What country has won most gold medals in Olympic Figure Skating?
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In Pairs:\nUSSR/EUN/Russia - an impressive 12 Gold Medals (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006)\n\nIn Ice Dancing:\nUSSR/EUN/Russia - 7 Gold Medals in an event that's only been in 8 Olympics (1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2006)\n\nIn Individual Women:\nUSA - 7 Gold Medals (1956, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1992, 1998, 2002)\n\nIndividual Men:\nUSA - 6 Gold Medals (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1984, 1988)
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1924 , Chamonix\nhe first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.\n\nAs expected, the Scandinavians dominated the 16–nation field. Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races. Speed skater Clas Thunberg of Finland and Norwegian Nordic skier and jumper Thorleif Haug each won three gold medals.\n\nAmerican speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters. But the most remarkable U.S. medal was the bronze won by Anders Haugen in the ski jump. Due to a scoring error at the time he didn't receive it until 1974 – when he was 83 years old.\n\nIn its first four hockey games, Canada beat Switzerland 33–0, Czechoslovakia 30–0, Sweden 22–0 and Great Britain 19–2, before winning the tournament with a 6–1 victory over the U.S. in the final.
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figure skating, although i'm a bigger fan of summer olympics.
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Argentina won the gold olimpic in soccer in 2004 in Greek and soccer world cups in Argentina 78 and Mexico 86 with Maradona.\nUruguay won gold olimpic in Paris 1924 and Stokholm in 1928 and won the world cup in Uruguay in 1930 and Brazil in 1950. The last world cup is remerber forever as "The Maracanazo"\n\nThe other team won both tournament were Italy and France.
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Rank Country        Gold Silver Bronze Total\n \n1  United States     896  692    603   2191 \n2  USSR              395  319    296   1010 \n3  Great Britain and\n   Northern Ireland  189  242    237    668 \n4  France            183  196    216    595 \n5  Italy             182  147    164    493 \n6  Hungary           156  136    157    449 \n7  East Germany      153  129    127    409 \n8  Germany           148  153    188    489 \n9  Sweden            142  155    173    470 \n10 Australia         117  122    147    386
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I love snowboarding, but I disagree with you on this. \nSnowboarding has only been in the winter olympics since 98!
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Eric Heiden became the first athlete ever to win five gold medals in a single Winter Olympics in 1980.
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Trophy Lalique \n\nParis, France \n13 - 16 November 1997\n\n \n\nLADIES \nPlace Skater Country SP FS \n1 Laetitia Hubert FRA 2 1 \n2 Tara Lipinski USA 1 2 \n3 Vanessa Gusmeroli FRA 5 3 \n4 Lu Chen CHN 4 4 \n5 Krisktina Czako HUN 3 6 \n6 Elena Ivanova RUS 6 5 \n7 Fanny Cagnard FRA 7 7 \n8 Eva-Maria Fitze GER 8 8 \n9 Jennifer Robinson CAN 10 9 \n10 Marta Andrade SPN 11 10 \n11 Hanae Yokoya JPN 9 11 \n\nNotes: \n\nLaetitia Huber pulled off a surprise vistory beating both World Champion Tara Lipinski and World Bronze medallist Vanessa Gusmeroli.  She skated a clean short and in the long she was fast and dynamic.  She landed five triples in the long.  Said Hubert, "It's encouraging, I'm working really hard now mentally.  This year we're showing that the old girls are still in it." (Huber is 23.)\n\nCompeting with a head cold, Tara Lipinski also landed five triple in the long, but she doubled a triple Lutz, and singled the second jump in her planned triple loop - triple loop copmbination.  Gusmeroli landed four triples, and fell on triple loop.  Lu Chen still has not regained her form of old, and without the full range of triple she once possesed could only manage a fourth place finish.\n\n \n\nMEN \nPlace Skater Country SP FS \n1 Alexei Yagudin RUS 2 1 \n2 Philippe Candeloro FRA 4 2 \n3 Igor Pashkevitch AZE 3 3 \n4 Todd Eldredge USA 1 5 \n5 Evgeny Pliuta UKR 7 4 \n6 Thierry Cerez FRA 5 6 \n7 Jeffrey Langdon CAN 6 7 \n8 Zhengxin Guo CHN 8 8 \n9 Frederic Dambier FRA 9 9 \n10 Selichi Suzuki JPN 11 10 \n  Michaeal Hopfes GER 10   \n\nNotes: \n\nAlexei Yagudin began his long program by landing triple Axel on two feet, but then went on to land six triple and a quad toe loop.  He completed quad toe, triple Axel - triple toe, double Lutz, triple flip - triple toe, triple Salchow and triple loop.\n\nAfter placing fourth in the short, Philippe Candeloro came back in the long skating his Napoleon program for the last time in competition.  Despite a few problems he showed that he is on the way back after last year's season beset by injury.  He landed triple Axel - triple toe, triple Lutz, triple loop, and triple toe.  A solo triple flip was not clean, he nearly fell on triple Axel, and touched a hand down on triple Salchow.   Despite these problems, it was an improvement over Nation's Cup and an encouraging program for his season.\n\nIgor Pashcevitch landed eight triples, but two of these were of poor quality, and he did not have a triple - triple combination.  He landed triple Axel - double toe, a double Lutz into triple toe sequence, and triple Salchow, flip, toe loop, and loop. A solo triple Axel and a solo triple Lutz were both done poorly with shaky landings.\n\nEldredge won the short program on a 5-2 split panel, landing triple Axel - triple toe, and triple Lutz; but had problems in the long.  He singled his opening triple Axel, then tried another and singled it again.  He landed triple Salchow - double toe, triple Lutz - triple toe, and triple loop for a total of four triples.  He also landed a double Axel and doubled a planned closing triple Salchow.  Speaking about the result, Eldredge's coach Richard Callaghan said, "It was a combination of pain and just missing training time between events."  (Eldredge suffered a dislocated shoulder at Skate America.).  Earlier Eldredge had said, "I'm only at 75% of where I would like to be."  Despite the poor result, Eldredge has sufficient points to guarantee making the series final.\n\nZhengxin Guoattempted two quad jumps.  He fell on the first and doubled the second.   Michael Hopfes pulled out after injuring his foot during practice the morning of the long program.\n\n \n\nPAIRS \nPlace Skater Country SP FS \n1 Bereznaia/Sikharulidze RUS 1 1 \n2 Woetzel/Steuer GER 2 2 \n3 Shen/Zhao CHN 3 3 \n4 Sargeant/Wirtz CAN 5 4 \n5 Abitbol/Bernadis FRA 4 5 \n6 Ina/Dungjen USA 6 6 \n7 Hartsell/Hartsell USA 8 7 \n8 Haddad/Prive FRA 7 8 \n9 Roger/Rolla
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Judge from the stats, I would say Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev.  They won Olympics in 1976, 1980 (Irina also won 1972 with Alexei Ulanov), and World Champions in 1973-1978 (Irina also won with Alexei Ulanov from 1969-1972).  It's hard to find someone so dominant.
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There are TWO gold medals (and two silvers and two bronzes) awarded in the pairs skating, but as each pair represents one country, the medal is counted as one more to the country's tally
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The following countries have sent teams to both the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004) and the Winter Olympics (Turin 2006).\n\nAlbania\nAlgeria\nAndorra\nArgentina\nArmenia\nAustralia\nAustria\nAzerbaijan\nBelarus\nBelgium\nBermuda\nBosnia and Herzegovina\nBrazil\nBulgaria\nCanada\nChile\nChinese Taipei\nCosta Rica\nCroatia\nCyprus\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nEstonia\nEthiopia\nFinland\nFrance\nGeorgia\nGermany\nGreat Britain\nGreece\nHong Kong\nHungary\nIceland\nIndia\nIran\nIreland\nIsrael\nItaly\nJapan\nKazakhstan\nKenya\nKyrgyzstan\nLatvia\nLebanon\nLiechtenstein\nLithuania\nLuxembourg\nMacedonia\nMadagascar\nMoldova\nMonaco\nMongolia\nNepal\nNetherlands\nNew Zealand\nNorth Korea\nNorway\nPeople's Republic of China\nPoland\nPortugal\nRomania\nRussian Federation\nSan Marino\nSenegal\nSerbia and Montenergo\nSlovakia\nSlovenia\nSouth Africa\nSouth Korea\nSpain\nSweden\nSwitzerland\nTajikistan\nThailand\nTurkey\nUkraine\nUnited States of America\nUS Virgin Islands\nUzbekistan\nVenezuela
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Below is a link to all of the skaters at this olympics.
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Larissa Latynina has won the most and is tied for the gold - 18 Medals, 9 Gold\n\nMark Spitz - 11 Medals, 9 Gold\n\nPaavo Nurmi - 12 Medals, 9 Gold
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Germany, with 18 medals  (7 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze)\nNorway, with 16 medals   (2 gold, 7 silver, 7 bronze)\nUnited States, with 14 medals  (7 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze)\n\nThis is as of Monday 2-20-06 at approximately 3:30pm Eastern Time.
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Ok first off, the way that you are looking at this is completely wrong.  You need to realize that it just so happens that the US happens to be a very populated and rich country.  You can't compare countries with states-France and Canada have many provinces-I don't know about Belgium or other countries, but I'm sure that they are not just single countries.  \n2ndly, Americans believe that they win the most medals because there is a medal count...and the US has typically been at the top.  Some countries dominate in certain sports, but the US might be the most well rounded.
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Canada has won it 29 times in the 48 year history.\n\nSweden is second with 5 wins.
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Michelle Kwan\n\nBorn: July 7, 1980\nFigure Skater\n\nFigure skater Michelle Kwan is a nine-time U.S. national champion and one of three Americans in the sport's history to have won five world figure skating championships. Kwan began competing at the national level in the early 1990s. She was the gold medalist at the U.S. National Championships in 1996 and from 1998-2005. She won the world figure skating championship in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003. Kwan has also competed in the Winter Olympics, winning the silver medal in 1998 and the bronze in 2002. She was named to the U.S. team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, but withdrew at the games due to a groin injury.\n\n\nSee the websites:\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_681500372/Michelle_Kwan.html