The United States fielded its biggest Winter Olympics team ever for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games, with 232 athletes going for the gold — and broke a record for Team USA’s most gold medals at a single Winter Games. 

But Norway remained on top in both the total medal count and the gold medal tally, and also holds the all-time record for winter medals.

Here is a look at the medal count for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which were co-hosted by the cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in northern Italy and wrapped up on Sunday, Feb. 22.

Overall medal count for the 2026 Winter Olympics

Norway ended the Games with a record 41 medals, including 18 gold — the most gold medals won in any single Winter Olympics. 

Team USA came next with 33 medals, 12 of them gold. The U.S. topped its previous best showing of 10 gold from the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. The final one came on the last day of competition when the U.S. men’s hockey team beat Canada in a thrilling overtime victory.

The chart below is updated with the total medal count of the 2026 Winter Olympics. (There were 87 teams taking part this year; only teams that 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.

Skier 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, 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.

The start of Week 2 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 Shiffrin won gold in women’s slalom on Feb. 18, breaking her streak of eight events without medaling. 

The following day, the U.S. women’s hockey team staged a comeback to beat rival Canada for gold in overtime; Alysa Liu won gold in women’s individual figure skating, the first for the U.S. since 2002; and speedskater Jordan Stolz nabbed his third medal, a silver.

On Feb. 21, Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took the title in freestyle skiing mixed aerials, in th process breaking the U.S. record for the nation’s most golds in a single Winter Games.

On the final day of competition, the U.S. men’s hockey team took home the gold in a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over Canada. It was the team’s first gold medal since the “Miracle on Ice” over the Soviet Union at the Lake Placid Games in 1980.

Historic medal for South America

Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, with a powerful final run in the Olympic giant slalom, won gold and earned South America’s first-ever medal at a Winter Games.

Pinheiro Braathen, who comes from a family where his mother is Brazilian and his father is Norwegian, represented Norway until 2023 when he abruptly retired. He returned to the sport in 2024, representing Brazil and since then has accomplished plenty of “firsts” with his new country: first Brazilian Alpine racer to finish on a World Cup podium last year and first-ever World Cup win for the country this season.

Winter Olympics gold medal records set

Team Norway broke its own gold medal record at a single Winter Olympics when Johannes Dale-Skjevdal hit all 20 of his targets in the 15-kilometer mass start race and skied his way to gold on Feb. 20. It was Norway’s 17th gold medal of the Milano Cortina Winter Games.

Meanwhile, Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo became the second-most decorated gold medalist in Olympic history after American Michael Phelps. The 29‑year‑old came into the games with five gold medals and he added six more to his tally.

With six gold medals, Klaebo shattered the nearly 50-year record set by American 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 two of Klaebo’s have come 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 the biathlon held the previous record with eight Winter Olympics gold medals. They have all retired.

Meanwhile, Team USA broke its own record with its 11th gold medal on Feb. 21, then added a 12th on the last day of competition.

What was the medal count for the 2022 Winter Olympics?

At the 2022 Winter Games, Norway took home the most medals, winning 37 in all, including 16 gold. 

Next came the ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee team, with a total of 32, followed by Germany with 27 and Canada with 26.

Team USA ranked fifth with 25 medals — nine gold, nine silver and seven bronze. 

Who has the most Olympic medals of all time?

While the International Olympic Committee does not compile rankings, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage does keep a medal tally. It counts one medal for placing first, second or third in an event regardless of how many athletes were on a team.

In the overall medal count from all previous Summer and Winter Games, the U.S. comes out on top with 3,103 medals.

The U.S. is followed in the medal count by the former Soviet Union, which earned 1,204 medals before its breakup in 1991. Germany comes third with 1,091 medals.

The U.S. has also won the most gold medals, with 1,220 in previous Games, according to the Olympic Foundation. 

But when it comes to the history of the Winter Olympics alone, the U.S. dips to second place in the medal count behind Norway, a perennial winter sports powerhouse.

Athletes from Norway have taken home a total of 404 medals from past Winter Games. The U.S. has previously won 330, while Germany places third with 286.