francisco fernandez ochoa won the first gold medal at the winter olympics.
francisco fernandez ochoa won the first gold medal at the winter olympics.
who won the first gold medal at the winter olympics?
francisco fernandez ochoa
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for the first time, canada won gold in an official sport at an olympic games hosted at home, having failed to do so at both the 1976 summer olympics in montreal and the 1988 winter olympics in calgary (although canada won the woman's curling event in calgary when it was still only a demonstration sport). canada clinched their first gold medal on the second day of the competition and first topped the gold medal tally on the second to last day of competition and went on to become the first host nation since norway in 1952 to lead the gold medal count. with 14, canada broke the record for the most gold medals won at a single winter olympics, which was 13, set by the soviet union in 1976 and norway in 2002. the united states won the most medals in total, their second time doing so at the winter olympics, and broke the record for the most medals won at a single winter olympics with 37, a record held up to then by germany in 2002 with 36 medals. athletes from slovakia and belarus won the first winter olympic gold medals for their nations.
2010 winter olympics