Record-breaking Winter Games for Team LGBTQ with most medals in history

The athletes of Team LGBTQ ended the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics and the closely watched team Medal Count with a strong result.

Out LGBTQ athletes won a total of 11 medals at these Winter Olympics across multiple sports, the most ever for Team LGBTQ. That put them collectively in 13th place in the medal count, using the traditional Olympic standings ranking teams by number of gold medals, then number of silvers then number of bronzes.

For total medals, Team LGBTQ finished 13th overall.

In the end, 19 of the out athletes won a medal, which is 37% of all the athletes on Team LGBTQ, a strong accomplishment.

Here’s the medal count breakdown:

• Gold: 5
• Silver: 2
• Bronze: 4

Team LGBTQ is a compilation of all of the publicly out LGBTQ athletes competing in the Olympics. Outsports tracks their progress as a team, as though they were a nation competing against other nations under the rainbow Pride flag.

There are 49 athletes on the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics Team LGBTQ, which would be the 19th largest contingent of athletes. Team USA is the largest with 233 athletes, followed by Canada with 210.

Team LGBTQ’s 13th-place finish is pretty good for the 19th largest contingent of athletes. The five gold medals won by out Olympians equals the gold-medal hauls from Austria, Canada, China and Japan.

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The Team LGBTQ athletes hail from 14 different countries, with about half of them competing in women’s ice hockey.

Here is a breakdown of all the out medalists at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.

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Gold Medal

Cayla Barnes, Hilary Knight, Alex Carpenter, ice hockey

It took an improbable goal from Hilary Knight in the final minutes of regulation in the gold medal match against Canada, but Team USA sent to game to overtime, where an American goal won gold.

Guillaume Cizeron, figure skating

France’s Guillaume Cizeron successfully defended his ice dance gold medal from the Winter Olympics four years ago, this time edging out the American duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates and doing so with new partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry.

Breezy Johnson, skiing

Breezy Johnson won the first medal of any out LGBTQ athlete, or any athlete from Team USA, at the Milan Winter Olympics, winning the women’s downhill skiing event. It’s Johnson’s first Olympic medal after recently winning two gold medals at the World Championships.

Amber Glenn, figure skating

Amber Glenn didn’t have the best free skate for Team USA in the figure skating team event, but it was enough to help the United States to a gold medal. It’s Glenn’s first Winter Olympics and first medal at the Olympics.

Mathilde Gremaud, freestyle skiing

One of the hot duels from the first weekend of the Milan Winter Olympics was Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland beating Eileen Gu for gold in the women’s freeski slopestyle event. Gremaud successfully defender her Olympic gold medal from four years ago.

Silver Medal

Bruce Mouat, curling

Bruce Mouat won his second silver medal in curling at the Winter Olympics, skippering Team GB .

Emily Clark, Erin Ambrose, Emerance Maschmeyer, Brianne Jenner, Laura Stacey, Marie-Philip Poulin, ice hockey

Team Canada came oh-so-close to a gold medal in women’s ice hockey. Up 1-0 with under five minutes left, the USA tied the game and won in overtime. Canada won silver.

Bronze Medal

Sandra Naeslund, freestyle skiing

Sandra Naeslund followed up her ski cross gold medal in Beijing four years ago with a bronze medal here in Milan.

Laura Zimmerman, ice hockey

Laura Zimmerman and Switzerland beat Sweden, 2-1, in the bronze medal match of women’s ice hockey at the Milan Winter Olympics.

Tineke den Dulk, speed skating

Tineke den Dulk competes for Belgium in short track speed skating and was part of the mixed 2000-meter relay that won bronze.

Paul Poirier, figure skating

Paul Poirier and ice dance partner Piper Gilles won bronze for Team Canada. It is the third try at the Olympics for Poirier and Gilles after previously finishing eighth and seventh.

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