Day 15

Day fourteen of the Winter Olympics saw the United States win its first ever medal in curling with a bronze in the men’s competition. Chad Hedrick also became only the third American to ever win three medals in a single games; he won gold in the 5000m, silver in the 10,000m, and bronze in the 1500m speed skating events. Also, all Austrian biathletes and cross-country skiers passed their drug tests despite the raid on their Turin residence by Italian police. Here are the results of today’s medal events:

Alpine Skiing
Men’s Slalom
Gold Benjamin Raich (Austria)
Silver Reinfried Herbst (Austria)
Bronze Rainer Schoenfelder (Austria)

Biathlon
Men’s 15km Mass Start
Gold Michael Sikora (Germany)
Silver Tomasz Sikora (Poland)
Bronze Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Norway)

Biathlong
Women’s 12.5km Mass Start
Gold Anna Carin Olofsson (Sweden)
Silver Kati Wilhelm (Germany)
Bronze Uschi Disl (Germany)

Bobsled
Four-Man
Gold Andre Lange, Rene Hoppe, Kevin Kuske & Martin Putze (Germany)
Silver Aleksandr Zoubkov, Filipp Egorov, Alexej Seliverstov & Alexey Voevoda (Russia)
Bronze Martin Annen, Thomas Lamparter, Beat Hefti & Cedric Grand (Switzerland)

Short Track
Men’s 500m
Gold Apolo Anton Ohno (United States)
Silver Francois-Louis Tremblay (Canada)
Bronze Ahn Hyun-Soo (South Korea)

Short Track
Women’s 1000m
Gold Jin Sun-Yu (South Korea)
Silver Wang Meng (China)
Bronze Yang Yang (A) (China)

Short Track
Men’s 5000m Relay
Gold Ahn Hyun-Soo, Le Ho-Suk, Se-Jong Oh, Ho-Jin Seo & Suk-Woo Song (South Korea)
Silver Eric Bedard, Jonathan Guilmette, Charles Hamelin, Francois-Louis Tremblay & Mathieu Turcotte (Canada)
Bronze Alex Izykowski, J.P. Kepka, Apolo Anton Ohno & Rusty Smith (United States)

Speed Skating
Women’s 5000m
Gold Clara Hughes (Canada)
Silver Claudia Pechstein (Germany)
Bronze Cindy Klsassen (Canada)

And here are the medal standings, by country, and the end of day fifteen.


Germany
29 medals total
11 Gold
12 Silver
6 Bronze




United States
25 medals total
9 Gold
9 Silver
7 Bronze




Canada
24 medals total
7 Gold
10 Silver
7 Bronze




Austria
22 medals total
9 Gold
7 Silver
6 Bronze




Russia
21 medals total
8 Gold
5 Silver
8 Bronze




Norway
19 medals total
2 Gold
8 Silver
9 Bronze




Switzerland
14 medals total
5 Gold
4 Silver
5 Bronze







Sweden
13 medals total
6 Gold
2 Silver
5 Bronze




South Korea
11 medals total
6 Gold
3 Silver
2 Bronze




China
11 medals total
2 Gold
4 Silver
5 Bronze




Italy
10 medal total
4 Gold
0 Silver
6 Bronze




France
9 medals total
3 Gold
2 Silver
4 Bronze




Netherlands
9 medals total
3 Gold
2 Silver
4 Bronze




Finland
8 medals total
0 Gold
5 Silver
3 Bronze




Estonia
3 medal total
3 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze




Croatia
3 medals total
1 Gold
2 Silver
0 Bronze




Czech Republic
3 medals total
1 Gold
2 Silver
0 Bronze



Australia
2 medals total
1 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze




Poland
2 medals total
0 Gold
1 Silver
1 Bronze



Ukraine
2 medals total
0 Gold
0 Silver
2 Bronze




Japan
1 medal total
1 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze



Belarus
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze



Bulgaria
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Great Britain
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze


Slovakia
1 medal total
0 Gold
1 Silver
0 Bronze




Latvia
1 medal total
0 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze