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Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in women's figure skating, at the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Games, a run that's never been matched by any singles skater since and that began when she was still a teenager competing against skaters years older than her. Henie also won 10 consecutive World Championship titles between 1927 and 1936, a streak of global dominance across an entire decade that remains one of the longest unbroken championship runs in any individual Olympic sport, male or female. She's widely credited with modernizing women's figure skating's presentation — introducing shorter skirts that allowed for more athletic jumps and spins, incorporating dance and theatrical choreography into competitive routines, and bringing a level of showmanship to the sport that judges and audiences hadn't previously seen. After retiring from competition, Henie became a Hollywood movie star, parlaying her Olympic fame into a film career that made her one of the highest-paid actresses in the world during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and her ice shows toured internationally, helping popularize figure skating as mainstream entertainment well beyond its competitive audience.
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Evgeni Plushenko
Evgeni Plushenko won four Olympic medals across four consecutive Winter Games, from 2002 to 2014 — gold in 2006 and 2014 (team event), plus two silvers — a level of sustained excellence across a 12-year Olympic career that few men's singles skaters have come close to matching. He was the first skater to land a quadruple-triple jump combination in competition and remained one of the sport's most technically dominant jumpers across more than a decade, at a time when quadruple jumps were still rare enough in men's skating that most competitors avoided attempting them in major competition. Plushenko's 2014 Sochi Games appearance, at 31 and after multiple back surgeries that had at times threatened his career entirely, came in the team event on home soil, where his performance helped anchor Russia's gold medal — before he withdrew from the individual competition due to a back injury that made continuing physically impossible. His combination of technical jump difficulty and a commanding, confident competitive presence made him the dominant figure in men's figure skating through the 2000s, and his four Olympic medals across four different Games place him among the most durable elite competitors the sport has ever produced.
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