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2018 Winter Olympics medals
Marit Bjørgen in 2013, pictures from about the waist up wearing full skiing gear
Marit Bjørgen (pictured) won five medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the most of any competing athlete
LocationPyeongchang,  South Korea
Highlights
Most gold medals Norway (14) and
 Germany (14)
Most total medals Norway (39)
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The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held in Pyeongchang County (stylized as PyeongChang for the games), South Korea, from February 9 to 25.[1] A total of 2,833 athletes representing 92 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[2] The games featured 102 events in 15 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events.[3][4] Four new disciplines in existing sports were introduced to the Winter Olympic Games program in Pyeongchang: big air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, mass start speed skating, and mixed team alpine skiing.[5]

Overall, 30 teams received at least one medal, the highest for any Winter Olympic Games thus far, with 22 of them winning at least one gold medal.[6][7] Athletes from Norway won the most medals overall, with 39, surpassing the previous record of 37 medals set by the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[8] Athletes from Germany and Norway tied for the most gold medals with 14 each, equaling the record set by Canada in 2010 for most gold medals won at a single Winter Olympics.[9] Hungary won its first Winter Olympic gold medal ever, doing so in the men's 5,000 meter short track speed skating relay.[10]

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, athletes were tied in three events. In the women's 10 km cross-country skiing, two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie.[11] In the two-man bobsleigh, two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded due to a tie,[12] while in the four-man bobsleigh, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.[13] Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won the most medals at the games with five (two gold, one silver, and two bronze).[14] With 15 total Olympic medals, she also became the most decorated athlete in Winter Olympics history.[15]

Medal table[edit]

World map which highlights different countries in different colors based on their performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 2018 Winter Olympics
Legend:
   represents countries that won at least one gold medal.
   represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals.
   represents countries that won at least one bronze medal but no gold or silver medals.
   represents countries that did not win any medals.
   represents entities that did not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Three men standing on a podium holding up the medals that they won in the men's ski cross event.
The podium for the men's ski cross event. From left to right: silver medalist Marc Bischofberger (Switzerland), gold medalist Brady Leman (Canada) and bronze medalist Sergey Ridzik (Olympic Athlete from Russia).

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables.[16] The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[17][18]

  *   Host nation (South Korea[19])

2018 Winter Olympics medal table[6][A]
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Norway14141139
2 Germany1410731
3 Canada1181029
4 United States98623
5 Netherlands86620
6 Sweden76114
7 South Korea*58417
8 Switzerland56415
9 France54615
10 Austria53614
11 Japan45413
12 Italy32510
13 Olympic Athletes from Russia[B]26917
14 Czech Republic2237
15 Belarus2103
16 China1629
17 Slovakia1203
18 Finland1146
19 Great Britain1045
20 Poland1012
21 Hungary1001
 Ukraine1001
23 Australia0213
24 Slovenia0112
25 Belgium0101
26 New Zealand0022
 Spain0022
28 Kazakhstan0011
 Latvia0011
 Liechtenstein0011
Totals (30 entries)103102102307

Changes in medal standings[edit]

List of official changes in medal standings
Ruling date Event Athlete (NOC) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Net change Comment
February 22, 2018 Mixed doubles curling  Alexander Krushelnitskiy (OAR) DSQ
 Anastasia Bryzgalova (OAR)
−1 −1 On February 18, 2018, it was reported that Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitskiy failed a doping test for meldonium.[22][23] After testing of the B sample was also positive, the Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that they were instituting formal proceedings.[24] On February 22, 2018, Krushelnitskiy and his partner Anastasia Bryzgalova were stripped of their bronze medals in the mixed doubles.[25] The bronze medals were then awarded to the Norwegian mixed curling team, who had lost the bronze medal game to Krushelnitskiy and Bryzgalova.[26]
 Kristin Skaslien (NOR)
 Magnus Nedregotten (NOR)
+1 +1

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Figures in table reflect all official changes in medal standings.
  2. ^ Olympic Athletes from Russia was the IOC designation of select Russian athletes permitted to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The designation was instigated following the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee after the Russian doping scandal.[20][21]

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