The Centennial State is fueling Team USA’s hopes for Olympic glory.
Colorado has the most representatives on the Team USA roster for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games that begin next week. Of the 232 athletes on Team USA, the largest American Winter Olympics team ever, 32 are from Colorado.
Colorado athletes comprise 13.8% of the total Team USA roster. The other states most heavily represented are Minnesota (26 athletes), California (21), Utah (17), Michigan (15), Massachusetts (15), New York (14) and Wisconsin (11). In total, Team USA draws from 32 states.
Notable local headliners for the Milano Cortina Games include record-setting Alpine skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn, Carolina Hurricanes defenseman and Colorado College alum Jaccob Slavin, snowboarder Red Gerard, the figure skating pair of Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam, and freestyle skiing siblings Birk Irving and Svea Irving.
Colorado is most well represented in skiing, with 18 skiers total: eight freestyle skiers, four Alpine skiers, two ski jumpers, two Nordic skiers, one Nordic combined skier and one ski mountaineer.
In addition to the 32 Coloradans on Team USA, the Avalanche also have eight representatives in the Olympics: Brock Nelson for the U.S., Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Devon Toews for Canada, Artturi Lehkonen and Joel Kiviranta for Finland, Martin Necas for Czechia and Gabriel Landeskog (who has been injured) for Sweden.
Here is the list of the Coloradans headed to the Olympics, according to Team USA’s official roster. This list includes a Paralympian, sled hockey player Malik Jones, though the U.S. Paralympic roster won’t be set until March 2. It also includes some athletes who are not native to Colorado but currently live here, and also does not include some Olympians who reside here but do not identify Colorado as their home state.
Coloradans in the 2026 Winter Olympics
Jaccob Slavin of the United States takes questions during media day ahead of the 2025 NHL 4 Nations Face-Off at the Bell Centre on February 11, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)Annika Belshaw, Steamboat Springs — Ski jumping
Chase Blackwell, Longmont — Snowboarding
Jake Canter, Silverthorne — Snowboarding
Jason Colby, Steamboat Springs — Ski jumping
Lily Dhawornvej, Copper Mountain — Snowboarding
Alex Ferreira, Aspen — Freestyle skiing
Stacy Gaskill, Golden — Snowboarding
Red Gerard, Silverthorne — Snowboarding
Birk Irving, Winter Park — Freestyle skiing
Svea Irving, Winter Park — Freestyle skiing
Riley Jacobs, Oak Creek — Freestyle skiing
Tess Johnson, Vail — Freestyle skiing
Malik Jones, Aurora — Sled hockey
Lauren Jortberg, Boulder — Nordic skiing
Ellie Kam, Colorado Springs — Figure skating
Elizabeth Lemley, Vail — Freestyle skiing
Niklas Malacinski, Steamboat Springs — Nordic combined skiing
Oliver Martin, Vail — Snowboarding
Charlie Mickel, Durango — Freestyle skiing
Kyle Negomir, Littleton — Alpine skiing
Danny O’Shea, Colorado Springs — Figure skating
Jake Pates, Eagle — Snowboarding
Hunter Powell, Fort Collins — Bobsled
River Radamus, Edwards — Alpine skiing
Madeline Schaffrick, Steamboat Springs — Snowboarding
Mikaela Shiffrin, Edwards — Alpine skiing
Jaccob Slavin, Erie — Hockey
Cam Smith, Crested Butte — Ski mountaineering
Hailey Swirbul, El Jebel — Nordic skiing
Lindsey Vonn, Vail — Alpine skiing
Landon Wendler, Steamboat Springs — Freestyle skiing
Cody Winters, Steamboat Springs — Snowboarding
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