Norway’s victory in the men’s 4×7.5km cross-country relay secured Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Klaebo his ninth career gold medal, the most ever by a Winter Olympian.
This win marks Klaebo’s fourth gold medal at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics out of four events. He is set to compete two more times at this year’s Games with hopes of continuing to add to his medal count.
The 29-year-old has won gold in every event he has entered at these Games so far. With nine gold medals and 11 Olympic medals overall, Klaebo is now widely regarded as the greatest Winter Olympian in history.
Across both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Michael Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals with 23. Six athletes — now including Klaebo — share second place with nine gold medals each.
Should Klaebo win another gold medal in Milan, he would stand alone with the second-most Olympic gold medals of all time.
At this year’s Olympic Games, Klaebo has gone viral on social media, with clips of him sprinting uphill at more than 11 miles per hour — the equivalent of running a sub-six-minute mile — all while on skis.
Klaebo’s teammates Emil Iversen, Martin Loewstroem Nyenget and Einar Hedegart competed with him in the men’s relay, helping to bring the Norwegian team to gold.
Klaebo is set to compete again on Wednesday, Feb. 18 in the men’s team sprint and on Feb. 21 in the men’s 50km mass start.
Ben Ogden shares how it felt to win silver in the men’s cross-country skiing sprint classic at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.