Here’s how all the Philly area Winter Olympians did at Milano Cortina 2026

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The Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo came to a close last night, with Team USA winning 33 medals, 12 gold — second only to Norway on both counts.

As with the Summer Games in Paris two years ago, Billy Penn put together a list of all Team USA Olympians from Pennsylvania and New Jersey (sorry, no Delawareans this time), along with folks with school or other connections.

Here’s how they all fared this month, as well as which Paralympians you can look out for when coverage of the Paralympics begins next month. All replays of the Games are on NBC’s family of channels and its Peacock streaming service. You can find the schedule of replays on NBC’s Olympics website. The Paralympics opening ceremony in on Friday, March 6.

Bobsled

Jasmine Jones — from Greensburg, Pa., out by Pittsburgh — came away from the Games with a bronze medal in the 2-woman bobsled. This was the 29-year-old’s first Olympic Games.

Curling 

Taylor Anderson-Heide was a part of the women’s team that finished fourth. Anderson-Heide was born in Philly, grew up in Broomall in Delaware County and attended Marple Newtown High School. 

She now lives in Minnesota, but has Philadelphia Curling Club listed as her home club on the USA Curling website. This was her first Olympics, having previously won three U.S. Women’s Curling Championships including two on a team that included her twin sister, Sarah.

Figure skating

Isabeau Levito, who was born in Philly and now lives in Mount Holly, N.J., also competed in her first Games. The 18-year-old finished 12th in women’s singles, with her teammate Alysa Liu taking gold.

Hockey

Both the men’s and women’s teams came away with gold medals, after defeating continental rivals Canada in the finals. Those victories meant hardware for Pittsburgh native Vincent Trocheck, currently with the New York Rangers, and New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes, who’s from Canton, Mich., on the men’s team. The women’s team had University of Wisconsin goaltender Ava McNaughton, who’s from Seven Fields, Pa., and Tessa Janecke, who is on the Penn State women’s team.

As far as Flyers, Travis Sanheim won silver for Canada and Rasmus Ristolainen won bronze with Finland. Pittsburgh Penguins star and Canada captain Sidney Crosby also took silver.

The men’s team’s post-game celebrations included emotional tributes to Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, who were struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver while biking near their hometown in Salem County, New Jersey.

Sean Higgins, the driver of the car, faces up to 70 years in prison for multiple charges and is due back in court this week for a discretionary conference.

Luge

Summer Britcher, of Glen Rock, Pa. — not far from York — competed in her fourth straight Winter Olympics. She came in 14th in the women’s singles, which was a personal best for that category. 

She was first introduced to the sport when she was 11, at Liberty Mountain Resort in Fairfield, Pa.

Skeleton

Dan Barefoot is from Johnstown, Pa., and attended Penn State, where he graduated with a degree in landscape architecture. Competing in his first Games, he came in 20th in the men’s individual competition and 10th with the mixed team. Not bad for someone who got into skeleton in his mid-20s, after Googling “Olympic style sports people can pick up later in life.” 

According to the Team USA website, the 35-year-old participated in club baseball and fly fishing while at PSU,

Kelly Curtis, from Princeton, was also on the mixed team that finished 10th, and finished 12th in the women’s individual competition. 

She made her Olympic debut at the previous Winter Games in Beijing, where she became the first Black athlete to compete for Team USA in skeleton. While at Springfield College in Massachusetts, she competed in track and field and won the women’s heptathlon at the 2011 Penn Relays.

Snowboarding 

Chloe Kim, who briefly attended Princeton University in 2019, finished with silver in the women’s halfpipe. She won gold in the same event at the two prior Olympics. 

Speedskating

Short trackspeed skater Andrew Heo, from Warrington Township in Bucks County, finished eighth in the 2,000 meter mixed relay, 11th in the 1,500 meter men’s race and 13th in the 500 meter men’s race. This was his second Olympics, and he also competed in three events in Beijing.

Heo was documenting his second Olympic journey on his Instagram account, and capped that off by reflecting on how the whole experience was about more than just making the podium.

“I feel like it’s easy to lose sight of what you managed to accomplish if your eyes are so fixated on the results all the time,” Heo’s post today read. “As amazing as it would’ve been to bring home a medal, I believe that the memories, lessons, and experiences I’m taking with me are just as valuable. Because ultimately that’s what will get me to where I want to be in the future.”

Paralympians to cheer on

Here are the athletes to keep an eye on when the Paralympic Games begin.

Para alpine skiing

Kelsey O’Driscoll is from Caldwell, N.J., and is competing in her first Games. Though she’d been skiing since she was 2, she had to relearn how to ski fairly recently after a 2021 sledding accident. She is also a registered nurse, asthma care coordinator and ski patroller.

Paralympic Sled Hockey

On the men’s Paralympic sled hockey team, there’s Josh Pauls, who’s from Green Brook, N.J., Jack Wallace from Franklin Lakes, N.J., and Declan Farmer, who’s from Tampa, Fla., but graduated from Princeton University. Wallace already has two Olympic gold medals in sled hockey, Farmer has three and Pauls has four going back to Vancouver 2010.