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Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino bronze, Italy flies to 25 medals

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Twenty-fifth medal for Italy at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. It’ came in the men&#8217s team sprint: bronze was won by Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino, who finished 3″3 behind Norway. Silver went to the United States with Gus Schumacher and Ben Ogden. Barp performed fractions of the highest level, while Pellegrino, while paying something in the second stint, managed to change pace in the final after the last change, securing third place in 18’32″2. Another podium that embellishes an already extraordinary edition of the Games for the Italian colors.

Andrea GussoniAll the medals of the Azzurri in Milano Cortina 2026: photos

Francesca Lollobrigida won two golds in speed skating, in the women’s 3,000 and 5,000 meters.
Stunning gold also for the mixed relay of the short track (Confortola, Betti, Fontana, Nadalini, Sighel and Spechenhauser).
Marion Oberhofer and Andrea Vötter won the women’s luge.

Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner won the men’s event instead, again in the luge.
Federica Brignone gave very strong emotions, winning two golds (Super-G and giant) ten months after the serious accident.
With the'gold won on Sunday, February 15, Lisa Vittozzi gave the first Olympic success to the Italian biathlon.
Double podium position for the Azzurri in the men’s downhill: Giovanni Franzoni silver, Dominik Paris bronze.
Dorothea Wierer, Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer and Lisa Vittozzi took silver in the 4×6 km mixed biathlon.
Arianna Fontana also won an individual silver in the short track, in the 500 meters, equaling fencer Mangiarotti’s 13 Olympic medals.
Michela Moioli and Lorenzo Sommariva were awarded the silver medal for second place in the team snowboard cross.
Sofia Goggia won the bronze medal in the women’s downhill, capturing another Five Circles laurel.
Also Lucia Dalmasso celebrated a bronze, in snowboarding, finishing third in the women’s parallel giant slalom.
In a crazy edition for the Italian luge, Dominik Fischnaller’s bronze in the men’s individual race is also recorded.
Bronze also for the Italian figure skating team (Rizzo, Grassl, Gutmann, Conti, Macii, Guignard and Fabbri).
Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner confirmed on the Olympic curling podium, winning bronze in mixed doubles.
The'umpteenth Italian luge medal is the bronze in the mixed relay (Hofer, Vötter, Oberhofer, Fischnaller, Rieder and Kainzwaldner).
Michela Moioli also found a medal in the individual: excellent bronze for her, recovering from a bad fall in training.
Davide Graz, Elia Barp, Martino Carollo and flag bearer Federico Pellegrino cheered for the splendid bronze in the men’s cross-country relay.
Flora Tabanelli captured bronze in the Big Air final with a total score of 178.25.
The twenty-fifth medal for Italy came in the men’s team sprint thanks to Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino.

Discussion aside for Johannes Klaebo, who was simply unstoppable. The Norwegian star, paired with Einar Hedegart, took his fifth gold out of five races held: after the skiathlon (10 km classic + 10 km free), the individual sprint in classic technique, the 10 km interval in free technique, the relay and now the team sprint in free technique. All that is missing is the 50 km, the queen race that will close the program: one last piece to complete a total masterpiece.

Klaebo has thus overtaken by number of Olympic titles authentic legends of world sports: from Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina (9 golds between 1956 and 1964) to swimmer Katie Ledecky (9), from Finland’s Paavo Nurmi (9 in athletics between 1920 and 1928) to swimmer Mark Spitz (9 between 1968 and 1972), to Caeleb Dressel and Carl Lewis. Ahead of him is only Michael Phelps, unreachable, however, at 23. Not even with two more perfect Games would the hook-up come.

In the meantime, the specialized magazine Forbes has revealed that the highest-paid athlete of the Olympics in Milan Cortina is the famous Chinese skier Eileen Gu, who reportedly put $23 million in her pocket in the last 12 months thanks to marketing moves. To this must be added about $100,000 in prize money in skiing.

Although the $55,000 Gu grossed in December for winning a halfpipe event in the newly formed Snow League represents a leap forward from the roughly $20,000 she received for winning the World Cup, the vast majority of her earnings come from sponsorships, including Chinese brands Anta, Bosideng, Mengniu Dairy and Luckin Coffee.

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