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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, Canada would win more gold medals than any other competing nation for the first
Linda Thom's gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles games was the first summer Olympic gold medal for Canada in 16 years, having been shut out in Munich (1972) and Montreal (1976), and boycotting the Moscow (1980) games. Since her victory was unexpected, and the sport is not very popular, the event was not broadcast live and Canadian television ...
Olympics portal; Canada portal; International Olympic Committee results database; CBC Digital Archives – Golden Summers: Canada's Gold Medal Athletes 1984-2000; CBC Digital Archives – Gold Medal Athletes – 1948-1968
Olympics. Medals table. Through Tuesday. Events finished: 56. Events scheduled: 273
The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal. Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account.
During the 2008 Summer Olympics, with China and the U.S. topping the gold and total medal tallies respectively, [23] and then again at the 2010 Winter Olympics when Canada and the U.S. finished 1st and 3rd respectively in the "gold first" ranking, [24] and 3rd and 1st respectively in terms of total medals won. [25]
Canada has never won an Olympic medal in the following current winter sport: Nordic combined. Canada has finished with the highest Canadian Winter medals total at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games with 29 medals. [2] This represents Canada's second highest medal haul at the Olympics, behind the 44 of the Soviet-bloc-boycotted 1984 Summer Games. [3]
The table uses the Olympic 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 National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.