23 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Start:
09 Feb 2018
End:
25 Feb 2018
Countries:
92
Athletes:
2922
Sports:
15
Events:
102
City:
PyeongChang, Korea
PYEONG CHANG 2018 - Bid History
- 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 in the first round of votes with 63 of the 95 total votes.
- In 2010 and 2014, Pyeongchang, Korea was also a candidate site and the third attempt was successful for the city.
23 Winter Olympic Games, 2018 - Interesting Facts
- President of Korea Moon Jae-in officially opened the 23 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 and 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 the Alpine Skiing Super Giant and the 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 of 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 and repeated the record of Canada in 2010.
Winter Olympics 2018 - Medal Table
PYEONG CHANG 2018 - Top Medalists
FRA
3
0
0
3
0
0
NOR
2
1
2
2
1
0
2
1
0