The largest delegation participating in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy will be Team USA with 232 athletes competing in 16 disciplines, the largest the nation has ever sent to compete in a Winter Games.
Team USA’s 232 Olympians are among some 2,900 athletes competing at the Milano Cortina Games during the next two weeks. A total of 92 national Olympic committees sent athletes to the games, spanning the globe from Madagascar to Iceland. Committees don’t necessarily represent countries; for example, the committee for the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is sending one athlete.
The largest delegations after the U.S. are Canada with 211 athletes, host country Italy with 195 and Germany with 189. Among the smallest: Venezuela sent a cross-country skier; Saudi Arabia sent an alpine skier and a cross-country skier; and San Marino, the microstate located over 200 miles to the south of Milan, sent an alpine skier. Around 20 athletes with Russian and Belarussian passports will compete as ‘Individual Neutral Athletes,’ or AINs for short.
Milano Cortina will feature eight disciplines or sports, one more than any other Winter Games as ski mountaineering makes its debut. But the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics featured the greatest number of Olympians for a Winter Games with over 2,900 athletes.
When will the U.S. walk in the opening ceremony?
At the opening ceremony on Feb. 6 Team USA will walk third to last.
Organizers of the Games have a unique formula for deciding the order athletes from the 92 committees will walk in the opening ceremony parades taking place at San Siro Stadium in Milan, Livigno and Predazzo.
First up in the parade of nations is always Greece in reference to the games’ legendary origins in competitions between city-states nearly 3,000 years ago.
The host country always walks last; the country hosting the next Winter Games – France in 2030, in this case – walks second to last; and the United States, which hosts the 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, goes third to last.
Other committees typically proceed in the ceremony according to alphabetical order.
Countries at 2026 Winter Olympics
Here’s the full list of every country participating in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, including the number of participating athletes for each country:
- Albania (4)
- Andorra (7)
- Argentina (8)
- Armenia (5)
- Australia (53)
- Austria (116)
- Azerbaijan (2)
- Belgium (30)
- Benin (1)
- Bolivia (1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
- Brazil (14)
- Bulgaria (20)
- Canada (211)
- Chile (4)
- China (125)
- Chinese Taipei (8)
- Colombia (1)
- Croatia (14)
- Cyprus (2)
- Czech Republic (115)
- Denmark (39)
- Ecuador (1)
- Eritrea (1)
- Estonia (31)
- Finland (101)
- France (157)
- Georgia (8)
- Germany (189)
- Great Britain (53)
- Greece (5)
- Guinea-Bissau (1)
- Haiti (2)
- Hong Kong (4)
- Hungary (15)
- Iceland (4)
- Indiana (2)
- Individual Neutral Athletes (20)
- Iran (4)
- Ireland (4)
- Israel (9)
- Italy (195)
- Jamaica (6)
- Japan (196)
- Kazakhstan (36)
- Kenya (1)
- Kosovo (2)
- Kyrgyzstan (2)
- Latvia (67)
- Lebanon (2)
- Liechtenstein (7)
- Lithuania (17)
- Luxembourg (2)
- Madagascar (2)
- Malaysia (1)
- Malta (1)
- Mexico (5)
- Moldova (5)
- Monaco (1)
- Mongolia (3)
- Montenegro (2)
- Morocco (2)
- Netherlands (39)
- New Zealand (17)
- Nigeria (1)
- North Macedonia (4)
- Norway (80)
- Pakistan (1)
- Philippines (2)
- Poland (59)
- Portugal (3)
- Puerto Rico (1)
- Romania (29)
- San Marino (1)
- Saudi Arabia (2)
- Serbia (3)
- Singapore (1)
- Slovakia (53)
- Slovenia (37)
- South Africa (5)
- South Korea (71)
- Spain (20)
- Sweden (110)
- Switzerland (175)
- Thailand (3)
- Trinidad and Tobago (6)
- Turkey (8)
- Ukraine (45)
- United Arab Emirates (2)
- United States (232)
- Uruguay (1)
- Uzbekistan (2)
- Venezuela (1)
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