Medal Sweeps at the Winter Olympics

The USA men just swept the medals in the freestyle slopestyle. This is the 3rd USA medal sweep at the Olympic Winter Games, after 2002 men’s snowboard halfpipe and 1956 men’s figure skating. It is the 42nd medal sweep overall in Winter Olympic history.

This is the 3rd medal sweep at Sochi after the speed skating men’s 500 and 5,000, both done by the Netherlands. This is equal to the most ever medal sweeps for men at a Winter Olympics, with this only occurring before at St. Moritz in 1928, with the men’s cross-country 15 km (NOR), men’s cross-country 50 km (SWE), and men’s Nordic combined (NOR). The record overall is 5 at Innsbruck in 1964. The last time there were 3 medal sweeps at a WOG was in 1998 in Nagano.

Here are all the previous medal sweeps at the Winter Olympic Games:

 

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Year,Sport,Event,NOC,Gender

1908,FSK,Singles,SWE,M

1924,CCS,50 km.,NOR,M

1924,NCO,Individual,NOR,M

1928,CCS,15 km.,NOR,M

1928,CCS,50 km.,SWE,M

1928,NCO,Individual,NOR,M

1932,NCO,Individual,NOR,M

1932,SKJ,Large hill,NOR,M

1936,CCS,50 km.,SWE,M

1936,NCO,Individual,NOR,M

1948,CCS,15 km.,SWE,M

1948,SKJ,Large hill,NOR,M

1952,CCS,10 km.,FIN,F

1956,ASK,Giant slalom,AUT,M

1956,FSK,Singles,USA,M

1960,CCS,10 km.,SOV,F

1964,ASK,Downhill,AUT,F

1964,CCS,10 km.,SOV,F

1964,LUG,Singles,GER,F

1964,SSK,500 metres,SOV,F

1964,SSK,5000 metres,NOR,M

1972,LUG,Singles,GDR,F

1972,LUG,Singles,GDR,M

1972,SKJ,Normal hill,JPN,M

1984,LUG,Singles,GDR,F

1984,SSK,3000 metres,GDR,F

1988,LUG,Singles,GDR,F

1988,CCS,20 km.,SOV,F

1992,CCS,30 km.,NOR,M

1992,SSK,5000 metres,GER,M

1994,ASK,Combined,NOR,M

1998,ASK,Combined,GER,F

1998,SSK,10000 metres,NED,M

1998,SSK,3000 metres,GER,M

2002,LUG,Singles,GER,F

2002,SNB,Halfpipe,USA,M

2006,LUG,Singles,GER,F

2006,ASK,Slalom,AUT,M

2010,LUG,Singles,GER,F

2014,SSK,5000 metres,NED,M

2014,SSK,500 metres,NED,M

2014,FRS,Slopestyle,USA,M

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11 thoughts on “Medal Sweeps at the Winter Olympics”

  1. Great information on Sweeps. NBC has been using the term sweep in reference to the Snowboard Slopestyle events of earlier this week to mean that the USA won the gold medal in both the Men’s and Women’s event though the USA did not “sweep” the medals in either event. When I heard that the USA had swept the Slopestyle Skiing event on the radio this morning I was a bit confused as the USA only won the Silver Medal in the Women’s event, and I thought Fox Sports was following NBC’s nomenclature. I hope NBC can use this term correctly in the future.

    1. Make the 1500m Woman Speed Skating a 1, 2, 3 and 4… Are there any statistics about how often that happed?

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