The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the ski mountaineering events at the 2026 Winter Olympics.^[1]

A maximum of 36 total athletes will be allowed to compete at the games, 18 male and 18 female. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) will be able to qualify up to 2 male and 2 female competitors. A mixed relay team consists of one male and one female competitor, so a maximum of 18 mixed relay teams are possible. Results from the 2025 World Championship, and the World Cup circuit during the qualification period are used to determine the Olympic Sprint Ranking List and the Olympic Mixed Relay Ranking List.^[2]

Event[3] [4]	Olympic Mixed Relay Ranking List	Olympic Sprint Ranking List
ISMF Courchevel World Cup
ISMF Shahdag World Cup
ISMF Arinsal – La Massana World Cup
ISMF Boi Taull World Cup
ISMF Bormio World Cup MiCo2026 Test Event
2025 World Championship
ISMF Schladming World Cup
ISMF Val Martello World Cup
ISMF Villars-sur-Ollon World Cup
ISMF Tromsø World Cup

To be eligible an athlete must have been in the top 80% during one of the qualifying races, or top 90% in two of them, or placed in the top 6 in an under 18 race from the Olympic Qualification period.

If a NOC fails to confirm or declines their quota, all reallocation of quotas (except for the host) will be gender specific and come from the Olympic Sprint Ranking List. If the host (Italy) does not use their quota, the next best ranked European nation listed on the Olympic Mixed Relay List that did not achieve a quota from the World Championship mixed relay race, will receive that quota.

Host

First, the host will receive one male and one female quota.

ISMF World Championships 2025 – Mixed Relay

Second, the top two ranked teams (excluding the host Italy) from the championships will receive one male and one female quota each.

Continental quota

Third, the best ranked NOC from each continent (Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Americas) not already receiving a quota, receive one male and one female quota.

Olympic Mixed Relay Ranking List

Fourth, from the above named list each NOC who has not already received a quota receives both a male and a female quota, until there are twelve NOCs listed.

ISMF World Championships 2025 – Sprint

Fifth, the top two male and female competitors from the individual sprint races will achieve a quota for their NOC. If the NOC already would go over two quotas in either gender then the quota will be passed on to the next NOC in the applicable race.

Olympic Sprint Ranking List

The final four men's and women's quotas go to the highest ranked NOCs on this list, providing that no NOC may exceed two quotas per gender.

NOC's with quotas are assured of Olympic participation. However, provisional standings are not assured and can continue to change up until 21 December 2025.

As of World Championship mixed relay race (3 March 2025)^[5]

Nations	Men's Quotas	Women's Quotas	Men's Provisional	Women's Provisional	Athletes
Australia	0	0	1	1	2
Austria	0	0	1	1	2
Belgium	0	0	1	0	1
China	0	0	1	1	2
France	1	1	1	1	4
Germany	0	0	1	2	3
Italy	1	1	0	0	2
Norway	0	0	1	1	2
Poland	0	0	1	1	2
Slovakia	0	0	1	1	2
Spain	1	1	1	1	4
Switzerland	0	0	2	2	4
United States	0	0	1	1	2
Total: 13 NOCs	3	3	13	13	32

Rankings from the applicable list or competition appear in parentheses. Italics denotes provisionally allocated quotas.

Event			Places	Nation
Qualification through the Mixed Relay path
Host			1	Italy
2025 ISMF World Championship[6]			2	France  Spain
Olympic Mixed Relay Ranking List[7]	Continental quota	Africa	0	—
		Americas	1	United States (11th)
		Asia	1	China (7th)
		Oceania	1	Australia (18th)
	Remaining spots		6	Switzerland (3rd)  Austria (4th)  Germany (5th)  Norway (8th)  Poland (9th)  Slovakia (10th)
Total			12
Qualification through the Singles Sprint path				Men's	Women's
2025 ISMF World Championship[8]			2	Spain  France	Switzerland  France
Olympic Sprint Ranking List[9]			4	Switzerland (1st)  Belgium (10th)  Germany (19th)  Austria (20th)	Spain (4th)  Germany (6th)  Czech Republic (9th)  Austria (10th)
Total			6	6	6
Total			18

Continental		Mixed relay list	Sprint list men	Sprint list women
Africa	—	Canada (12th)  Sweden (13th)  Slovenia (14th)	Norway (25th)  Individual Neutral Athletes (27th)  Andorra (28th)	Poland (11th)  China (13th)  Slovakia (16th)
Americas	Canada (12th)
Asia	Japan (15th)
Oceania	—

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Spain	380
2	France	353
3	Switzerland	343
4	Austria	300
5	Germany	252
6	Italy	246
7	China	215
8	Norway	204
9	Poland	201
10	Slovakia	184
11	United States	181
12	Canada	178
13	Sweden	177
14	Slovenia	161
15	Japan	145
16	Andorra	144
17	Great Britain	138
18	Australia	125
19	Azerbaijan	124
20	Greece	118
21	Bulgaria	117
22	Romania	117
23	Netherlands	113
24	Czech Republic	106
25	Chile	80