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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 9, 2018 5:13 PM UTC  Lauryn Williams of the United States reacts after competing in the Women's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1 on Day 13 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 9, 2012 in London. Lauryn Williams of the United States reacts after competing in the Women's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1 on Day 13 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 9, 2012 in London.Streeter Lecka—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 9, 2018 5:13 PM UTC Qualifying for the Olympics, much less snagging a medal, is a crowning achievement for even the best competitors in sports. But some professional athletes exist on a whole different level, and are capable of winning events as different as bobsledding and sprinting. For those elite athletes athletes, winning transcends even the seasons in which they compete in the Olympic Games. At least 128 of the world’s fastest and strongest have tried to win both the Summer and Winter Olympics, [according to _Today_](https://www.today.com/news/double-duty-11-olympians-whove-played-both-winter-summer-sports-2D11960556). But just five athletes in the [history of the Olympic Games](http://time.com/5134101/adam-rippon-winter-olympics-2018/) have won medals at Olympic Games, excelling in events that would not normally pair together, like yachting and ski jumping. Check out the athletes who have won medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games below. ## Eddie Eagan  Fiske, Eddie Eagan, Clifford Gray and Jay O'Brien, who will compete in the 1932 Winter Olympics, also members of the 1928 Champion Team. Bettmann—Bettmann Archive Bettmann—Bettmann Archive Eddie Eagan is the only Olympian to have won a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Eagan, who developed a boxing career while studying at Yale and Harvard universities, took [gold in light-heavyweight boxing](https://www.olympic.org/edward-eagan) at the Antwerp Olympic Games in 1920, according to the International Olympic Committee. More than a decade later, Eagan joined the U.S. bobsled team for the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Although he had never ridden a bobsleigh before, Eagan’s team of four took first place. ## Jacob Tullin Thams > [](https://twitter.com/oyvindlh/status/434760426933747712) A ski jumper and sailor, Norwegian athlete Jacob Tullin Thams became the Winter Olympics’ [first ski jumping champion](https://www.olympic.org/jacob-tullin-thams), taking home the gold at [the first Winter Olympics](http://time.com/4993522/first-winter-olympics-1924-chamonix-france/) in 1924 in Chamonix, France. After a controversial performance at the 1928 Winter Olympics, in which he jumped a record 73 meters but was disqualified for falling, Thams returned to the Olympics for the Summer Games in 1936\. There, he won a silver medal for his effort as part of the Norwegian yachting crew. > [](https://twitter.com/Chamonix1924/status/959424278969094144) ## Christa Luding-Rothenburger  Silver medallist Christa Luding of East Germany, Gold medallist Erika Salumae of the Soviet Union and right Bronze medallist Connie Paraskevin duing the medal ceremony at the Olympic Games in Seoul. Mike Powell—Getty Images Mike Powell—Getty Images Germany’s Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only athlete to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics during the same year. After earning a gold medal in the 1984 500 meter speed skating event, Luding-Rothenburger returned in 1988 to win the silver in the same event and the gold the 1,000 meter event. That same year, Luding-Rothenburger earned a silver medal in the match sprint cycling event at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. She later won a bronze medal in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville. > [](https://twitter.com/pelinozis/status/702819366358880256) ## Clara Hughes  Clara Hughes of Canada on the ice during the Ladies' 5000m Speed Skating finals during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in Canada. Harry How—Getty Images Harry How—Getty Images Clara Hughes earned her first Olympic victory by winning bronze medals in the individual road race and the time trial in cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The Canadian athlete [returned to the Olympics](https://www.olympic.org/clara-hughes) in a different event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where she won the bronze in speed skating. Hughes later won the gold in speed skating at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and the bronze again at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. ## Lauryn Williams  Elana Meyers (left) and Lauryn Williams of the United States team 1 celebrate during the Women's Bobsleigh at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Alex Livesey—Getty Images Alex Livesey—Getty Images A lifelong track and field star, Lauryn Williams won a silver medal in the 100 meter race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The sprinter took home a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Games in London as part of the 4×100 women’s relay team. An injury prevented Williams from sprinting in the Olympics again, but the athlete returned to the games anyway. During the [2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi](http://time.com/5041360/matt-lauer-sochi-olympics/), Williams took silver with Elana Meyers in the two-woman bobsleigh race. 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