Canada at the Olympics
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Canada has sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games and almost every Summer Olympic Games since its debut at the 1900 games with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted. Canada has won at least one medal at every Olympics in which it has competed. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is the National Olympic Committee for Canada.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics which they hosted in Vancouver, Canada finished atop the medal standings for the first time, winning the most gold medals of any country.
Hosted Games
Canada has hosted the Games three times.
| Games | Host city | Dates | Nations | Participants | Events |
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| 1976 Summer Olympics | Montreal | 17 July – 1 August | 92 | 6,028 | 123 |
| 1988 Winter Olympics | Calgary | 13 – 28 February | 57 | 1,423 | 46 |
| 2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver | 12 – 28 February | 83 | 2,629 | 86 |
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1900 Paris | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
 1904 St. Louis | 52 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
 1908 London | 87 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 7 |
 1912 Stockholm | 37 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 |
 1920 Antwerp | 53 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 1924 Paris | 65 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 20 |
 1928 Amsterdam | 69 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 10 |
 1932 Los Angeles | 102 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 12 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 1936 Berlin | 97 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 |
| 1948 London | 118 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 25 |
 1952 Helsinki | 107 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 21 |
 1956 Melbourne | 92 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
 1960 Rome | 85 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 1964 Tokyo | 115 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 22 |
 1968 Mexico City | 138 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 23 |
 1972 Munich | 208 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 27 |
 1976 Montreal (host nation) | 385 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 27 |
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 1984 Los Angeles | 407 | 10 | 18 | 16 | 44 | 6 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 1988 Seoul | 328 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 19 |
 1992 Barcelona | 295 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 11 |
| 1996 Atlanta | 303 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 22 | 21 |
| 2000 Sydney | 294 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 24 |
 2004 Athens | 263 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
 2008 Beijing | 332 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 19 |
| 2012 London | 281 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 36 |
| Total | 59 | 99 | 121 | 279 | 20 | |
Canada also won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal at the 1906 Summer Olympics, which the IOC no longer recognizes as an official Olympic games, so those medals are not counted in this table.
Medals by Winter Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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| 1924 Chamonix | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
 1928 St. Moritz | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1932 Lake Placid | 42 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 1948 St. Moritz | 28 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
 1952 Oslo | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 37 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
 1960 Squaw Valley | 44 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
 1964 Innsbruck | 55 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 1968 Grenoble | 70 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| 1972 Sapporo | 47 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 |
| 1976 Innsbruck | 59 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 1980 Lake Placid | 59 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
 1984 Sarajevo | 67 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 1988 Calgary | 112 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 1992 Albertville | 108 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 1994 Lillehammer | 95 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 7 |
| 1998 Nagano | 144 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 4 |
| 2002 Salt Lake City | 150 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 4 |
| 2006 Turin | 196 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 | 5 |
| 2010 Vancouver | 206 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 1 |
 2014 Sochi | 220 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 3 |
| Total | 62 | 56 | 52 | 170 | 6 | |
Medals by summer sports
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics | 13 | 14 | 27 | 54 |
 Rowing | 9 | 16 | 15 | 40 |
 Swimming | 7 | 14 | 22 | 43 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Canoeing and kayaking (sprint) | 4 | 10 | 10 | 24 |
 Shooting | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
 Boxing | 3 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
 Synchronized swimming | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
 Freestyle wrestling | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 |
 Equestrian (jumping) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
 Lacrosse | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
 Diving | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Trampoline gymnastics | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Track cycling | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
 Triathlon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Football | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Golf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Artistic gymnastics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Rhythmic gymnastics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Tennis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Sailing | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
 Judo | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
 Weightlifting | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Mountain biking | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Road cycling | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Taekwondo | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Basketball | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Equestrian (dressage) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Equestrian (eventing) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
_pictogram.svg.png){kind=small} Beach volleyball | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total* | 58 | 99 | 121 | 278 |
*One of Canada's Ice Hockey gold medals was won during the 1920 Summer Olympics. This table does not include this medal, resulting in the discrepancy between the medals by games and medals by sports tables.
Medals by winter sports
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ice hockey | 13 | 5 | 2 | 20 |
 Speed skating | 8 | 12 | 15 | 35 |
 Short track speed skating | 8 | 11 | 9 | 28 |
 Freestyle skiing | 8 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
 Curling | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
 Figure skating | 4 | 11 | 10 | 25 |
 Bobsleigh | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
 Alpine skiing | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
 Snowboarding | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
 Skeleton | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
 Cross country skiing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
 Biathlon | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Total* | 63 | 56 | 52 | 171 |
*One of Canada's Ice Hockey gold medals was won during the 1920 Summer Olympics. This table includes this medal, resulting in the discrepancy between the medals by games and medals by sports tables.
Canada has never won an Olympic medal in the following current sports: Archery, Badminton, BMX, Canoeing and kayaking - Slalom, Fencing, Field Hockey, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Handball, Indoor Volleyball, Luge, Modern pentathlon, Nordic combined, Rugby, Ski jumping, Table Tennis, and Water polo.
Records
In 2012, Equestrian show jumper Ian Millar competed at his tenth Summer Olympics, tying the record for most Olympic games participated in set by Austrian sailor Hubert Raudaschl between 1964 and 1996. He has been named to eleven straight Olympic teams, but did not compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Canadian boycott.[1] In 2008 he won his first medal, a silver medal in the team jumping event.[2]
Clara Hughes is the first and only Olympian of any country or gender, to win multiple medals at both the Winter and the Summer Games, with two Summer and four Winter medals.[3] Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen hold the record for most Olympic medals won by a Canadian of either gender, with six each.[3] Cindy Klassen holds the record for most Winter medals won by a Canadian of either gender, with six.[3]
Catriona Le May Doan became the first Canadian to defend their gold medal at the Olympics. She repeated her gold medal in the women's 500m long track speedskating event at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from the 1998 Nagano Olympics.[4][5]
Alexandre Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medallist to defend his Olympic title, and first repeat gold medallist, winning the men's moguls at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He became the second Canadian to defend their Olympic gold, and first man.[4][5][6]
After captaining the women's ice hockey team to gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Caroline Ouellette became the first Winter Olympian of any country or gender to enter four or more career events and win gold in each.[7] Oullette had previously won gold in ice hockey in 2002, 2006, and 2010.
Jennifer Jones skipped the Canadian women's team at the 2014 Winter Olympics to a Gold medal. She is the first ever female skip in Olympic history to be undefeated throughout the tournament. Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen and spare Kirsten Wall went unbeaten with an 11-0 record defeating China, Sweden (round-robin and finals), Great Britain (round-robin and semi-finals), Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, the United States, and Korea.[8][9]
Top Medal earners
See also
- List of Canadian Summer Olympics gold medalists
- List of men's Olympic ice hockey players for Canada
- Canadian Olympic stamps
References
- ↑ Martin Cleary (2008-08-08). "'The Olympics is not a young horse game'". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
- ↑ Doug Smith (2008-08-18). "'Canada wins silver in team show jumping'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
- 1 2 3 Canadian Press (22 June 2012). "London 2012: Hesjedal and Hughes to lead Canadian road cycling team at London Games". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
- 1 2 "Alexandre Bilodeau Wins Gold, Mikael Kingsbury Silver In Olympic Moguls At Sochi". Huffington Post. 2014-02-10.
- 1 2 Eric Koreen (10 August 2012). "Catriona Le May Doan emerging as Olympic broadcasting star". National Post.
- ↑ Will Graves (2014-02-10). "Canada's Alex Bilodeau takes gold in men's moguls, first two-time freestyle Olympic champion". Associated Press (The Republic (Columbus, Indiana)).
- ↑ Nick Zaccardi (2014-02-20). "An inch to the right and we would have won the gold". NBC Olympic Talk.
- ↑ canada.com http://www.canada.com/olympics/columns/jennifer-jones-fights-for-olympic-gold-in-womens-curling-final. Retrieved 21 February 2014. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Toronto Sun http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/20/jennifer-jones-sochi-olympics-curling-canada-gold-silver. Retrieved 21 February 2014. Missing or empty
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External links
- "Canada". International Olympic Committee.
- "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
- "Canada". Sports-Reference.com.
- CBC Digital Archives - Olympics
- Olympics - TSN
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