Numerous Russian athletes who had competed at the Summer Games of Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were revealed to have avoided sanctions and were retroactively banned, with their results from those Games changed to disqualifications.įurther, whistleblowers revealed that at the Olympic Winter Games hosted by Sochi in 2014, many Russian athletes had their urine samples switched to avoid doping positives and eventually, 44 Russians from Sochi were disqualified. In the years prior to PyeongChang the Olympic world was rocked by revelations of systematic doping and cover-ups by the Russian Federation. PyeongChang easily defeated the other two candidates (München, Germany and Annecy, France) and were the first Olympic Winter Games to be held in Korea, and only the third in Asia, after Sapporo in 1972, and Nagano in 1998, both in Japan. The country won 2 silver medals and 5 bronze, not 5 silver medals and 4 bronze.The 2018 Olympic Winter Games were awarded to PyeongChang, Korea at the IOC Session in Durban, South Africa on 6 July 2011. And snowboarders like Chloe Kim, Jamie Anderson, Shaun White and Red Gerard dominated the sport’s podium with gold-medal wins.ġ1 gold, 8 silver, 10 bronze United States: 23 medalsĩ gold, 8 silver, 6 bronze Netherlands: 20 medalsĨ gold, 6 silver, 6 bronze South Korea: 17 medalsĥ gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze Olympic Athletes from Russia: 17 medalsĢ gold, 6 silver, 9 bronze Switzerland: 15 medalsĥ gold, 6 silver, 4 bronze France: 15 medalsĥ gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze Sweden: 14 medalsħ gold, 6 silver, 1 bronze Austria: 14 medalsĥ gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze Japan: 13 medalsĤ gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze Italy: 10 medalsģ gold, 2 silver, 5 bronze China: 9 medalsġ gold, 6 silver, 2 bronze Czech Republic: 7 medalsĢ gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze Finland: 6 medalsġ gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze Great Britain: 5 medalsĬorrection: The original version of this story misstated the medals won by Italy. women’s ice hockey team beat Canada for gold for the first time in 20 years at the Games, and the men’s curling team won after making it to the country’s first-ever gold medal match in the event.

Surprises late in the Olympics helped boost Team USA’s medal count after a lackluster start. (They did, however, both take home a bronze medal with the rest of their team.) While Mikaela Shiffrin earned one gold and one silver medal, she fell short of the podium in her signature slalom event and pulled out of the downhill event while at the Olympic Games. The United States was an example of both: Figure skaters Nathan Chen and Mirai Nagasu made history with their performances on the ice, but failed to make it on the individual podium. The 2018 Olympic Games came with a number of surprises and spills, including everything from record-breaking performances to gold-medal favorites failing to make the podium. After a number of historic wins for the United States late in the Games, Team USA finished fourth with 23 total medals, including nine golds. Germany came in second with 31 total medals and 14 gold medals, and Canada finished in third with 29 medals, 11 of which were gold. Norway’s dominance was apparent from the beginning of the Olympic Games, with 14 gold medal wins in sports like cross-country skiing and more medals from other skiing events from jumping to downhill.

After 19 days of competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Norway came out on top of the final medal count.

2018 olympic medal totals