Clara Hughes, a dual-season Olympian, is the only athlete in history to win multiple medals at both the summer and winter Olympic Games. Her six career medals tied her as Canada’s most decorated Olympian until 2021 when swimmer Penny Oleksiak earned her seventh Olympic medal.
Who won the most medals at Winter Olympics Canada?
199 medals
Canada has hosted two Olympic Winter Games: in Calgary in 1988 and Vancouver in 2010. In total, Canada has won 199 medals at the Olympic Winter Games: 73 gold, 64 silver and 62 bronze medals.
Canada at the Olympic Winter Games Medal Table.
| Games | 1994 Lillehammer |
|---|---|
| Gold | 3 |
| Silver | 6 |
| Bronze | 4 |
| Total | 13 |
Who is the most decorated Winter Olympics of all time?
Norway
Norway is the most successful nation of all time at the Winter Olympic Games, having amassed a total of 368 medals since the first Winter Olympics in 1924 – this tally includes 132 gold medals, 125 silver, and 111 bronze.
Who is Canada’s greatest Olympian?
Marie-Philip Poulin rewrote the record books as Team Canada claimed the women’s hockey title at Beijing 2022. The Canadian captain scored twice in a 3-2 win against Team USA in the gold medal game as she claimed her third Olympic title.
Who is Canada’s most decorated athlete?
The medal made Oleksiak Canada’s all-time most decorated Olympian, surpassing speed skater Cindy Klassen and speed skater/road cyclist Clara Hughes who had each won six medals in their careers.
Who has won the most medal in Winter Games?
Germany
A look at the all-time medal table of the Olympic Winter Games shows that Germany has won more than 400 Olympic winter medals since 1924, ahead of Norway, Russia and the United States. Germany has also won the most Winter Olympics gold medals – 150.
Which Canadian athlete has the most medals?
Clara Hughes, (born September 27, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), cyclist and speed skater who is the only Canadian athlete to have won medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics, with two medals in cycling and four medals in speed skating.
Has Canada ever won a gold medal in figure skating?
The first Canadian figure skater to win Olympic gold was Barbara Ann Scott at St. Moritz 1948. She was followed by two pairs teams, Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul at Squaw Valley 1960 and Jamie Sale and David Pelletier at Salt Lake City 2002.
Who are the top 3 Olympians?
Top male and female (total medals)
| rank | Athlete | Total Medals |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Phelps | 28 |
| 2 | Larisa Latynina | 18 |
| 3 | Nikolai Andrianov | 15 |
| =4 | Boris Shakhlin | 13 |
Has Canada ever won a medal in biathlon?
Canadian History (pre-Beijing 2022)
All three of Canada’s Olympic biathlon medals have been won by Myriam Bédard. The first came in the debut of women’s biathlon at Albertville 1992 when she took bronze in the 15km individual event.
Who is the only boxer to have won an Olympic gold medal for Canada?
Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis won the gold medal for Canada in boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea – Canada’s first boxing gold since 1932.
Has Australia ever won a medal at the Winter Olympics?
Overall Australia has won 19 Winter Olympic medals – 6 gold, 7 silver and 6 bronze.
What country is best at Winter Olympics?
Since 1924, Team USA has scored 105 gold and 200 silver and bronze medals in the Winter Olympics alone.
Who has won 7 medals in one Olympics?
List of most gold medals won at a single Olympic Games
| Rank | Athlete | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Phelps | 8 |
| 2 | Mark Spitz | 7 |
| 3 | Michael Phelps | 6 |
| 4 | Kristin Otto | 6 |
Who is the most successful Canadian figure skater?
Kurt Browning, CM (born June 18, 1966) is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is the first skater to land a ratified quadruple jump in competition. He is a four-time World Champion and Canadian national champion.
Who is the most decorated Canadian figure skater?
| Kaetlyn Osmond | |
|---|---|
| Free skate | 152.15 2018 Winter Olympics |
| Medal record Representing Canada Women’s figure skating Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Team 2014 Sochi Team 2018 Pyeongchang Singles World Championships 2018 Milan Singles 2017 Helsinki Singles Grand Prix Final 2017–18 Nagoya Singles World Team Trophy 2013 Tokyo Team |
Who is the oldest figure skater to win gold?
Finnish figure skater Walter Jakobsson is the oldest Olympic figure skating champion. At age 38, he won the gold medal with his partner Ludowika Jakobsson at the 1920 Olympics. British figure skater Edgar Syers is the oldest Olympic medalist in figure skating.
Who is the greatest Olympic athlete of all time?
Michael Phelps
The International Olympic Committee named Carl Lewis “Sportsman of the Century,” in November 1999. Top Olympic Medal Winners — two lists, ranking athletes by the most number of medals, and also by total gold medals won. Michael Phelps leads both lists.
Who is the most accomplished athlete of all time?
Top ten greatest sportspeople
- Michael Phelps.
- Roger Federer.
- Usain Bolt.
- Steffi Graf.
- Michael Jordan.
- Serena Williams.
- Pelé
- Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is often regarded as the greatest sportsperson of all time.
What country is number 1 in the Olympics?
The USA Has Won the Most Medals
The US have clearly won the most gold medals and the most medals overall, more than doubling the next ranked country (these figures include medals won in Tokyo 2020, updated August 2021).
Who is the only Canadian to have won 4 medals in the same Summer Games?
As a four-time Olympian and four-time Olympic medallist, Émilie Heymans is also Canada’s first athlete to win a medal in four straight Olympic Summer Games.