East Germany's Christa Luding made history at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul when she won a silver medal in the women's cycling individual sprint. A few months earlier, at the Winter Games in Calgary, she had taken part in the speed skating and won a gold medal in the 1000m speed skating and silver in the 500m. She is the only person ever to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Games in the same year - a feat that is no longer possible because the two events now take part in separate years. Luding also won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in the 500m and a bronze in the same event at Albertville in 1992.