Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Team Sizes

[Federer91 3,372]

49 minutes ago, Micki said:

 

 

 

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 🙂

 

 

I personally will be rooting for one Camille Rast!  She has become one of my faves in the past 2 seasons.

[hckošice 16,574]

According to our Ski federation we received a galore of quotas today.

 

9 exactly 

 

4 in Alpine Skiing, 3 in Cross-Country Skiing and believe it or not 2 in Ski Jumping, in which it will be a huge return to the Olympics for Slovak Ski Jumping after Vancouver 2010 and first ever appearance in Women Ski Jumping for the country.

 

The quotas will be used by our Ski Jumping teenage siblings Hektor Kapustík in the Mens Individual events and his younger sister Kira Mária Kapustíková in the Womens competition.

 

For both it will be obviously an Olympic debut, Kira will be I do believe our youngest athlete at the Games.

 

 

In Alpine Skiing, Petra Vlhová is nominated for the Slalom and with possibility to start also in the Team Alpine Combined. The Slalom reigning Olympic champion will start at her 3rd Olympics in a row. Rebeka Jančová in her second games after Beijing and Katarína Šrobová at her very first Olympics.

Our sole male alpine skier in Italy will be Andreas Žampa who will attend his 4th consecutive Olympics.

 

In Cross-Country Skiing all our 3 athletes will debut at the Olympics. The Slovak-American Alaska born Peter Hinds, Tomáš Cenek and sole female in the team Mária Danielová.

Their events are in the spoiler bellow.

 

 

Barring any injury this should be the final Slovakia Team for the Games (Last question is who will take the Short-Track quota - which will be answered by tomorrow).

Obviously there still chance(s) for eventual reallocations, as we are on the waiting positions in W Ski jumping or W Ski Cross for example.

 

 

Team (Updated as of 18th January 2026)

52 Athletes (36 M + 16 W)

 

Edited January 20 by hckošice

[Josh 13,447]

5 hours ago, Micki said:

 

 

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 🙂

 

Cheering for  Regez and Siegenthaler! 

[copravolley 635]

9 hours ago, Micki said:

 

 

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 🙂

 

Switzerland lost their second place in the men's SC to Italy in the last qualifying race, which also means Italy, not Switzerland, will be able to field two teams in the mixed doubles. Italy will have a 3+3 QO in both the men's and women's races, which, however, is also a regression from 2022: back then, it was 4+4. Fortunately, Filippo Ferrari has been in excellent form in last weeks, and thanks to him, we have this third quota in the men's SC. I hope you don't hold that against us

Edited January 19 by copravolley

[Micki 64]

13 hours ago, copravolley said:

Switzerland lost their second place in the men's SC to Italy in the last qualifying race, which also means Italy, not Switzerland, will be able to field two teams in the mixed doubles. Italy will have a 3+3 QO in both the men's and women's races, which, however, is also a regression from 2022: back then, it was 4+4. Fortunately, Filippo Ferrari has been in excellent form in last weeks, and thanks to him, we have this third quota in the men's SC. I hope you don't hold that against us

Yes Valerio Jud lost the quotaspot in the last race but we won one spot in mens SS/BA instead of:-)

[copravolley 635]

8 minutes ago, Micki said:

Yes Valerio Jud lost the quotaspot in the last race but we won one spot in mens SS/BA instead of:-)

He's in first place on the relocation list, so maybe he still has a chance. Overall, Switzerland has list a bit behind in the men's SC right now.

Edited January 19 by copravolley

[Vic Liu 1,701]

 

  

	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	1	1	2
Biathlon	1	2	3
Bobsleigh	8	4	12
Cross-country skiing	2	4	6
Curling	5	5	10
Figure skating	3	3	6
Freestyle skiing	8	14	22
Ice hockey	0	0	0
Luge	3	3	6
Nordic combined	2	0	2
Short-track speed skating	5	5	10
Skeleton	3	2	5
Ski jumping	1	4	5
Ski mountaineering	1	1	2
Snowboarding	7	10	17
Speed skating	7	8	15
	57	66	123

 China team size before FIS quotas reallocation confirmed.  usually tend to accept reallocated quotas, so the final number will be 125-127. 

[hckošice 16,574]

At the end  will still have 52 athletes in Milano-Cortina and 16 among them will be women

 

and despite that we lost the historic premiere in Women Ski Jumping, we will celebrate another debut, in Ski Cross.

 

Nikola Fričová received today one pleasant surprise, one of the few unused reallocated quotas and thus will experience her and nations debut under the five rings in this discipline.

 

 

 

Team (Updated as of 20th January 2026)

52 Athletes (36 M + 16 W)

 

Spoiler

Alpine Skiing: (4 Athletes: 1+3)

Andreas Žampa (M Giant Slalom)

Rebeka Jančová (W Downhill, W Super-G, W Giant Slalom, W Team Alpine Combined ?)

Katarína Šrobová (W Downhill, W Super-G, W Giant Slalom, W Slalom, W Team Alpine Combined ?)

Petra Vlhová (W Slalom, W Team Alpine Combined ?)

 

Biathlon: (6 Athletes: 2+4)

Jakub Borguľa (M Sprint, M Pursuit ?, M Individual, M Mass Start ?, Mixed Relay)

Šimon Adamov (M Sprint, M Pursuit ?, M Individual, M Mass Start ?, Mixed Relay)

Paulína Bátovská-Fialková (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay, Mixed Relay ?)

Ema Kapustová (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay, Mixed Relay ?)

Anastasiya Kuzmina (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay, Mixed Relay ?)

Mária Remeňová (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay, Mixed Relay ?)

 

Bobsleigh: (2 Athletes: 0+2)

Viktória Čerňanská (W Monobob, W Two-Woman Bob alongside with L. Mokrášová)

Lucia Mokrášová (W Two-Woman Bob alongside with V. Čerňanská)

 

Cross-Country Skiing: (3 Athletes: 2+1)

Tomáš Cenek (M Sprint Classical, M 10km Freestyle, M Team Sprint Freestyle alongside with P. Hinds)

Peter Hinds (M Sprint Classical, M 10km Freestyle, M 20km Skiathlon, M 50km Mass Start Classical, M Team Sprint Freestyle alongside with T. Cenek)

Mária Danielová (W Sprint Classical, W 10km Freestyle)

 

Figure Skating: (1 Athlete: 1+0)

Adam Hagara (M Singles)

 

Freestyle Skiing: (1 Athletes: 0+1)

Nikola Fričová (W Ski Cross)

 

Ice Hockey : (25 Athletes: 25+0)

M Tournament

Goaltenders

Adam Gajan, Samuel Hlavaj, Stanislav Škorvánek

Defencemen

Peter Čerešňák, Erik Černák, Martin Fehérváry, Martin Gernát, Michal Ivan, Patrik Koch, Martin Marinčin, Šimon Nemec

Forwards

Peter Cehlárik, Dalibor Dvorský, Marek Hrivík, Libor Hudáček, Miloš Kelemen, Adam Liška, Oliver Okuliar, Martin Pospíšil, Pavol Regenda, Adam Ružička, Juraj Slafkovský, Matúš Sukeľ, Samuel Takáč, Tomáš Tatar

 

Luge: (5 Athletes: 3+2)

Christián Bosman (M Doubles alongside with B. Mick)

Bruno Mick (M Doubles alongside with Ch. Bosman)

Jozef Ninis (M Singles)

Viktória Praxová (W Doubles alongside with D. Špitzová)

Desana Špitzová (W Doubles alongside with V. Praxová)

 

Short Track Speed Skating: (1 Athletes: 0+1)

Lea Popovičová (W 500m)

 

Ski Jumping: (1 Athletes: 1+0)

Hektor Kapustík (M Individual Normal Hill, M Individual Large Hill)

 

Ski Mountaineering: (3 Athletes: 1+2)

Jakub Šiarnik (M Sprint, Mixed Relay)

Rebeka Cully (W Sprint)

Marianna Jagerčíková (W Sprint, Mixed Relay)

 

Edited January 21 by hckošice

[stepansevs 219]

Do you have any information about quota reallocation from other than FIS?

[Jan Linha 632]

I am wondering how could it be with "late reallocation". Sometimes when I check some countries that accepted some quotas, but did not find any eligible athletes. Speaking especially regarding the FIS points, date of last race, etc. 

 

If the country wants to nominate an athlete that does not meet the qualification standarts, for example FIS points minimum, does it mean that they would have additionally return the quota because of not having an eligible athlete and there would be "second wave" of reallocation??