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