Canada has set a record for most gold medals ever to be won at any Winter or Summer Olympics with 14 gold medals at this years Winter Games in Vancouver 2010. We were lucky enough to be the host nation for the Winter Olympics but to set history is just amazing. Our Canadian athletes worked hard for years for this moment to shine and shine we did! The previous record was 13 gold medals at a winter games by the Soviet Union in 1976 and Norway in 2002. Canada now goes in the record book for the most gold medals ever!
Here is how many gold medals Canada won:
1. Ice Hockey Men
2. Curling Men
3. Snowboard – Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom – Jay Anderson
4. Speed Skating – Men’s Team Pursuit
- Mathiew Giroux
- Lucas Makowsky
- Denny Morrison
5. Short Track Speed Skating – Men’s 5000m Relay
6. Short Track Speed Skating – Men’s 500m
- Charles Hamelin
7. Ice Hockey Women
8. Bobsleigh – Women’s – Kaillie Humphries & Heather Moyse
9. Freestyle Skiing – Ladies’ Ski Cross
- Ashleigh McIvor
10. Figure Skating – Ice Dance
- Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
11. Skeleton – Men’s
- Jon Montgomery
12. Speed Skating – Ladies’ 1000m
- Christina Nesbitt
13. Snowboard – Ladies’ Snowboard Cross
- Maelie Ricker
14. Freestyle Skiing – Men’s Moguls
- Alexandre Bilodeau
Congratulations on a job well done Canada in setting the record for the most gold medals ever!
