Ten events across two of the sport’s hardest courses produced a comeback eight years in the making, a 24-year-old who won three golds, and a result nobody in South America had ever seen.
Published: Friday, 31 July 2026 | BrandClickX News Desk
Note: The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics finished on 22 February 2026. Alpine skiing concluded on 18 February. This is a results and legacy report, not a preview. The next Winter Olympics are in the French Alps in 2030.
Summary
Alpine skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics ran from 7 to 18 February across two venues the men at Stelvio in Bormio, the women at Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Ten events, 306 athletes. Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen won three golds, Italy’s Federica Brignone won two, Mikaela Shiffrin ended an eight-year Olympic drought, and Brazil won its first Winter Olympic medal.
Key Takeaways
- Alpine skiing ran 7–18 February 2026 across Bormio and Cortina d’Ampezzo
- Franjo von Allmen won three golds, only the fourth Alpine skier to do so
- Federica Brignone won super-G and giant slalom ten months after a career-threatening crash
- Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won Brazil’s first ever Winter Olympic medal
- Breezy Johnson took downhill gold by 0.04 seconds, the first US medal of the Games
- Lindsey Vonn crashed 13 seconds into her run and was airlifted to hospital
- Mikaela Shiffrin won slalom gold, her first Olympic medal in eight years
- Shiffrin now has three Olympic golds, the most by any American Alpine skier
Full Medal Results
Men — Stelvio, Bormio
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Downhill (7 Feb) | Franjo von Allmen (SUI) | — | — |
| Super-G (11 Feb) | Franjo von Allmen (SUI) | Ryan Cochran-Siegle (USA) | Marco Odermatt (SUI) |
| Giant Slalom (14 Feb) | Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (BRA) | — | — |
| Slalom (16 Feb) | Loïc Meillard (SUI) | Fabio Gstrein (AUT) | Henrik Kristoffersen (NOR) |
| Team Combined | von Allmen / Nef (SUI) | — | — |
Women — Olimpia delle Tofane, Cortina
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Downhill (8 Feb) | Breezy Johnson (USA) | Emma Aicher (GER) | Sofia Goggia (ITA) |
| Super-G | Federica Brignone (ITA) | — | — |
| Giant Slalom (15 Feb) | Federica Brignone (ITA) | Hector / Stjernesund (shared) | — |
| Slalom (18 Feb) | Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) | Camille Rast (SUI) | Anna Swenn Larsson (SWE) |
| Team Combined | — | — | Wiles / Moltzan (USA) |
The King of the Games: Franjo von Allmen
The 24-year-old Swiss won the downhill, the team combined and the super-G a golden hat-trick achieved by only four Alpine skiers in Olympic history, and only three men.
His super-G, in 1:25.32, was a flawless run from top to bottom on the Stelvio, ahead of American Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Swiss teammate Marco Odermatt.
He and Brignone were named King and Queen of the Games.
Switzerland’s haul went well beyond him. Loïc Meillard added slalom gold his first Olympic title and Odermatt, the pre-Games favourite in multiple disciplines, finished with bronze in the super-G and no individual gold.
Brazil’s First: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen
Braathen won the men’s giant slalom on 14 February, beating Odermatt and Meillard. It was Brazil’s first Winter Olympic medal of any colour, in any sport.
It was also the first Winter Olympic medal won by any tropical nation, and the first by South America.
The field had 81 competitors from 62 nations. Braathen, who previously competed for Norway before switching to represent Brazil, took the title on the sport’s most technically demanding course.
Federica Brignone’s Two Golds
The home favourite won the super-G, then the giant slalom 72 hours later ten months after fracturing multiple bones and tearing her ACL.
The injury came in a crash at the Italian National Championships in April 2025. Two surgeries and extensive rehabilitation followed.
Days before the super-G, Brignone was unable to ski at all because of the pain in her left leg.
She won both events anyway. Sara Hector and Thea Louise Stjernesund shared silver in the giant slalom, finishing level.
The Race That Defined the Games
Breezy Johnson won the women’s downhill on 8 February in 1:36.10. Minutes later, Lindsey Vonn crashed 13 seconds into her run and was airlifted off the mountain.
Johnson’s margin was 0.04 seconds over Germany’s Emma Aicher, with Italy’s Sofia Goggia taking bronze at +0.59. Sixth down the course, Johnson watched every contender come up short.
It was the first medal of any colour for the United States at these Games, and the first Olympic medal of her career. She became only the second American woman ever to win Olympic downhill gold, after Vonn at Vancouver 2010.
The full-circle detail: Johnson missed Beijing 2022 after crashing in training and injuring her knee on this same Tofane course. She also served a 14-month ban, expired December 2024, for missing three anti-doping tests and whereabouts violations, then returned to win the 2025 world championship.
“Sometimes good things maybe do come to those who wait,” she said afterwards.
Vonn’s Ending
Vonn, 41, had ruptured her ACL at Crans-Montana on 30 January the last downhill before the Games. She chose to race anyway.
She cut the opening traverse too tightly, her pole snagged a gate, and she was spun into the air. She was heard screaming as medical staff reached her, and was strapped to a gurney and flown to hospital. Team USA said she was stable; no immediate diagnosis was given. IOC President Kirsty Coventry issued a message of support.
Johnson had said at the pre-race press conference that she was perhaps the only skier on the hill who had raced with a torn ACL herself, and understood how difficult the jumps would be.
Shiffrin’s Eight-Year Wait
Mikaela Shiffrin won the slalom on 18 February the final Alpine event of the Games in 1:39.10, by 1.50 seconds.
It was her first Olympic medal since 2018.
The build-up had been brutal. She finished fourth in the team combined and 11th in the giant slalom, extending a run of eight consecutive Olympic events without a medal stretching back through six races at Beijing 2022.
She led by 0.82 seconds after a first run of 47.13, then held it. Camille Rast took silver, Anna Swenn Larsson bronze.
“I wanted to be free, I wanted to unleash,” she said at the finish, in tears.
What It Meant
- Third Olympic gold the most by any American Alpine skier, breaking a record she had shared with Ted Ligety and Andrea Mead Lawrence
- Fourth Olympic medal 2014 slalom gold, 2018 giant slalom gold, 2018 combined silver, 2026 slalom gold
- A 12-year gap between slalom golds, which is unprecedented
- She is now both the youngest and the oldest American woman to win Olympic Alpine gold
Shiffrin holds 108 World Cup victories, including 71 in slalom more than any skier has won in any single discipline and is the only skier to have won World Cup races in six disciplines.
Team USA’s Games
The United States matched its combined Alpine medal total from the previous two Olympics.
- Breezy Johnson gold, downhill
- Mikaela Shiffrin gold, slalom
- Ryan Cochran-Siegle silver, super-G, after food poisoning during the Games
- Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan bronze, team combined
Wiles announced that Milano Cortina would be her final Games. She had finished fourth in the downhill days earlier. Moltzan, in the best World Cup season of her career, produced the fastest second run of anyone in the slalom but finished eighth after a first-run mistake.
AJ Hurt placed 19th in the slalom. Nina O’Brien did not finish the first run.
Timeline
| Date | Event |
| 7 Feb | Men’s downhill von Allmen gold |
| 8 Feb | Women’s downhill Johnson gold; Vonn crashes |
| 11 Feb | Men’s super-G von Allmen completes hat-trick |
| 14 Feb | Men’s giant slalom Braathen wins Brazil’s first |
| 15 Feb | Women’s giant slalom Brignone’s second gold |
| 16 Feb | Men’s slalom Meillard gold |
| 18 Feb | Women’s slalom Shiffrin gold; Alpine skiing concludes |
| 22 Feb | Closing ceremony |
The All-Time Picture
Alpine skiing’s Olympic history remains dominated by two nations.
| Nation | Total | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Austria | 129 | 41 | 43 | 45 |
| Switzerland | 75 | 27 | 23 | 25 |
| United States | 48 | 17 | 21 | 10 |
Austria’s return at these Games was notably thin Fabio Gstrein’s slalom silver was the country’s first individual Alpine medal of Milano Cortina.
Expert Analysis
Three things separate these Games from a typical Olympic Alpine programme.
The venues did their job. Both the Stelvio and the Olimpia delle Tofane are World Cup courses with reputations for punishing hesitation. The results reflected that Johnson’s winning margin of 0.04 seconds, Braathen beating the sport’s dominant giant slalom skier, and a first-time Olympic champion in four of the ten events.
Switzerland’s depth is now the story of the sport. Three golds from von Allmen, another from Meillard, plus Odermatt and Rast on podiums. That is not one exceptional athlete carrying a team.
And two of the biggest moments were about durability rather than speed. Brignone won twice on a leg that had been surgically rebuilt twice and could not bear skiing days earlier. Shiffrin won after eight consecutive Olympic events without a medal, in her final race of the Games.
Vonn’s crash sits against both. She raced on a ruptured ACL sustained nine days earlier and lasted 13 seconds. The distance between Brignone’s comeback and Vonn’s is the sport’s whole risk calculus in a single Olympics.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won the most Alpine skiing medals at the 2026 Olympics?
Franjo von Allmen of Switzerland won three golds downhill, team combined and super-G. Federica Brignone of Italy won two golds in the super-G and giant slalom. They were named King and Queen of the Games.
Did Mikaela Shiffrin win a medal in 2026?
Yes. She won gold in the women’s slalom on 18 February in 1:39.10, her first Olympic medal since 2018. She finished fourth in the team combined and 11th in the giant slalom earlier in the Games.
What happened to Lindsey Vonn at the 2026 Olympics?
She crashed 13 seconds into the women’s downhill after her pole snagged a gate, and was airlifted to hospital. She had ruptured her ACL at Crans-Montana on 30 January and chose to compete regardless.
Who won Brazil’s first Winter Olympic medal?
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, in the men’s giant slalom on 14 February. It was Brazil’s first Winter Olympic medal of any colour, and the first won by any tropical nation or by South America.
Where were the Alpine skiing events held?
The men’s events were at the Stelvio course in Bormio, and the women’s at the Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Both are established World Cup venues and are regarded as technically demanding.
How many Alpine skiing events were there?
Ten five men’s and five women’s, comprising downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and team combined for each. A total of 306 quota places were allocated across the discipline.
Who won the women’s downhill?
Breezy Johnson of the United States, in 1:36.10, ahead of Emma Aicher of Germany by 0.04 seconds, with Sofia Goggia of Italy taking bronze. It was the first US medal of the 2026 Games.
How many Olympic golds does Mikaela Shiffrin have?
Three slalom in 2014, giant slalom in 2018, and slalom in 2026. That is the most by any American Alpine skier, breaking a record she previously shared with Ted Ligety and Andrea Mead Lawrence.
Conclusion
Ten races produced four first-time Olympic champions, a nation’s first ever Winter medal, and a hat-trick that has been managed four times in the history of the sport.
But the two images that will last are from opposite ends of the same week. Lindsey Vonn spinning through the air 13 seconds into a run she should probably not have started, and Mikaela Shiffrin on her knees at the bottom of the Tofane, eight years after the last time.
The French Alps host the next Winter Olympics in 2030.
