The USA is fielding its greatest Winter Olympics staff ever for the 2026 Video games, with 232 athletes going for the gold. The wins began early as Breezy Johnson claimed America’s first gold medal of the Video games in girls’s downhill and U.S. determine skaters received gold within the staff competitors. Speedskater Jordan Stolz has received two gold medals up to now.
As the times go on, athletes in different sports activities have added a rising variety of medals to the combo.
Crew USA introduced dwelling the most medals of any nation on the 2024 Summer season Olympics, however Norway got here out on prime within the medal depend on the final Winter Video games and likewise holds the all-time report for winter medals.
Here’s a have a look at the place the medal depend stands because the competitors heats up in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, the two host cities for the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy.
Total medal depend for the 2026 Winter Olympics
One week into the Video games, Norway and Italy topped the general medal depend, with Norway profitable essentially the most gold up to now.
The chart beneath is up to date hourly with the newest medal depend of the 2026 Video games. (There are 87 groups collaborating within the Winter Olympics; solely groups which have received medals are listed.)
Highlight on Crew USA’s medal depend for the 2026 Olympics
Within the first two days after the opening ceremony, Crew USA scooped up two medals, each of them gold.
Breezy Johnson received gold within the girls’s downhill, and American determine skaters received gold within the staff occasion, helped by a dominant efficiency from Ilia Malinin, who’s often called the “Quad God” for executing essentially the most troublesome jumps.
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On Tuesday, Ben Ogden grew to become the primary American man to win an Olympic medal in cross-country snowboarding since 1976, incomes a silver within the dash. Alex Corridor took silver within the freestyle ski, whereas Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan received bronze within the staff downhill occasion. Crew USA had a shot at gold in blended doubles curling, however fell quick towards Sweden and can go dwelling with silver.
On Wednesday, skier Elizabeth Lemley took gold in moguls and speedskating star Jordan Stolz received gold within the 1,000 meters, setting an Olympic report within the course of. Ice dancing duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates received silver after being barely edged out of the highest spot.
Thursday introduced a silver for snowboarder Chloe Kim within the halfpipe and a bronze for cross-country skier Jessie Diggins.
On Saturday, Jalein Kauf and Elizabeth Lemley added to Crew USA’s tally with silver and bronze, respectively, in girls’s twin moguls. In speedskating, Stolz received his second gold medal and set his second Olympic report of those Video games when he received on the 500 meters. He is the primary American since 1980 to win a number of speedskating gold medals.
Historic medal for South America
Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, with a robust closing run within the Olympic big slalom, received gold and earned South America’s first-ever medal at a Winter Video games.
Pinheiro Braathen, who comes from a household the place his mom is Brazilian and his father is Norwegian, represented Norway till 2023 when he abruptly retired. He returned to the game in 2024, representing Brazil and since then has achieved loads of “firsts” together with his new nation: first Brazilian Alpine racer to complete on a World Cup podium final yr and first-ever World Cup win for the nation this season.
What was the medal depend for the 2022 Winter Olympics?
On the 2022 Winter Video games, Norway took dwelling the most medals, profitable 37 in all, together with 16 gold.
Subsequent got here the ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee staff, with a complete of 32, adopted by Germany with 27 and Canada with 26.
Crew USA ranked fifth with 25 medals — 9 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze.
Who has essentially the most Olympic medals of all time?
Whereas the Worldwide Olympic Committee doesn’t compile rankings, the Olympic Basis for Tradition and Heritage does preserve a medal tally. It counts one medal for putting first, second or third in an occasion no matter what number of athletes have been on a staff.
Within the total medal depend from all earlier Summer season and Winter Video games, the U.S. comes out on prime with 3,103 medals.
The U.S. is adopted within the medal depend by the previous Soviet Union, which earned 1,204 medals earlier than its breakup in 1991. Germany comes third with 1,091 medals.
The U.S. has additionally received essentially the most gold medals, with 1,220, in keeping with the Olympic Basis.
However in terms of the historical past of the Winter Olympics alone, the U.S. dips to second place within the medal depend behind Norway, a perennial winter sports activities powerhouse.
Athletes from Norway have taken dwelling a complete of 404 medals from previous Winter Video games. The U.S. has beforehand received 330, whereas Germany locations third with 286.
