MILAN — The U.S. men won the Olympic silver medal in the men’s team pursuit in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics Tuesday, Feb. 17.
The Americans fell to host nation Italy in the finals after beating China by a whopping 7.93 seconds in the semifinals. Italy defeated the Netherlands, the speed-skating powerhouse, in the other semifinal race.
The U.S. team featured Casey Dawson, Ethan Cepuran and Emery Lehman. Conor McDermott-Mostowy competed for the team in earlier rounds.
With the teams lined up on opposite sides of the 400-meter track in a head-to-head match, a trio of skaters representing each country glided around the track until completing eight laps. Italy clocked a time of 3:39.20, beating Team USA by 4.51 seconds.
China outdueled the Netherlands for bronze.
Since the team pursuit event was added to the Olympics in 2006, the U.S. men had medaled twice before – a silver in 2010 and a bronze in 2022.
Dawson, Cepuran and Lehman were part of that bronze-winning team in 2022.