Updated On: 25 February, 2026 08:34 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Born in San Francisco, Eileen Gu has risen to become the most decorated freeskier in Olympic history. Representing China since 2019, she has clinched multiple medals across the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2026 Winter Olympics, while also balancing modelling and a quantum physics degree at Stanford University

China’s Eileen Gu with her three medals at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, recently. Pic/Getty Images
1 Chinese-American skier Eileen Gu was born in San Francisco on September 3, 2003
2 Her full name, Eileen Feng Gu, is a combination of the surnames of her mother (Gu) and grandmother (Feng)