Johannes Thingnes Bo's victory in the men's mass-start biathlon steered Norway to their record-breaking 15th gold medal in Beijing. View more on twitter Bo most successful athlete in Beijing Japan won 18 medals, surpassing their previous best of 13 in Pyeongchang, while Italy's 17 gave them their best Winters return since 1994, when they won 20.
Speed skater Bart Swings gave Belgium their first gold for 74 years, while Germany claimed gold in all six of the luge and skeleton events. Nico Porteous then doubled their tally a day later in the ski halfpipe. New Zealand won their first ever Winter Olympics gold medal when Zoi Sadowski-Synnott triumphed in the women's snowboard slopestyle. "The only hosts since 1988 to have improved their highest number of Winter Olympic gold medals by more than China's 80% are Japan (1998) and Canada (2010) whose best gold total went up by 400% and 100% respectively." Medals for Winter Olympic hosts "However, gold medals improved from one to nine and were 80% higher than China's previous best of five. "China did not increase its medal total by as much as most of the recent host nations have, winning only 67% more than in the Games prior to hosting," says Gleave. Hosts ChinaĬhina's previous best position in the medal table was their seventh-place finish at Vancouver in 2010. The only teams containing Russian athletes that have not been in the top five of a final medal table are Russia in 2010, the Olympic Athletes from Russia in 2018 and this year's team.
However, they finished only ninth overall in the medals table. It is the best haul of any Russian or Soviet team at a Winter Games. Great Britain - Winter Olympic medalsĪthletes representing the Russian Olympic Committee finished with 32 medals, consisting of six golds, 12 silvers and 14 bronze. The last man to win gold for Great Britain was Christopher Dean, who won alongside Jayne Torvill. Women have won all of Britain's Winter Olympic golds since 1984. The women's curling team gold follows Amy Williams' skeleton gold in 2010 and Lizzy Yarnold's back-to-back medals in the same discipline in 20. They finish 19th overall in the medal table, thanks to women's curling gold and men's curling silver.ĭespite that, GB have now won gold at each of the past four Winter Olympics - a new record for them, beating the three Olympics in a row between 19. This is Great Britain's lowest tally at a Winter Games since 2010. Germany finished second again, while hosts China had their best ever Games. They won medals in nine of the 15 sports at Beijing. Norway top table againįor the second Winter Games in a row, Norway have finished top of the medal table, with an Olympic record of 16 golds.
After 109 gold medals were won, what are the key stats from this Winter Olympics? BBC Sport and Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis at Nielsen Gracenote, take a look.
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