The United States is fielding its biggest Winter Olympics team ever for the 2026 Games , with 232 athletes going for the gold. The wins started early as Breezy Johnson claimed America's first gold medal of the Games in women's downhill and U.S. figure skaters won gold in the team competition.
Speedskater Jordan Stolz has won two golds and a silver ; skiing star Mikaela Schiffrin won gold in slalom; the U.S. women's hockey team took gold over Canada; and Alyssa Liu took gold in women's individual figure skating. As the days go on, athletes in other sports have added a growing number of medals to the mix.
Team USA brought home the most medals of any country at the 2024 Summer Olympics, but Norway came out on top in the medal count at the last Winter Games and also holds the all-time record for winter medals. Here is a look at where the medal count stands as the competition heats up in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, the two host cities for the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy.
Overall medal count for the 2026 Winter Olympics Norway has been growing its lead atop the overall medal count and has also won the most gold so far. Host nation Italy and the Unites States are also making strong showings. The chart below is updated hourly with the latest medal count of the 2026 Games.
(There are 87 teams taking part in the Winter Olympics; only teams that have won medals are listed.) Spotlight on Team USA's medal count for the 2026 Olympics In the first two days after the opening ceremony , Team USA scooped up two medals, both of them gold.
Breezy Johnson won gold in the women's downhill, and American figure skaters won gold in the team event, helped by a dominant performance from Ilia Malinin, who is known as the "Quad God" for executing the most difficult jumps. On Feb. 10, Ben Ogden became the first American man to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since 1976, earning a silver in the sprint.
Alex Hall took silver in the freestyle ski, while Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan won bronze in the team downhill event. Team USA had a shot at gold in mixed doubles curling, but fell short against Sweden and will go home with silver. Feb. 11, skier Elizabeth Lemley took gold in moguls and speedskating star Jordan Stolz won gold in the 1,000 meters, setting an Olympic record in the process.
Ice dancing duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates won silver after being barely edged out of the top spot. Feb. 12 brought a silver for snowboarder Chloe Kim in the halfpipe and a bronze for cross-country skier Jessie Diggins . On Feb. 14, Jalein Kauf and Elizabeth Lemley added to Team USA's tally with silver and bronze, respectively, in women's dual moguls.
In speedskating, Stolz won his second gold medal and set his second Olympic record of these Games when he won at the 500 meters. He's the first American since 1980 to win multiple speedskating gold medals. Week Two brought gold for American bobsledder Elana Myers Taylor , a 41-year-old five-time Olympian who already had three silvers and two bronze medals to her name. On Feb. 17, the U.S.
earned two more silver medals, with Mac Forehand just missing out on gold in freeski big air and Team USA falling to Italy in an upset in speedskating team pursuit. Skiier Mikaela Schiffrin won gold in women's slalom on Feb. 18, breaking her streak of eight events without medaling. The following day, the U.S.