Norway has historically dominated, with a total of 368 medals won throughout the history of the Winter Game. It looks like the 2022 Winter Olympics will be no exception.
The Scandinavian country sits in first place in the Winter Olympics medal count as of 11 a.m. Friday with 34 medals, nine of which are gold. Norway led the 2018 medal count in Pyeongchang, taking home 39 medals in total.
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) is in second place with 27 medals, five of which are gold. Canada sits in third with 24 medals total.
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Team USA, which won 23 medals in Pyeongchang 2018—fourth overall—stands in fifth place in the medal count as of Friday with 21 medals total. The U.S. won its first Beijing Olympics gold medal when Lindsey Jacobellis won the women’s snowboarding cross. Team USA’s snowboarder Julia Marino took home the country’s first medal of the Games with silver in the women’s snowboarding slopestyle final. Gold medal wins from Chloe Kim and Nathan Chen on Wednesday night helped Team USA rise from ninth place in the medal count during the first week of the Games.
The Chinese capital is making Olympic history as the first city to stage both the Summer and Winter Games. For 19 days, some 2,900 athletes will be competing in 109 different winter sporting events—seven more than the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. According to the International Olympic Committee, 45% of the athletes are women, making Beijing 2022 the most gender-balanced Winter Olympics to date.
China will field its biggest delegation ever for the Winter Olympics, with more than 400 athletes. Teams from Haiti and Saudi Arabia will make their Winter Olympics debut in Beijing.
All athletes will be undergoing daily COVID-19 testing under China’s strict closed-loop system. Anyone who is confirmed to be infected will be barred from competing, raising the stakes for athletes who wish to eke out medals for their host countries.
Here are all the medals awarded to date in Beijing 2022.