THE AMERICAS PREPARE FOR THEIR ARRIVAL IN MILANO-CORTINA 2026

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A total of 15 countries and more than 480 athletes will represent us at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. The United States and Canada will be the largest delegations, with over 200 athletes each.

Find out here about the athletes from our continent who will be taking part in the Winter Olympics.

There are only 14 days left until the start of the world’s biggest winter sporting event, the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games. Qualifications are now closed, so we already know that more than 2,900 athletes from 90 countries will be competing in the mountains of northern Italy.

As always, the Americas will seek to play a leading role, with the two great bastions of winter sports in our region, the United States and Canada.

Team USA will be the largest delegation from the Americas with 230 athletes, including Olympic stars and medalists Mikael Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn in alpine skiing; Chloe Kim, Red Gerard, Alex Hall, and Alex Ferreira in snowboarding; Jessie Diggins in cross-country skiing; Ilia Malinin and Alysa Liu in figure skating; the ice hockey team; and Kaillie Humphries and Elana Mayers in monobob and bobsled, respectively.

Canada, for its part, will field a team of 206 athletes, 100 men and 106 women. Among its stars are the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams; Félix Roussel in speed skating; Katherine Stewart-Jones in cross-country skiing; and Cynthia Appiah in bobsleigh.

The other countries from our continent participating in Milano Cortina are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Below is the complete list of athletes from these countries who will represent the Americas.

1) ARGENTINA

Francesca Baruzzi (Alpine Skiing—Giant Slalom and Super G)
Nicole Begue (Alpine Skiing)
Tiziano Gravier (Alpine Skiing)
Agustina Groetzner (Cross Country)
Nahiara Díaz González (Cross Country Skiing)
Franco Dal Farra (Cross Country Skiing)
Mateo Sauma (Cross-Country Skiing)
Veronica Ravenna (Luge)

2) BOLIVIA

Timo Juhani Grönlund – Cross-Country Skiing

3) BRAZIL

Nicole Silveira (Skeleton)
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (Alpine Skiing)
Giovanni Ongaro (Alpine Skiing)
Alice Padilha (Alpine Skiing)
Christian Oliveira (Alpine Skiing)
Bobsled Team (Edson Bindilattu, Davidson de Souza, Luis Bacca, Rafael Souza, and Gustavo Ferreira)
Pat Burgener (Snowboard Halfpipe)
Augustinho Texeita (Snowboard Halfpipe)
Eduarda Ribera (Cross-Country Skiing)
Bruna Moura (Cross-Country Skiing)
Manex Silva (Cross-Country Skiing)

4) COLOMBIA

Laura Vargas (Skeleton)

5) CHILE

Hentik Von Appen (Alpine Skiing)
Matilde Schwencke (Alpine Skiing)
Stephanie Joffroy (Ski Cross)
Sebastián Endrestad (Cross Country)

6) ECUADOR

Klaus Jungbluth (Cross Country Skiing)

7) HAITI

Richardson Viano (Alpine Skiing)
Stevenson Savart (Cross Country Skiing)

8) JAMAICA

Henri Rivers IV (Alpine Ski)

Mica Moore (Monobob)

Jamaica bobsleigh Team:

2-Man: Shane Pitter & Crew (Nimroy Turgott, Joel Fearon, Junior Harris)

4-Man: Shane Pitter & Crew (Andrae Dacres, Junior Harris, Tyquendo Tracey, Joel Fearon)

9) MEXICO

Donovan Carrillo (Figure Skating)
Allan Corona (Cross-Country Skiing)
Regina Martínez (Cross-Country Skiing)
Sarah Schleper (Alpine Skiing)

10) PUERTO RICO

Kellie Delka (Skeleton)

11) TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO:

Bobsled Team:
Axel Brown
Pilot Shakeel John
De Aundre John
Xaverri Williams
Micah Moore

Alpine Ski:
Emma Gatcliffe
Nikhil Alleyne

12) URUGUAY:

Nicolas Pirozzi (Giant Slalom)

13) VENEZUELA

Nicolás Claveau-Laviolette – Cross-Country Skiing

14) UNITED STATES: +230 athletes

15) CANADA: 206 athletes. 100 men and 106 women.