Medal Count: Norway Leads as 2026 Winter Games Reach Feb. 19 Mark
The medal count at the 2026 Winter Games on Feb. 19 shows Norway continuing to lead, a continuation of a long-running dominance that has delivered more than 400 all-time Winter Olympic medals and puts the country on pace to top the medal table for a third straight Games (2018, 2022, 2026).
Athletes from more than 90 countries are competing across a 16-day program that awards medals in 116 events, a schedule that frames every shift in the standings; the standings cited here were current as of Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, at 5: 00 p. m.
Medal Count: Norway’s long-standing advantage
Norway leads the all-time Winter Olympics medal count with over 400 medals, and its performance through Feb. 19 has kept it on pace to top the table for the third consecutive Winter Olympics in 2018, 2022 and 2026. That streak — spanning three editions of the Games — underscores a level of depth and consistency across Nordic and snow disciplines that shows up on the podium repeatedly during the 116 medal events scheduled across the 16 days.
How Norway’s youth model feeds podiums
The strategy behind Norway’s haul is described in its youth sports philosophy: a system that delays formal scorekeeping until age 13, awards participation trophies for everyone, avoids travel teams and national youth championships, bars online rankings for children, discourages early specialization, and typically keeps annual costs under $1, 000 per child. Norway pairs that approach with a youth sports participation rate of 93%, a figure nearly 40 percentage points higher than the rate in the United States, and that high participation funnels talent into winter sport programs that produce medalists year after year.
Norway’s broad athlete pipeline does not only fuel winter success. The country also produces top-level summer athletes, including Erling Haaland in football, Casper Ruud in tennis, Viktor Hovland in golf, Jakob Ingebrigtsen in track and field, and Magnus Carlsen in chess, demonstrating the wider athletic return from a high-participation, low-cost youth sports model.
With more than 90 nations competing and 116 events to settle across the 16-day schedule, each day’s results can nudge the medal count and reshape the podium picture. Standings were last updated on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, at 5: 00 p. m., reflecting the cumulative outcomes through that point in the Games.
Medal events continue through the remainder of the 16-day program, and the standings will be updated as each of the remaining medal events takes place; the latest official update was posted at 5: 00 p. m. on Feb. 19, 2026.
