Meet Team USA’s Hottest Hunks

Credit: Marc Royce; Mitchell Haaseth/NBC (2); Marc Royce

Meet Team USA's Hottest Hunks

Bringing the heat: Team USA’s sexiest guys give Us their relationship stats.  

Credit: Marc Royce; Mitchell Haaseth/NBC (2); Marc Royce

Meet Team USA's Hottest Hunks

Bringing the heat: Team USA’s sexiest guys give Us their relationship stats.  

Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

Shaun White

A two-time gold medal winner (with a record 13 from the X Games!), the 5-foot-9 snowboarder, 31, is looking to add more hardware in South Korea. But he’ll pass on extra responsibility. Blithely ensconced with Phantogram rocker Sarah Barthel, 34, he prefers tending to their bulldog over babies: “I’m happy right now just having Steve.” 

Credit: Marc Royce

Steve Langton

He’s out of retirement — the bronze medal–winning bobsledder left a marketing gig to return for his third Games — and off the market. Though Olympics roommate John Daly tried to set him up “multiple times,” the Amazing Race alum, 34, found his girlfriend on his own. The 6-foot-2 pro’s other VIPs: his parents and brothers, who he FaceTimes “multiple times a day.”

Credit: Marc Royce

Joey Mantia

Must love dogs. That’s what it takes to win this athlete’s heart. Though he doesn’t have a pup of his own, the 5-foot-8 speed skater, 31, tells Us he follows “gratuitous amounts” of canines: “I live vicariously through Instagram.” And after the Games (where he’s aiming for his first medal) the NASCAR fan intends to take the plunge, he says: “I’m gonna get a German shepherd.” 

Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

John Daly

While he says his top attribute is his mane (he spends 25 minutes styling it with two shampoos, conditioner, cream and pomade), the 5-foot-9 skeleton racer, 32, is looking for a mate with a sharper wit than style. “They gotta be able to make me laugh,” the two-time Olympian tells Us. “Not too hard, but they have to have some sort of funny edge to them.” 

Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

Torin Yater-Wallace

A true Olympic love story: A year after he met ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson in Sochi, a life-threatening infection landed the 5-foot-2 freestyle skier, 22, in a medically induced coma. The 23-year-old’s reaction earned her top girlfriend honors. Never leaving his side, he gushes, “She was the best. I could not have asked for a better support system.” 

Credit: Marc Royce

Gus Kenworthy

A pro at flying through the air, the 5-foot-10 freestyle skier heads to PyeongChang “without a weight on my shoulders.” Kenworthy, 26, calls coming out after the 2014 Sochi Games “the best decision I’ve ever made.” The biggest perk of going public: Having actor boyfriend of two years Matt Wilkas cheer him on for all the world to see.

Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

Alex Shibutani

The ice dancer, who competes (and maintains a YouTube channel) with sister Maia, has called skating his most important relationship. But the 6-foot-tall athlete, 26, does cop to a longtime celebrity crush: Admitting he named Emma Watson when asked in 2014, he says, “She’s the only one for me.”

Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

John-Henry Krueger

Any potential mates will have to keep up with the 5-foot-10 speed skater’s penchant for travel: The 22-year-old first-time Olympian (swine flu kept him from the 2014 qualifiers) lived in South Korea in 2016 and now trains in the Netherlands.

Credit: Marc Royce

Ted Ligety

The 5-foot-11 alpine skier is bringing a great support system to PyeongChang: his wife of two years, Mia, and 7-month-old son, Jax. “The last three months have been a really fun new adventure,” the 33-year-old tells Us. “It’s been really cool to see Jax grow up — he went from being a little goo ball to now moving his head around and interacting.”

Credit: Marc Royce

Tucker West and Chris Mazdzer

Last Olympics, West’s father made a plea on Today: “To all the young ladies out there, Tucker is very single. He’s a little shy, so you have to reach out to him.” It worked: 6-foot-1 West is now dating fellow USA luger Raychel Germaine. “It’s definitely easier to date an athlete,” the 22-year-old tells Us. “She gets to travel with me.”

Mazdzer, 29, doesn’t have the luxury of always having his lady along for the ride. “I told myself I don’t want a long-distance relationship,” he spills to Us. “But I met someone this summer.” The unnamed girl and the 6-foot-1 athlete “make it work,” he says, by “meeting up around the world.” Still, he admits, “it’s a challenging life.”

Credit: Bill Wippert/Getty Images

Brian Gionta

After his last season in the NHL, Gionta, 39, was in full-on dad mode, helping wife Harvest care for their three little ones, Adam, Leah and James. But in between carpools and coaching Leah’s soccer team, the 5-foot-7 forward never stopped training. Now he’s heading to South Korea as captain of the USA men’s ice hockey team.

Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

Ryan Stassel

Home is where the heart is: Stassel, 25, hails from Alaska, where he spends the summers working on fishing boats and photographing his outdoor adventures with girlfriend Kelsey. When the 5-foot-11 snowboarder qualified for his second Olympic Games, she gave him a sweet shoutout on Instagram, writing, “So unbelievably proud of you Ry! hard work, determination, and a little bit of luck really does pay off.”