The Winter Olympics are taking place in Italy, and some of the best athletes in the world have already won some medals.
Team USA also made the list and won their first gold medal.
The 2026 Winter Olympics have just begun, and we’ll be here to follow Team USA’s efforts throughout the Winter Games and take a look at every medal an athlete has won in Cortina, Milan.
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How many medals will Team USA win at the 2026 Winter Olympics?
Here’s a table showing Team USA’s medal tally, updated daily.
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Team USA medals |
gold |
silver |
bronze |
all |
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Team USA |
2 |
4 |
2 |
8 |
Who wins a medal for Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics?
Here, we’ll take a closer look at each of Team USA’s medalists.
Breezy Johnson: Women’s Downhill Gold Medal
Four years ago, Breezy Johnson’s dream of competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics was dashed in Cortina.
Now she has a gold medal.
Four years ago, Johnson suffered a devastating accident while training at the Torfaen Alpine Ski Center in Cortina, which partially detached a large chunk of cartilage from her right knee. As a result, she had to withdraw from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. But she defeated Cortina in the women’s downhill to win gold and give Team USA its first medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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Team USA: Figure Skating Team Competition
Team USA won its second gold medal in team figure skating.
It was a close win against Japan.
The event culminated in a showdown between two men’s skaters: Ilya Marinen of the United States and Shun Sato of Japan. Marinen had earlier lost the short program to Yuma Kajiyama, who was replaced by Sato as the long program was considered his strength. Although Marinen had a disappointing performance in the long program — his score was his lowest free skate score in his last five games — it was still enough to give the U.S. a 69-68 victory over Japan.
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Ben Ogden: cross-country skiing
Team USA’s decades-long drought in cross-country skiing is over.
Ben Ogden became the second U.S. male cross-country skier to win an Olympic medal and the first in 50 years when he won a silver medal in cross-country ski racing on Tuesday.
Bill Koch won a silver medal in the 50-kilometer classic at the 1976 Winter Olympics. By chance, Ogden began his cross-country skiing journey with the Bill Koch Youth Ski League. Ogden finished the race in 3 minutes, 40 seconds, second behind Norwegian gold medalist Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
Alex Hall: Freestyle Skiing
Alex Hall’s attempt to defend his freestyle slopestyle gold medal fell short as he was beaten by Norway’s Birk Ruud 86.28 to 85.75. Hall’s second sprint brought him within half a point of Rudd, but failed to catch him in the final sprint.
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With the silver medal, the United States has won seven of the 12 medals in the event’s history.
Jacqueline Wells/Paula Molzan: Alpine Combined Sports
As expected, Team USA took home the overall women’s team medal.
But this isn’t the pairing many expected to see.
Team USA favorite Breeze Johnson and Mikayla Shiffrin went on to compete for gold after Johnson completed the fastest downhill stage. But Shiffrin, who has won seven of eight slalom events this season, finished just 15th in her event, knocking the pair out of medal contention.
They missed out on the bronze medal by 0.06 seconds.
Instead, the bronze medal went to Team USA’s Jacqueline Wells and Paula Molzahn.
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Corey Thiese/Cory Dropkin: Mixed Doubles Curling
Team USA has won its third medal in Olympic curling.
The mixed doubles team of Corey Thiers and Corey Dropkin advanced to the gold medal match against Sweden, but lost 6-5 to Swedish siblings Isabella and Rasmus Vrana. But with the victory, Thies became the first American woman to win an Olympic curling medal, as the U.S.’s previous two medals were in men’s curling.
Ashley Farquharson: Women’s Luge
Ashley Farquharson made U.S. Luge Team history by winning a shocking bronze medal in the women’s luge solo event. Erin Hamlin won a bronze medal 12 years later when she became the first luge medalist in Team USA history when she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
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Chris Mazder won a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Germany’s Julia Taubitz won gold and Latvia’s Elina Bota took silver, making history as the first woman from her country to win a singles luge medal.
Ryan Cochran-Siegel: Men’s Super-G
Ryan Cochran-Siegel won silver in the super-G for the second consecutive Winter Olympics.
Cochran-Siegel, the third skier on the course on Wednesday, took the early victory with a time of 1 minute, 25.45 seconds. His efforts were surpassed only by Franjo von Allmen, the Swiss skier who gave Switzerland its first men’s super-G gold medal.
But Cochran-Siegel performed well enough to win a silver medal, adding not only to his own legacy, but to his family’s. His mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, won the women’s slalom gold medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
Exactly 54 years ago today.