{"id":606039,"date":"2026-02-21T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/606039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:01:11","slug":"norways-klaebo-becomes-1st-athlete-to-win-6-golds-at-a-winter-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/606039\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway’s Klaebo becomes 1st athlete to win 6 golds at a Winter Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

TESERO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Norway\u2019s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo<\/a> completed his historic gold medal sweep of the men\u2019s cross-country skiing events on Saturday by winning his sixth race and setting the record for the most golds by one athlete in a single Winter Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Klaebo\u2019s victory in the 50-kilometer mass start race shattered the nearly 50-year record set by American speed skater Eric Heiden<\/a>, who won five golds in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.<\/p>\n

All of Heiden\u2019s wins were in individual races and two of Klaebo\u2019s have come in team events, so Heiden\u2019s record for individual wins still stands.<\/p>\n

Klaebo said he was overwhelmed with emotions crossing the finish line and couldn\u2019t describe how he felt after repeating the feat he accomplished at last year\u2019s world championships in Trondheim, Norway, when he won all six events<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable,\u201d he said. \u201cIt still feels really good to race, and I\u2019m always looking forward to going out there and fighting for the medal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klaebo\u2019s teammates, Martin Loewstroem Nyenget, took silver, and Emil Iversen, won bronze in a Norwegian sweep. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m starting to believe maybe he is a machine,\u201d Nyenget said of Klaebo, who sprinted uphill past him at the end to win in his trademark fashion. \u201cIt\u2019s close to impossible to beat him in the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three Norwegians broke out to an early lead and then continued to build the gap on their chasers.<\/p>\n

In the final lap, Nyenget and Klaebo pushed uphill and dropped Iversen. Klaebo stayed in second waiting to launch his winning move.<\/p>\n

As the two reached the final hill, Klaebo literally ran away from Nyenget and was bound for glory.<\/p>\n

As he glided toward the finish, he pointed his fingers toward the sky, took one stride across the line, toppled over on his right hip and rolled onto his back.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s Theo Schely finished fourth, nearly three minutes back and Savelii Korostelev, a Russian competing as an individual neutral athlete<\/a>, finished fifth at 3:38.3 back.<\/p>\n

The highest-placed U.S. skier was Gus Schumacher, who won a silver in a team relay, in 13th place.<\/p>\n

The win extends Klaebo\u2019s record for most career Winter Olympic gold medals to 11 over three Games. The previous record had been eight, which Klaebo broke Feb. 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Klaebo has the second-most Olympic golds overall. U.S. swimming great Michael Phelps has 23.<\/p>\n

The win gave Norway a record 18th gold medal and further increased their lead in the total medal count in these games to 40 overall.<\/p>\n

The country set the record Friday for the most gold medals won by a nation at a single Winter Olympics when biathlete Johannes Dale-Skjevdal won the 15-kilometer mass start<\/a> race.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Winter Olympics: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TESERO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Norway\u2019s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo completed his historic gold medal sweep of the men\u2019s cross-country…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":606040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[224667,191963,251726,260631,260630,260633,260632,251727,260636,68969,254271,44831,260634,62,260635,67,132,68,75618],"class_list":["post-606039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-cross-country-skiing","tag-emil-iversen","tag-eric-heiden","tag-gus-schumacher","tag-johannes-dale-skjevdal","tag-johannes-hoesflot-klaebo","tag-martin-loewstroem-nyenget","tag-michael-phelps","tag-norway-olympic-team","tag-olympic-games","tag-speed-skating","tag-sports","tag-theo-schely","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-winter-olympic-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116109226577460191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}