Pyeong Chang 2018 - Olympic Games Winners

Start:

09 Feb 2018

End:

25 Feb 2018

Countries:

Athletes:

2922

Sports:

Events:

102

City:

PyeongChang, Korea

Three cities - Annecy, France; Munich, Germany and PyeongChang, Korea - were applied to host the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
In July 2011, at the 123rd IOC session in Durban, PyeongChang, Korea won the first round of voting with 63 of the 95 total votes.
In 2010 and 2014, PyeongChang, Korea was also a candidate site, and the city's third attempt was successful.

President of Korea Moon Jae-in officially opened the 23rd Winter Olympic games in 2018.
Norwegian female skier Marit BJORGEN won 2 gold, one silver, and two bronze and became the most decorated Winter Olympian in history with 15 medals.
Norwegian skier Johannes Hoesflot KLAEBO and biathlete from France Martin FOURCADE won 3 gold medals.
Czech female athlete Ester LEDECKA became the first woman to win gold medals in two different sports at a Winter Olympics, with victories in Alpine Skiing Super Giant and Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom.
Another female athlete from the Netherlands, Jorien TER MORS, also won medals in two sports - gold in the Speed Skating 1000m and bronze in the Short Track 3000 Relay.
Russia's Olympic team has been banned from the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang because doping in Russian sports has a systemic nature. Clean athletes competed under the Olympic flag as Olympic athletes from Russia.
Norway and Germany won 14 gold medals each, equaling Canada's record from 2010.