The Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics take place from February 6 to 22. On this occasion, does a little diving into the archives of the Winter Games tempt you?
We have compiled all the medals obtained by France since the first edition of the Winter Games, in Chamonix, in 1924.
In total, France has gleaned 138 medals before the start of this 2026 edition, the 25th in the history of the Winter Games.
If you are wondering which discipline has so far won the most medals for France in history, which edition has been the most prolific or which step of the podium the French athletes have most often appeared on, all the answers to your questions can be found here.
If alpine skiing remains the main historical provider with 51 medals, biathlon has become one of the major sports for France at the Winter Olympics since the Albertville Games in 1992 and is now in 2nd position.
Finally, note that, in the history of the Winter Games, 59% of French medals have been gleaned by men, compared to 34% by women and 7% in mixed events.
In Italy, the blue-white-red delegation is aiming for an ambitious goal: finishing in the top 5 in the medal rankings, which will mean beating its record of 15 medals collected in Sochi (2014) and Pyeongchang (2018) and significantly increasing the number of gold medals (at least 8 while it has never done better than 5). Enough to inflate this general assessment.
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