Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Team Sizes Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[Bailer 101]

57 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Any news about Vlhova from Slovak sources? Because for now we only have Italian and Polish sources - unofficial.

We only know that Slovakia has three guaranteed female spots.

[copravolley 563]

1 hour ago, Bailer said:

We only know that Slovakia has three guaranteed female spots.

Unfortunately, she doesn't post much information on Instagram... Brignone posts something practically every day and you can immediately wiev if she's training or not...

[hckošice 15,802]

The most awaited moment in the country came this afternoon, The Team for the M Ice Hockey Tournament has been unveiled.

 

The team will contain:

7 NHLers, 1 AHLer, 1 from the university NCCA competition

9 from Czech Extraliga

3 from Russian KHL

2 from Sweden

and 1 from the Swiss league and the Slovak Extraliga 

 

15 of the 25 players will return to the Olympics,

Marinčin and Čerešňák will play their 3rd WOG

13 guys will play their second Olympic tournament

and 11 of them are already medalled from Beijing 2022 (Bronze) Slafkovsky the tournament´s MVP, Nemec, Kelemen, Cehlárik, Hrivík, Marinčin, Čerešňák, Hudáček, Regenda, Takáč and Gernát.

10 players will experience their Olympic debut

Slovakia announced their men's roster for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games!🇸🇰👀

Athlete participation requires confirmation by their respective NOC.@hockeyslovakia @olympics @nhl @nhlpa#Olympics #NHL #IIHF pic.twitter.com/cfgwgkOKBH

— IIHF (@IIHFHockey) January 8, 2026

 

Team (Updated as of 8th January 2026)

35 Athletes (27 M + 8 W)

 

Edited January 12 by hckošice

[hckošice 15,802]

 will have 5 representatives in Luge at the 2026 Olympics. 

 

 

Jozef Ninis (Top pic) in the M Singles will compete at his 6th consecutive WOG !!!

He debuted in Torino 2006 to close the circle in another Italian resort in 2026, by this he set the new Slovak Winter Olympic record of participation and tie the all time one with Erik Vlček competing at 6 games in Sprint Canoeing as well.

 

The remaining quartet (Pic 2) will debut at the Olympics, all still Juniors

Christián Bosman & Bruno Mick in the M Doubles and still schoolgirls Viktória Praxová & Desana Špitzová in the olympic premiere of the W Doubles

 

 

Must also be said, that we were quite unlucky in this qualifiers periode, Marián Skupek missed the second M Singles quota by 1 point and ended first non-qualified athlete and the experienced doubles Vaverčák/Zmij which was in clear qualifying position ended the season after Vaverčák injured his knee in the training before the Sigulda race 2 weeks ago

 

Also for the first time no W Singles participation for us meaning also obviously no participation in the Mixed Relay competition for the first time as well

 

Team (Updated as of 12th January 2026)

40 Athletes (30 M + 10 W)

 

Edited January 16 by hckošice

[hckošice 15,802]

Our biathlon federation announced Quotas 41 & 42 secured for Slovakia

 

After today´s IBU Cup sprint in Osrblie, it is official.  will have also 2 Male athletes in 2026 WOG Biathlon.

 

Also it is officially announced that Jakub Borguľa will use one of them, the second one will be awarded after tomorrow´s Sprint in Ruhpolding between Šimon Adamov and Martin Maťko (Basically the better ranked tomorrow will grab the ticket)

 

Going to be an Olympic debut for all of them.

 

By this we will be allowed to field also the Mixed Relay, sadly obviously no M Team relay for us this time

 

 

 

Team (Updated as of 16th January 2026)

42 Athletes (32 M + 10 W)

 

Edited January 18 by hckošice

[hckošice 15,802]

Quota #43 added today for team Slovensko

 

Our W 2-Bob succeeded to grab the very last ticket for the competition in the last day of the qualifiers,

 

Viktória Čerňanská who already was qualified in the Monobob will thus compete in Cortina also in the Two-Woman bob alongside of Lucia Mokrášová.

 

Going to be an Olympic debut for Lucia.

 

 

Team (Updated as of 18th January 2026)

43 Athletes (32 M + 11 W)

 

Edited January 18 by hckošice

[Bailer 101]

If the calculations are correct, we will have more athletes than four years ago! What a special moment of not constantly sending smaller delegations each time.

[Micki 8]

Switzerland has around 175 quota places. It’s possible that some will still be declined, for example two in Nordic combined or in biathlon. In addition, the team could end up being slightly larger than in Beijing 2022.

[Federer91 3,080]

We will have a slightly bigger team, than in 2022 at this time. Bar any rejections of course, which could only happen in cross-country.

 

For 2026 it's looking like 19 quotas:  

 

- Alpine Skiing - 2 (1 M + 1 W)

- Biathlon - 8 (4 M + 4 W)

- Cross-country - 3 (2 M + 1 W)

- Figure Skating - 1 (1 W)

- Ski-jumping - 1 (1 M)

- Snowboard - 4 (3 M + 1 W)

 

In 2022 we had 15 people:

 

- Alpine Skiing - 3 (2 M + 1 W)

- Biathlon - 8 (4 M + 4 W)

- Figure Skating - 1 (1 W)

- Luge - 1 (1 M)

- Ski-jumping - 1 (1 M)

- Snowboard - 1 (1 M)

We had one more male quota in cross-country, but our athlete got Covid and didn't compete.

[Micki 8]

 

 

Sport	2022 Beijing	2026 Milano Cortina
Ice Hockey	48	48
Alpine Skiing	22	22
Bob	14	16
Cross Country Skiing	14	11
Snowboard	19	17-19
Freestyle Skiing	20	20-21
Ski Jumping	4	4-5
Biathlon	8	6-10
Nordic Combined	0	0-2
Luge	1	1
Skeleton	1	0-1
Ski Mountaineering	0	4
Speed Skating	2	3
Curling	12	11
Short Track	0	0
Figure Skating	2	2-3
Total	167	165-177

 

The best medal chances are in all men’s alpine skiing events and women’s technical events. There are also strong chances in freestyle ski cross and big air/slopestyle, aerials men, curling, and ski mountaineering. Outside medal chances exist in snowboard parallel and snowboard cross,  bobsleigh, cross-country sprint and team sprint, and hopefully also in men’s ice hockey 🙂