Norway leads the Milan-Cortina medal table with a record of 18 golds

Norway leads the final medal table at the Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo 2026 Winter Olympics with a record 18 gold medals and 41 medals in total, after the competition concluded this Sunday.

The Scandinavian country also achieved 12 silver and 11 bronze medals in 116 events, in another dominant performance in the Games held between February 6 and 22.

Norway’s great collection of gold medals was led by Johannes Klaebo, who won six gold medals in cross-country skiing and leaves Italy with an Olympic record of 11 gold medals in his career in winter events. Meanwhile, Jens Luras Oftebro became champion in the three Nordic combined events.

Meanwhile, the United States, which closed the Games this Sunday with the historic conquest in ice hockey, finished in second place in the medal table with 33 metals, 12 gold, 12 silver and nine bronze, and the Netherlands completed the ‘podium’ with 10 golds, all of them won in speed skating and short track – three won by Jens van’t Wout -, seven silvers and three bronzes for a total of 20.

Host Italy closed its Games in fourth place, with an unprecedented result of 10 gold, six silver and 14 bronze; Alpine skier Federica Brignone and speed skater Francesca Lollobrigida each won two gold medals. The ‘Top 5’ was completed by Germany, with eight golds, 10 silvers and eight bronzes and 19 of its 26 medals won on the Cortina d’Ampezzo sliding track by the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton teams.

Spain, for its part, finished in eighteenth position in a historic event in which it won one gold and two bronzes, all of them in mountain skiing. Oriol Cardona was crowned Olympic champion, the first Spaniard to do so since Paquito Fernández Ochoa in 1972, in the men’s sprint event, while in the women’s event Ana Alonso won the bronze medal.

In addition, the two together won bronze in the mixed relay event, becoming the first Spanish athletes to win more than one medal in winter events. The three metals represent the largest harvest for Spain in a single event in the history of the Winter Games.

In total, 29 teams won medals. Among the most notable is Lucas Pinheiro Braathen’s gold medal in giant slalom, the first medal in the Winter Games for Brazil and for all of South America.