Canada at the Olympics

Canada has sent athletes to every Winter Olympic Games and almost every Summer Olympic Games since its debut at the 1900 games with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted. 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.

Canada at the
Olympics
IOC codeCAN
NOCCanadian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympic.ca (in English and French)
Medals
Gold
137
Silver
166
Bronze
198
Total
501
Summer appearances
Winter appearances
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, which was hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the country won more gold medals than any other competing nation for the first time.

Hosted Games

Canada has hosted the Olympic games three times: the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

GamesHost cityDatesNationsParticipantsEvents
1976 Summer OlympicsMontreal, Quebec17 July – 1 August926,028123
1988 Winter OlympicsCalgary, Alberta13 – 28 February571,42346
2010 Winter OlympicsVancouver, British Columbia12 – 28 February832,62986

Medal tables

Summer games

Number of medals won by Canada at the Olympic summer games from 1900 to 2012.
Medals by year
   Hosted Summer Games
Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1896 Athensdid not participate
1900 Paris2101213
1904 St. Louis5241164
1908 London873310167
1912 Stockholm3732389
1920 Antwerp53333912
1924 Paris65031420
1928 Amsterdam694471510
1932 Los Angeles1022581512
1936 Berlin97135917
1948 London118012325
1952 Helsinki107120321
1956 Melbourne92213615
1960 Rome85010132
1964 Tokyo115121422
1968 Mexico City138131523
1972 Munich208023527
1976 Montreal (host nation)3850561127
1980 Moscowdid not participate
1984 Los Angeles407101816446
1988 Seoul3283251019
1992 Barcelona2957471811
1996 Atlanta30331182221
2000 Sydney2943381424
2004 Athens2633631221
2008 Beijing3323982019
2012 London28125111836
2016 Rio de Janeiro31443152220
2020 TokyoFuture event
2024 ParisFuture event
2028 Los AngelesFuture event
Total6410213630220

Canada also won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal at the 1906 Summer Olympics, which the IOC no longer recognizes as an official Olympic games, so those medals are not counted in this table.

Medals by sport
  Leading in that sport
SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Athletics14153160
Rowing9171541
Swimming8152649
Canoeing and kayaking (sprint)4101024
Shooting4329
Boxing37717
Wrestling (freestyle)37717
Synchronized swimming3418
Trampoline gymnastics2327
Equestrian (jumping)2215
Lacrosse2013
Diving14813
Track cycling1258
Weightlifting1214
Triathlon1102
Football1023
Artistic gymnastics1001
Golf1001
Rhythmic gymnastics1001
Tennis1001
Sailing0369
Judo0235
Mountain biking0213
Road cycling0123
Taekwondo0112
Basketball0101
Beach volleyball0011
Equestrian (dressage)0011
Equestrian (eventing)0011
Rugby sevens0011
Totals (30 sports)63102136301

*One of Canada's Ice Hockey gold medals was won during the 1920 Summer Olympics. This table does not include this medal, resulting in the discrepancy between the medals by games and medals by sports tables.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in the following current summer sports: Archery, Badminton, BMX, Canoeing and kayaking - Slalom, Fencing, Field hockey, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Handball, Indoor Volleyball, Modern pentathlon, Table tennis, and Water polo.

Winter games

Number of medals won by Canada at the Olympic winter games from 1924 to 2014.
Medals in Winter Games
   Hosted Winter Games
   Ongoing Winter Games
Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1924 Chamonix1210018
1928 St. Moritz2310015
1932 Lake Placid4211574
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen2901019
1948 St. Moritz2820136
1952 Oslo3910126
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo37012310
1960 Squaw Valley4421147
1964 Innsbruck55111310
1968 Grenoble70111313
1972 Sapporo47010117
1976 Innsbruck59111311
1980 Lake Placid59011214
1984 Sarajevo6721148
1988 Calgary112023513
1992 Albertville10823279
1994 Lillehammer95364137
1998 Nagano144654154
2002 Salt Lake City150737174
2006 Turin1967107245
2010 Vancouver2061475261
2014 Sochi22010105253
2018 Pyeongchang22611810293
2022 BeijingFuture event
2026 Milan–CortinaFuture event
Total7364621995
Medals by sport
  Leading in that sport
SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Ice hockey136322
Freestyle skiing129425
Speed skating9131537
Short track speed skating9121233
Figure skating6111229
Curling63211
Bobsleigh5229
Snowboarding44311
Alpine skiing41611
Skeleton2114
Cross-country skiing2103
Biathlon2013
Luge0112
Totals (13 sports)746462200

*One of Canada's ice hockey gold medals was won during the 1920 Summer Olympics. This table includes this medal, resulting in the discrepancy between the medals by games and medals by sports tables.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in the following current winter sports: Nordic combined and Ski jumping.

Records

In 2012, Equestrian show jumper Ian Millar competed at his tenth Summer Olympics, tying the record for most Olympic games participated in set by Austrian sailor Hubert Raudaschl between 1964 and 1996. He has been named to eleven straight Olympic teams, but did not compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Canadian boycott.[1] In 2008 he won his first medal, a silver medal in the team jumping event.[2]

Clara Hughes is the inaugural and only Olympian of any country or gender, to win medals all OLympic Games: two Summer and four Winter medals.[3] Clara Hughes and Cindy Klassen co-hold the record for winning the most medals at six in Olympic competitions by a Canadian of either gender.[3] Cindy Klassen holds the record for most Winter medals won by a Canadian of either gender, with six.[3]

Catriona Le May Doan became the inaugural Canadian to defend their gold medal at the Olympics. She repeated her gold medal in the women's 500m long track speedskating event at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from the 1998 Nagano Olympics.[4][5]

Alexandre Bilodeau became the first freestyle skiing gold medallist to defend his Olympic title, and first repeat gold medallist, winning the men's moguls at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He became the second Canadian to defend their Olympic gold, and first man.[4][5][6]

Trampoline gymnast Rosie MacLennan was the first Canadian to defend their gold medal in an individual sport at the Summer Olympics. She won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, the inaugural Olympian to defend their title in that discipline.[7]

After captaining the women's ice hockey team to gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Caroline Ouellette became the first Winter Olympian of any country or gender to enter four or more career events and win gold in each.[8] Oullette had previously won gold in ice hockey in 2002, 2006, and 2010.

Jennifer Jones skipped the Canadian women's team at the 2014 Winter Olympics to a Gold medal. She is the first ever female skip in Olympic history to be undefeated throughout the tournament. Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen and spare Kirsten Wall went unbeaten with an 11-0 record defeating China, Sweden (round-robin and finals), Great Britain (round-robin and semi-finals), Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, the United States, and Korea.[9][10]

During the 2016 Summer Olympics, swimmer Penny Oleksiak became the inaugural Canadian of either gender to win four medals at a single Summer Games and the distinction of the country's youngest Olympic multiple medalist at the age of 16: a gold in the 100 m freestyle, a silver in the 100 m butterfly, and two bronzes in the women's freestyle relays (4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m).[11] She shares the distinction if being the co-inaugural Olympic medalist born in the 21st century when, in women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay a few days earlier, won the bronze medal with teammate Taylor Ruck.[12]

After capturing gold in 2010 Winter Olympics, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the inaugural ice dancers from North America to win an Olympic gold medal, ending the 34-year streak of the Europeans. They were the inaugural ice dance team to win the Olympic gold at home ice and the inaugural ice dancers to win gold at their Olympic debut. They are the youngest pair to win an Olympic title at 20 and 22 respectively. They would win two more silver medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics and two more gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics, giving them the distinction of being the most decorated figure skaters at the Summer Games.

Broadcaster Richard Garneau covered 23 Olympic Games, more than any other journalist in the world, starting with Rome in 1960 to London in 2012, missing only the Atlanta and Nagano Games. The International Olympic Committee awarded him posthumously the Pierre de Coubertin medal in recognition of his exceptional service to the Olympic movement.[13]

Top Medal earners

  • Years in bolded text are Olympics at which that competitor won a medal.
Athlete Sport Type Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
Cindy Klassen Speed skating Winter 2002, 2006, 2010 1 2 3 6
Clara Hughes Cycling Summer 1996, 2000, 2012 0 0 2 6
Speed skating Winter 2002, 2006, 2010 1 1 2
Jayna Hefford Ice hockey Winter 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 4 1 0 5
Hayley Wickenheiser
Scott Moir Figure skating Winter 2010, 2014, 2018 3 2 0 5
Tessa Virtue
Charles Hamelin Short track Winter 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 3 1 1 5
Marc Gagnon Short track Winter 1994, 1998, 2002 3 0 2 5
François-Louis Tremblay Short track Winter 2002, 2006, 2010 2 2 1 5
Lesley Thompson Rowing Summer 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000,
2008, 2012, 2016
1 3 1 5
Phil Edwards Athletics Summer 1928, 1932, 1936 0 0 5 5
Caroline Ouellette Ice hockey Winter 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 4 0 0 4
Jennifer Botterill Ice hockey Winter 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 3 1 0 4
Becky Kellar
Meghan Agosta Ice hockey Winter 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 3 1 0 4
Kathleen Heddle Rowing Summer 1992, 1996 3 0 1 4
Marnie McBean
Éric Bédard Short track Winter 1998, 2002, 2006 2 1 1 4
Gaétan Boucher Speed skating Winter 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 2 1 1 4
Victor Davis Swimming Summer 1984, 1988 1 3 0 4
Denny Morrison Speed skating Winter 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 1 2 1 4
Adam van Koeverden Kayaking Summer 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 1 2 1 4
Penny Oleksiak Swimming Summer 2016 1 1 2 4
Kristina Groves Speed skating Winter 2002, 2006, 2010 0 3 1 4
Tania Vicent Short track Winter 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 0 2 2 4
Émilie Heymans Diving Summer 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 0 2 2 4
Alex Wilson Athletics Summer 1928, 1932 0 1 3 4

3+ Medals at one Olympics

Athlete Sport Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
Phil Edwards Athletics 1932 Summer 0 0 800 m
1500 m
4×400 m relay
3
Alex Wilson Athletics 1932 Summer 0 800 m 400 m
4×400 m relay
3
Elaine Tanner Swimming 1968 Summer 0 100 m backstroke
200 m backstroke
4×100m freestyle 3
Victor Davis Swimming 1984 Summer 200 m breaststroke 100 m breaststroke
4×100 m medley
0 3
Anne Ottenbrite Swimming 1984 Summer 200 m breaststroke 100 m breaststroke 4×100 m medley 3
Gaétan Boucher Speed skating 1984 Winter 1000 m
1500 m
0 500 m 3
Marc Gagnon Short track 2002 Winter 500 m
5000 m relay
0 1500 m 3
Cindy Klassen Speed skating 2006 Winter 1500 m 1000 m
Team pursuit
3000 m
5000 m
5
Penny Oleksiak Swimming 2016 Summer 100 m freestyle 100 m butterfly 4×100 m freestyle
4×200 m freestyle
4
Andre De Grasse Athletics 2016 Summer 0 200 m 100 m
4×100 m relay
3
Kim Boutin Short track 2018 Winter 0 1000 m 500 m
1500 m
3

See also

References

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  2. Doug Smith (2008-08-18). "'Canada wins silver in team show jumping'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
  3. Canadian Press (22 June 2012). "London 2012: Hesjedal and Hughes to lead Canadian road cycling team at London Games". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
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  6. Will Graves (2014-02-10). "Canada's Alex Bilodeau takes gold in men's moguls, first two-time freestyle Olympic champion". Associated Press. The Republic (Columbus, Indiana). Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
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  8. Nick Zaccardi (2014-02-20). "An inch to the right and we would have won the gold". NBC Olympic Talk.
  9. Blatchford, Christie (21 February 2014). "Blatchford: Dream comes true as Jennifer Jones wins Olympic gold". canada.com. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  10. Wyman, Ted (20 February 2014). "Jennifer Jones is perfect, beats Sweden to win Olympic gold". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
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