| 2018 Winter Olympics medals | ||||
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 Marit Bjørgen (pictured) won five medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the most of any competing athlete. | ||||
| Location | Pyeongchang, South Korea | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals |  Germany (14) and Norway (14) | |||
| Most total medals | Norway (39) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 30 | |||
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The2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, were an international wintermulti-sport event held inPyeongchang County (stylized as PyeongChang for the games),South Korea, from 9 to 25 February, with preliminary events in somesports beginning on 8 February.[1][2][3] A total of 2,833 athletes representing 92National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[4] The games featured 102 events in 15 sports, making it the first Winter Olympics to surpass 100 medal events.[5][6] Four new disciplines in existing sports were introduced to theWinter Olympic Games program in Pyeongchang:big air snowboarding,mixed doubles curling,mass startspeed skating, and mixed teamalpine skiing.[7]
Athletes representing 30 NOCs received at least one medal, the highest for any Winter Olympic Games thus far, with 22 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.[8][9] Athletes fromNorway won the most medals overall, with 39, surpassing the previous record of 37 medals set by theUnited States at the2010 Winter Olympics.[10] Athletes fromGermany and Norway tied for the most gold medals with 14 each, equaling the record set byCanada in 2010 for most gold medals won at a single Winter Olympics.[11]Hungary won its first Winter Olympic gold medal ever, doing so in themen's 5,000 meter short-track speed skating relay.[12]
Norwegian cross-country skierMarit Bjørgen won the most medals at the games with five (two gold, one silver, and two bronze).[13] With 15 total Olympic medals, she also became themost decorated athlete in Winter Olympics history.[14]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables.[15] The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[16][17] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[18]
At the 2018 Winter Olympics,athletes were tied in three events. In thewomen's 10 km cross-country skiing, two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie.[19] In thetwo-man bobsleigh, two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded due to a tie,[20] while in thefour-man bobsleigh, two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded due to a tie.[21]
* Host nation (South Korea)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway | 14 | 14 | 11 | 39 |
| 2 | Germany | 14 | 10 | 7 | 31 |
| 3 |  Canada | 11 | 8 | 10 | 29 |
| 4 |  United States | 9 | 8 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 |  Netherlands | 8 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 6 |  Sweden | 7 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | South Korea* | 5 | 8 | 4 | 17 |
| 8 |  Switzerland | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 9 |  France | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 10 |  Austria | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 11 |  Japan | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| 12 |  Italy | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 13 |  Olympic Athletes from Russia[B] | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 14 |  Czech Republic | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 15 |  Belarus | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 |  China | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 17 |  Slovakia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 18 |  Finland | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 19 |  Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 20 |  Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 |  Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 23 |  Australia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 24 |  Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 |  Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 |  New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Spain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 28 |  Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Liechtenstein | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (30 entries) | 103 | 102 | 102 | 307 | |
| Ruling date | Sport/event | Athlete (NOC) |  |  |  | Net change | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 February 2018 | Curling, mixed doubles | Alexander Krushelnitskiy (OAR)DSQ Anastasia Bryzgalova (OAR) | −1 | −1 | On 18 February 2018, it was reported that Russian curlerAlexander Krushelnitskiy failed a doping test formeldonium.[24][25] After testing of the B sample was also positive, theCourt of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that they were instituting formal proceedings.[26] On 22 February 2018, Krushelnitskiy and his partnerAnastasia Bryzgalova were stripped of their bronze medals in themixed doubles.[27] The bronze medals were then awarded to the Norwegian mixed curling team, who had lost the bronze medal game to Krushelnitskiy and Bryzgalova.[28] | ||
| Kristin Skaslien (NOR) Magnus Nedregotten (NOR) | +1 | +1 |
| NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Net change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway (NOR) | +1 | +1 | ||
| Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) | −1 | −1 |
