Celebrating the U.S. Female Winter Olympics Champions
Now that the 2026 Winter Olympics have finally come to a close, it’s time to highlight all of the incredible U.S. female athletes who made it onto the podium. This year marks a record breaking number of medals won for the U.S. in women’s events. Six out of the 12 gold medals won for the U.S. were won by women, eight if you count mixed team events, and 17 of the 33 total medals won by the U.S. were won by women, increasing to 21 if you count mixed team events. Breaking yet another record, more than 40 American women have left the Games with at least one medal.
Among the American women who won gold is Alysa Liu. Liu retired from figure skating in 2022 at 16 years old, but returned on her own terms two years later and became the first American woman to take the Olympic title in her sport in 24 years with a total score of 226.79. Team USA’s Olympic figure skating team also became the first country to win the event in back-to-back Winter Olympic Games.
Even more records were broken when the U.S. women’s hockey game against Canada became the most watched women’s hockey game on record. One woman on the hockey team in particular, Laila Edwards, made history as the first Black woman to play for Team USA’s Olympic hockey team, the first Black woman to ever score a goal for the USA in the Olympics, and is now also the first Black woman to win Olympic gold with Team USA’s women’s hockey.
Scoring gold and silver in the Women’s Individual Moguls (Freestyle Skiing) , Elizabeth Lemley (gold) and Jaelin Kauf (silver) marked the first time the U.S. has placed first and second in men’s or women’s moguls at a single Olympics.
Winning her third Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Slalom (Alpine Skiing), Mikaela Shiffrin now has the most Olympic alpine gold medals won by any American skier.
From the bobsleigh category, Elana Meyers Taylor is not only the most decorated Black athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics, after the 2026 Games, she is now both the most decorated women’s bobsleigh pilot of all time and the oldest American to win an individual gold medal.
Women Who Won Gold:
Alysa Liu: Gold, Women’s Single Skating, Figure Skating
Amber Glen, Alysia Liu, Ellie Kam, & Madison Chock (With Ilia Malinin, Evan Bates, & Danny O’Shea): Gold, Team Event, Figure Skating
Women’s Ice Hockey Team USA: Gold, Ice Hockey
Breezy Johnson: Gold, Women’s downhill, Alpine Skiing
Mikaela Shiffrin: Gold, Women’s Slalom, Alpine Skiing
Elizabeth Lemley: Gold, Women’s Moguls, Freestyle Skiing
Kaila Kuhn - Mixed Aerials Team: Gold, Freestyle Skiing
Elana Meyers Taylor: Gold, Women’s Monobob, Bobsleigh
Even women who didn’t win gold have made history at the 2026 Winter Olympics; Jessie Diggins took home the first ever medal for Team USA in cross-country skiing, Chloe Kim became the first snowboarder to medal in the three-peat attempt (out of the 5 snowboarders who have attempted a three-peat in a single event in Olympic history), and Cory Theiesse became the first American woman to medal in Olympic curling.
All Women on the 2026 Winter Olympics Podium:
Figure Skating
Alysa Liu: Gold, Women’s Single Skating
Amber Glen, Alysia Liu, Ellie Kam, & Madison Chock (With Ilia Malinin, Evan Bates, & Danny O’Shea): Gold, Team Event
Madison Chock (with Evan Bates): Silver, Ice Dance
Ice Hockey
Women’s Team USA (Hilary Knight, Lee Stecklein, Cayla Barnes, Caroline Harvey, Megan Keller, Rory Guilday, Haley Winn, Kirsten Simms, Laila Edwards, Kelly Pannek, Grace Zumwinkle, Haley Scamurra, Britta Curl, Tessa Janecke, Hannah Bilka, Joy Dunne, Alex Carpenter, Kendall Coyne, Taylor Heise, Ava McNaughton, Aerin Frankel, Gwyneth Philips, Abbey Murphy): Gold
Speed Skating
Mia Manganello: Bronze, Women’s Mass Start
Alpine Skiing
Breezy Johnson: Gold, Women’s Downhill
Mikaela Shiffrin: Gold, Women’s Slalom
Paula Moltzan & Jacqueline Wiles: Bronze, Women’s Team Combined
Freestyle Skiing
Elizabeth Lemley: Gold, Women’s Moguls
Jaelin Kauf: Silver, Women’s Moguls
Jaelin Kauf: Silver, Women’s Dual Moguls
Elizabeth Lemley: Bronze, Women’s Dual Moguls
Kaila Kuhn - Mixed Aerials Team: Gold
Cross-Country Skiing
Jessie Diggins: Bronze, Women’s 10km Interal Start Free
Snowboard
Chloe Kim: Silver, Women’s Halfpipe
Bobsleigh
Elana Meyers Taylor: Gold, Women’s Monobob
Kaillie Humphries-Armbruster: Bronze, Women’s Monobob
Kaillie Humphries-Armbruster & Jasmine Jones: Bronze, 2-Woman
Curling
Cory Thiesse (with Korey Dropkin): Silver, Mixed Doubles
Short track
Corinne Stoddard: Bronze, Women’s 1500m
Luge
Ashley Farquharson: Bronze, Women’s Single
The female athletes of the 2026 Winter Olympics have broken barriers and highlighted the importance of supporting women’s sports. They have become role models by redefining sports, fueling women empowerment, and playing a role in women’s visibility within sports.
