india won 1 gold medal at the 2018 winter olympics.
india won 1 gold medal at the 2018 winter olympics.
how many total gold medals did india win at the 2018 winter olympics?
1
going in, canada held the record for most gold medals won at a single winter olympics with 14, which it won in vancouver in 2010. this mark was equalled by both norway and germany at these olympics. norway set the record for most total medals at a single winter olympics with 39, surpassing the 37 medals of the united states won at the 2010 winter olympics. the mark of 30 nocs winning medals is the highest for any winter olympic games. hungary won its first winter olympic gold medal ever. norwegian cross-country skier marit bjørgen (two gold, one silver, and two bronze) achieved five medals, more than any other athlete. with 15 medals, she became the most decorated athlete in winter olympics history. swedish cross-country skier charlotte kalla finished with four medals (one gold, three silver), as did her compatriot and fellow cross-country skier stina nilsson (one gold, two silvers, one bronze) and russian cross-country skier alexander bolshunov (three silver, one bronze) who was competing for the olympic athletes from russia at the 2018 olympics. norwegian cross-country skier johannes høsflot klæbo and french biathlete martin fourcade tied for the most gold medals, with three each. ester ledecká of the czech republic became the first female winter olympian to achieve a gold medal in two separate sports at a single games, winning in both alpine skiing and snowboarding.
2018 winter olympics medal table
as in the 1984 winter olympics, 17 nocs won at least one medal and 11 of them secured at least one gold medal. the soviet union returned to the top of the gold medal count with 11, relegating east germany—which took first place four years earlier—to second place with nine. the soviet union also collected the most overall medals (29), including the most bronzes (9). in a repeat of the 1976 summer olympics in montreal and mimicking yugoslavia at the 1984 winter games, canada, as host nation, did not win any gold medal, totalling two silver and three bronze medals. canadian hopes for a gold rested on the shoulders of figure skater brian orser, the reigning world champion and silver medalist at the sarajevo games. a tight contest with brian boitano of the united states ended with the american taking the olympic title. athletes from norway failed to win any event in calgary, making this the first and so far only time that the country ended the winter olympics without a single gold medal. italy's two gold medals were won by the same athlete: alberto tomba, a first-time olympian who was crowned olympic champion in the alpine skiing's slalom and giant slalom events. ski jumper matti nykänen of finland contributed to three of his nation's four gold medals by winning both individual events (first time by an olympic ski jumper) and helping his team to win the collective title. the performance of the swiss athletes ensured their nation's best result at the winter games, securing a record number of 15 medals, including a then-record of five gold medals that took 18 years to be improved.
1988 winter olympics medal table