Gold Medal Statistics in 2026 Winter Olympics | Complete List

Gold Medals at Winter Olympics 2026

The 2026 Winter Olympics — officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games, Milano Cortina 2026 — concluded on February 22, 2026, after 16 days of competition across the mountains and ice rinks of northern Italy. A total of 116 gold medals were awarded across 16 disciplines and 8 sports, and what unfolded was one of the most statistically extraordinary gold medal distributions in the history of the Winter Games. Three nations — Norway, France, and Switzerland — produced performances so dominant in their respective core sports that they reshaped the record books. One athlete, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway, won six of those 116 golds entirely on his own. Brazil won one and it shook the sporting world. And the United States closed the final day with its most gold medals ever at a Winter Games, sealed by a men’s hockey overtime winner that brought an arena to its feet exactly 46 years to the day after the Miracle on Ice.

Gold Medal Summary at a Glance

Sources: Olympics.com Official Results (Feb 22, 2026); Wikipedia — List of 2026 Winter Olympics medal winners; CBS News; NBC Olympics; ESPN

Gold Medals by Discipline — Complete Breakdown

🎿 Alpine Skiing — 10 Gold Medals

Overview: Switzerland’s men dominated so completely that they won 4 of the 5 men’s gold medals, including a personal haul of 3 golds from one athlete, 24-year-old Franjo von Allmen. On the women’s side, Italy’s Federica Brignone delivered a stunning double gold just 10 months after breaking her leg. The first gold medal of the entire Games was awarded in this discipline — von Allmen’s men’s downhill on February 7.

Alpine skiing gold medal tally by nation: Switzerland 🇨🇭 4 | Italy 🇮🇹 3 | USA 🇺🇸 2 | Brazil 🇧🇷 1

🎯 Biathlon — 11 Gold Medals

Overview: France produced the most extraordinary national performance in biathlon Olympic history, winning 6 of the 11 gold medals and sweeping all three relay events — mixed, men’s, and women’s — for the first time any nation has ever swept all three biathlon relays. Quentin Fillon Maillet became the most decorated French Winter Olympian of all time. France won the biathlon medal table outright for the first time in its Olympic history.

Biathlon gold medal tally by nation: France 🇫🇷 6 | Norway 🇳🇴 4 | (Women’s pursuit gold — see note) 1

Note on women’s pursuit: The women’s 10km pursuit gold was not France or Norway; it went to another nation. Full individual results for this event confirm Norway’s Laegreid took men’s pursuit gold. Readers should cross-reference the official Olympics.com results page for this single event.

🛷 Bobsleigh — 4 Gold Medals

Overview: Germany’s Johannes Lochner ended a career of near-misses by winning gold in both the two-man and four-man events — denying the legendary Francesco Friedrich a historic three-peat in the two-man. The USA’s Elana Meyers Taylor, competing at her fifth Olympics at age 41, finally won her long-awaited Olympic gold in monobob.

Bobsleigh gold medal tally by nation: Germany 🇩🇪 3 | USA 🇺🇸 1

⛷️ Cross-Country Skiing — 12 Gold Medals

Overview: This discipline became the personal stage of Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, who won all 6 men’s events — a feat without precedent in the history of the Winter Olympics or cross-country skiing World Championships. On the women’s side, Sweden’s Frida Karlsson and Ebba Andersson shared the highlights, with Andersson winning the final event of the entire ski programme, the women’s 50km.

Cross-country skiing gold medal tally by nation: Norway 🇳🇴 6 (all men’s, all Klæbo) | Sweden 🇸🇪 5 | Norway (women’s relay) 🇳🇴 1

🥌 Curling — 3 Gold Medals

Overview: Sweden’s women — skip Anna Hasselborg and her team — retained their Olympic title with a narrow 6-5 win over Switzerland in the final. Canada ended a 12-year wait for men’s curling gold. Mixed doubles continued to throw up surprise results.

Curling gold medal tally by nation: Sweden 🇸🇪 2 | Canada 🇨🇦 1

⛸️ Figure Skating — 5 Gold Medals

Overview: A beautifully spread set of results with gold going to five different nations. The USA won the team event and Alysa Liu claimed women’s singles gold — the first US women’s figure skating gold since Sarah Hughes in 2002. Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov won men’s singles in one of the Games’ most emotionally resonant moments. Georgia earned its first-ever Winter Olympic medal of any colour in pairs (silver), but Japan’s pairs team won gold.

Figure skating gold medal tally by nation: USA 🇺🇸 2 | Japan 🇯🇵 1 | France 🇫🇷 1 | Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 1

🏂 Freestyle Skiing & Snowboard — 22 Gold Medals (Combined)

Overview: These two disciplines combined for 22 of the 116 gold medals — nearly one in five — and delivered the widest spread of winning nations at the Games. Notable highlights include China’s Eileen Gu becoming the most decorated freeskier in Olympic history, Norway’s Anna Odine Strøm winning two halfpipe golds, and the USA dominating moguls and aerials.

Freestyle Skiing — 13 Gold Medals:

Snowboard — 9 Gold Medals:

🏒 Ice Hockey — 2 Gold Medals

Overview: NHL players returned to Olympic ice for the first time since Sochi 2014 — 12 years — and delivered the most dramatic conclusion to a Winter Games in decades. Both hockey finals went to overtime. The USA won both gold medals. In the women’s final, Megan Keller scored the overtime winner. In the men’s final, Jack Hughes scored the golden goal 1:41 into overtime to give the USA its first men’s hockey gold since the Miracle on Ice in 1980 — achieved exactly 46 years to the day.

Ice hockey gold medal tally by nation: USA 🇺🇸 2 | Canada 🇨🇦 0 (two silvers)

🛷 Luge — 4 Gold Medals

Overview: Germany continued its dominance of the sliding sports, though Austria made its presence felt. The 2026 Games restored separate men’s and women’s doubles events (replacing the open doubles from Beijing 2022).

⛷️ Nordic Combined — 3 Gold Medals

Overview: Norway’s Jens Luraas Oftebro was the story of the entire Nordic combined programme, winning both individual golds and cementing himself as the world’s dominant force in the discipline. He now owns all three Nordic combined Olympic titles in his career (including team gold from Beijing 2022).

🏃 Short Track Speed Skating — 9 Gold Medals

Overview: The Netherlands transformed its short track status at these Games — from occasional medallist to dominant force — thanks largely to siblings Jens and Melle van ‘t Wout and Xandra Velzeboer. Velzeboer set a world record in the 500m semifinals. South Korea remained competitive. The Netherlands’ Jens van ‘t Wout finished with 3 gold medals.

Short track gold medal tally by nation: Netherlands 🇳🇱 4 | South Korea 🇰🇷 2 | China 🇨🇳 1

🦴 Skeleton — 2 Gold Medals

Overview: Germany’s stranglehold on sliding sports continued in skeleton, though the women’s event produced a surprise.

🎿 Ski Jumping — 6 Gold Medals

Overview: The 2026 Games added two new ski jumping events — women’s large hill individual and men’s super team. Austria’s Jan Hörl was the standout performer. The women’s large hill made its Olympic debut, the first new women’s ski jumping event since the women’s individual was introduced in 2014.

⛷️ Ski Mountaineering — 3 Gold Medals (Olympic Debut)

Overview: Ski mountaineering made its Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 — one of the most anticipated additions to the Winter Games programme in years, and one that delivered drama immediately. France dominated, with Emily Harrop and Thibault Anselmet winning the mixed relay gold. Spain’s Orio Cardona Coll gave his country its first Winter Olympic gold since 1972.

⚡ Speed Skating — 14 Gold Medals

Overview: The Netherlands dominated long-track speed skating in the way only they can — winning 7 of the 14 long-track gold medals, with the entire 20-medal Dutch haul coming from the ice. Jordan Stolz of the USA set two Olympic records and became the first American to win multiple speed skating golds at a single Games since Eric Heiden in 1980. Italy delivered a home-crowd moment by winning the men’s team pursuit — their first in the event since Turin 2006.

Speed skating gold medal tally by nation: Netherlands 🇳🇱 7 | USA 🇺🇸 2 | Italy 🇮🇹 1 | China 🇨🇳 1 | Canada 🇨🇦 2 | Norway 🇳🇴 1

Top Individual Gold Medal Performers — 2026 Winter Olympics

Sources: Olympics.com medallists table (Feb 22, 2026); NBC Olympics; CBS News; France24; nordicmag.info; Wikipedia 2026 Winter Olympics

Gold Medals by Nation — Final Rankings

Sources: Olympics.com Official Medal Table (Feb 22, 2026); ESPN Final Medal Tracker; The Big Lead; Newsweek

Gold Medal Records Set or Extended at 2026 Winter Olympics

Sources: Olympics.com; CBS News; NBC Olympics; nordicmag.info; Wikipedia 2026 Winter Olympics; ESPN

Gold Medal Fun Facts — 2026 Winter Olympics

The single most remarkable statistical fact about the 2026 Winter Olympics gold medals is one that is almost impossible to communicate in a table: Klæbo’s six golds in cross-country skiing spanned events so different in character that winning all of them simultaneously requires the athletic equivalent of being world-class at both the 100m and the marathon at the same time. The shortest event he won — the sprint — takes under four minutes. The longest — the 50km mass start — takes close to two hours. No one had ever won every men’s event in a discipline at any major championship in cross-country’s history. He did it at the Olympics, where the pressure is highest and the field is deepest.

France’s biathlon performance is the second great statistical story. Six gold medals from 11 events, three relay sweeps, and the personal transformation of Quentin Fillon Maillet into the most decorated French Winter Olympian in history — in a Games held in Italy, which made it even harder given the partisan crowds at the Anterselva Biathlon Arena. France won the biathlon medal table outright for the first time ever.

Switzerland’s alpine men were extraordinary in their own right. Franjo von Allmen — 24 years old, competing at his first Olympics — won three golds and joined Toni Sailer (1956) and Jean-Claude Killy (1968) as the only male skiers in Olympic history to achieve that feat. He is the youngest of the three. The Swiss men won 4 of 5 men’s alpine gold medals — the first time any nation has dominated the men’s alpine programme to that extent since Austria in the 1970s.

And then there was Brazil — one gold medal, one moment, one samba at the finish line, one national anthem playing in the Italian Alps for the first time in history. Lucas Pinheiro Braathen’s giant slalom gold on February 14 was not just a number in a medal table. It was, in the words of multiple commentators, the single most emotionally charged moment of the entire Games. Twenty nations won gold at these Olympics. Brazil’s was the only one that made people cry in countries with no horse in the race.

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