Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 Winter Olympics Sports List
Here are the 16 major sport categories for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Italy. Ski Mountaineering is the latest sport to be added to the program. It was the first new sport since the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002 when skeleton was added.
The number of medal events for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics increased from 109 to 116, the most ever. In addition to the ski mountaineering medals, the other events added for 2026 are: men's and women's dual moguls, women's doubles luge, women's large hill ski jump, and mixed team skeleton.
In 2026, for the first time a sport will be conducted outside of the Winter Olympics host country. The sliding sports for Milan Cortina 2026 will be held outside of Italy, at a destination yet to be determined.
List of 2026 Winter Olympics Sports
- Bobsled (Women's monobob, Two-man, Two woman and Four-man)
- Luge (Men's and Women Singles, Men's and Women Doubles and Mixed-Team Relay)
- Skeleton (men's and women's, mixed team)
- Ice Hockey (men's and women's)
- Figure Skating (Men's singles, Ladies' singles, Pairs, Team and Ice Dancing)
- Speed Skating
- Short Track Speed Skating (500m, 1,000m, 1,500 m and Relays)
- Curling (men's, women's, and mixed doubles)
- Alpine Skiing (Downhill, Super G, Giant slalom, Slalom, Super Combined)
- Freestyle Skiing — Aerials, Moguls, Ski Cross, Ski halfpipe and Ski slopestyle
- Snowboarding — Parallel Giant Slalom, Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross, Big Air and Slopestyle
- Biathlon — individual, sprint, pursuit, mass start & relay events
- Cross-Country Skiing — individual and team sprint, freestyle, pursuit, classical and relays
- Ski Jumping
- Nordic Combined — ski jumping and cross-country skiing combined event
- Ski Mountaineering — competitors ski up and down hills and use mountaineering skills to race through snow-covered mountains.
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