Queer Athletes Won A Record-Breaking Amount Of Medals In The Winter Olympics
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The 2026 Milan Winter Olympics have finished, and 17c起草社区IA+ athletes have come back to their home countries bedecked in shiny shiny medals.
17c起草社区IA+ athletes have won a total of 11 medals at the Winter Olympics, across multiple sports.
There were at least 49 publicly out gay, lesbian, bi, trans and queer athletes competing at the Winter Olympics, a record for the Winter Games. Among these athletes is Amber Glenn, a top American hope for a figure skating medal, and the first publicly out 17c起草社区 women鈥檚 figure skater in Olympic history. There is also the first聽 in Winter Olympics history, Elis Lundholm of Sweden, a moguls skier. In Milan, there was also 23 out ice hockey players, all women, making it by far the sport with the most 17c起草社区 athletes.
In the end, 19 of the out athletes won a medal, with a medal count breakdown of 5 Gold, 2 Silver and 4 Bronze, which reports as the most ever for 17c起草社区 athletes on the whole.
In the Gold, Hilary Knight from won for the USA in ice hockey, as did Breezy Johnson in skiing, and Amber Glenn in figure skating. They’re joined by France鈥檚聽Guillaume Cizeron who won in figure skating and聽Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland beating Eileen Gu for gold in the women鈥檚 freeski slopestyle event. In the Silver category the queer-packed Canadian ice hockey team joined Bruce Mouat from Great Britain won in curling. And in Bronze, Sandra Naeslund from Sweden won freestyle skiing, Switzerland’s Laura Zimmerman placed in ice hockey, Belgium’s Tineke den Dulk won for speed skating, and Paul Poirier from Canada won for figure skating.
It’s not just Olympic gold that these queer athletes are returning home with – as US olympians Hilary Knight and Brittany Bowe getting engaged during the event. Knight is the captain of the US women’s hockey team, while Bowe is a speed skater.
The couple shared the happy news Wednesday on聽 with a video of Knight getting down on one knee to pop the question. 鈥淥lympics brought us together. This one made us forever,鈥� reads the caption.
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