With the almost finished winter sports season, a familiar nation will enter the Winter Olympic season which is driving on the greatest success of the world championships.
Norway, which won the most medals at the 2018 and 2022 winter games, will also have won the most medals in the Olympic program events on all winter sports world championships this season.
Norway has won 43 medals and 17 gold medals so far at the world championships in 2025 during events in the Olympic program (or their nearest equivalents). There are still five events to decide until the end of May – the curling of double male and mixed, the event of the artistic skating team and female and male hockey – but the current Totals of Norway cannot be exceeded by any other country.
If Norway repeats its results from all the world championships at the Milan Cortina 2026 Games, it bothered its own winter Olympic records for most of the won medals (currently 39) and the gold medals won (currently 16).
It is not too surprising because the number of events at winter games has increased with each recent edition. And from Norway was even more dominant at the world championships in 2023.
2025 World Championships in medal class
| Country | Gold | Money | Bronze | Total |
| Norway | 17 | 13 | 13 | 43 |
| Germany | 9 | 14 | 13 | 36 |
| USA | 12 | 10 | 10 | 32 |
| Swiss | 10 | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| Canada | 10 | 8 | 6 | 24 |
| Japan | 5 | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| The Netherlands | 9 | 5 | 7 | 21 |
| France | 8 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| Austria | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 |
| Italy | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Suede | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
* To 111 from the 116 events. In the events of the Winter Olympic program (or their nearest equivalents) only.
Can the United States challenge Norway to Milan Cortina?
Norway may have been the gold stallion this winter, but its team at the Winter Olympic Games will undoubtedly be different.
A Norwegian superstar in three different sports said they were retiring rather than continuing in the Olympic season: the biathlete Johannes Thingnes Bø, the cross-country skier Therese Johaug and the Nordic combined skier Jarl Magnus Riiber.
These three athletes combined eight individual medals, including four gold medals, at the world championships this season.
In addition, Norway took advantage of the advantage of snow and ice at home this year at the Nordic ski ski championships in Oslo (cross -country skiing, ski skiing, Nordic combined) and the world’s unique skating championships at Hamar. A 35 of the 116 events combined on the Olympic program have been disputed in these two worlds.
The United States, on the other hand, has so far been downright second behind Norway in gold medals at the world championships this year.
The United States ended the last time in winter Olympic gold in 2006 (equally with Austria), the last one was downright second in 1952 and was once in 1932.
The United States has benefited from the advantage of home ice at the world championships for bobsleflets and skeletons in Lake Placid, New York and the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston (11 combined Olympic program events).
On the other hand, Mikaela Shiffrin ran a calendar limited to Alpine Worlds in her return of injury, the preparation of the Jordan Stolz for the speed skating worlds was disturbed by pneumonia and Streptococcal art and Kristen Santos-Griswold withdrew from the short worlds after a collision on the day of qualification.
These three athletes combined for nine individual medals, including five individual gold medals, in their most recent worlds before this year. In 2025, they totaled three individual medals (all Stolz), as well as the Shiffrin team combining gold with Breezy Johnson.
Ilia Malinin won a second consecutive world title on Saturday evening, but felt upset to have left something defeated.