Jordan Stolz successfully added a fourth event to his Olympic program.

The 21-year-old officially qualified for the mass start to open the final day of competition at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He pre-qualified for the event on the World Cup circuit this season, earning one bronze medal and one gold through the first-four stops, and clinched his bid by starting the race at Trials.

Stolz, who added the event to his portfolio this season, finished 2nd in the race with a final time of 7 minutes, 58.799 seconds.

"I'm really happy. It's four chances that I'll be having in Milan," Stolz told NBC Sports' Lewis Johnson after the event. "I really like the mass start because it's kind of unpredictable, and I can pull something off, so we'll see."

Casey Dawson won the race in 7:56.580, but third-place finisher Ethan Cepuran also had a chance to join Stolz in Italy. 

Skaters, who raced two mass starts at Trials, also raced twice at nationals in October 2025. Skaters then were ranked at Trials according to their best three of the four races to determine the Olympic roster.

Cepuran finished 2nd overall at nationals while Dawson finished off the podium, giving Cepuran an edge which was exacerbated by his performance in the first race at Trials.

Stolz ran away in the second race, skating across the finish line over three seconds ahead of anyone else, but Cepuran's 2nd-place finish ahead of Dawson in 3rd sealed the deal. The effort earned Cepuran a second Olympic berth.

"The pressure was pretty much off that second race, so I could just go out there, skate, have fun, celebrate a little bit that last lap just knowing that Milan's right around the corner," Cepuran told Johnson.

Dawson and Cepuran compete together in the team pursuit with Emery Lehman. Together, the three have broken the world record in the event three times and won the last five-straight overall World Cup titles.

Dawson already had qualified in three Olympic events: the 1500m, the 5000m, and the 10,000m.

Mia Manganello, who also was pre-qualified in the mass start, finished 6th in the first women's race of the day and won the second. Her start in the first race secured her spot on the Olympic team.

The 36-year-old entered Trials on a high, having earned her first career individual World Cup medal at the season opener in Salt Lake City (gold). She then earned two more podium finishes in the distance — one 2nd and one 3rd — across the two succeeding competitions to pre-qualify. 

At the 2018 PyeongChang Games, her first, Manganello aided in the United States' bronze-medal effort in the women's team pursuit. She has continued to be a key part of the trio, helping the U.S. to the podium in two of the three races contested on the World Cup level and two national records in the distance this season.

"Making an Olympics and it being the third one — I'm speechless. Being pre-qualified coming into this weekend was a pretty surreal feeling, but you still get the jitters," Manganello said. "Luckily, the girls pulled it together and did an amazing race — probably the best one I've ever raced in the country."

Greta Myers, who on the third day of Trials clinched her first Olympic berth with a dramatic 2nd-place finish in the 1500m, found an extra gear in the final stretch to win the day's first mass start in 8:40.495. Piper Yde finished less than one-tenth of a second behind her, but because she had not met the Olympic standard time, she was ineligible for the Olympic team. Giorgia Birkeland landed in 3rd but was disqualified for prematurely accelerating before the second sprint, meaning no one could surpass Myers and steal the Olympic spot she tentatively claimed after the first race.

Myers then placed 2nd in the second edition of the event to confirm her dominance in the event, bringing the 2026 Olympic Trials to a close.

"This event is very unpredictable, but that's also what makes it so much fun," Myers said. "I'm really happy that I can be Mia's teammate in the Olympic mass start."

Myers finished 3rd in the discipline at nationals. She is the world No. 15 in the distance.

The weekend's second 500m sent two Olympic hopefuls heading to their first Games.

Similar to the mass start, skaters in the 500m are ranked according to their fastest time recorded between the two races contested at Trials.

Because Stolz qualified in the event on the third day of Trials, he elected not to skate the second 500m. Cooper McLeod (34.82) and Zach Stoppelmoor (34.94) posted the fastest two times behind Stolz in the first race, giving the rest of the field a high bar to top.

Stoppelmoor brought the heat to the race, crossing the finish line in 34.661 to win the event — beating Stolz's time by one-tenth of a second. 

With his win, Stoppelmoor, the reigning national champion in the distance, booked his first ticket to the Olympics.

"I had a good feeling [going into the race]," Stoppelmoor said after his victory. "But I knew today it could be anybody's game, so I had to show up with my A-game."

McLeod finished 5th, but his time from the first race stood as the third-fastest mark across the two races. McLeod, who earned a bronze medal in the distance at last year's world championships, will fill the third and final roster spot allotted to the U.S. men in the 500m.

"This was an event that I got third in at worlds last year, so I feel confident in my abilities," McLeod said. "Not skating at my best right now, there's definitely some things I need to clean up, but definitely excited to get the chance to go and represent the U.S."

Conor McDermott-Mostowy, who booked his trip to Milan with a win in the 1000m, put up a good fight in the second men's 500m, missing Stoppelmoor's first time-to-beat by the narrowest of margins (0.02 seconds).

Like Stolz, Erin Jackson locked up her spot in the distance on Jan. 4, leaving the United States with one open spot in the event. 

Sarah Warren finished behind her in 2nd in the first edition of the race, crossing the finish line in 38.863. She bested that mark in the second 500m, skating the distance in 38.663 for her first Olympic berth at age 29.

Speed skating at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics will begin February 6 with the women's 3000m. Competition will wrap up with both mass start events February 21.