both norway and germany won most gold medals in olympics in 2018.
both norway and germany won most gold medals in olympics in 2018.
who won most gold medals in olympics in 2018?
both norway and germany
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
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