Beijing, China, February 20, 2022: Host nation China enjoyed their most successful Winter Olympics in history as 16 days of action came to a close on Sunday.
China won nine gold medals, four silver and two bronze for 15 total medals. Their previous best was five gold medals at Vancouver 2010 and 11 total medals at Vancouver 2010 and Torino 2006.
Their most successful athlete was Eileen Gu Ailing, who won two gold and one silver in freestyle skiing and became the first athlete in history at a Winter Olympics to win a medal in all three freestyle disciplines.
Up until Beijing 2022, China had won a total of 13 gold medals in eight Winter Olympics starting at Albertville 1992. Now they can add nine more to the golden collection.
Japan closed with three gold medals, six silver and nine bronze for 18 total medals – another record in beating their previous mark of 13 total medals at PyeongChang 2018.
Speed skater Miho Takagi accounted for four of Japan’s medals – one gold and three silver – at the Ice Ribbon.
Korea’s nine medals all came on the ice – five in short track speed skating and four in the speed skating oval.
Korea’s Queen of Short Track, Choi Min-jeong, won three medals – one gold and two silver.
Asia’s Roll of Honour
CHINA
Gold (9)
Short Track Speed Skating: Mixed Team Relay (Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Zhang Yuting), February 5.
Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 1,000m – Ren Ziwei, February 7
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Freeski Big Air – Eileen Gu Ailing, February 8
Speed Skating: Men’s 500 metres – Gao Tingyu, February 12
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Aerials – Xu Mengtao, February 14
Snowboard: Men’s Snowboard Big Air – Su Yiming, February 15
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Aerials – Qi Guangpu, February 16
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Freeski Halfpipe – Eileen Gu Ailing, February 18
Figure Skating: Pair Skating (Sui Wenjing/Han Cong), February 19
Silver (4)
Snowboard: Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle - Su Yiming, February 7
Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 1,000m – Li Wenlong, February 7
Freestyle Skiing: Aerials Mixed Team (Qi Guangpu, Jia Zongyang, Xu Mengtao), February 10
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Freeski Slopestyle – Eileen Gu Ailing, February 15
Bronze (2)
Skeleton: Men’s Skeleton – Yan Wengang, February 11
Short Track Speed Skating: Women’s 3,000 metres Relay (Han Yutong, Qu Chunyu, Zhang Chutong, Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting), February 13
JAPAN
Gold (3)
Ski Jumping: Men’s Normal Hill Individual - Ryoyu Kobayashi, February 6
Snowboard: Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe – Ayumu Hirano, February 11
Speed Skating: Women’s 1,000 metres – Miho Takagi, February 17
Silver (6)
Figure Skating: Men’s Single Skating – Yuma Kagiyama, February 10
Speed Skating: Women’s 1,500 metres - Miho Takagi, February 7
Ski Jumping: Men’s Large Hill Individual – Ryoyu Kobayashi, February 12
Speed Skating: Women’s 500 metres – Miho Takagi, February 13
Speed Skating: Women’s Team Pursuit (Misaki Oshigiri, Ayano Sato, Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi), February 15.
Curling: Women’s Team (Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Kotomi Ishizaki), February 20
Bronze (9)
Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Moguls - Ikuma Horishima, February 5.
Figure Skating: Team Event (Shoma Uno, Yuma Kagiyama, Wakaba Higuchi, Kaori Sakamoto, Riku Miura/Ryuchi Kihara, Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto) February 7.
Figure Skating: Men’s Single Skating – Shoma Uno, February 10
Snowboard: Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe – Sena Tomita, February 10
Speed Skating: Men’s 500 metres – Wataru Morishige, February 12
Snowboard: Women’s Snowboard Big Air – Kokomo Murase, February 15
Nordic Combined: Individual Gundersen Large Hill/10km – Akito Watabe, February 15
Figure Skating: Women’s Single Skating – Kaori Sakamoto, February 17
Nordic Combined: Team Gundersen Large Hill 4x5km (Akito Watabe, Yoshito Watabe, Hideaki Nagai, Ryota Yamamoto), February 17
KOREA
Gold (2)
Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 1,500m – Hwang Dae-heon, February 9
Short Track Speed Skating: Women’s 1,500m – Choi Min-jeong, February 16
Silver (5)
Short Track Speed Skating: Women’s 1,000 metres – Choi Min-jeong, February 11
Speed Skating: Men’s 500 metres – Cha Min-kyu, February 12
Short Track Speed Skating: Women’s 3,000 metres Relay (Choi Min-jeong, Lee Yu-bin, Kim A-lang, Seo Whi-min, Park Ji-yun), February 13.
Short Track Speed Skating: Men’s 5,000 metres Relay (Lee June-seo, Kim Dong-wook, Hwang Dae-heon, Kwak Yoon-gy, Park Jang-hyuk)
Speed Skating: Men’s Mass Start – Chung Jae-won, February 19
Bronze (2)
Speed Skating: Men’s 1,500 metres – Kim Min-seok, February 8
Speed Skating: Men’s Mass Start – Lee Seung-hoon, February 19