Source : ABC NEWS
Australia now features on the medal tally for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Cooper Woods’s gold in the men’s moguls overnight saw Australia move from non-factor to 14th on the official Milano Cortina tally, ahead of snow-covered Canada and powerhouse China.
The Canadians and Chinese have more overall medals, with seven and four respectively, but are both waiting for their first gold of the Games, leaving them behind Australia.
Here is the full tally after six days of competition.
1. Norway — 7 gold, 2 silver, 5 bronze
Norway has won five medals (two gold and three bronze) in cross-country skiing, one of each colour in speed skating, a gold and silver in ski jumping, gold and bronze in biathlon, while Birk Ruud and Jens Luraas Oftebro nabbed golds in slopestyle skiing and nordic combined.
2. Italy — 6 gold, 3 silver, 8 bronze
The host nation has more total medals than any team, split across a slew of events.
The six golds came in women’s super-G alpine skiing, men’s and women’s doubles luge, the short-track speed skating mixed team relay, and the women’s 3,000m and 5,000m speed skating (both to Francesca Lollobrigida).
3. USA — 4 gold, 7 silver, 3 bronze
Breezy Johnson won the women’s downhill. (Getty Images: NurPhoto/Andrzej Iwanczuk)
The Americans picked up gold — which immediately broke — in women’s downhill skiing thanks to Breezy Johnson and Liz Lemley capitalising on Jakara Anthony’s stumble.
The US also showed off their skating brilliance with gold in the team event figure skating and Jordan Stolz won the men’s 1,000m speed skating.
Their 10 minor medals in moguls, slopestyle, super-G, cross-country skiing, curling, ice dance, luge and snowboard halfpipe keep them ahead of their fellow quadruple-gold winners.
4. Germany — 4 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze
The Germans have dominated with five medals in the luge, winning the men’s and women’s singles and the team relay, picking up silver and bronze in the women’s and men’s doubles too.
Philipp Raimund also won gold in the men’s normal hill ski-jumping, while the women’s alpine skiing crew picked up two silvers in individual and team downhill skiing.
They also took bronze in the mixed biathlon relay.
5. Sweden — 4 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze
Seven of Sweden’s eight medals at Milano Cortina have come in the cross-country skiing, with three gold, three silver and one bronze.
The other gold came in the mixed doubles curling.
6. Switzerland — 4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen is an alpine skiing superstar. (AP: Rebecca Blackwell)
Alpine skier Franjo von Allmen has done some heavy lifting for the Swiss in Italy, with three golds in the men’s downhill, men’s super-G and the team event.
In the team event and super-G, von Allmen was joined by compatriots on the podium.
Mathilde Gremaud won the team’s other gold in the women’s free-ski slopestyle, while Gregor Deschwanden took bronze in men’s normal hill ski-jumping.
7. Austria — 3 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze
Parallel giant slalom gold medallist Benjamin Karl is comfortable in the cold. (Getty Images: David Ramos)
Austria has 12 medals — more than Germany, Sweden and Switzerland — but remain behind them on the tally because of fewer gold finishes.
Austria’s three wins have come in women’s team combined alpine skiing, men’s snowboard cross and men’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding.
8. France — 3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze
France won a dramatic gold in the ice-dance figure skating, as well as two biathlon golds.
9. Netherlands — 3 gold, 3 silver
All six of the Dutch team’s medals have come in the speed skating — two golds in short track, and gold in the women’s 1,000m, as well as silvers in men’s and women’s 1,000m, and women’s 5,000m.
10. Japan — 2 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze
Japan’s two gold medals came in the women’s and men’s snowboard big air courtesy of Kokomo Murase and Kira Kimura.
11. South Korea — 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
Seventeen-year-old Gaon Choi won the Koreans’ only gold of the Games thus far with a stunning run to deny Chloe Kim a third straight women’s snowboard halfpipe title.
The minor medals came in men’s parallel giant slalom, women’s snowboard big air and men’s 1,000m short track speed skating.
12. Czechia — 1 gold, 1 silver
Zuzana Maderova won the women’s parallel giant slalom, while Metodej Jilek was second in the men’s 5,000m speed skating.
12. Slovenia — 1 gold, 1 silver
Both Slovenian medals came in the ski jumping — gold in the mixed team event and silver to Nika Prevc in the women’s normal hill.
14. Australia — 1 gold
There are three gold medallists in this picture — Alyssa Camplin, Cooper Woods and Jessica Fox — but only one from 2026. (AAP: Dan Himbrechts)
We thought it might have happened a little earlier, but it was Cooper Woods’s stunning gold in the men’s moguls that ultimately put Australia on the board in the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
Will there be more to come?
