united states had the most gold medals in 2014 olympics.
united states had the most gold medals in 2014 olympics.
who had the most gold medals in 2014 olympics?
united states
in 2003 the ioc awarded the 2010 winter olympics to vancouver, thus allowing canada to host its second winter olympics. with a population of more than 2.5 million people vancouver is the largest metropolitan area to ever host a winter olympic games. over 2,500 athletes from 82 countries participated in 86 events. the death of georgian luger nodar kumaritashvili in a training run on the day of the opening ceremonies resulted in the whistler sliding centre changing the track layout on safety grounds. norwegian cross-country skier marit bjørgen won five medals in the six cross-country events on the women's programme. she finished the olympics with three golds, a silver and a bronze. for the first time, canada won a gold medal at an olympic games it hosted, having failed to do so at both the 1976 summer olympics in montreal and the 1988 winter olympics in calgary. in contrast to the lack of gold medals at these previous olympics, the canadian team finished first overall in gold medal wins, and became the first host nation—since norway in 1952—to lead the gold medal count, with 14 medals. in doing so, it also broke the record for the most gold medals won by a noc at a single winter olympics (the previous was 13, set by the soviet union in 1976 and matched by norway in 2002). the vancouver games were notable for the poor performance of the russian athletes. from their first winter olympics in 1956 to the 2006 games, a soviet or russian delegation had never been outside the top five medal-winning nations, but in 2010 they finished sixth in total medals and eleventh in gold medals. president dmitry medvedev called for the resignation of top sports officials immediately after the games. russia's disappointing performance at vancouver is cited as the reason behind the implementation of a doping scheme alleged to have been in operation at major events such as the 2014 games at sochi. the success of asian countries stood in stark contrast to the under-performing russian team, with vancouver marking a high point for medals won by asian countries. in 1992 the asian countries had won fifteen medals, three of which were gold. in vancouver the total number of medals won by athletes from asia had increased to thirty-one, with eleven of them being gold. the rise of asian nations in winter olympics sports is due in part to the growth of winter sports programmes and the interest in winter sports in nations such as south korea, japan and china.
winter olympic games
at the 1992 winter olympics, south korea's kim ki-hoon became the first short track speed skater to win two gold medals, by winning gold medals in both of the available events (1000m, 5000m relay). in 1994 kim (1000m) and american cathy turner (500m) became the first to successfully defend their respective olympic title; kim thus became the first short-tracker to win three olympic gold medals. since then chun lee-kyung of south korea (1000m, 1994–1998) and wang meng of china (500m, 2006–2010) also defended an individual olympic title. in 1998, chun and yang yang (s) of china became the first short-tracker to win three medals in one olympic. by helping south korea to defend 3000m relay title as well as defending her 1000m gold medal, chun became the first (and thus far, only) athlete to successfully defend two olympic titles. in 2006, south korea's jin sun-yu and then ahn hyun-soo became the first two short-trackers to have won three gold medals in one olympic. ahn also won a bronze medal in the same games, becoming the first (and thus far, only) short-tracker to win four medals in one olympic; he repeated the same feat in 2014. in 2010, wang became the first athlete to have won three individual gold medals in the sport, and in 2014 ahn became the first to have won four individual gold medals, and six gold medals overall in the sport. south korean short track speed skaters have won a combined 42 medals, including 21 golds, more than any other nation in both measures. south korea is also the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every olympics in which short-track speed skating has been held; canada and china share with south korea the honour of being the only nations to have athletes win a medal at every olympics in the sport. as of the 2010 winter olympics, 144 medals (48 of each color) have been awarded and have been won by short track speed skaters from 11 national olympic committees (noc).
list of olympic medalists in short track speed skating