{"id":254206,"date":"2026-01-23T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254206\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:06:08","slug":"salome-kora-set-to-make-history-for-switzerland-at-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254206\/","title":{"rendered":"Salom\u00e9 Kora set to make history for Switzerland at Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Olympics has announced an additional 44 athletes for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milano Cortina 2026<\/a> on Friday (23 January) included in the 123-person Swiss team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement\u00a0is led by freestyle skiing champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/mathilde-gremaud\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathilde Gremaud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/sarah-hoefflin\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Hoefflin<\/a>, both set to make their third Olympic appearances in slopestyle and big air. Gremaud won gold at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/beijing-2022\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing 2022<\/a>, while Hoefflin topped the podium at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/pyeongchang-2018\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PyeongChang 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/salome-kora\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salom\u00e9 Kora<\/a> is also set to make history, joining the small group of athletes to compete at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The three-time athletics Olympian \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/rio-2016\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio 2016<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/tokyo-2020\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo 2020<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/paris-2024\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris 2024<\/a> \u2014 will make her Winter Games debut in bobsleigh at Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Joining \u00a0Gremaud and Hoefflin in the freeski slopestyle and big air field are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/fabian-boesch\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabian B\u00f6sch<\/a> in his fourth and final Olympic appearance as he announces these will be his final Games, along with\u00a0Giulia Tanno, Anouk Andraska, Kim Gubser, Andri Ragettli, and Nils Rhyner.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss aerials team includes two-time world champion No\u00e9 Roth competing in his second Olympic Games along with Pirmin Werner and Lina Kozomara.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Briguet completes the freestyle skiing team competing in freeski halfpipe for her third Olympic appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss snowboarding team is headlined by Beijing 2022 halfpipe bronze medallist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/jan-scherrer\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Scherrer<\/a>, along with David Habl\u00fctzel, Jonas Hasler, Mischa Z\u00fcrcher, and Isabelle L\u00f6tscher on the women&#8217;s side. Hasler will also compete in slopestyle and Big Air, alongside Ariane Burri in the women\u2019s field.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss snowboard cross team includes Aline Albrecht, Anouk D\u00f6rig, Sina Siegenthaler, No\u00e9mie Wiedmer, and Kalle Koblet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiss Olympics has announced an additional 44 athletes for Milano Cortina 2026 on Friday (23 January) included in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-254206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}