Team Canada at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games 2026 News

[Josh 11,670]

 at the 2026 Winter Olympics

 

Competitors

Biathlon - 4 M / 4 W (T= 8)

Cross-Country Skiing - 5 M / 6 W (T= 11)

Curling - 5 M / 6 W (T= 11)*

Figure Skating - 6 M / 6 W (T= 12)

Freestyle Skiing - 12 M / 13 W (T= 25)

Ice Hockey - 25 M / 23 W (T= 48)

Short Track - 5 M / 5 W (T= 10)

Skeleton - 1 M / 2 W (T= 3)

Ski Jumping - 1 M / 3 W (T= 4)

Snowboarding - 9 M / 10 W (T= 19)

Speed Skating - 7 M / 8 W (T= 15)

T= 80 M / 88 W (T= 168)

 

*Brett Gallant will play in both Men's and Mixed doubles tournaments

 

Biathlon

Men (4) - Zachary Connelly, Jasper Fleming, Logan Pletz, Adam Runnalls

Women (4) - Nadia Moser, Pascale Paradis, Benita Peiffer, Shilo Rousseau

 

Cross-Country Skiing

Men (5) - Antoine Cyr, Rémi Drolet, Max Hollmann, Xavier McKeever, Tom Stephen

Women (6) - Jasmine Drolet Liliane Gagnon, Alison Mackie, Sonjaa Schmidt, Katherine Stewart-Jones, Amelia Wells

 

Curling

Men's Team - Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert, Tyler Tardi

Women’s Team - Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachelle Brown

Mixed Doubles - Jocelyn Peterman/Brett Gallant

 

Figure Skating

Men’s (1) - Stephen Gogolev

Women’s (1) - Madeline Schizas

Pairs (2) - Deanna Stellato Dudek/Maxime Deschamps, Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud

Ice Dance (3) - Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha, Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain le Gac

 

Freestyle Skiing

Men’s Moguls/Dual Moguls (3) - Mikael Kingsbury, Elliot Vaillancourt, Julien Viel

Men's Aerials (4) - Alexandre Duchaine, Miha Fontaine, Lewis Irving, Emile Nadeau

Men's Halfpipe (3) - Andrew Longino, Brendan Mackay, Dylan Marineau

Men's Slopestyle/Big Air (2) - Dylan Deschamps, Evan McEachran

Women’s Moguls/Dual Moguls (4) - Laurianne Desmarais Gilbert, Ashley Koehler, Jessica Linton, Maia Schwinghammer

Women's Aerials (1) - Marion Thenault

Women's Halfpipe (4) - Amy Fraser, Dillan Glennie, Rachael Karker, Cassie Sharpe

Women's Slopestyle/Big Air (4) - Olivia Asselin, Elena Gaskell, Megan Oldham, Naomi Urness

 

Ice Hockey

Men’s Tournament (25) - Jordan Binnington, Darcy Kuemper, Logan Thompson, Drew Doughty, Thomas Harley, Cale Makar, Josh Morrissey, Colton Parayko, Travis Sanheim, Shea Theodore, Devon Toews, Macklin Celebrini, Anthony Cirelli, Sidney Crosby, Brandon Hagel, Bo Horvat, Nathan MacKinnon, Brad Marchand, Mitch Marner, Connor McDavid, Brayden Point, Sam Reinhart, Mark Stone, Nick Suzuki, Tom Wilson

 

Women’s Tournament (23) - Ann-Renée Desbiens, Emerance Maschmeyer, Kayle Osborne, Erin Ambrose, Renata Fast, Sophie Jaques, Jocelyn Larocque, Ella Shelton, Kati Tabin, Claire Thompson, Emily Clark, Sarah Fillier, Jenn Gardiner, Julia Gosling, Brianne Jenner, Emma Maltais, Sarah Nurse, Kristin O'Neill, Marie-Philip Poulin, Natalie Spooner, Laura Stacey, Blayre Turnbull, Daryl Watts

 

Short Track

Men (5) - William Dandjinou, Steven Dubois, Maxime Laoun, Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Félix Roussel

Women (5) - Danaé Blais, Kim Boutin, Florence Brunelle, Rikki Doak, Courtney Sarault

 

Skeleton

Men (1) - Josip Brusic

Women (2) - Jane Channell, Hallie Clarke

 

Ski Jumping

Men (1) - Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes

Women (3) - Natalie Eilers, Nicole Maurer, Abigail Strate

 

Snowboarding

Men's Parallel Giant Slalom (2) - Arnaud Gaudet, Ben Heldman

Men's Snowboard Cross (3) - Evan Bichon, Eliot Grondin, Liam Moffatt

Men's Slopestyle/Big Air (4) - Eli Bouchard, Francis Jobin, Mark McMorris, Cameron Spalding

Women's Parallel Giant Slalom (2) - Kaylie Buck, Aurelie Moisan

Women's Snowboard Cross (3) - Tess Critchlow, Audrey McManiman, Meryeta O'Dine

Women's Halfpipe (3) - Brooke D'Hondt, Felicity Geremia, Elizabeth Hosking

Women's Slopestyle/Big Air (2) - Laurie Blouin, Juliette Pelchat

 

Speed Skating

Men (7) - Ted-Jan Bloemen, Cédrick Brunet, Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu, Daniel Hall, Anders Johnson, David la Rue

Women (8) - Ivanie Blondin, Laura Hall, Carolina Hiller-Donnelly, Rose Laliberté-Roy, Béatrice Lamarche, Valérie Maltais, Brooklyn McDougall, Isabelle Weidemann

Edited 8 hours ago by Topicmaster1010

[Josh 11,670]

Men’s and women’s ice hockey teams have qualified for Milano-Cortina 2026 already! 

 

Men’s ice hockey team qualified by virtue of their position in the IIHF World Ranking, following the conclusion of the 2023 Men’s Ice Hockey World Championships. 
 

Women’s ice hockey team qualified by virtue of mathematically being guaranteed a quota through the IIHF World Rankings, following the 2024 Women’s Ice Hockey World Championships, as they can’t fall behind Japan. 
 

Also, if you didn’t see @Topicmaster1010 ’s reply on the Ice Hockey 2023-24 Discussion Thread, NHL players are back

Edited February 5, 2024 by Josh

[JockCartier 269]

Did some early medal projections to see how things look one year out... based on current form I figure we'll win ~22 medals.

That would be noticeably down from 26 in Beijing.

It's kinda scary cause a lot of programs seem to deteriorating. The afterglow from all the 2010 funding has fully worked it way through and now we've left with a lot of empty cupboards.

[Safe Dragonfly 34]

3 hours ago, JockCartier said:

Did some early medal projections to see how things look one year out... based on current form I figure we'll win ~22 medals.

That would be noticeably down from 26 in Beijing.

It's kinda scary cause a lot of programs seem to deteriorating. The afterglow from all the 2010 funding has fully worked it way through and now we've left with a lot of empty cupboards.

How many of them are likely golds though?

[JockCartier 269]

1 hour ago, Safe Dragonfly said:

How many of them are likely golds though?

I'd say 8 are favourites.

Could make a case for more. Could make a case for less. We're very strong in short track, especially the men, but that sport is a crap shoot at the best of times. Hockey and Curling could produce a bunch, but we haven't exactly been covering ourselves in glory there the last couple Olympics

Edited February 7, 2025 by JockCartier

[intoronto 6,584]

Jen Heil is the Chef de mission!

 

https://sirc.ca/news/jennifer-heil-named-team-canadas-chef-de-mission-for-the-milano-cortina-2026-olympic-winter-games/

[Josh 11,670]

According to the Freestyle Ski Canada Olympic selection procedures document, both Maia Schwinghammer and Mikael Kingsbury have secured their spots on the team in moguls/dual moguls!

Edited March 19, 2025 by Josh

[Josh 11,670]

Taking a look at the document again, here’s who can secure/is eligible for team nomination this week at the Freestyle Ski/Snowboard World Championships;

 

Up first;

 

Freestyle Skiing

Aerials - Emilie Nadeau, Lewis Irving, Marion Thenault

Big Air/Slopestyle - Dylan Deschamps, Olivia Asselin

Halfpipe - Brendan MacKay, Rachael Karker, Amy Fraser, Cassie Sharpe (already got the two podiums)

Ski Cross - Kevin Drury (already got the two podiums), India Sherret, Marielle Thompson (injured, already got the two podiums), Courtney Hoffos and Reece Howden (already got the two podiums)
 

Meghan Oldham, despite podiuming in most of the WC’s she’s competed in, will have to podium twice because it prioritizes X Games/the Stoneham WC where she couldn’t land a clean run. 
 

Think it’ll be between Hoffos, McEwen, and Phelan for those last two Olympic spots in women’s ski cross.  

Edit: Forgot about Schmidt.

Edited March 21, 2025 by Josh

[Surlympics 1,254]

Emile Nadeau and Dylan Deschamps aren't competing at worlds unfortunately.

[Josh 11,670]

Women's curling team has officially qualified