Top medal-winning nations at Winter Olympics ------------------------------------------------------- Year Host 1924 Chamonix, FRA 1928 St. Moritz, SUI 1932 Lake Placid, USA 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER 1948 St. Moritz, SUI 1952 Oslo, NOR 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo, ITA 1960 Squaw Valley, USA 1964 Innsbruck, AUT 1968 Grenoble, FRA 1972 Sapporo, JPN 1976 Innsbruck, AUT 1980 Lake Placid, USA 1984 Sarajevo, YUG 1988 Calgary, CAN 1992 Albertville, FRA 1994 Lillehammer, NOR 1998 Nagano, JPN 2002 Salt Lake City, USA 2006 Turin, ITA 2010 Vancouver, CAN 2014 Sochi, RUS 2018 Pyeongchang, KOR 1st place NOR 4 7 6 NOR 6 4 5 USA 6 4 2 NOR 7 5 3 NOR 4 3 3 NOR 7 3 6 URS* 7 3 6 URS 7 5 9 URS 11 8 6 NOR 6 6 2 URS 8 5 3 URS 13 6 8 URS 10 6 6 GDR 9 9 6 URS 11 9 9 GER 10 10 6 RUS 11 8 4 GER 12 9 8 NOR 13 5 7 GER 11 12 6 CAN 14 7 5 RUS 11 9 9 NOR 14 14 11 2nd place FIN 4 4 3 5 USA 2 2 2 2 NOR 3 4 3 3 GER 3 3 0 3 SWE 4 3 3 6 USA 4 6 1 6 AUT 4 3 4 9 GER 4 3 1 6 AUT 4 5 3 2 URS 5 5 3 3 GDR† 4 3 7 8 GDR 7 5 7 6 GDR 9 7 7 6 URS 6 10 9 9 GDR 9 10 6 6 EUN‡ 9 6 8 4 NOR 10 11 5 8 NOR 10 10 5 7 GER 12 16 8 USA 9 9 7 GER 10 13 7 NOR 11 5 10 GER 14 10 7 3rd place AUT 2 1 0 SWE 2 21 SWE 1 2 0 SWE 2 2 3 SUI 3 4 3 FIN 3 4 2 FIN 3 3 1 USA 3 4 3 NOR 3 3 6 FRA 4 3 2 SUI 4 3 3 USA 3 3 4 USA 6 4 2 USA 4 4 0 SUI 5 5 5 NOR 9 6 5 GER 9 7 9 RUS 9 6 3 USA 10 13 11 AUT 9 7 7 USA 9 15 13 CAN 10 10 5 CAN 11 8 10 Recent Olympic emblems -------------------------------------------- Source: IOC URS* – Soviet Union, GDR† – East Germany, EUN‡ – Unified Team (12 of 15 former Soviet republics) © GRAPHIC NEWS