European bronze medallist.
[From left to right: Asha Philip, Dina Asher-Smith, Ashleigh Nelson, Daryl Neita]
She had been a regular feature on British athletics teams for a decade, but will now make her Winter Olympics debut in Milano Cortina, joining the elite class of athletes who have competed at both Games.
While Nicoll is a three-time British shot put champion, who competes on the ice over winter and takes to the circle in summer, and has even qualified to compete in the event at the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
She will also be the first British woman to compete in the monobob (one person) at a Winter Olympics, in addition to competing with Nelson, after travelling to the 2022 Olympics as a reserve.
Jamaica – Mica Moore and Joel Fearon
Two of Jamaica’s squad members heading to Italy with eyes on the podium are former British sprinters – Mica Moore and Joel Fearon.
Moore competed for Wales at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 4x100m, however in 2016 after narrowly missing the qualification mark for the 2018 Commonwealth Games she took up a common pipeline for sprinters – bobsleigh.
She went on to win gold at the 2017 World Junior Championships alongside Mica McNiell for Great Britain, before the duo went on to finish eighth at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018 .
However, Moore said to have witnessed “damaging and offensive behaviour” and decided to leave the British winter sports programme in 2022 and gained Jamaican citizenship.
She will now be making her Olympic debut for Jamaica 10 years after starting the sport.
Fearon’s athletic journey started at 18, and he went on to run a PB of 9.96s over the 100m in 2016, making him the joint-seventh fastest British man over that distance in history.
At the same time, he also competed in the bobsleigh for Team GB, and was retrospectively awarded an Olympic bronze from Sochi 2014 after the winners were stripped of their medals due to a doping violation.
But in 2023 he retired from the winter sport after his sister, Natasha Morais, was tragically murdered, and now less than three years later he returns but for Jamaica and he plans on getting his hands on a medal, or two.
The Netherlands - Timme Koster
Twice Dutch 110m hurdles champion Timme Koster has represented his home country at both the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships and the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
He is part of the the Netherlands' four-man bobsleigh team for Milano Cortina 2026, having competed regularly on the World Cup circuit this winter.
Poland - Klaudia Adamek
Decorated sprinter Adamek is a three-time medallist won medals at the World Athletics Relays in the 4x100m amd 4x200m.
She has also won 4x100m bronze at the Bydgoszcz 2016 World Athletics U30 Championships and 4x100m silver at the Grosseto 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships. She also represented Poland in the 4x100m at the Tokyo Olympics.
In recent years, she has turned her attention to bobsleigh and competing in the two-woman sled. After some positive results on the World Cup circuit, she will represented Poland in the discipline at Milano Cortina 2026, making her the first Pole ever to take part both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Spain - Oriol Cardona Coll
The two-time reigning ski mountaineering sprint race champion, Oriol Cardona Coll, will also be competing in Milan and will be amongst the favourites to win.
Picture courtesy of Marco Gulberti
Cardona Coll however, also found success in mountain running and won team gold and individual bronze at the 2019 World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge. He also represented Spain at the El Paso 2022 European Off-Road Running Championships.
He is also an Olympic scholarship holder, alongside his countrywoman Ana Alonso Rodriguez, which Cardona Coll was awarded in an attempt to help develop the sport across the world in the build up to the sports Winter Olympic debut.
Switzerland – Salome Kora and Muswama Kambundji
[From left to right: Mujinga Kambundji, Muswama Kambundji, Florence Nri, Ditaji Kambundji]
The Kambundji name is one we are oh so familiar with, with Mujinga being the first of these sisters to step into the spotlight, winning bronze at the Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships over 100m, two European golds, alongside two world indoor golds and a European indoor gold in addition to a host of silver and bronzes.
Last year, with Mujinga on maternity leave, Ditaji made sure we weren’t missing the family’s name and took gold at the Apeldoorn 2025 European Indoor Championships over the 60m hurdles in a European record of 7.67, before also winning gold at the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships over the 100m hurdles.
Photo by Ulf Schiller
But now it’s time for middle sister Muswama Kambundji to shine, as she will be travelling with Switzerland for the first time to the Olympics, after a back fracture paused her career, despite committing to bobsleigh in 2017.
But before she transitioned to being a bobsledder, she too was a sprinter who competed internationally as a junior, representing Switzerland over 200m and 4x100m at the Eskilstuna 2015 European Athletics U20 Championships. She continued to compete as a sprinter until 2023 alongside her bobsleigh career.
Salome Kora also helps make up the 123-person Swiss team heading to Milano Cortina, where she will make her Winter Olympics debut after competing in five summer Games.
The sprinter/ bobsledder is no stranger to teamwork as she is a consistent member of the Swiss 4x100m team that have placed an agonising fourth at two European Championships, a world championships, and an Olympic Games.
In September she also competed at Tokyo 2025 in the 100m where she reached the semifinal and ran 11.30 for seventh in a race that featured Shericka Jackson, Sha’Carri Richardson, and Daryl Neita.