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Who Won 'Dancing With the Stars' 2018? Athletes Winner Revealed!


SPOILERS AHEAD! Who won the coveted Mirrorball Trophy on the Season 26 finale of Dancing with the Stars? We'll tell you right here. The remaining members of the Dancing with the Stars 2018 cast took to the dance floor once more as Adam Rippon, Josh Norman and Tonya Harding embarked on one final battle which included some epic freestyle fun. When all the dancing was done, Adam Rippon was the last star standing alongside partner Jenna Johnson. Check out the results and highlights of the finale below. Thanks to all the athletes, pros, judges, hosts and crew members for another memorable season of Dancing with the Stars. See you next time!

Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson scores: 30 (jazz) & 28 (freestyle) = 58

Adam's Exquisite Jazz Routine

Adam's High-Style Freestyle

Josh Norman and Sharna Burgess scores: 27 (foxtrot) & 30 (freestyle)

Josh's Debonair Foxtrot

Josh's Powerful Freestyle

Tonya Harding and Sasha Farber total score: 26 (V. Waltz) & 30 (freestyle)

Tonya's Joyful Viennese Waltz

Tonya's Ultra-Fun Freestyle

The Winner Is Revealed!

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The short four-week run of the athletes season on Dancing With the Stars has come to an end and the winner has been revealed.

The final three contestants were Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon (with pro partner Jenna Johnson), former figure skater Tonya Harding (with pro partner Sasha Farber), and football player Josh Norman (with pro partner Sharna Burgess).

The three pairs each performed three routines during the episode. The votes from home were combined with the judges scores and the winner was announced at the end of the hour.

Click inside to find out who won…

And the winners are…

Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson


Story highlights Champions were announced Monday night

It came down to two figure skaters and an NFL player

This story contains spoilers for Monday's finale of "Dancing with The Stars: Athletes."

(CNN) It was a fierce competition, but in the end the winner skated away with the Mirrorball trophy.

Figure skater Adam Rippon and his dance partner Jenna Johnson won "Dancing with The Stars: Athletes" on Monday night.

The Olympic medalist and Johnson competed against former figure skater Tonya Harding and her partner Sasha Farber, and NFL player Josh Norman and his partner Sharna Burgess in the finale.

It was Johnson's first win after being on the show for two seasons.

Before an impressive freestyle performance, Rippon spoke in a video about what the competition has meant to him as the first openly gay Winter Olympian for Team USA.

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Dancing with the Stars has a new champion!

After a fierce four-week cycle, the all-athletes edition of the reality dance competition crowned its season 26 winner on Monday evening’s finale.

Three athletes and their pro partners — Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson, Tonya Harding and Sasha Farber, and Josh Norman and Sharna Burgess — went head-to-head in the final night of the season, but it was Rippon who was awarded the Mirrorball Trophy from co-hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews.

And Johnson, 24, earned her first Mirrorball trophy after being a pro on just two seasons!

“The Mirrorball has now taken on a new meaning, someone like me is accepted and I feel loved,” the Olympic ice skater, 28, said before his freestyle dance.

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Jenna Johnson and Adam Rippon ABC

Jenna Johnson and Adam Rippon Kelsey McNeal/ABC via Getty Images

Though he received a perfect score and a standing ovation for his jazz routine during his first dance, Rippon got mixed reviews on his freestyle to Pitbull and DJ Kass’ remix “Scooby Doo Pa Pa.”

“This freestyle is different, corky, fun and totally embodies me as a person and I want to share that with America,” Rippon said of his freestyle, which earned him a 28 out of 30.

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Tonya Harding; Adam Rippon; Josh Norman ABC (3)

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DWTS: Athletes Mirrorball Trophy ABC

Though Rippon did not receive a perfect score for his freestyle, both Harding, who danced to Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” and Norman, who danced to Thirty Seconds to Mars’ “Walk on Water,” garnered 30/30.

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And for their first dances: Harding earned a score of 26/30 for her Viennese waltz while Norman got a 27/30 for his foxtrot.

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Ahead of the DWTS: Athletes premiere, PEOPLE revealed photos of the revamped set — including a new screen on the main stage that can split open and a jumbotron — as well as the new special edition version of the Mirrorball Trophy, which reads “Athletes.”

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Rippon was among 10 teams of athletes and pro dancers who went head-to-head for the trophy during the shortened four-week cycle and each returned for the glittery finale.

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