The five athletes who won their country a medal at Beijing 2022

There's always a lot of focus on the top five or 10 teams in the medal table at any given Olympic Games, and rightfully so. But for those from nations that regularly net medals in the double-digits, it may be easy to forget just how special it is to win a single medal at all.

For five nations, there was a single medal moment to celebrate.

These were the athletes that were their countries' sole medal winners at the Winter Olympics Beijing 2022:

Castellet gave all of Spain something to shout about. The 32-year-old put down a sensational second run to win snowboard halfpipe silver behind Chloe Kim and could hardly contain all the emotion. She hit back-to-back 900s on Run 2 and claimed her first medal at her fifth Games.

"All the emotions just exploded at the end," she told Olympics.com in Beijing. "And today was amazing even though I didn't start on the right foot, on the second run everything came out, the nerves, the pressure, my thoughts of how important this is and somehow the strength came as well.

"Somehow I managed to put it all together in the second run and make it happen."

She hit many milestones with her performance. Not only was it Spain's only medal of the games, it was the highest a Spanish woman had ever finished at the Olympic Winter Games.

Castellet, who was the flag bearer for Spain at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, is unquestionably Spain's most decorated snowboarder and winter athlete in history.

Ukraine's medal came from an expected place. Abramenko was also the lone medal winner for Ukraine at PyeongChang 2018. He was competing in his fifth consecutive Games, and performed a quintuple-twisting triple-back somersault, the same jump as champion Qi Guangpu, but a heavy