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With 14 Gold medals to their name, Canada broke the record for having the most Gold for one country during the Winter Olympics. Heading into the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, a Canadian had never won a Gold medal on home soil Ð until Alexandre Bilodeau came along in the Freestyle Moguls and took first place. Following suit with Bilodeau were 14 others Ð a world record for most Gold medals to one country. Canada cleaned up with another seven silver and five bronze medals Ð placing them third in the world with a total of 26 medals. Claiming first place was the United States of America with 37. Second place went to Germany with 30 medals. Earning medals for Canada were the following athletes: Gold Men's Ice Hockey Men's Curling Jay Jasey Anderson - Snowboard, Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Denny Morrison, Lucas Makowsky, Mathieu Giroux - Speed Hkating, Men's Team Pursuit Men's Short Track Speed Skating, 5000 m Relay Charles Hamelin - Short Track Speed Skating - Men's 500 m Women's Ice Hockey Heather Moyse, Kallie Humphries - Bobsleigh, Women's Ashleigh McIvcor - Freekstyle Skiing, Ladies' Ski Cross Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue - Figure Skating, Ice Dancing Jon Montgomery - Skeleton, Men's Christine Nesbitt - Speed Skating, Ladies' 1000 m Maelle Ricker - Snowboard, Ladies' Snowboard Cross Alexandre Bilodeau - Freestyle Skiing, Men's Moguls Silver Women's Curling Helen Upperton, Shelley-Ann Brown - Bobsleigh, Women's Short Track Speed Skating - Ladies' 3000 m Kristina Groves - Speed Skating, Ladies' 1500 m Marianne St-Gelais - Short Track Speed Skating, Ladies' 500 m Mike Robertson - Snowboard - Men's Snowboard Cross Jennifer Heil - Freestyle Skiing, Ladies' Moguls Bronze Lyndon Rush, Chris Le Bihan, David Bissett, Lascelles Brown - Bobsleigh, Four-man Francois-Louis Tremblay - Short Track Speed Skating, Men's 500 m Joannie Rochette - Figure Skating, Ladies Clara Hughes - Speed Skating, Ladies 500 m Kristina Groves - Speed Skating, Ladies' 3000 m
