us won 23 gold medals in sochi.
us won 23 gold medals in sochi.
how many gold medals did us win in sochi?
23
argentines won two gold medals in swimming in 1960. in 1964, four of their six gold medals also came through swimming, the other two being obtained in athletics (women's shot put) and weightlifting. in 1968, in a reversal of this trend, argentines won ten gold medals, of which nine in athletics and only one in swimming (h. aresca in the men's 25m freestyle). these nine athletics medals were all won in javelin, shot put, club throw or discus events, and eight of them were won by women. in 1972, the argentine delegation was much less successful, with just one gold medal in athletics (in the men's javelin), and one in women's wheelchair basketball. in 1976, cristina benedetti won argentina's only athletics gold, in the slalom, while gustavo galindez took two gold medals in swimming. in 1980, it was once again swimming which brought argentina all four of its gold medals. the only time that argentina did not win medals was in 1984, and won 7 silvers and 2 bronze in 1988, when the country sent only small delegations, to compete in track and field. in 1992 the country's only paralympic champion was horacio bascioni, in the men's javelin. in 1996, nestor suarez won the men's 100m sprint in the t46 category, while swimmer betiana basualdo won the women's 100m freestyle in the s2 category, thus providing their country with two gold medals. these are argentina's most recent paralympic gold medals; since 1996, argentines have won only silver and bronze.
argentina at the paralympics
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