Nutrition Status of Female Winter Sports Athletes Jiménez Casquet, María José Conde Pipó, Javier Olea Serrano, Fátima Mariscal Arcas, Miguel Female athletes Winter sports Nutrition Altitude Body composition The funding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; the collection, analyses, or interpretation of the data; the writing of the manuscript; or the decision to publish the results. This study was funded by the High Council for Sports (CSD), Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, through the NESA NETWORK “Spanish Network of Sports Care at Altitude (RADA)” Ref. 19/UPB/23. Instituto de Salud Carlos III through CIBEROBN CB12/03/30038, which is cofounded by the European Regional Development Fund. The authors thank the Andalusian Federation of Winter Sports (FADI) for their support. The authors thank CETURSA Ski Resort of Sierra Nevada for their support. This paper will be part of Maria Jose Jimenez-Casquet’s doctoral thesis, completed as part of the “Nutrition and Food Sciences Program” at the University of Granada, Spain. Eating disorders, especially restrictive eating, are common among female athletes. There are two main types of winter sports: those that are practiced outdoors on snow (−25 to +5 °C and 2500 m), such as alpine skiing and snowboarding, and those that are practiced indoors on ice (5–10 °C at low altitude), such as figure skating and ice hockey. The aim of this research was to identify the nutritional status and potential risk of female athletes practicing winter sports, considering the altitude of training. The sample was composed of 58 women (aged 19.81 years (SD: 12.61)) who were competitors in some winter sports. Anthropometrics and nutritional variables were taken. Statistically significant differences were found between HA and LA groups for all the characteristics except thigh skinfold, and neither group had an energy intake (EI) that matched their total energy expenditure (TEE). Both groups met at least two-thirds of the RDI for all minerals and vitamins except iodine, fluorine, vitamin D, vitamin E, and retinol. This study suggests that female winter sports athletes have insufficient energy, vitamin, and mineral intake, which can be worsened with altitude. 2023-11-14T13:27:00Z 2023-11-14T13:27:00Z 2023-10-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Jiménez-Casquet, M.J.; Conde-Pipó, J.; Valenzuela-Barranco, I.; Rienda-Contreras, R.; Olea-Serrano, F.; Bouzas, C.; Tur, J.A.; Mariscal-Arcas, M. Nutrition Status of Female Winter Sports Athletes. Nutrients 2023, 15, 4472. [https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15204472] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/85667 10.3390/nu15204472 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI