A total of 232 athletes have been named to Team USA for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games:
Alpine Skiing: Mary Bocock, Keely Cashman, Katie Hensien, AJ Hurt, Breezy Johnson, Paula Moltzan, Nina O’Brien, Mikaela Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn, Jackie Wiles, Bella Wright, Bryce Bennett, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, Sam Morse, Kyle Negomir, River Radamus, Ryder Sarchett
Biathlon: Luci Anderson, Margie Freed, Deedra Irwin, Joanne Reid, Sean Doherty, Maxime Germain, Paul Schommer, Campbell Wright
Bobsled: Azaria Hill, Kaillie Humphries, Jasmine Jones, Kaysha Love, Elana Meyers Taylor, Jadin O’Brien, Frank Del Duca, Caleb Furnell, Kris Horn, Boone Niederhofer, Hunter Powell, Bryan Sosoo, Carsten Vissering, Josh Williamson
Cross-Country Skiing: Rosie Brennan, Jessie Diggins, Lauren Jortberg, Kendall Kramer, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe, Sammy Smith, Hailey Swirbul, John Steel Hagenbuch, Zak Ketterson, Zanden McMullen, Ben Ogden, JC Schoonmaker, Gus Schumacher, Hunter Wonders, Jack Young
Curling: Cory Thiesse (mixed doubles, team), Korey Dropkin (mixed doubles), Taylor Anderson-Heide (team), Tabitha Peterson (team), Tara Peterson (team), Aileen Geving (team, alternate), Danny Casper (team), Aidan Oldenburg (team), Ben Richardson (team), Luc Violette (team), Rich Ruohonen (team, alternate)
Figure Skating: Amber Glenn (singles), Isabeau Levito (singles), Alysa Liu (singles), Ilia Malinin (singles), Maxim Naumov (singles), Andrew Torgashev (singles), Emily Chan (pairs), Ellie Kam (pairs), Spencer Howe (pairs), Danny O’Shea (pairs), Christina Carreira (ice dance), Madison Chock (ice dance), Emilea Zingas (ice dance), Evan Bates (ice dance), Anthony Ponomarenko (ice dance), Vadym Kolesnik (ice dance)
Freestyle Skiing: Kyra Dossa (aerials), Kaila Kuhn (aerials), Tasia Tanner (aerials), Winter Vinecki (aerials), Connor Curran (aerials), Quinn Dehlinger (aerials), Derek Krueger (aerials), Chris Lillis (aerials), Kate Gray (halfpipe), Svea Irving (halfpipe), Riley Jacobs (halfpipe), Abby Winterberger (halfpipe), Alex Ferreira (halfpipe), Nick Goepper (halfpipe), Hunter Hess (halfpipe), Birk Irving (halfpipe), Olivia Giaccio (moguls), Tess Johnson (moguls), Jaelin Kauf (moguls), Liz Lemley (moguls), Charlie Mickel (moguls), Nick Page (moguls), Landon Wendler (moguls), Dylan Walczyk (moguls), Marin Hamill (slopestyle/big air), Rell Harwood (slopestyle/big air), Grace Henderson (slopestyle/big air), Avery Krumme (slopestyle/big air), Mac Forehand (slopestyle/big air), Alex Hall (slopestyle/big air), Troy Podmilsak (slopestyle/big air), Konnor Ralph (slopestyle/big air)
Hockey: Cayla Barnes, Hannah Bilka, Alex Carpenter, Kendall Coyne-Schofield, Britta Curl-Salemme, Joy Dunner, Laila Edwards, Aerin Frankel, Rory Guilday, Caroline Harvey, Taylor Heise, Tessa Janecke, Megan Keller, Hilary Knight, Ava McNaughton, Abbey Murphy, Kelly Pannek, Gwyneth Philips, Hayley Scamurra, Kirsten Simms, Lee Stecklein, Haley Winn, Grace Zumwinkle Matt Boldy, Kyle Connor, Jack Eichel, Brock Faber, Jake Guentzel, Noah Hanifin, Connor Hellebuyck, Jack Hughes, Quinn Hughes, Seth Jones (later injured before the Games, unable to play), Clayton Keller, Dylan Larkin, Jackson LaCombe (replaces Jones), Auston Matthews, Charlie McAvoy, J.T. Miller, Brock Nelson, Jake Oettinger, Jake Sanderson, Jaccob Slavin, Jeremy Swayman, Tage Thomson, Brady Tkachuk, Matthew Tkachuk, Vincent Trocheck, Zach Werenski
Luge: Summer Britcher (singles), Emily Fischnaller (singles), Ashley Farquharson (singles), Chevonne Forgan (doubles), Sophia Kirkby (doubles), Matt Greiner (singles), Jonny Gustafson (singles), Zack DiGregorio (doubles), Ansel Haugsjaa (doubles), Sean Hollander (doubles), Marcus Mueller (doubles)
Nordic Combined: Ben Looms, Niklas Malacinski
Short Track Speed Skating: Eunice Lee, Julie Letai, Kamryn Lute, Kristen Santos-Griswold, Corinne Stoddard, Clayton DeClemente, Andrew Heo, Brandon Kim
Skeleton: Kelly Curtis, Mystique Ro, Dan Barefoot, Austin Florian
Ski Jumping: Annika Belshaw, Josie Johnson, Paige Jones, Kevin Bickner, Jason Colby, Tate Frantz
Ski Mountaineering: Anna Gibson, Cam Smith
Snowboarding: Bea Kim (halfpipe), Chloe Kim (halfpipe), Maddie Mastro (halfpipe), Maddy Schaffrick (halfpipe), Alessando Barbieri (halfpipe), Chase Blackwell (halfpipe), Chase Josey (halfpipe), Jake Pates (halfpipe), Lily Dhawornvej (big air/slopestyle), Hahna Norman (big air/slopestyle), Jess Perlmutter (big air/slopestyle), Jake Canter (big air/slopestyle), Sean FitzSimons (big air/slopestyle), Red Gerard (big air/slopestyle), Ollie Martin (big air/slopestyle), Stacy Gaskill (snowboard cross), Hanna Percy (snowboard cross), Brianna Schnorrbusch (snowboard cross), Faye Thelen (snowboard cross), Nick Baumgartner (snowboard cross), Nathan Pare (snowboard cross), Jake Vedder (snowboard cross), Cody Winters (snowboard cross/parellel giant slalom), Iris Pflum (parallel giant slalom)
Speed Skating: Giorgia Birkeland, Brittany Bowe, Erin Jackson, Mia Manganello, Greta Myers, Sarah Warren, Ethan Cepuran, Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman, Conor McDermott-Mostowy, Cooper McLeod, Jordan Stolz, Zach Stoppelmoor
All athletes who meet objective qualifying criteria must still be nominated by their national governing bodies and approved by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
Team USA is determined through international competition results, selection committees and U.S. Olympic Trials in some sports.
Here’s a brief sport-by-sport look at the team:
Alpine Skiing
Mikaela Shiffrin qualified for her fourth Olympic team by winning the first three World Cup slaloms of the season in November.
Shiffrin, the 2014 Olympic slalom gold medalist and 2018 Olympic giant slalom gold medalist, is in line to tie the current U.S. record of four Olympic women’s Alpine appearances.
However, Lindsey Vonn will break that record by competing in a fifth Olympics in 2026. Vonn clinched her spot after finishing first, second and third in the first three downhills of the season in December.
Vonn, 41, will become the oldest American in any skiing discipline in Olympic history.
Paula Moltzan earned her second Olympic berth as the only American woman to make a World Cup giant slalom podium in the qualifying window.
Nina O’Brien, who broke her left leg at the 2022 Olympics and again in 2023, made it back for 2026 after three top-10 finishes over the first six World Cup GS races this season.
River Radamus became the first male Alpine skier to qualify after leading the U.S. men in giant slalom the last several seasons. He was fourth in his Olympic debut in 2022 and has a best World Cup finish this season of sixth.
Ryan Cochran-Siegle is going to his third Olympics. He was the lone U.S. Alpine medalist in 2022 — super-G silver — and was the only U.S. man to make a World Cup podium in 2025.
Ryder Sarchett went into this season having one career two-run World Cup finish. He then made his first Olympic team on the strength of a 10th-place giant slalom finish in December.
Biathlon
Campbell Wright, a 23-year-old who competed at the 2022 Olympics for New Zealand, clinched his spot on Aug. 29 when U.S. Biathlon published its final Olympic selection procedures.
In December, Margie Freed, Deedra Irwin and Maxime Germain joined Wright on the team, qualifying based on World Cup results.
In early January, Luci Anderson made her first Olympic team and Paul Schommer made his second by winning a series of time trials. On Jan. 6, the last two members of the team were named: Joanne Reid, whose uncle is Eric Heiden, going to her third Olympics, and Sean Doherty going to his fourth, tying the most for a U.S. biathlete.
Wright, who won two silver medals at last February’s World Championships, was the lone U.S. biathlete to meet the early Olympic selection criteria of two top-10 finishes last season (World Cup or World Championships) or by finishing in the top 25 of the final World Cup season standings.
Biathlon is the lone Winter Olympic sport where the U.S. has yet to win an Olympic medal.
Wright could change that, though he ranked 17th overall over the 2024-25 World Cup season with a best finish of fourth outside of the World Championships. Wright was the top man in the standings under the age of 23.
He was born and raised in New Zealand to parents who were born in the U.S. He grew up skiing at the Snow Farm in Wanaka on New Zealand’s South Island.
He switched representation from New Zealand to the U.S. in late 2023.
“When I went to the U.S., I was just like, ‘You guys actually have facilities you can stay at for free?’” he told the Threshold podcast. “‘And you have a physio and a gym and a massage and a shooting coach?’ So I was just absolutely blown away by the support that those guys get.”
His bio now reads, “Kiwi racing for USA.”
In 2022, Irwin recorded the best individual Olympic biathlon finish in U.S. history -- seventh place in the 15km. As of her Olympic nomination on Dec. 21, Irwin was having her best World Cup season, ranking 22nd overall.
Freed, a former World Cup cross-country skier, and Germain, who split time between Alaska and France growing up, will each make their Olympic debut.
Bobsled
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kaillie Humphries qualified for her fifth Olympics as the highest-ranked U.S, female driver (second in the world).
Humphries, who was at the last Italy-hosted Olympics as an alternate in 2006, won the first Olympic monobob title in 2022 and since had son Aulden in 2024.
She’s joined by five-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor and 2025 World monobob champion Kaysha Love in rounding out the U.S. women’s pilot crew.
In Cortina, Humphries’ brakewoman will be fellow mom Jasmine Jones. Love’s brakewoman will be fellow former NCAA sprinter Azaria Hill, who at UNLV handed the 4x100m relay baton to Love. Hill’s parents are Olympic medalist sprinter Denean Howard-Hill and Olympic medalist boxer Virgil Hill Sr.
Frank Del Duca qualified as the highest-ranked American male driver with a best finish this World Cup season of fourth. At the 2022 Olympics, he drove two- and four-man sleds to 13th- and 14th-place finishes.
The full team was announced Jan. 19, including Kris Horn has the other male driver. The push athletes include one returning Olympian — Josh Williamson — and crossover athletes including former USC swimmer Carsten Vissering (who came through the same D.C. area swim club as Katie Ledecky), former Texas A&M wide receiver Boone Niederhofer and Jadin O’Brien, who at the last two Olympic track and field trials was seventh and 12th in the heptathlon and was the 2024 and 2025 NCAA Championships heptathlon runner-up for Notre Dame.
Cross-Country Skiing
Jessie Diggins became the first cross-country skier to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team after winning the lone skiathlon on the World Cup schedule (on Dec. 6) before the Milan Cortina Games.
Diggins is the best cross-country skier in U.S. history with an Olympic medal of every color and three World Cup overall titles. She plans to retire after this season after competing in a fourth Olympics at age 34, bidding to win the first individual gold medal in U.S. cross-country history.
Diggins is joined on the team by seven more women, including Rosie Brennan (third Olympics) and Julia Kern (second Olympics). The newcomers include Sammy Smith, who also plays for the NCAA runner-up Stanford soccer team.
World Cup winner Gus Schumacher and fellow returning Olympians Ben Ogden and JC Schoonmaker have the potential to post the best U.S. men’s cross-country skiing results since Bill Koch won the lone U.S. men’s medal in 1976 (silver).
Curling
The men’s curling team of Danny Casper, Aidan Oldenburg, Ben Richardson, Luc Violette and alternate Rich Ruohonen and women’s curling team of Tabitha Peterson, Tara Peterson, Taylor Anderson-Heide and Cory Thiesse won the Olympic Trials in November, then each clinched Olympic spots at the global, last-chance qualification tournament in December.
Thiesse and Korey Dropkin won the U.S. Olympic Trials for mixed doubles curling in February, then clinched their Olympic spots by placing fifth at the world championship last May. Thiesse and Dropkin, who previously combined for four runner-up finishes at Olympic Trials, are each in line to make their Olympic debut.
They will be the first U.S. athletes across all sports to compete at the Milan Cortina Games given the Olympic mixed doubles event starts two days before the Opening Ceremony. Thiesse, competing in both mixed doubles and the women’s team event, will be the busiest U.S. athlete at the Games across all sports.
The entire men’s team makes their Olympic debuts after beating 2018 Olympic gold medalist John Shuster at the trials. Ruohonen. at 54, would be the oldest American to compete in a medal event in Winter Olympic history, according to Olympedia.org. In Olympic curling, alternates can be inserted into lineups before games for strategic reasons.
The Peterson sisters return to the Olympics, while Anderson-Heide makes her Olympic debut. The women’s team added Olympic veteran Aileen Geving as its alternate before the last-chance qualifier.
Figure Skating
The 16-member U.S. figure skating team includes reigning world champions in three events: three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates (ice dance), two-time world champion Ilia Malinin (men’s singles) and Alysa Liu, who last March became the first American women’s singles skater to take a world title in 19 years.
They’re joined by Amber Glenn, who is the first woman to win three consecutive U.S. titles since Michelle Kwan won eight in a row from 1998-2005. Plus Isabeau Levito, the 2024 World silver medalist, making it three skaters with potential to become the first American women’s singles medalist since 2006.
Levito is an Olympic rookie, as are both pairs’ teams (Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea and Emily Chan and Spencer Howe) and the other two ice dance couples (Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko and Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik).
Freestyle Skiing
Alex Hall, Alex Ferreira, Jaelin Kauf and Quinn Dehlinger qualified via world rankings lists on June 10.
Up to one male and one female athlete in specific freestyle skiing disciplines can clinch an Olympic spot via International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) base ranking lists that are largely determined by results from the previous season.
The highest-ranked American man and American woman in aerials, halfpipe, moguls, ski cross and slopestyle clinched an Olympic spot, should they also be ranked in the top three in the world.
Hall (2022 Olympic slopestyle gold medalist), Ferreira (two-time Olympic halfpipe medalist), Kauf (2022 Olympic moguls silver medalist) and Dehlinger (world championships gold (team event) and silver (individual) medalist) met that criteria. More skiers will be named to the Olympic team in all of those events this winter.
Troy Podmilsak qualified for his first Olympics by winning two World Cup big air events early in the 2025-26 season.
Nick Goepper, a three-time Olympic slopestyle medalist, briefly retired after the the 2022 Games, then switched disciplines in his comeback. He clinched a 2026 Olympic spot by winning a World Cup in Calgary on Jan. 3.
Winter Vinecki became the first female aerialist to qualify thanks to earning her first World Cup win in nearly two years on Jan. 6. She’s going to her second Olympics. As is Kaila Kuhn, the 2025 World champion, who won the last World Cup before the Games on Jan. 12.
Chris Lillis is the lone returning member of the 2022 Olympic champion mixed-gender aerials team.
Svea Irving made her first Olympic team as the lone U.S. woman to make a World Cup ski halfpipe podium during the qualifying window. Irving’s older brother, Birk, is going to his second Olympics in halfpipe as well.
Hunter Hess earned the third men’s halfpipe spot with podium finishes in three of the first four World Cups in the 2025-26 season. Hess’ bid to qualify for the 2022 Games was derailed by an MCL tear and appendix removal surgery in 2021.
Tess Johnson, Liz Lemley and Nick Page each made the Olympic moguls team thanks to strong World Cup seasons leading up to the Olympics.
Johnson made three podiums in five starts, including a win, to return to the Games after debuting in 2018 at age 17 and traveling to Beijing in 2022 as an alternate.
Lemley, who turns 20 on Jan. 22, reached her first World Cup podiums in nearly two years — back-to-back runners-up on Jan. 10 and Jan. 16 — to make her first Olympic team.
Page, the top American man in 2022 in fifth place, finished in the top five on four occasions in five starts this World Cup season.
In slopestyle and big air, Mac Forehand made his second Olympic team thanks to earning his first World Cup victory in nearly two years in January. Marin Hamill then locked up the first spot on the women’s team in those two events — her second Olympics — with a second-place finish in the last international qualifier.
Hockey
The full U.S. men’s and women’s teams were announced Jan. 2 after the first six men were named June 16.
The men’s team for the first Olympic with active NHL players since 2014 includes two returnees from 2022 — defensemen Brock Faber and Jake Sanderson.
The other 23 players will make their Olympic debut, including two sets of brothers: Brady and Matthew Tkachuk, whose dad, Keith, played in 1992, 1998, 2002 and 2006, and Jack and Quinn Hughes, whose mom, Ellen, played in the 1992 World Championship.
Forward Brock Nelson, the oldest player on the team at age 34, is the nephew of 1980 Olympic gold medalist Dave Christian and the grandson of Bill Christian, a 1960 Olympic gold medalist. Nelson also had a great uncle on the 1960 Olympic champion team (Roger Christian) and a great uncle on the 1956 Olympic silver medal team in Cortina (Gordon Christian).
The 23-player women’s team features Hilary Knight, who will be the first American to play in five Olympic hockey tournaments. Knight, 36, has said these will be her final Games. She will break her own record as the oldest U.S. Olympic female hockey player.
Laila Edwards, the 2024 World Championship MVP, will be the first Black woman to play on a U.S. Olympic hockey team.
Kendall Coyne Schofield is going to her fourth Olympics and her first since having son Drew in 2023. She will be the second mom to play on a U.S. Olympic hockey team after Jenny Potter in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Luge
The Olympic luge team was determined by international results this season. It is led by three women who made top-level international podiums over the last year, each looking to become the third American to win an Olympic singles medal.
Summer Britcher, going to her fourth Olympics, won two of her first three World Cup starts this season, becoming the first American to win a World Cup luge singles race in nearly eight years.
Emily Fischnaller, the 2025 World Championships bronze medalist, goes to her third Games. Ashley Farquarson, who has finished second and third in World Cups this season, made her second Olympic team.
Jonny Gustafson and Matt Greiner earned the men’s singles spots, beating out three-time Olympian Tucker West.
Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby will compete in the Olympic debut of women’s doubles. They are two-time world championships bronze medalists.
Ansel Haugsjaa and Marcus Mueller and Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander are the two men’s doubles teams. Each won a World Cup race in this Olympic cycle, and Haugsjaa and Mueller were second at the Olympic test event on the Cortina track in November.
Nordic Combined
Returning Olympian Ben Loomis and Olympic rookie Niklas Malacinski make up the team. This year, the Nordic combined team event is just two athletes, down from four at previous Games.
Short Track Speed Skating
Corinne Stoddard, Kristen Santos-Griswold, Julie Letai, Kamryn Lute, Eunice Lee, Andrew Heo, Brandon Kim and Clayton DeClemente were named as the Olympic team on Dec. 13. They met objective criteria for Olympic spots via World Tour results this fall and results at September’s U.S. Championships.
Stoddard and Santos-Griswold, the top U.S. skaters, are expected to compete in all five events in Milan.
Skeleton
Austin Florian earned his first Olympic berth as the highest-ranked American man this season — 13th in world rankings. In the 2024-25 season, Florian teamed with Mystique Ro to win the world title in mixed team skeleton, which makes its Olympic debut in 2026.
Ro, also the individual world silver medalist in 2025, made her first Olympic team. As did Dan Barefoot.
Kelly Curtis, 21st at the 2022 Olympics, came back from 2023 childbirth to qualify again.
Ski Jumping
The six-person team is led by Olympic rookie Jason Colby, whose seventh-place finish in a December World Cup was the best for a U.S. man since before the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
Ski Mountaineering
Anna Gibson and Cam Smith will compete in ski mountaineering’s Olympic debut in 2026. Together, they won a World Cup mixed relay on Dec. 7 in Salt Lake City to earn the U.S. one female and male spot at the Games.
Gibson, who ran the 1500m at the 2024 Olympic Track and Field Trials, picked up ski mountaineering in the last six months. Smith asked her to give it a try after they both competed at the Broken Arrow Skyrace, a mountain-climbing and trail-running event in June. Gibson was a junior national champion in cross-country skiing before focusing on running in college.
Smith has competed internationally in ski mountaineering for nearly a decade. He’s had a “lifelong obsession” with the Olympics since watching the 2002 Salt Lake City Games on TV at age 6. His phone password has been 2626 for the last two years.
Snowboarding
Chloe Kim, a two-time Olympic snowboard halfpipe gold medalist, became the first athlete to mathematically clinch a spot on the team via her No. 1 world ranking on April 1.
Kim won the two biggest competitions this past season: January’s X Games, her seventh title at the annual Aspen, Colorado, event, and the biennial World Championships for a third time.
In February, she will bid to become the first person to win three consecutive Olympic snowboard halfpipe gold medals.
Kim is joined by fellow 2018 and 2022 Olympian Maddie Mastro, plus Olympic rookies Bea Kim (19 years old) and Maddy Schaffrick, who at 31 will be the oldest American halfpipe rider to make an Olympic debut. Schaffrick was retired for nearly a decade before a comeback in 2024.
For the first time since 2002, the men’s halfpipe team does not include Shaun White, who retired after this fifth Olympics in 2022. It does include 17-year-old Alessandro Barbieri, the best hope to challenge the top riders from Australia and Japan.
Red Gerard, the 2018 Olympic snowboard slopestyle gold medalist, clinched a 2026 Olympic spot by meeting criteria in May 1 world rankings: as the highest-ranked American man in slopestyle who is also ranked in the top three in the world.
Gerard, who in 2018 became at age 17 the youngest snowboarder to win Olympic gold, added X Games slopestyle titles the last two years.
Jake Canter made his first Olympic team by earning the first top-level win of his career in the penultimate U.S. Olympic slopestyle selection event on Jan. 10.
The women’s team includes a pair of 16-year-olds: Lily Dhawornvej and Jess Perlmutter, who will be the youngest U.S. Olympic snowboarders in history.
In snowboard cross, Nick Baumgartner, a 2022 Olympic team gold medalist, made his fifth Olympics at age 44. He will break his own record as the oldest U.S. Olympic snowboarder.
Speed Skating
Casey Dawson qualified for his second Olympics as the highest-ranked American men’s distance skater going into the Olympic Trials.
Dawson, ranked fourth in the world combining 5000m and 10,000m races this season, earned the lone U.S. men’s 10,000m spot for the Milan Cortina Games.
Dawson is expected to race the 5000m at trials in a bid to qualify in that event, plus could be part of the U.S. men’s team pursuit. Dawson led the men’s team pursuit to a world record and a world title in early 2025.
At the Olympic Trials, Jordan Stolz (500m, 1000m and 1500m), Erin Jackson (500m) and Mia Manganello (mass start) clinch Olympic spots just by starting their respective races due to strong international results in 2025.
Brittany Bowe made her fourth Olympics by finishing second to Jackson in the 1000m at trials. Bowe then won the 1500m to add a second event.
Conor McDermott-Mostowy, Cooper McLeod and Greta Myers each made their first Olympic team by placing first and second in the men’s 1000m at trials and second in the women’s 1500m at trials, respectively.
Emery Lehman won the men’s 1500m to make his fourth Olympics.
On the last day of trials, the new qualifiers were Mia Manganello (mass start), Sarah Warren (500m), Ethan Cepuran (mass start) and Zach Stoppelmoor (500m).
After trials, Giorgia Birkeland was added as a team pursuit specialist.
