Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: latest medal table

As is traditional, the table prioritises the number of gold medals won. On this basis in 2018 at Pyeongchang in South Korea, Norway and Germany were tied on 14 golds, with Norway’s higher tally of silvers – 14 to Germany’s 10 – making them top of the table.

For obvious reasons, the Winter Olympics is dominated by a different set of countries to the summer games – Sweden, Austria and Switzerland were all in the top 10 last time.

Canada, as usual, had a successful games in 2018, placing third overall. Canadian athletes added to a more or less expected gold in curling, a national speciality, with four golds in freestyle skiing and two in figure skating. It was enough to put Canada above its neighbour the United States in the overall table. The US won nine golds, two fewer than Canada.

Great Britain took only one gold in 2018, for Lizzy Yarnold in the skeleton. Australia won no golds, but did pick up three medals; two for snowboarding and one for skiing.