We suspected that they would not equal the historic mark of 29 medals won by Canada at the Winter Games, achieved four years ago in Pyeongchang. But the country’s athletes will not have gone that far.
Last night, a few hours before the curtain fell on Beijing, they had collected 26, thanks in particular to the crew of Justin Kripps, in the 4-man bobsleigh, who finished third.
Quebec athletes leave China with 21 medals in their pocket. Of the lot, three have been on the podium more than once: speed skater Steven Dubois as well as snowboarders Maxence Parrot and Éliot Grondin. Quebecers will have contributed to 13 of the podiums obtained by Canada at these Games.
Canada Harvest
- Gold : 4
- Money : 8
- Bronze: 14
CUMULATIVE: 26 MEDALS
QUEBEC CONTRIBUTION: 13
Day 2
- Gold : 0
- Money : 1
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 2
QUEBEC CONTRIBUTION: 1
Photo: AFP
Isabelle Weidemann
› Isabelle Weidemann gave his country its first podium in Beijing, thanks to a bronze race in the 3000m in long track speed skating.
Photo Didier Debusschere
Mikael Kingsbury
› Four years after his gold medal, Mikael Kingsbury this time gets the money in bumps. The freestyle skier still adds a third Olympic podium to the list of his phenomenal career.
Day 4
- Gold : 1
- Money : 0
- Bronze: 3
TOTAL: 4
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC: 2
› In slopestyle, Maxence Parrot wins gold, three years after battling cancer. “Winning gold, after everything I’ve been through, means a lot to me,” said the Bromont snowboarder after his triumph. his compatriot Mark McMorris finishes third.
Photo courtesy, COC
Kim Boutin
› Over 500 m, the short track speed skater Kim Boutin repeats its 2018 bronze medal, but this time without the wrath of disgruntled fans.
› Alexandria Loutitt, Abigail Strate, Matthew Soukup and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes write Canadian history in ski jumping, finishing third in the mixed event. This is the country’s first medal in this discipline, in the Games’ 98 years of existence.
Day 6
- Gold : 0
- Money : 1
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 2
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC : 1
› Steven Dubois shines in the 1500 m short track. He went up the whole peloton of the final disputed to 10 to win silver, his first Olympic medal. “I haven’t yet realized the extent of what I’ve just done,” said the skater from Terrebonne after the race.
› The skateboarder Meryeta O’dine drives away her bad memories of four years ago, when she had suffered a concussion, by obtaining bronze in snowboard cross.
Day 7
- Gold : 0
- Money : 2
- Bronze: 2
TOTAL: 4
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC: 2
› At only 20 years old, the Quebecer Eliot Grondin becomes the youngest snowboarder in history to win an Olympic medal when he wins silver in snowboard cross.
› In the mixed freestyle ski jumps event, there are three representatives from Quebec (Miha Fontaine, Marion Thénault and Lewis Irving) who won bronze in this new team competition.
› Isabelle Weidemann is the first Canadian to reach the podium twice in Beijing. This time she finished second in the 5000m long track.
› In alpine skiing, James Crawford climbs on the third step of the podium in the combined.
Day 8
- Gold : 0
- Money : 0
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 1
QUEBEC CONTRIBUTION: 1
› The skateboarder Eliot Grondin doubled his Olympic harvest by winning bronze alongside Meryeta O’dine in the mixed snowboard cross event. It is also for O’dine a second podium in Beijing.
Day 10
- Gold : 0
- Money : 0
- Bronze: 2
TOTAL: 2
QUEBEC CONTRIBUTION: 1
› Steven Dubois continues on its unexpected momentum. This time, the short track speed skater won bronze in the 500m. An “unreal” medal, he says.
› In the new women’s monobob event, Christine de Bruin pocket the bronze.
Day 12
- Gold : 1
- Money : 0
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 2
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC : 2
› Maxence Parrot leaves Beijing with two Olympic medals in his luggage. He won bronze in the big air and announced, afterwards, that he would shortly be receiving an even more precious trophy: he would be a dad.
Photo: AFP
Valerie Maltais, Isabelle Weidemann and Ivanie Blondin
› In long track, Valerie Maltais, Isabelle Weidemann and Ivanie Blondin materialize their dream season by triumphing in pursuit. All three skaters set an Olympic record at the same time.
Day 13
- Gold : 1
- Money : 0
- Bronze: 0
TOTAL: 1
QUEBEC CONTRIBUTION: 1
Photo: AFP
Pascal Dion, Steven Dubois, Charles Hamelin, Maxime Laoun and Jordan Pierre-Gilles
› Charles Hamelin ends his Olympic career on the highest step of the podium. He wins the title in the 5000 m short track relay alongside Quebecers Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Pascal Dion and Steven Dubois, who won her third medal in China. As he participated in the semi-final, Maxime Laoun also receives a medal. Hamelin, of Sainte-Julie, becomes the most decorated Canadian male athlete in Winter Games history.
Day 14
- Gold : 1
- Money : 2
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 4
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC : 1
› Canadians return to women’s hockey gold four years after loss to USA in South Korea, led again by forward Marie-Philip Poulin, author of two goals and three points in the final. Two other Quebecers climb on the top step of the podium: the goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens and the player before Melody Daoust.
› In the halfpipe, two Canadian skiers achieve a double: Cassie Sharpe and Rachael Karker which respectively remove silver and bronze.
› In ski cross, Marielle Thompson adds silver to her list, she who had been a gold medalist in Sochi.
Day 15
- Gold : 0
- Money : 1
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 2
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC : 1
› The long track speed skater Laurent Dubreuil erases the disappointment of his fourth position in the 500m by collecting an unexpected silver medal in the 1000m. A second place that looks like a victory for the athlete from Lévis, who is not a distance specialist.
Photo: AFP
Geoff Walker, Brett Gallant, Mark Nichols and Brad Gushue
› In curling, the skip Brad Gushue and his teammates made up for Canada’s failures in this discipline in Beijing by finishing third.
Day 16
- Gold : 0
- Money : 1
- Bronze: 0
TOTAL: 1
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC: 0
› Ivanie Blondin provides a fifth medal for Canada in long track. The Ottawa athlete takes silver in the mass start.
Day 17
- Gold : 0
- Money : 0
- Bronze: 1
TOTAL: 1
CONTRIBUTION FROM QUEBEC: 0
› The crew of Justin Kripps managed to maintain his third place finish in the fourth and final run to take the bronze medal in the four-man.
