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Team Canada by the numbers at Milano Cortina 2026

Canadian men’s hockey team claim Olympic silver

MILAN (February 22, 2026) – Here is what you need to know about Team Canada at the end of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

HOCKEY

  • The Canadian men’s hockey team won silver, Canada’s 17th medal in Olympic men’s hockey and the most of any nation. 
  • This was the country’s best result since winning gold at Sochi 2014, which was the last tournament to include NHL players.
  • Connor McDavid (Newmarket, Ont.) expanded his record for most points in a single Olympic Games by an NHL player to 13. He set the record previously on Day 14.
  • McDavid was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament and Best Forward.  

CLOSING CEREMONY

  • Long track speed skater Valérie Maltais (La Baie, Que.), who won a gold and two bronze medals, and short track speed skater Steven Dubois (Terrebonne, Que.), who won a gold and a silver, carried the Canadian flag into the Milano Cortina 2026 Closing Ceremony. 


FINAL MEDAL COUNT
GOLD: 5
SILVER: 7
BRONZE: 9
TOTAL: 21

Rank at Games by total medal count: 8th

TEAM CANADA MILESTONES

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ALPINE SKIING

  • Valérie Grenier (St-Isidore, Ont.) and Laurence St-Germain (Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que.) competed in the Olympic debut of the women’s team combined event, finishing 13th.

BIATHLON

  • Zachary Connelly (Ottawa, Ont.) had Canada’s best finish in the men’s 12.5km pursuit, finishing in 35:51.3, good for a 41st place finish.

BOBSLEIGH

  • Kelsey Mitchell is the 14th Canadian Olympian to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

  • Alison Mackie (Edmonton, Alta.) and Liliane Gagnon’s (Shawinigan-Sud, Que.) sixth place performance is a Canadian best ever Olympic result in the women’s team sprint in free technique. 
  • Xavier McKeever (Canmore, Alta.), Antoine Cyr (Gatineau, Que.), Rémi Drolet (Rossland, B.C.) and Tom Stephen (Calgary, Alta.) finished fifth in the men’s 4×7.5km relay, which is Canada’s best-ever result in an Olympic cross-country relay.
  • Canada finished eighth in the women’s 4×7.5km relay. The eighth-place finish is just one spot back of Canada’s all-time best Olympic result in a women’s cross-country skiing relay, achieved in a 4x5km race 50 years ago at Innsbruck 1976. 
  • Alison Mackie (Edmonton, Alta.) achieved Canada’s best ever Olympic result in a women’s 10km freestyle event (8th).
  • Jasmine Drolet (Rossland, B.C.) , Sonjaa Schmidt (Whitehorse, Yuk.), Katherine Stewart-Jones (Ottawa, Ont.) and Amelia Wells (Victoria, B.C.) competed in the Olympic debut of the women’s 50km mass start. Drolet was the top Canadian in the event, finishing in 17th.

CURLING

  • Canada continues its streak of winning at least one curling medal at each Olympic Winter Games since Nagano 1998.
  • The men’s team – skip Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.), third Marc Kennedy (St. Albert, Alta.), second Brett Gallant (Chesterfield, Alta./Charlottetown, P.E.I), lead Ben Hebert (Chestermere, Alta.) and alternate Tyler Tardi (Calgary, Alta.)– captured gold after a 9-6 victory over Team Great Britain.
  • Team Canada’s women’s curling team—skip Rachel Homan (Ottawa, Ont.), third Tracy Fleury (Sudbury, Ont.), second Emma Miskew (Ottawa, Ont.), lead Sarah Wilkes (Toronto, Ont.) and alternate Rachelle Brown (Edmonton, Alta.) won bronze.

FIGURE SKATING

  • Stephen Gogolev (Toronto, Ont.) finished in fifth place overall in men’s singles. That is Canada’s best Olympic result in the event since Patrick Chan’s silver medal at Sochi 2014. 
  • Piper Gilles (Toronto, Ont.) and Paul Poirier (Unionville, Ont.) won the bronze medal in ice dance. It is Canada’s fifth Olympic medal all-time in ice dance and fourth in the last five Games (Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall – bronze at Calgary 1988; Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir – gold at Vancouver 2010 and PyeongChang 2018, and silver at Sochi 2014).

FREESTYLE SKIING

  • Megan Oldham (Parry Sound, Ont.) is the first Canadian woman to win two freestyle skiing medals in one Olympic Games (gold – women’s ski big air;  bronze – women’s ski slopestyle). She is the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in ski big air. Her bronze is Canada’s first Olympic medal in the women’s ski slopestyle event since its debut at Sochi 2014, where Dara Howell captured gold, and Kim Lamarre took bronze.
  • Dylan Deschamps (Quebec City, Que.) finished seventh in the men’s freeski big air, Canada’s best ever Olympic result in the event. 
  • Mikaël Kingsbury (Deux-Montagnes, Que.) is the first freestyle skier to win five Olympic medals. His silver medal in men’s moguls saw him become the first freestyle skier to win a medal in the same event at four straight Games. Kingsbury is the inaugural Olympic champion in men’s dual moguls as the event made its Olympic debut here at Milano Cortina 2026.
  • Maïa Schwinghammer (Saskatoon, Sask.) was the top Canadian in the Olympic debut of women’s dual moguls, finishing 11th in the event.
  • Brendan Mackay (Calgary, Alta.) won bronze in men’s ski halfpipe. Canada’s only other Olympic medal in men’s ski halfpipe was the silver won by Mike Riddle in the event’s debut at Sochi 2014.

HOCKEY

  • Canada has medalled in every Olympic women’s hockey tournament, winning five gold and three silver.
  • Team captain Marie-Philip Poulin (Beauceville, Que.) scored her 19th and 20th career goals at an Olympic Games, surpassing Hayley Wickenheiser’s women’s Olympic record for all-time goals. 

LUGE

  • The first ever Olympic women’s doubles event included Kailey Allan (Calgary, Alta.) and Beattie Podulsky (Calgary, Alta.) who finished 10th with a two-run time of 1:49.482. 

SKELETON

  • Jane Channell (North Vancouver, B.C.) and Josip Brusic (Okotoks, Alta.) finished 15th in the first-ever Olympic mixed team skeleton event, posting a time of 2:02.64. 

SKI JUMPING

  • In the first-ever Olympic women’s large hill ski jumping event, Abigail Strate (Calgary, Alta.) finished with a score of 243.6, good for 11th place. That matched her result in the normal hill event earlier in the Games, a Canadian Olympic best ever in a women’s individual ski jumping event.

SNOWBOARD

  • Eliot Grondin (Sainte-Marie, Que.) won his third career Olympic medal, a silver in men’s snowboard cross. He joins Max Parrot and Mark McMorris as Canada’s most decorated Olympic snowboarders.

SPEED SKATING – SHORT TRACK

  • Steven Dubois (Terrebonne, Que.) won gold in the men’s 500m, Team Canada’s lone medal in a men’s individual short track event at these Games.
  • Team Canada won the bronze medal in the women’s 3000m relay in short track speed skating at Milano Cortina 2026. It’s Canada’s first Olympic medal in this event since Sochi 2014. 
  • Kim Boutin (Sherbrooke, Que.) now has six career Olympic medals, tying her as Canada’s most decorated Winter Olympian with Cindy Klassen and fellow short track speed skater Charles Hamelin.
  • Courtney Sarault (Moncton, N.B) won four Olympic medals at these Games. Only one other Canadian has won that many at a single Olympic Winter Games (Klassen won five medals in long track speed skating at Turin 2006).
    • She is the first Canadian athlete from outside of Quebec to win an individual Olympic medal in short track speed skating. 
    • Her silver medal in the women’s 1000m is just Canada’s third ever Olympic medal in the women’s 1000m. Nathalie Lambert and Kim Boutin (Sherbrooke, Que.) won silver at Lillehammer 1994 and PyeongChang 2018, respectively.
  • Team Canada’s silver in the mixed relay at Milano Cortina 2026 is Canada’s first Olympic medal in the event, which was added to the program four years ago at Beijing 2022.

SPEED SKATING – LONG TRACK

  • Valérie Maltais (Saguenay, Que.) won Canada’s first medal of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games after capturing bronze in the women’s 3000m on Saturday,.
  • Maltais, along with Ivanie Blondin (Ottawa, Ont.) and Isabelle Weidemann (Ottawa, Ont.) successfully defended their Olympic title in the women’s team pursuit, taking gold at Milano Cortina 2026. No country has won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the women’s team pursuit since Germany did it in 2006 and 2010.
  • Maltais would go on to capture a third medal of the Games, a bronze in the women’s 1500m. The first time Canada reached the Olympic podium in the event was the last time the Games were in Italy. Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves shared the podium at Turin 2006, winning gold and silver, respectively. Groves added another silver medal at Vancouver 2010.
  • Béatrice Lamarche (Quebec City, Que.) placed fifth in the women’s 1000m long track speed skating event during her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026. It’s Canada’s best result in the event at an Olympic Winter Games since Christine Nesbitt won gold at Vancouver 2010.
  • Laurent Dubreuil (Lévis, Que.) won a bronze medal in the men’s 500m. It’s Canada’s sixth Olympic medal all time in the men’s 500m, but the first since Nagano 1998 (Jeremy Wotherspoon – silver; Kevin Crockett – bronze).


RESOURCES
TEAM CANADA FLASH QUOTES – For print use only
TEAM CANADA’S MILANO CORTINA 2026 DELEGATION LIST
TEAM CANADA ATHLETE BIOS
MILANO CORTINA 2026 TEAM CANADA MEDIA CONTACTS
TEAM CANADA OLYMPIC STATS & HISTORICAL FACTS
TEAM CANADA OLYMPIC APP (Apple | Google Play)

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