UND shines vivid at 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan

MILAN, ITALY – It was one other shining second for the University of North Dakota on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
 
Two former North Dakota males’s hockey standouts Brock Nelson (2010-12) and Jake Sanderson (2020-22) captured the Gold Medal in males’s ice hockey in an exciting, 2-1, extra time win over Canada on Sunday morning.
 
The duo turned the primary UND gamers to seize gold since Jonathan Toews in 2014 and be part of Dave Christian in 1980 as the one American males to win gold within the sport.
 
Nelson struck for a pair of targets within the opening win over Latvia and added an help to complete his event with three factors and a plus-1 score. Sanderson dished out a pair of helpers and helped anchor a USA penalty kill that completed excellent within the event, together with a 5-on-3 kill in opposition to Canada on Sunday.
 
Three former UND ladies’s hockey gamers additionally represented their dwelling nation of Finland within the ladies’s hockey event, with Michelle Karvinen (2011-14), Emma Nuutinen (2016-17) and Susanna Tapani (2013-14) all serving to Finland attain the quarterfinal spherical.
 
It was a historic event for Karvinen, as she appeared in her fifth Olympic Games and tied an all-time document for Olympic ladies’s hockey video games performed with 29.
 
North Dakota has now produced at the very least one medalist in every of the final 5 Winter Olympic Games throughout males’s and girls’s ice hockey.
 
UND Olympic Gold Medalists in Men’s Ice Hockey
Jake Sanderson/Brock Nelson – 2026 (USA)
Jonathan Toews – 2014 (Canada)
Jonathan Toews – 2010 (Canada)
Ed Belfour – 2002 (Canada)
Dave Christian – 1980 (USA)
 
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