Blue luge again on Olympic podium! Mixed relay team wins bronze

Italy adds another splendid medal to its haul at Milano Cortina 2026: the mixed luge relay team in fact won bronze on the “Eugenio Monti” track in Cortina d’Ampezzo, thanks to the efforts of Verena Hofer, Dominik Fischnaller, Emanuel Rieder, Simon Kainzwaldner, Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer. The Azzurri finished with a time of 3:42.521, climbing on the third step of the podium and signing yet another prestigious result for a discipline that is seeing the Azzurri athletes living an extraordinary moment.

The race saw Germany dominate with a record time of 3:41.672, while Austria took silver in 3:42.’214, after leading for a long time before the Germans’ final assault. Italy, on the strength of two golds won in the doubles (men and women) and Fischnaller’s bronze in the men’s singles, confirmed its solidity in the team format as well, keeping its concentration high and defending a well-deserved podium with determination.

Francesco Lucivero

This makes sixteen blue medals at Milan Cortina 2026, six of them gold: two for Francesca Lollobrigida in speed skating (in the 3,000 meters and the 5.000), one in short track with the mixed relay team composed of Elisa Confortola, Chiara Betti, Arianna Fontana, Thomas Nadalini, Pietro Sighel and Luca Spechenhauser, two in luge, with Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer winning the women’s race and Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner champions in the men’s race, and one in alpine skiing, with Federica Brignone champion in the Super-G.

The gold medal was won by the Italian team in the Super-G.

Two, on the other hand, are the silver medals, won by Giovanni Franzoni in alpine skiing, in the downhill, and by the quartet composed of Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer, Dorothea Wierer and Lisa Vittozzi in the biathlon, in the 4×6 km. Eight, finally, were the bronze medals, one of which was the one won by the Italian sledders in Thursday’s race and another, individual, taken by Fischnaller.

The other third places are those of Dominik Paris and Sofia Goggia in alpine skiing (both in downhill), Lucia Dalmasso in snowboarding (parallel giant), Riccardo Lorello in speed skating (5,000 meters), Matteo Rizzo, Daniel Grassl, Lara Naki Gutmann, Sara Conti, Niccolò Macii, Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri in figure skating (team race), and Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner in curling (mixed doubles).