Great Britain competed at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 6 to 22 February 2026. A total of 53 athletes (30 men and 23 women) were selected to compete at the Games.[1] Great Britain finished 15th in the final medal table winning five medals in total: three gold, one silver and one bronze. Team GB's medal table finishing position was an improvement of four places over their medal table position in the previous four Winter Olympic Games where they had come 19th each time. The total of five medals won was the joint best haul for a British team at Winter Olympics, matching the medal haul feat achieved in 2014 in Sochi and in 2018 in PyeongChang. This was the first Winter Olympics where Great Britain won multiple gold medals making it Great Britains' most successful Winter Olympics by that specific metric.
For the first time, Great Britain won more than one gold medal at a single Winter Olympic Games,[2] when Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale bounced back from disappointing showings in their respective individual snowboard cross events to take gold in the mixed relay snowboard cross event, to add to the gold won by Matt Weston in the men's individual skeleton. It was Britain's first ever Olympic gold medal on snow,[3] as all previous gold medals had been won on ice.
That skeleton gold had made Weston the first British male to win Winter Olympic gold since Christopher Dean in 1984, and the first individual male to win gold for Great Britain since Robin Cousins in 1980, both in figure skating.[4]
Hours after Bankes and Nightingale's victory, Weston, with Tabitha Stoecker, won the skeleton mixed team event for an unprecedented third gold at a single Games for Great Britain. Stoecker, who was competing at her first Winter Olympics, became the third British female skeleton racer in history to win a gold medal, after Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold.[5]
Simultaneously, Weston became the first Winter Olympic athlete to win multiple golds at a single Games for Great Britain,[6][7] the most successful male skeleton rider in Olympic history, and the joint most successful British Winter Olympic athlete, alongside fellow skeleton champion Yarnold. Weston subsequently revealed he had been competing with and managing a shoulder injury during the games for which he would require surgery following the games.[8]
On 19 February, the men's curling team led by Bruce Mouat won their semi-final match against Switzerland to reach the final, guaranteeing a fourth medal for Great Britain at these games, thereby meeting the UK Sport medal target of between 4 and 8 medals for the Games.[9] However, Mouat and his team would lose the gold medal match to Canada 9–6 meaning the male British curlers would have to settle for silver for the second Olympics in succession.[10] Mouat also suffered disappointment in the mixed doubles event with Jennifer Dodds after finishing fourth after losing the Bronze medal match for the second Olympics in a row.[11] There was also further disappointment for Dodds as the women's curling team were eliminated in the round robin stage failing to make the semi-finals.[12]
On 22 February, Zoe Atkin won bronze in the women's halfpipe, the first ever medal for Britain in this event. This brought GB's total medals to 5, equaling their best ever total medal haul. Aktin's sister Izzy Atkin had previously won a Olympic bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2018 games in ski slopestyle[13]
The total of 5 medals equalled Great Britain's best ever medal haul and having gained 3 golds, more than any previous Winter Olympics made this Great Britain's best ever performance at a Winter Olympics.[14] The Great Britain team would finish a creditable 15th in the Winter Olympic medal table thanks in large part to the three gold medals won.This was improvement of four places in the nation rankings compared to the 2022 games.This was Great Britain's best finish on the medal table since the 1984 games in Sarajevo. [15]
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
The following British competitors won multiple medals at the Games. This was the first time any athlete had won multiple medals for Team GB at a single Winter Olympic Games.
On 13 January 2026, UK Sport set a target of 4–8 medals for the Games, reflecting the fact that Team GB is "more competitive in more sports at a winter games than ever before".[16] Great Britain's victory in the semi-final of the men's curling on 19 February guaranteed they would win at least four medals, meeting the target set before the games.[9]
On 17 May 2024, Team GB announced that former curler Eve Muirhead would act as Great Britain's Chef de Mission for the 2026 Olympics.[17] Muirhead had skipped the British women's curling team to gold at the previous Olympics in 2022.
Great Britain qualified one female and one male alpine skier through the basic quota.[18] Two further male alpine skiers qualified from being in the Top 30 rankings for men. Following the end of qualification, Great Britain rejected its sole female quota, but accepted the three male quotas.[19]
Following the conclusion of the qualification period in Bobsleigh, Great Britain had qualified two sleds in the two-man and four-man disciplines and one sled each in the two-woman and women's monobob disciplines.[21] Team GB chose not to take one of their two four-man sleds.[22]
Great Britain qualified one female and one male cross-country skier through the basic quota.[23] Following the completion of the 2024–25 FIS Cross-Country World Cup, Great Britain qualified a further two male athletes.[23]Andrew Musgrave and Dave Ryder will return for their fifth Winter Olympics, a British record.[24]
Musgrave's sixth-place finish in the 10km freestyle beat his previous best of seventh in the 30 km skiathlon in 2018, becoming Great Britain's best result ever in cross-country skiing at the Olympics.[25] Musgrave then beat his own record again by finishing fifth alongside James Clugnet in the team sprint, where they finished just 4.3 seconds away from a medal.[26]
Meanwhile, Anna Pryce's 24th-place finish in the women's 10km freestyle marked the best ever result for a British woman at the Olympics in cross-country skiing.[27]
Great Britain qualified a men's team by finishing in the top seven based on the combined points at the 2024 and 2025 World Championships.[28] Team Bruce Mouat was selected as the British representatives in June 2025.[29]
Great Britain qualified a women's team by finishing in the top seven based on the combined points at the 2024 and 2025 World Championships.[31] Team Sophie Jackson was selected as the British representatives in June 2025.[29]
Great Britain qualified a mixed doubles team by finishing in the top seven based on the combined points at the 2024 and 2025 World Championships.[32]Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat were selected as the British representatives in June 2025.[29]
In the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships in Boston, the United States, Great Britain secured one quota in each of the women's singles and pairs skating, and two quotas in the ice dancing.[33] The team was officially announced on 10 December 2025 with Edward Appleby being named as the representative in the Men's event in the Team event.[34]
Great Britain qualified three short-track speed skater quota places (two men and one woman) after the conclusion of the 2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour.[37] However, only Niall Treacy was selected when the team announcement was made on 18 December 2025.[38]
Following the conclusion of the qualification period in Skeleton, Great Britain had qualified 2 sleds in the men's and 3 sleds in the women's disciplines. In addition, Great Britain has qualified two teams in the new mixed team event, in which both Weston and Wyatt are guaranteed a place, while selection of the female riders will take place after the completion of the women's individual competition.[21]
Great Britain qualified one spot in the women's 1000m and 1500m through performances at the 2025-26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup.[40] On 8 January 2026, Ellia Smeding was confirmed for both spots, marking her second Olympic appearance after she made her Olympic debut in 2022.[41]
↑Technically, Weston was the first British athlete to win multiple medals of any colour at a single Winter Olympics. However Madge Syers won two figure skating medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London when no separate Winter Games yet existed, and these medals are now usually treated as Winter Olympic medals statistically.
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