Posted by They are among the world’s most incredible athletes but also among the world’s most beautiful women. Here are 10 stunning female athletes that could melt the winter away with their hotness.
Lindsey Vonn
American Alpine Ski Racer
Accomplishments: She has won three consecutive World Cup championships (2008, 2009, 2010) making her the first American woman and second woman ever to accomplish this. Vonn has become the most successful Amereican woman skier in history with her Olympic gold medal, 33 World Cup wins in four disciplines (downhill, Super G, slalom and super combined) as well as two World Championship gold medals.
Dominique Maltais
Canadian snowboarder, specialty: snowboard cross
Accomplishments: Not only did Maltais win the Canadian Championships in 2003 and 2004, she is also a firefighter in her professional career.
Melisa Hollingsworth.
Canadian Skeleton Athlete
Accomplishments: Hollingsworth, who has been competing since 1995, is the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the sport of skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Julia Mancuso
American Alpine Ski Racer
Accomplishments: Mancuso was the gold medalist in the giant slaolm at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the silver medalist in both downhill and combined at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Claudia Toth
Accomplishments: Toth has played in two European Championships, skipping her Austrian team to an 11th place and also participated in this year’s Winter Olympics. She once turned down an offer to pose for the German edition of Playboy, however in 2005, she posed nude in a calendar to promote women’s curling.
Kristi Leskinen
Accomplishments: Leskinen was the first woman ever to pull a rodeo 720 (two rotations, head pointed to earth). She won a bronze medal in the Women’s Superpipe at the Winter X Games IX.
Kim Yu-Na
Accomplishments: Yu-Na was the 2010 Winter Olympic champion in ladies singles. She is also the current record holder for ladies in the short program, the free skating and the combined total. As of March 2010, Yu-Na is ranked first in the world by the Internaitonal Skating Union and is the first female skater to surpass the 200-point mark under the ISU Judging System.
Kiira Korpi
Accomplishments: Korpi is widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in figure skating. She is the 2007 European bronze medalist and the 2009 Finnish National Championship and as of Febrauary 2010, she was ranked 11th in the world.
Tanith Belbin
American Ice Dancer (born in Kingston, Ontario)
Accomplishments: Belbin is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, four-time World medalist and five-time U.S. champion. As of January 2010, she and her partner Benjamin Agosto ranked 4th in the world.
Therese Johaug
Accomplishments: Johaug won gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the 4 x 5 km relay. She made her internaitonal breakthrough by winning bronze at the 30 km mass start at the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo.
