The final competition morning of the 2026 Winter Paralympics ran at Tesero, where Jake Adicoff won his fourth gold of the Games and Sydney Peterson won her third, leaving Team USA with 12 gold medals in cross-country before the day's biggest event had even finished. At the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, the United States and Canada were playing through the second period of the gold medal game, tied 1-1, with the last gold of the 2026 Winter Paralympics still up for grabs.

Four Events, Four Golds

Adicoff won the men's 20km cross-country in the vision impaired category Sunday morning, his fourth gold medal at these Games. He won the sprint, the middle-distance pursuit, and an earlier event at Tesero. Now the 20km. Four events entered at Milano Cortina 2026, four gold medals won.

Para cross-country skiing at the Paralympic level is not one race run four times. The sprint rewards a different kind of output than the 20km. Short-course and long-course events demand different energy management, different pacing strategy, different mental endurance. The athletes who peak once in a competition cycle are happy with that. Adicoff and his guide reached the top of the podium across every format on offer.

No other para cross-country skier went four for four at these Games.

Peterson and Masters

Sydney Peterson matched it in her category. She won the women's 20km standing for her third gold of the Games, sweeping every event she entered just as Adicoff had done. Two para cross-country athletes, two clean sweeps, on the same morning on the same course at Tesero.

Oksana Masters finished third in the women's 20km sitting, her fifth medal across these nine days. She has competed at every Winter Paralympics since Vancouver 2010 and has reached the podium at every one. Sunday at Tesero was her sixth Winter Games, and she left it the way she has left all of them: with a medal.

The Last Gold Is Still Being Played

Team USA's para ice hockey program came to Milan as the four-time defending Paralympic champions and reached the gold medal game for the fifth consecutive time. Declan Farmer rewrote the record book across this tournament: most goals in a single Games (14), most career Paralympic goals, most career Paralympic points. He recorded a hat trick in every game through the semifinals.

In the gold medal game on Sunday morning, Jack Wallace put the U.S. ahead with a power play goal in the first period. Canada responded in the second period, with Liam Hickey converting on a power play to even the score at 1-1. As this article publishes, the two teams are in the third period of the final gold medal game of the 2026 Winter Paralympics. The result will be final before the afternoon.

A Team USA win would make the United States the first country to sweep all three hockey tournaments at the same Games, after the men's and women's Olympic programs each beat Canada in February.

Live updates and the final score are at NBCOlympics.com. The game is on NBC and Peacock.

Team USA's Medal Count at the Close

Heading into Sunday's final events, Team USA held 10 gold medals, 5 silver, and 5 bronze from the first eight days of competition. Adicoff's fourth gold, Peterson's third, and Masters' bronze pushed that to 12 gold, 5 silver, and 6 bronze: 23 medals before the hockey final.

The spread across these Games: Kendall Gretsch won gold in biathlon on Day 1. Kate Delson and Noah Elliott both won on Day 7. Masters, Adicoff, and Peterson combined for eight of the twelve golds. Brenna Huckaby medaled in snowboard. Andrew Kurka medaled in alpine.

The closing ceremony runs tonight from Cortina at 8 PM ET on NBC. By then, the hockey result will be in and the 2026 Winter Paralympics will have their final tally.