The United States has fielded its largest Winter Olympics team 2026 Milano Cortina Games232 the players to look for gold.
Team USA broke its record for most goals in a single Winter Games – the 11 of in Italy – in the mixed freestyle skiing team on the second to last day of the competition. Add another medal to the values when the The US men’s hockey team beat Canada with a thrilling extra-time golden goal on the final day of the Games.
The previous record was set at the last US Olympics – in Salt Lake City in 2002.
The victory started early Breezy Johnson earned America’s first gold medal at the Games in women’s downhill once US figure skaters won gold in the team competition. And as the days went on, athletes in other sports added a growing number of medals to the mix.
Speedskater Jordan Stolz won two golds again silver; skating star Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in slalom; in the US women’s hockey team took gold over Canada; again Alysa Liu took gold in the women’s figure skating.
Team USA brought home the many awards of any country at the 2024 Summer Olympics, but Norway topped the medal count at the last Winter Games and holds the all-time record for winter medals.
Here’s a look at where the medal count stands as the competition heats up in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, two cities in charge for the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy.
Total medal count for the 2026 Winter Olympics
Norway increased its lead in total medals – and set a new record gold medals too of any single Winter Olympics. The United States and host nation Italy also put in strong showings.
The chart below is updated hourly with the latest medal count for the 2026 Games. (There are 87 teams participating in the Winter Olympics; only winning teams are counted.)
Highlighted is Team USA’s 2026 Olympic medal tally
In the first two days after surgery opening ceremonyTeam USA collected two medals, both gold.
Breezy Johnson won gold in the women’s downhill, while American skaters won gold in the team event, helped by a dominant performance from Ilia Malinin, known as “Quad God” by making a very difficult jump.
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On February 10, Ben Ogden became the first American man to win an Olympic medal in figure skating since 1976, to find silver in a running race. Alex Hall won silver in freestyle skiing, while Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan won bronze in the team downhill event. Team USA scored a gold medal in mixed doubles curling, but fell short against Sweden and will take home silver.
February 11, skier Elizabeth Lemley took gold in moguls and star speedskating Jordan Stolz he won gold in the 1,000 meters, setting an Olympic record in the process. An ice dancing duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates he got the silver after narrowly missing out on the top spot.
February 12 they brought silver snowboarder Chloe Kim in halfpipe and cross country bronze skier Jessie Diggins.
On Feb. 14, Jalein Kauf and Elizabeth Lemley added silver and bronze for Team USA, respectively, in the women’s double moguls. In speedskating, Stolz won his own second gold medal and set his second Olympic record of the Games when he won the 500 meters. He is the first American since 1980 to win multiple speedskating gold medals.
Week Two brought gold for the American bobsledder Elana Myers Taylorthe 41-year-old Olympian who already has three silver and two bronze medals to his name.
On Feb. 17, the US earned two more silver medals, while Mac Forehand just missed out on gold in freeski big air and Team USA fell to Italy in an upset in the team speedskating pursuit.
Skier Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in the women’s slalom on Feb. 18, breaking his streak of eight events without a medal.
The next day, i US women’s ice hockey team he planned to come back to beat rival Canada for gold in overtime, too Alysa Liu won gold in women’s figure skating, the first in the US since 2002.
On Feb. 21, Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took home the title in mixed freestyle skiing aerials, breaking the US record for most golds in a single Winter Games.
On the final day of the competition, the men’s hockey team took home the gold with a 2-1 overtime win over Canada. It was the first gold medal since the “Miracle on Ice” team did it at the Lake Placid Games in 1980.
South American History Medal
Brazilian skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, who has a strong final race in the Olympic giant slalom, she won gold and won South America’s first ever Winter Games medal.
Pinheiro Braathen, who comes from a family where his mother is Brazilian and his father is Norwegian, represented Norway until 2023 when he suddenly retired. He returned to the sport in 2024, representing Brazil and since then he has achieved many “firsts” with his new country: the first Brazilian Alpine runner to finish on the World Cup stage last year and the first World Cup win for this country this season.
Winter Olympics gold medal records have been set
The Norwegian team broke theirs gold medal record in one Winter Olympics when Johannes Dale-Skjevdal scored all 20 of his points in the first 15km mass race and skated to gold on Feb. 20. It was Norway’s 17th gold medal Milano Cortina Winter Games.
Meanwhile, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway became the second most decorated gold medalist in Olympic history after American Michael Phelps. The 29-year-old entered the Games with five gold medals and added six more to his tally.
With six gold medals, Klaebo broke a nearly 50-year-old record set by speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five golds at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. However, all of Heiden’s wins were in individual races and Klaebo’s two came in team events, so Heiden’s record for individual wins still stands.
Klaebo is also the Winter Olympian with the most gold medals in history. Fellow Norwegians, Marit Bjoergen and Bjorn Daehlie in cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in biathlon, hold the previous record with eight Winter Olympic gold medals. They are all retired.
Meanwhile, Team USA broke its record after winning its 11th gold medal on Feb. 21. They added 12 on the last day of the competition.
What was the number of medals in the 2022 Winter Olympics?
in 2022 Winter GamesNorway took home the most medals, winning 37 in total, including 16 gold.
Next came the ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee delegation, with 32 in total, followed by Germany with 27 and Canada with 26.
Team USA ranks fifth with 25 medals – nine gold, nine silver and seven bronze.
Who has the most Olympic medals?
Although the International Olympic Committee does not compile standards, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage keeps track of the number of medals. One medal is counted for placing first, second or third in an event regardless of the number of athletes on the team.
In the total medal count for all previous Summer and Winter Games, the US leads the way with 3,103 medals.
The US is trailed in the medal count by the former Soviet Union, which earned 1,204 medals before its breakup in 1991. Germany is third with 1,091 medals.
The US also won the most gold medals, with 1,220, according to the Olympic Foundation.
But when it comes to Winter Olympics history alone, the US sinks to second place in the number of medals behind Norway, the perennial winter sports arena.
Norwegian athletes took home a total of 404 medals at the last Winter Games. The US has won with 330, while Germany is in third place with 286.
