Vancouver 2010

Winter Games of the XXI Olympiad
The Canadian Olympic Team closes out the third Olympic Games held in Canada with the most medals it has ever won – 26 – and a new all-time high of 14 gold medals, to lead all countries and tie the all-time mark for any nation at a Winter Games.

The Canadian Olympic Team’s 26 medals marks its most successful Winter Games ever, eclipsing the previous record of 24 in Turin in 2006. The 13 gold medals are the most at the 2010 Games, and ties the all-time record set by the Soviet Union in 1976 and Norway in 2002. Canada would eclipse this mark should they prove victorious over the United States in men’s hockey Sunday afternoon.

While the team has collected 13 gold, seven silver and five bronze medals (with another gold or silver Sunday afternoon), many other team highs were recorded. Canada collected an all-time high of 71 top-8 results (including medal results), including 23 fourth- and fifth-place finishes. Both figures lead all nations at the 2010 Games. (In Turin, Canada had 20 fourth- and fifth-place finishes and 57 top-8 results.) Looking at conversion rates, Canada converted 59% of its pool of potential medalists in 2010, matching the figure from 2006.

Canada collected medals in nine sports in 2010 while achieving top-8 results in all 13 sports. This nation’s most recent Olympic champions, taking their place in history, are: Alex Bilodeau (freestyle moguls), Maëlle Ricker (snowboard cross), Christine Nesbitt (speed skating, 1,000 m), Ashleigh McIvor (ski cross), Jon Montgomery (skeleton), Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse (bobsleigh), Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (figure skating, ice dance), Charles Hamelin (short track, 500 m), the women’s ice hockey team, the men’s 5,000 m relay short track team, the men’s speed skating pursuit team, Jasey-Jay Anderson (snowboard, parallel giant slalom) and the men’s curling team.