The 2026 Winter Olympic Games have officially concluded with the closing ceremony following the final event of the world competition in Milan, the gold medal men’s ice hockey game.
There were many spectacular moments for multiple athletes who competed in the Winter Games, including the men’s and women’s USA hockey teams, each beating Canada to claim the gold medal. The North took home silver.
Countries were able to take home a bragging rights’ worth of medals, but only one could collect the most and that went to Norway.
Individually, there were many high and lows for the world-class Olympians who participated in Milan in 2026. Here are some of the best moments, winners, losers and complete medal count for the 2026 Winter Olympics:
2026 Winter Olympics medal count
Norway led the way with 41 total medals, including 12 golds, the most at the 2026 Winter Games. They added 11 bronze and 12 silver medals, tied for most in the games with United States.
The U.S. came in second overall in medals won with 33 including 12 gold, 12 silver and nine bronze medals.
Italy, host country of the 2026 Winter Olympics, came in third place with 30 total medals and the bronze medals with 14. Italy earned 10 gold and six silver medals.
See the full 2026 Winter Olympics medal count here
Winners and losers
There were high moments for some, and low moments for others. Here are some of the individual winners and loser from the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan.
Winners
- Megan Keller and the game-sealing goal to help the U.S. national women’s ice hockey team claim its first Olympic gold medal since the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
- Laila Edwards became the first Black woman on the U.S. Olympic hockey team, and the first to score during a Feb. 10 shutout against Canada. That was the first time three Black women played in a game with Edwards and Canada forward Sarah Nurse and Canada defender Sophie Jaques. Even better during Black History Month.
- Jack Hughes clinching the gold medal for Team USA men’s ice hockey with an overtime goal against Canada.
- Norway’s cross country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won the most gold medals at the 2026 Winter Games with six.
- Hunter Hess, who took the high road when he could have had some choice words for President Donald Trump, who called Hess a ‘real loser’ on social media.
Losers
- Canada, it was their second Olympics in a row involved in a cheating this scandal. This time it was Canada’s men’s curling team was under the suspicion of bending the rules.
- French judges, an Olympic judging controversy potentially cost Madison Chock and Evan Bates an ice dance gold medal. They settled for second, while France won gold. The judges in question, were coincidentally, French.
- Sturla Holm Laegreid, who admitted to cheating on his former girlfriend. Word of advice, some conversations are better kept private, just saying.
- International Olympic Committee, Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned and disqualified for wearing a helmet in tribute to more than 20 fellow athletes and coaches who were killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly four ago.
Best moments
These were some of the best moments from the 2026 Winter Olympics.
- Bobsled Olympian medalist Elana Meyers Tyalor adding to her title of most decorated woman in bobsled history.
- Breezy Johnson winning gold in Alpine downhill and getting engaged to now-fiancé Connor Watkins who popped the question shortly after her super-G race.
- Mikaela Shiffrin winning Olympic gold in slalom skiing.
- Alyssa Liu, repping Oakland, California and the Bay Area as she dazzled her way to a gold medal in her return to figure skating competition.
- Quad God, Ilia Malinin, and his gala redemption skate to winning gold at the 2026 Winter Games.
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