Women’s sport stars stepped into the spotlight, as three top Winter Olympians headline this week’s TIME100 Most Influential People.
Olympic gold medalist figure skater Alysa Liu led the women’s sports field, joined by USA Hockey captain Hilary Knight and trailblazing snowboarder Chloe Kim.
Liu and Kim fall under the magazine’s ‘Icons’ category, while women’s hockey pioneer Knight lead the ‘Innovators’ section.
“Chloe shows up exactly as herself, and that authenticity resonates far beyond snowboarding,” Olympic gymnast Suni Lee wrote of Kim.
“That’s what great artists do: they make you reconsider what you’ve been carrying, and invite you to join them in being light on their feet,” comedian Bowen Yang wrote of Liu’s performance in Milan.
“She loves the sport so completely, she never stops finding new ways to be great,” Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai wrote of Knight’s career.
“There is no single metric that defines influence,” TIME EIC Sam Jacobs wrote. “Our selections are led by the stories that are shaping the world each year and the people who write them.”
“Some are well known to many, others only within their fields,” he continued. “We are eager to see which of the individuals in this issue will still be wielding influence more than 50 years from today.”
The Olympic trio builds on last year’s lineup, when Unrivaled co-founders Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart landed on the 2025 TIME100 List.
