Canada earns one gold, three silver, five bronze medals in first week of 2026 Olympic Games

Megan Oldham celebrates her bronze medal-winning performance after the women's freeski slopestyle event. (Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Getty Images)

It has been an eventful first week for Canadian athletes at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

So far, Team Canada is ranked 11th overall, with one gold, three silver and five bronze medals in five sports. The majority of placements are in skiing and speed skating, while the rest were won in figure skating and snowboarding.

Skiing

Megan Oldham captured bronze in the women’s freeski slopestyle event on Feb. 9.

After crashing in the final jump of her second run, she was able to keep Great Britain’s Kristy Muir off the podium by less than half a point.

“I’m pretty sore. My quad is pretty tight and my back is hurting,” said Oldham about her crash. “But I just got to the top and was like, ‘I need to collect myself, stay focused. All I have is one more run to do and put everything into that.’”

Mikaël Kinsbury won his fourth career Olympic medal with a gold and silver in the men’s mogul event on Feb. 12. 

In a close race with Australian Cooper Woods, they tied with a score of 83.71. Woods won first place due to his tighter turns down the track, which served as a tiebreaker.

Speed skating

On Feb. 10, the Canadian mixed relay team took home silver in speed skating.

The five-member team, including New Brunswicker Courtney Sarault, was able to fend off the Italians but not the Chinese team, who took gold. This is Canada’s first medal in the 18-lap race since its addition in the last Winter Games.

Sarault also won the bronze in the women’s 500m race on Feb. 12. She was in fourth place to start the final lap, but passed Netherlands’ skater Selma Poutsma and claimed third place. 

“It's not over till it's over," said Sarault to CBC Sports' Devin Heroux about her comeback. "I wasn't able to turn as well as I wanted on the inside [lane]. I'm known to be a fighter and I wasn't going to give up.”

Snowboarding

Canada’s sole medal in snowboarding so far these Olympics is a silver belonging to Éliot Grondin, who came in second during the men’s cross event. For the second consecutive Olympics, he lost to Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle by just three one-hundredths of a second.

“I feel pretty good. Not many people here have two silver medals,” said Grondin.

“Obviously I wanted gold. It was really close— again. But it was a good week. I had fun. I have no regrets. I did my best, at the end, that’s all I could do.”

Figure skating

Piper Gillies and Paul Poirier won Canada’s only medal in figure skating so far with their Van Gogh-inspired routine. The duo, dressed in outfits resembling The Starry Night, danced their way into a bronze with a combined score of 217.74 points. 

They are the first Canadians to make the podium in ice dance since Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took home gold in 2018.

“We’re so proud of ourselves,” said Gilles to CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux. “I think it was just so special that we could have a skate like that on Olympic ice.”