So far, 102 athletes have qualified for the U.S. Olympic team for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games:

Alpine Skiing

• Paula Moltzan
• Mikaela Shiffrin
• Lindsey Vonn

Biathlon

• Margie Freed
• Deedra Irwin
• Maxime Germain
• Campbell Wright

Cross-Country Skiing

• Jessie Diggins

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)

Freestyle Skiing

• Quinn Dehlinger (aerials)
• Alex Ferreira (halfpipe)
• Nick Goepper (halfpipe)
• Jaelin Kauf (moguls)
• Alex Hall (slopestyle/big air)
• Troy Podmilsak (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
• Clayton Keller
• Dylan Larkin
• 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

Short Track Speed Skating

• Eunice Lee
• Julie Letai
• Kamryn Lute
• Kristen Santos-Griswold
• Corinne Stoddard
• Clayton DeClemente
• Andrew Heo
• Brandon Kim

Ski Mountaineering

• Anna Gibson
• Cam Smith

Snowboarding

• Chloe Kim
• Red Gerard

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 and/or are nominated by their national governing bodies must still be 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. There will ultimately be around 200 athletes on the team overall.

Here’s a look at who qualified for the team so far:

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. The full U.S. Olympic Alpine team — based largely on World Cup results — will be announced in January.

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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 is 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.

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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. The full U.S. Olympic cross-country skiing team will be announced in January.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Snowboard Halfpipe

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.

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Snowboard Slopestyle/Big Air

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. No American woman met that May 1 world ranking criteria in slopestyle. Up to four U.S. men and women will ultimately be named to the team for slopestyle and big air by January.

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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.

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