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The champions of Pyeongchang The 2018 Winter Olympics were full of surprises and excitement. Biathlon favorite Martin Fourcade floundered early, only to rally to Olympic gold. The hockey players from Russia1 were nearly barred from competition but came out strong to win first place in the Men’s event. Read more about the winners from Pyeongchang below.
Medal standings by sport: Choose a sport…Alpine SkiingBiathlonBobsleighCross-Country SkiingCurlingFigure SkatingFreestyle SkiingIce HockeyLugeNordic CombinedShort TrackSkeletonSki JumpingSnowboardSpeed Skating or view: Medal standings by country
Alpine Skiing
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/13 Men’s Combined Marcel HirscherAustria Alexis PinturaultFrance Victor Muffat-JeandetFrance 2/15 Ladies’ Giant Slalom Mikaela ShiffrinUnited States Ragnhild MowinckelNorway Federica BrignoneItaly 2/15 Men’s Downhill Aksel Lund SvindalNorway Kjetil JansrudNorway Beat FeuzSwitzerland 2/16 Ladies’ Slalom Frida HansdotterSweden Wendy HoldenerSwitzerland Katharina GallhuberAustria 2/16 Men’s Super-G Matthias MayerAustria Beat FeuzSwitzerland Kjetil JansrudNorway 2/17 Ladies’ Super-G Ester LedeckaCzech Republic Anna VeithAustria Tina WeiratherLiechtenstein 2/18 Men’s Giant Slalom Marcel HirscherAustria Henrik KristoffersenNorway Alexis PinturaultFrance 2/20 Ladies’ Super G Michaela Dorfmeister Austria Janica Kostelic Croatia Alexandra Meissnitzer Austria 2/21 Ladies’ Downhill Sofia GoggiaItaly Ragnhild MowinckelNorway Lindsey VonnUnited States 2/22 Ladies’ Combined Michelle GisinSwitzerland Mikaela ShiffrinUnited States Wendy HoldenerSwitzerland 2/22 Men’s Slalom Andre MyhrerSweden Ramon ZenhaeusernSwitzerland Michael MattAustria 2/24 Team Event Switzerland Austria Norway
Biathlon
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/10 Women’s 7.5km Sprint Laura Dahlmeier Germany Marte OlsbuNorway Veronika VitkovaCzech Republic 2/11 Men’s 10km Sprint Arnd PeifferGermany Michal KrcmarCzech Republic Dominik WindischItaly 2/12 Men’s 12.5km Pursuit Martin FourcadeFrance Sebastian SamuelssonSweden Benedikt DollGermany 2/12 Women’s 10km Pursuit Laura Dahlmeier Germany Anastasiya KuzminaSlovakia Anais BescondFrance 2/15 Men’s 20km Individual Johannes Thingnes BoeNorway Jakov FakSlovenia Dominik LandertingerAustria 2/15 Women’s 15km Individual Hanna OebergSweden Anastasiya KuzminaSlovakia Laura Dahlmeier Germany 2/17 Women’s 12.5km Mass Start Anastasiya KuzminaSlovakia Darya DomrachevaBelarus Tiril EckhoffNorway 2/18 Men’s 15km Mass Start Martin FourcadeFrance Simon SchemppGermany Emil Hegle SvendsenNorway 2/20 2x6km Women’s + 2x7.5km Men’s Mixed Relay France Norway Italy 2/22 Women’s 4x6km Relay Belarus Sweden France 2/23 Men’s 4x7.5km Relay Sweden Norway Germany
Bobsleigh
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/19 Two-Man Canada Germany Latvia 2/21 Women’s Germany United States Canada 2/25 Four-Man Germany Germany South Korea
Cross-Country Skiing
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/10 Ladies’ 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon Charlotte KallaSweden Marit BjoergenNorway Krista ParmakoskiFinland 2/11 Men’s 15km + 15km Skiathlon Simen Hegstad KruegerNorway Martin Johnsrud SundbyNorway Hans Christer HolundNorway 2/13 Ladies’ Sprint Classic Stina NilssonSweden Maiken Caspersen FallaNorway Yulia Belorukova Olympic Athletes from Russa 2/13 Men’s Sprint Classic Johannes Hoesflot KlaeboNorway Federico PellegrinoItaly Alexander Bolshunov OAR1 2/15 Ladies’ 10km Free Ragnhild HagaNorway Charlotte KallaSweden Marit Bjorgen Norway & Krista ParmakoskiFinland 2/16 Men’s 15km Free Dario ColognaSwitzerland Simen Hegstad KruegerNorway Denis Spitsov OAR1 2/17 Ladies’ 4x5km Relay Norway Sweden OAR1 2/18 Men’s 4x10km Relay Norway OAR1 France 2/22 Ladies’ Team Sprint Free United States Sweden Norway 2/22 Men’s Team Sprint Free Norway OAR1 France 2/24 Men’s 50km Mass Start Classic Iivo NiskanenFinland Alexander Bolshunov OAR1 Andrey Larkov OAR1 2/25 Ladies’ 30km Mass Start Classic Marit BjoergenNorway Krista ParmakoskiFinland Stina NilssonSweden
Curling
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/13 Mixed Doubles Canada Switzerland Norway 2/24 Men’s United States Sweden Switzerland 2/25 Women’s Sweden South Korea Japan
Figure Skating
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/12 Team Event Canada OAR1 United States 2/15 Pairs Aljona Savchenko & Bruno MassotGermany Sui Wenjing & Han CongChina Meagan Duhamel & Eric RadfordCanada 2/17 Men’s Singles Yuzuru HanyuJapan Shoma UnoJapan Javier FernandezSpain 2/20 Ice Dance Tessa Virtue & Scott MoirCanada Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume CizeronFrance Maia Shibutani & Alex ShibutaniUnited States 2/23 Ladies’ Singles Alina Zagitova OAR1 Evgenia Medvedeva OAR1 Kaetlyn OsmondCanada
Freestyle Skiing
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/11 Ladies’ Moguls Perrine LaffontFrance Justine Dufour-LapointeCanada Yulia GalyshevaKazakhstan 2/12 Men’s Moguls Mikael KingsburyCanada Matt GrahamAustralia Daichi HaraJapan 2/16 Ladies’ Aerials Hanna HuskovaBelarus Zhang XinChina Kong FanyuChina 2/17 Ladies’ Slopestyle Sarah HoefflinSwitzerland Mathilde GremaudSwitzerland Isabel AtkinGreat Britain 2/18 Men’s Aerials Oleksandr AbramenkoUkraine Jia ZongyangChina Ilia Burov OAR1 2/18 Men’s Slopestyle Oystein BraatenNorway Nick GoepperUnited States Alex Beaulieu-MarchandCanada 2/20 Ladies’ Halfpipe Cassie SharpeCanada Marie MartinodFrance Brita SigourneyUnited States 2/21 Men’s Ski Cross Brady LemanCanada Marc BischofbergerSwitzerland Sergey Ridzik OAR1 2/22 Men’s Halfpipe David WiseUnited States Alex FerreiraUnited States Nico PorteousNew Zealand 2/23 Ladies’ Ski Cross Kelsey SerwaCanada Brittany PhelanCanada Fanny SmithSwitzerland
Ice Hockey
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/22 Women’s United States Canada Finland 2/25 Men’s OAR1 Germany Canada
Luge
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/11 Men’s Singles David GleirscherAustria Chris MazdzerUnited States Johannes LudwigGermany 2/14 Doubles Tobias Wendl & Tobias ArltGermany Peter Penz & Georg FischlerAustria Toni Eggert & Sascha BeneckenGermany 2/15 Team Relay Germany Canada Austria
Nordic Combined
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/14 Individual Gundersen NH/10km Eric FrenzelGermany Akito WatabeJapan Lukas KlapferAustria 2/20 Individual Gundersen LH/10km Johannes RydzekGermany Fabian RiessleGermany Eric FrenzelGermany 2/16 Team Gundersen LH/4x5km Germany Norway Austria
Skeleton
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/16 Men’s Yun Sung-binSouth Korea Nikita Tregubov OAR1 Dom ParsonsGreat Britain 2/17 Women’s Lizzy YarnoldGreat Britain Jacqueline LoellingGermany Laura DeasGreat Britain
Ski Jumping
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/10 Men’s Normal Hill Individual Andreas WellingerGermany Johann Andre Forfang Norway Robert Johansson Norway 2/12 Ladies’ Normal Hill Individual Maren LundbyNorway Katharina AlthausGermany Sara TakanashiJapan 2/17 Men’s Large Hill Individual Kamil StochPoland Andreas WellingerGermany Robert JohanssonNorway 2/20 Men’s Team Competition Norway Germany Poland
Snowboarding
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/11 Men’s Slopestyle Redmond GerardUnited States Max ParrotCanada Mark McMorrisCanada 2/12 Ladies’ Slopestyle Jamie AndersonUnited States Laurie BlouinCanada Enni RukajarviFinland 2/13 Ladies’ Halfpipe Chloe KimUnited States Liu JiayuChina Arielle GoldUnited States 2/14 Men’s Halfpipe Shaun WhiteUnited States Ayumu HiranoJapan Scotty JamesAustralia 2/15 Men’s Snowboard Cross Pierre VaultierFrance Jarryd HughesAustralia Regino HernandezSpain 2/16 Ladies’ Snowboard Cross Michela MoioliItaly Julia Pereira de Sousa MabileauFrance Eva SamkovaCzech Republic 2/22 Ladies’ Big Air Anna GasserAustria Jamie AndersonUnited States Zoi Sadowski SynnottNew Zealand 2/24 Ladies’ Parallel Giant Slalom Ester LedeckaCzech Republic Selina JoergGermany Ramona Theresia HofmeisterGermany 2/24 Men’s Big Air Sebastien ToutantCanada Kyle MackUnited States Billy MorganGreat Britain 2/24 Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom Nevin GalmariniSwitzerland Lee Sang-hoSouth Korea Zan KosierSlovenia
Speed Skating (Short Track)
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/10 Men’s 1,500m Lim Hyo-jun South Korea Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands Semen Elistratov OAR1 2/13 Ladies’ 500m Arianna FontanaItaly Yara van KerkhofNetherlands Kim BoutinCanada 2/17 Ladies’ 1,500m Choi Min-jeongSouth Korea Li JinyuChina Kim BoutinCanada 2/17 Men’s 1,000m Samuel GirardCanada John-Henry KruegerUnited States Seo Yi-raSouth Korea 2/20 Ladies’ 3,000m Relay South Korea Italy Netherlands 2/22 Men’s 500m Wu DajingChina Hwang Dae-heonSouth Korea Lim Hyo-junSouth Korea 2/22 Ladies’ 1,000m Suzanne SchultingNetherlands Kim BoutinCanada Arianna FontanaItaly 2/22 Men’s 5,000m Relay Hungary China Canada
Speed Skating
Date Event Gold Silver Bronze 2/10 Ladies’ 3,000m Carlijn AchtereekteNetherlands Ireen WustNetherlands Antoinette de JongNetherlands 2/11 Men’s 5,000m Sven KramerNetherlands Ted-Jan BloemenCanada Sverre Lunde PedersenNorway 2/12 Ladies’ 1,500m Ireen Wust Netherlands Miho TakagiJapan Marrit LeenstraNetherlands 2/13 Men’s 1,500m Kjeld NuisNetherlands Patrick RoestNetherlands Kim Min-seokSouth Korea 2/14 Ladies’ 1,000m Jorien Ter MorsNetherlands Nao KodairaJapan Miho TakagiJapan 2/15 Men’s 10,000m Ted-Jan BloemenCanada Jorrit BergsmaNetherlands Nicola TumoleroItaly 2/16 Ladies’ 5,000m Esmee VisserNetherlands Martina SablikovaCzech Republic Natalia Voronina OAR1 2/18 Ladies’ 500m Nao KodairaJapan Lee Sang-hwaSouth Korea Karolina ErbanovaCzech Republic 2/19 Men’s 500m Havard LorentzenNorway
Cha Min-kyuSouth Korea
Gao TingyuChina 2/21 Ladies’ Team Pursuit Japan Netherlands United States 2/21 Men’s Team Pursuit Norway South Korea Netherlands 2/23 Men’s 1,000m Kjeld NuisNetherlands Havard LorentzenNorway Kim Tae-yunSouth Korea 2/24 Ladies’ Mass Start Nana TakagiJapan Kim Bo-reumSouth Korea Irene SchoutenNetherlands 2/24 Men’s Mass Start Lee Seung-hoonSouth Korea Bart SwingsBelgium Koen VerweijNetherlands
Medal standings by sport: Choose a sport…Alpine SkiingBiathlonBobsleighCross-Country SkiingCurlingFigure SkatingFreestyle SkiingIce HockeyLugeNordic CombinedShort TrackSkeletonSki JumpingSnowboardSpeed Skating or view: Medal standings by country 1After a serious doping scandal, the Russian Olympic team was barred from competition. With the blessing of Russia’s Olympic Committee, athletes from Russia who met doping regulations were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR).
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The champions of Pyeongchang
The 2018 Winter Olympics were full of surprises and excitement. Biathlon favorite Martin Fourcade floundered early, only to rally to Olympic gold. The hockey players from Russia1 were nearly barred from competition but came out strong to win first place in the Men’s event. Read more about the winners from Pyeongchang below.
Alpine Skiing
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Cross-Country Skiing
Curling
Figure Skating
Freestyle Skiing
Ice Hockey
Luge
Nordic Combined
Skeleton
Ski Jumping
Snowboarding
Speed Skating (Short Track)
More about the 2018 Winter Olympics
Speed Skating
Cha Min-kyuSouth Korea
1After a serious doping scandal, the Russian Olympic team was barred from competition. With the blessing of Russia’s Olympic Committee, athletes from Russia who met doping regulations were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR).
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