All-Time Winter Medal Standings by Country, 1924-2018

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Nearly a century of fierce competition 

Norway continues to hold a strong lead in total medals for any individual country. However, some calculations would lead to different overall leaders; e.g. if one were to combine the medal totals of all the historical German teams with the current German record, then Germany would lead with a total of 408 medals.

Other common methods of calculating Olympic glory involve making ratios of gold medals to other factors. Common angles include measuring gold medals per capita, gold medals by GDP, or gold medals per Olympic appearance. Many argue, for  example, that U.S. dominance in the Summer games must be weighed against the pool of potential athletes and the budget spent on training facilities. By comparison one could claim that Liechtenstein's two gold medals (from a country of less than 40,000 people) is ultimately more impressive due to the limited talent pool from which they can draw. 

However you define Olympic victory, be sure to check the most recent changes and victories at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea

Rank Country # of Games Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Norway 23 132 125 111 368
2 United States 23 105 110 90 305
3 Germany (1928-36, 92-) 12 92 88 60 240
4 Austria 23 64 81 87 232
5 Canada 23 73 64 62 199
6 Soviet Union (1956-88) 9 78 57 59 194
7 Finland 23 43 63 61 167
8 Sweden 23 57 46 55 158
9 Switzerland 23 55 46 52 153
10 Netherlands 21 45 44 41 130
11 Italy 23 40 36 48 124
12 France 23 36 35 53 124
13 Russia (1994-) 6 47 38 35 120
14 East Germany (1968-88) 6 39 36 35 110
15 South Korea 18 31 25 14 70
16 China 11 13 28 21 62
17 Japan 21 14 22 22 62
18 West Germany (1968-88) 6 11 15 13 39
19 Great Britain 23 11 4 16 31
20 Czech Republic 7 9 11 11 31
21 Czechoslovakia 16 2 8 15 25
22 Unified Team (of former USSR) 1 9 6 8 23
23 Poland 23 7 7 8 22
24 Unified Team of Germany 3 8 6 5 19
25 Belarus 7 8 5 5 18
26 Olympic Athletes from Russia 1 2 6 9 17
27 Slovenia 8 2 5 10 17
28 Australia 19 5 5 5 15
29 Croatia 8 4 6 1 11
30 Liechtenstein 19 2 2 6 10
31 Slovakia 7 3 4 1 8
32 Ukraine 7 3 1 4 8
33 Kazakhstan 7 1 3 4 8
34 Latvia 11 0 4 4 8
35 Estonia 10 4 2 1 7
36 Hungary 23 1 2 4 7
37 Bulgaria 20 1 2 3 6
38 Belgium 21 1 2 3 6
39 Spain 20 1 0 3 4
40 Yugoslavia 16 0 3 1 4
41 New Zealand 16 0 1 2 3
42 Luxembourg 9 0 2 0 2
43 North Korea 9 0 1 1 2
44 Uzbekistan 7 1 0 0 1
45 Denmark 14 0 1 0 1
46 Romania 21 0 0 1 1

Notes: Athletes from the USSR participated in the Winter Games from 1956-88, returned as the Unified Team in 1992 after the breakup of the Soviet Union (in 1991) and then competed for the independent republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and three others in 1994. The Russian team was banned from competition in 2018 after a doping scandal, but individual athletes were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag. Yugoslavia divided into Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, while Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993.

Germany was barred from the Olympics in 1924 and 1948 as an aggressor nation in both World Wars I and II. Divided into East and West Germany after WWII, both countries competed under one flag from 1952-64, then as separate teams from 1968-88. Germany was reunified in 1990.

 

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