The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from February 12 to February 28, 2010. A total of 2,632 athletes representing 82 National Olympic Committees participated in these Games.[1] Overall, 86 events in 15 disciplines were contested; 46 events were open to men, 38 to women and 2 were mixed pairs. Two disciplines were open only to men: Nordic combined and ski jumping, while figure skating was the only sport in which men and women competed together in teams.[2] Two new events were introduced: men's and women's ski cross.[3]
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. Canada finished first in gold medal wins and became the first host nation since Norway in 1952 to lead the gold medal count, with 14.[4] Canada also broke the record for the most golds won at a single Winter Olympics, which was previously 13, set by the Soviet Union in 1976 and Norway in 2002.[5] The United States placed first in total medals—its second time doing so in a Winter Games—and set a record for most medals won at a single Winter Olympics, with 37, breaking the previous record of 36, set by Germany in 2002.
In the men's individual event in biathlon, two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie. No bronze medal was awarded for that event.[6] Athletes from Slovakia (Anastasiya Kuzmina – biathlon, women's sprint)[7] and Belarus (Aleksei Grishin – freestyle skiing, men's aerials)[8] won the first Winter Olympic gold medals for their nations. Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen was the most successful athlete, winning three gold, one silver and one bronze medal, and became the ninth Winter Olympian to win five medals at one edition of the Games. Chinese short-track speed skater Wang Meng also won three gold medals.[9]
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See also: Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
| Men's 10 km sprint | ||||
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| Men's 12.5 km pursuit | ||||
| Men's 15 km mass start | ||||
| Men's 20 km individual | shared silver | |||
| Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay | Halvard Hanevold Tarjei Bø Emil Hegle Svendsen Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Simon Eder Daniel Mesotitsch Dominik Landertinger Christoph Sumann | Ivan Tcherezov Anton Shipulin Maxim Tchoudov Evgeny Ustyugov | |
| Women's 7.5 km sprint | ||||
| Women's 10 km pursuit | ||||
| Women's 12.5 km mass start | ||||
| Women's 15 km individual | ||||
| Women's 4 × 6 km relay | Svetlana Sleptsova Anna Bogaliy-Titovets Olga Medvedtseva Olga Zaitseva | Marie-Laure Brunet Sylvie Becaert Marie Dorin Sandrine Bailly | Kati Wilhelm Simone Hauswald Martina Beck Andrea Henkel |
See also: Bobsleigh at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
| Men's sprint | ||||
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| Men's 15 km | ||||
| Men's 30 km pursuit | ||||
| Men's 50 km | ||||
| Men's team sprint | Øystein Pettersen Petter Northug | Tim Tscharnke Axel Teichmann | Nikolay Morilov Alexey Petukhov | |
| Men's 4 x 10 km relay | Daniel Rickardsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Marcus Hellner | Martin Johnsrud Sundby Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Lars Berger Petter Northug | Martin Jakš Lukáš Bauer Jiří Magál Martin Koukal | |
| Women's sprint | ||||
| Women's 10 km | ||||
| Women's 15 km pursuit | ||||
| Women's 30 km | ||||
| Women's team sprint | Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Nystad | Charlotte Kalla Anna Haag | Irina Khazova Natalya Korostelyova | |
| Women's 4 x 5 km relay | Vibeke Skofterud Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen | Katrin Zeller Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Miriam Gössner Claudia Nystad | Pirjo Muranen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen |
See also: Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
| Men's singles | ||||
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| Women's singles | ||||
| Pairs | Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo | Pang Qing Tong Jian | Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy | |
| Ice dancing | Tessa Virtue Scott Moir | Meryl Davis Charlie White | Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin |
See also: Freestyle skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Luge at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Nordic combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
| Men's 500 m | ||||||
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| Men's 1000 m | ||||||
| Men's 1500 m | ||||||
| Men's 5000 m relay | Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean François-Louis Tremblay Guillaume Bastille | Kwak Yoon-Gy Lee Ho-Suk Lee Jung-Su Sung Si-Bak Kim Seoung-Il | J. R. Celski Travis Jayner Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno Simon Cho | |||
| Women's 500 m | ||||||
| Women's 1000 m | ||||||
| Women's 1500 m | ||||||
| Women's 3000 m relay | valign=top | Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang | valign=top | Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent | Allison Baver Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter Kimberly Derrick |
See also: Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
See also: Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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| Men's 10000 m | |||||||
| Men's team pursuit | valign=top | Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison | valign=top | Brian Hansen Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck Trevor Marsicano | Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers Mark Tuitert | ||
| Women's 500 m | |||||||
| Women's 1000 m | |||||||
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| Women's 3000 m | |||||||
| Women's 5000 m | |||||||
| Women's team pursuit | valign=top | Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Anni Friesinger-Postma Katrin Mattscherodt | valign=top | Masako Hozumi Nao Kodaira Maki Tabata | valign=top | Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska |
Athletes that won at least two gold medals or at least three total medals are listed below.
| Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| Cross-country skiing | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Short track speed skating | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Cross-country skiing | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Short track speed skating | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Biathlon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Biathlon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Ski jumping | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Short track speed skating | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Alpine skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Short track speed skating | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Speed skating | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Ski jumping | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Nordic combined | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Short track speed skating | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||