It’s time to fly the flag for Canada and cheer on the red-and-white at the Winter Olympics.
The roster of athletes for Team Canada includes a strong contingent of Calgary-area products who will take part in the Games, which take place from Feb. 6-22 in Milan and Cortina, Italy.
Here’s a closer look at some of the Olympians from Cowtown who are looking to own the podium in February:
MEN’S HOCKEY
Goaltender Logan Thompson – who guards the cage for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) – played bantam junior hockey with the Calgary Bisons, before suiting up in the Calgary Buffalo Hockey Association. The undrafted netminder won a Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights in 2023.
Defenceman Josh Morrissey has been a key member of the Winnipeg Jets for a decade. The Calgary Royals alum won gold for Canada at the 2015 World Junior Championship (WJC) and at the 4 Nations Face-Off last year.
Forward Brayden Point is a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The former member of the Canmore Eagles in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) also claimed gold at the 2015 WJC and again with Morrissey at the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off.
Cale Makar has a full trophy case, but he has room for an Olympic medal. In the NHL, he has won the Calder Memorial Trophy, the Conn Smythe Trophy, the Stanley Cup and two James Norris Memorial Trophies. The Colorado Avalanche defender also struck gold at the 2018 WJC and the 4 Nations Face-Off. In addition, Makar was named the winner of the Scott-Mamini Memorial Award – given annually by the Calgary Booster Club to the Male Athlete of the Year – for his performance during the 2022 calendar year.
LONG-TRACK SPEEDSKATING
Calgary will have four long-track speedskating competitors representing Canada.
After narrowly missing out on a medal in 2018 at PyeongChang, Isabelle Weidemann left no doubt of her abilities in Beijing in 2022. Following four years of thinking about what could’ve been in South Korea, the Ottawa-born athlete upgraded her fourth, sixth and seventh place finishes and turned them into a gold, silver and bronze medal in China. Weidemann was named the Calgary Booster Club’s Henry Viney Trophy winner as the city’s female athlete of the year for 2023. More recently, Weidemann won the 5,000-metre event at the 2025 Canadian Long Track Championships in Calgary in October.
Brooklyn McDougall – who is a director with the Calgary Booster Club and a four-time recipient of the Art Smith Endowment Grant – made her Olympic debut at the Winter Games in Beijing in 2022, where she finished 22nd in the 500-metre event. She claimed gold in the team sprint category at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Single Distance Championships in 2025.
Another Calgary Booster Club director, Tyson Langelaar, missed qualifying for his second Olympics by just 0.07 seconds. Despite narrowly missing out, Langelaar will be in Milan to cheer on his Canadian teammates.
Ted-Jan Bloemen is a Dutch-born Calgarian who won gold in the 10,000 metre and silver in the 5,000 metre men’s long-track competitions at PyeongChang in 2018, before placing in the top 10 in three events at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. The 39-year-old is seeking a return to the podium in Italy.
Making his Olympic debut is Anders Johnson, who won gold in the team sprint at the 2024 ISU World Single Distances Championships in 2024.
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
Calgarian Tom Stephen will make his Olympic debut in Italy this year. After dealing with a back injury, Stephen won the men’s 10-kilometre classic at the Nordiq Canada 2026 Olympic Winter Games trials.
Joining Stephen is Canmore’s Xavier McKeever, who is following in his parents’ footsteps as an Olympian. Mother Milaine Theriault and father Brian McKeever both competed in Nagano in 1998. Theriault also went to the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and the 2006 Winter Games in Turin. Xavier McKeever punched his ticket to Italy by winning the men’s sprint free event at the Nordiq Canada 2026 Olympic Winter Games trials.
SKI JUMPING
All four members of Canada’s ski jumping team are from the Stampede City.
Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes – who claimed a bronze medal in the mixed team event at the Winter Games in Beijing in 2022 – will become Canada’s first five-time Olympian in the sport when he hits the slopes in Cortina.
“I never thought I would be able to call myself a five-time Olympian. Coming from our small club in Calgary this opportunity means a lot to me. I feel like I’ve gotten the chance to represent a big community of past, present and future ski jumpers and all of the people who work so hard to keep the sport in Canada alive,” said Boyd-Clowes in a press release.
“After taking a few years off competing, I’m definitely approaching these Games with a bit of a different mindset, but I’m grateful to get to go and be there with my teammates and coaches to represent Canada again.”
Abigail Strate is attending her second Olympic Games. She was part of the bronze-winning mixed team in Beijing.
Joining Boyd-Clowes and Strate are a pair of Olympic newbies.
Nicole Maurer, who is pursuing a career as an astronaut, called her Olympic confirmation a “dream come true.”
Meanwhile, Natalie Eilers punched her ticket after overcoming a knee-injury that left her unable to compete for a year.
FREESTYLE SKIING
Another quartet of Calgarians can be found in the freestyle skiing category.
Amy Fraser finished eighth in the women’s halfpipe event, while Brendan McKay turned in a ninth-place result in the men’s halfpipe in Beijing in 2022. Both will look to climb the ranks in Italy this February.
Andrew Longino will make his Olympic debut after winning halfpipe gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. The 23-year-old also picked up a pair of bronze medals at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup over the last two years.
Dylan Marineau is also an Olympic rookie. His father, Dennis, repped Canada at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, where he competed in bobsledding. The elder Marineau will also be at the 2026 Olympics, serving as a bobsled coach for the United States.
SKELETON
Josip Brusic is one of three Canadian skeleton competitors making the trek. The Okotoks native finished fourth in mixed team results and 18th individually at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) Junior World Championships in 2024. The former track and field athlete, who trained at WinSport’s Ice House in Calgary, is taking part in his first Olympics. Brusic immigrated with his family from Croatia and became a Canadian citizen in October of 2024.
BIATHLON
A pair of Calgarians will seek medals in biathlon.
Pascale Paradis took part in the Youth Olympic Winter Games in 2020 before competing in the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Junior World Championships in 2022 and the IBU World Championships last year. She has participated in the individual, sprint, pursuit, relay and mixed relay categories. This will mark her Olympic debut.
Adam Runnalls was part of the 2022 Olympic contingent in Beijing, where his best result was a sixth-place finish in the 4×7.5-kilometre relay. Runnalls also competed in the 20-km individual, 10-km sprint and the 12.5-km pursuit at those Winter Games.
SNOWBOARD
Two Stampede City snowboarders will also hit the halfpipe in pursuit of their Olympic dreams.
Brooke D’Hondt was the youngest Canadian competing at the Olympics in Beijing in 2022, but she showed she belonged with a 10th place finish. Her best International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) World Cup result took place in 2023, when she finished in fourth spot in Calgary. D’Hondt also had a top 10 finish at the FIS World Championships in 2025.
D’Hondt may have some pointers for Felecity Geremia, an 18-year-old who will make her Olympic debut as the youngest female athlete on Team Canada. Geremia finished ninth at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games and then placed in 20th in her first competition at the senior FIS World Championships last year.
LUGE
All of Team Canada’s doubles luge athletes call Calgary home.
The women’s doubles duo features Kailey Allan and Beattie Podulsky, while the men’s doubles team is represented by Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski.
“It is amazing to be named to Team Canada. This season has been filled with uncertainty, after dislocating my elbow twice I was all but sure that my Olympic dreams were over,” said Wardrope in a press release.
“But the team gave me hope that there was still a way to come back from it. We put together a rehab plan that would get my shoulder stronger and were able to get back on the sled in early January and meet the qualifying criteria. I’m just super grateful for my coaches, family and friends for helping me get to this point. I’m just setting my eyes forward to put down the best performance I can get at the Games.”
BOBSLED
Two Calgarians and an athlete from Cochrane will take to the bobsled track in Italy this February.
Bianca Ribi is a former high-level soccer player who entered the bobsled scene in 2018 and has been competing at international events since, including the Europe Cup, North American Cup, World Cup, Women’s Monobob World Series and World Championships.
Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson also started in another sport before he found bobsleigh. He got into diving as a child, honing his craft at Calgary’s Lindsay Park Centre. Eskrick-Parkinson stuck with it and ended up at the Northwestern University dive team in Chicago. World Championships followed, as did an appearance at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile in 2023. When a weights coach saw Eskrick-Parkinson doing jumps on the stairs one day, he suggested trying bobsleigh. Some training sessions at WinSport’s Ice House in 2024 put him on a path to the Winter Olympics, where he’ll compete for the first time in 2026.
Skylar Sieben, of Cochrane, has an athletic background in the heptathlon, which she competed in at the University of Arizona.
“There’s nothing else like it,” said Sieben of bobsledding in a Cochrane Now article.
“You put on a motorcycle helmet, get in a steel sled, and go 140 kilometres an hour pulling 5 Gs. It’s chaos. But it’s the kind of chaos I live for.”
ALPINE SKIING
Canada’s alpine ski team has two Canmore competitors and an athlete from Cochrane who will represent the maple leaf.
Kiara “Kiki” Alexander is set to make her Olympic debut after finishing 11th in the alpine combined event at the 2022 FIS World Junior Championships. The 24-year-old was born in Calgary and calls Cochrane home.
Banff-born Britt Richardson brings a giant slalom gold medal from the 2024 FIS World Junior Championships and a bronze medal in the team parallel event at the 2025 FIS World Championships into her first Winter Games.
Jeffrey Read is the son of “Crazy Canuck” Ken Read and younger brother of Olympic alpine skier Erik Read. The Calgary-born athlete has hit the slopes for four senior FIS World Championships since 2019 and won a team parallel bronze at the event in 2023.
More than 30 athletes from the Calgary area will compete for Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano Cortina.
Team Canada will also have the support of several other southern Albertans.
Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski – who won an Olympic gold in rowing and has an alpine skiing background – is working as an athlete services officer with the Canadian Olympic Committee. Gruchalla-Wesierski was named the Calgary Booster Club’s winner of the Henry Viney Trophy as the 2024 Female Athlete of the Year.
The athletes will also have plenty of medical support. Dr. Ian Auld, medical director for the Calgary Flames, will serve as the physician for the Canadian men’s hockey team, while his wife, Dr. Laura Bennion, is the doctor for the Canadian women’s hockey team.
