Meet the six Saskatchewan athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics
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Six athletes with roots in Saskatchewan are chasing their medal dreams as they head to Italy for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Games.
At least 17 people from Saskatchewan are representing the province, according to a Sask Sport media release. This includes the athletes, four officials, four support and mission staff and three coaches.
The 2026 Olympic Games officially kick off with the opening ceremony on Feb. 6 in Milan, but you can watch Saskatchewan athletes compete between Feb. 4 and Feb. 22.
Meet the six athletes representing the province:
Maïa Schwinghammer's career started on Christopher Lake in Saskatchewan, where she was towed behind a snowmobile. It was a fast but flat start to her journey, which is now focused on flying high.
She her skills at the local ski hill, Mount Blackstrap, near Saskatoon.
"That's really where I learned how to ski," Schwinghammer told CBC. "Just being able to kind of roam free and ski with my brother and sister every day."
The freestyle skier joined the national team as a teenager in 2018.
Last year, her career took off as she completed her best season ever, earning bronze in moguls at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Switzerland, and winning her first career World Cup gold medal in Val St. Côme, Que.
This year marks the 24-year-old's first Olympics, both in moguls and dual moguls.
Regina's Mark McMorris proves time after time that you don't need to grow up in the mountains to become Canada's most successful competitive snowboarder.
His journey in the sport started at Mission Ridge Winter Park near Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask.
This year McMorris enters his fourth Olympics, competing in both the big air and slopestyle events in Italy. He is the only athlete on the men's slopestyle side who already competed 12 years ago when the discipline made its Olympic debut at the Winter Games in Sochi.
The 32-year-old is one of the most decorated athletes in snowboarding history, riding yet again to another victory just last month in the men's snowboard slopestyle at the X Games in Aspen, his 25th X-Games career medal overall.
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