With the winter sports season nearly over, a familiar nation will go into the Winter Olympic season riding the most world championships success.
Norway, which won the most medals at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Games, will have also won the most medals in Olympic program events over all the winter sports world championships this season.
Norway won 43 medals and 17 gold medals so far at world championships in 2025 in Olympic program events (or their closest equivalents). There are still five events left to be decided through late May — men's and mixed doubles curling, figure skating's team event and women's and men's hockey — but Norway's current totals cannot be surpassed by any other country.
If Norway repeats its results from all of the world championships at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, it will break its own Winter Olympic records for most medals won (currently 39) and gold medals won (currently 16).
This is not too surprising since the number of events at the Winter Games has increased with every recent edition. And since Norway was even more dominant at world championships in 2023.
2025 World Championships Medal Standings
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Norway | 17 | 13 | 13 | 43 |
| Germany | 9 | 14 | 13 | 36 |
| USA | 12 | 10 | 10 | 32 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| Canada | 10 | 8 | 6 | 24 |
| Japan | 5 | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 5 | 7 | 21 |
| France | 8 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| Austria | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 |
| Italy | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Sweden | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
*In Winter Olympic program events (or their closest equivalents) only
