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The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from February 12 to February 28. A total of 2,632 athletes (+124 from 2006 Olympics ) representing 82 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+2 from 2006) participated in 86 events (+2 from 2006 ...
Medals were won by 450 individual athletes from 26 countries; 19 of those countries won at least one gold. Canada won its first gold medal at an Olympic Games it hosted, having failed to do so at both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary .
Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account. As of completion of the 2022 Winter Olympics , 12 National Olympic Committees have participated on a standalone basis in all 24 Winter Olympic Games.
2010 Canada (CAN) 14: 7: 5 ... One Benefit of Hosting the Olympics? More Medals, NPR, August 8, 2012 This page was last edited on 11 August 2024, at 18:11 (UTC). Text ...
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...
Discipline (link to medalists list) Contested Number of Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold-silver-bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Olympics (up to 2022) Medal events (in 2022) Total Alpine skiing: Since 1936 19 11 167 168 165 500 Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2) Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2)
The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games. [ 1 ]
The United States finished the 2010 Olympic Games by setting a new record for the most medals won by a single country at a Winter Olympics. The previous record of 36 was set by Germany at the 2002 Winter Olympics ; with the silver medal won by the men's hockey team in the final Olympic event of 2010, the U.S. earned their 37th medal of the ...