Arianna Fontana

Arianna Fontana is an Italian short track speed skater, born on 14 April 1990, and the first woman to win Olympic medals in six straight Winter Olympics. She specializes in the 500 m, and her fourteen Olympic medals make her the short track skater with the most Olympic medals and the Italian athlete with the most medals across the Summer and Winter Games. Her gold medals include the 500 m at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and again at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, plus the 2000 m mixed relay at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. She won her first Olympic medal, a bronze in the 3000 m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, at fifteen, the youngest Italian to win a Winter Olympic medal, and her 500 m bronze at the 2010 Games in Vancouver made her the first Italian to take an individual Olympic medal in short track. Fontana began skating at the age of four on roller skates before switching to ice skating, and trained first in Lanzada and then in Bormio.