Canada at the Summer Olympics

Medals by year

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1896 Athens	did not participate
1900 Paris	2	1	0	1	2	13
1904 St. Louis	52	4	1	1	6	4
1908 London	87	3	3	10	16	7
1912 Stockholm	37	3	2	3	8	9
1920 Antwerp	53	3	3	3	9	12
1924 Paris	65	0	3	1	4	20
1928 Amsterdam	69	4	4	7	15	10
1932 Los Angeles	102	2	5	8	15	12
1936 Berlin	97	1	3	5	9	17
1948 London	118	0	1	2	3	25
1952 Helsinki	107	1	2	0	3	21
1956 Melbourne	92	2	1	3	6	15
1960 Rome	85	0	1	0	1	32
1964 Tokyo	115	1	2	1	4	22
1968 Mexico City	138	1	3	1	5	23
1972 Munich	208	0	2	3	5	27
1976 Montreal (host nation)	385	0	5	6	11	27
1980 Moscow	did not participate
1984 Los Angeles	407	10	18	16	44	6
1988 Seoul	328	3	2	5	10	19
1992 Barcelona	295	7	4	7	18	11
1996 Atlanta	303	3	11	8	22	21
2000 Sydney	294	3	3	8	14	24
2004 Athens	263	3	6	3	12	21
2008 Beijing	332	3	9	8	20	19
2012 London	281	2	5	11	18	36
2016 Rio de Janeiro	314	4	3	15	22	20
2020 Tokyo	Future event
2024 Paris	Future event
2028 Los Angeles	Future event
Total		64	102	136	302	20

Canada also won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal at the 1906 Summer Olympics, which the IOC no longer recognizes as an official Olympic games, so those medals are not counted in this table.

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	14	15	31	60
Rowing	9	17	15	41
Swimming	8	15	26	49
Canoeing and kayaking (sprint)	4	10	10	24
Shooting	4	3	2	9
Boxing	3	7	7	17
Wrestling (freestyle)	3	7	7	17
Synchronized swimming	3	4	1	8
Trampoline gymnastics	2	3	2	7
Equestrian (jumping)	2	2	1	5
Lacrosse	2	0	1	3
Diving	1	4	8	13
Track cycling	1	2	5	8
Weightlifting	1	2	1	4
Triathlon	1	1	0	2
Football	1	0	2	3
Artistic gymnastics	1	0	0	1
Golf	1	0	0	1
Rhythmic gymnastics	1	0	0	1
Tennis	1	0	0	1
Sailing	0	3	6	9
Judo	0	2	3	5
Mountain biking	0	2	1	3
Road cycling	0	1	2	3
Taekwondo	0	1	1	2
Basketball	0	1	0	1
Beach volleyball	0	0	1	1
Equestrian (dressage)	0	0	1	1
Equestrian (eventing)	0	0	1	1
Rugby sevens	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 sports)	63	102	136	301

*One of Canada's Ice Hockey gold medals was won during the 1920 Summer Olympics. This table does not include this medal, resulting in the discrepancy between the medals by games and medals by sports tables.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in the following current summer sports: Archery, Badminton, BMX, Canoeing and kayaking - Slalom, Fencing, Field hockey, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Handball, Indoor Volleyball, Modern pentathlon, Table tennis, and Water polo.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in archery. Their best finish was fifth in the women's individual competition at the 1976 games.

Canada is not traditionally strong in athletics, but the nation has won medals in 15 of 23 games in which it has competed. Some memorable performances are the double gold by Percy Williams in the 100m and 200m in the 1928 Amsterdam games, and the gold medals won in Atlanta (1996) by Donovan Bailey in the 100m (in world record time) and by the men's 4 × 100 m relay team.

Canada also won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal in Athletics at the 1906 Summer Olympics, which are not counted in this table.

Event	No. of appearances	First appearance	First medal	First gold medal	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Best finish
Men's 400 metres hurdles	12/26	1900	1900	N/A	0	1	1	2	(1936)
Men's 2500 metres steeplechase	1/1	1900	1900	1900	1	0	0	1	(1900)
Men's 4000 metres steeplechase	1/1	1900	N/A	N/A	0	0	0	0	5th (1900)
Men's marathon	20/28	1900	N/A	N/A	0	0	0	0	5th (1908, 1912)

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in badminton, since its introduction in 1992. Their best finish was fourth in the women's doubles competition at the 2012 games.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in baseball. Their best finish was fourth at the 2004 games.

Canada has only won an Olympic medal in basketball once, a silver in 1936.

Canada has enjoyed modest success in Olympic boxing, winning medals in eight games. Lennox Lewis won the super heavyweight gold medal in Seoul, before competing for his native Great Britain as a professional.

Canada's only gold medal in cycling was won by Lori-Ann Muenzer in Athens. Another Canadian cyclist of note is Clara Hughes, double bronze medalist in Atlanta (1996). She has also won medals in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics in speed skating, and is the only Olympian to win multiple medals in both the summer and winter games.

Canada's first gold medal in equestrian events was won by the show jumping team in Mexico City. A second gold medal, and the first in an individual event, went to Eric Lamaze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in fencing. Their best finish was fourth in the men's team épée competition at the 1984 games and the women's team épée competition at the 2004 games.

Golf was only included in the Olympic program for the 1900 and 1904 games, at which George Lyon won the individual gold medal.

Canada has only won a single medal in artistic gymnastics, a gold by Kyle Shewfelt in Athens. Lori Fung won a gold in rhythmic gymnastics in Los Angeles and Canadians have also won medals in trampolining.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in handball. Their best finish was sixth in the women's tournament at the 1976 games.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in field hockey. Their best finish was fifth in the women's tournament at the 1984 games.

Canada won the gold medal when ice hockey was introduced in the program of the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. The sport was moved to the Winter Olympics program for the first winter games in 1924.

Canada has won 5 medals in Judo at the Olympics, most recently a bronze by Antoine Valois-Fortier at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Lacrosse was only part of the Olympic program in the 1904 and 1908 games; Canadian teams won the gold medal each time. In 1904, a second Canadian team, composed only of Mohawk Indians, also won a bronze medal.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in modern pentathlon. Their best finish was eleventh in the men's team competition at the 1988 games and the women's competition at the 2012 games.

Rowing is one of Canada's most successful sports at the summer Olympics. The pair of Marnie McBean and Kathleen Heddle won gold in both the Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996) games. Canada has traditionally done well in the coxed eights event, with the men's team winning a medal 9 times and the women's team winning a medal 3 times.

Canada never qualified a rugby union team for an Olympic games prior to its removal from the program in 1924. The women's rugby sevens team won a bronze at the 2016 games in the sport's first games on the program.

Canada's most notable event in Olympic sailing competition was from the 1988 Seoul games, where Lawrence Lemieux was racing towards a certain medal finish, but stopped to help two Singaporean sailors whose boat had capsized during the race. Lemieux was later presented an award from IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch to honor his act of bravery.

Linda Thom's gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles games was the first summer Olympic gold medal for Canada in 16 years, having been shut out in Munich (1972) and Montreal (1976), and boycotting the Moscow (1980) games. Since her victory was unexpected, and the sport is not very popular, the event was not broadcast live and Canadian television crews had to scramble to put taped images on the air.

Canada first competed in Olympic football at the second tournament, 1904. One club team from Canada went to St. Louis to compete against two American teams, winning the gold medal. Canada's men's soccer team is considered unlikely to qualify for the Olympics. The women's national team won the bronze medal in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in softball. Their best finish was fourth in the women's tournament at the 2008 games.

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in table tennis since its introduction in the 1988 games. Their best finish was fifth in the men's singles tournament at the 1996 games.

Dominique Bosshart won a bronze medal when the sport of taekwondo was introduced at the 2000 Sydney games. Karine Sergerie won silver in the 67 kilogram event, achieving Canada's best-ever finish in taekwondo at the Olympic Games.

Canada's lone medal in Olympic tennis was the surprising victory by the men's doubles team of Sébastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor, who beat the home favourite Australian team in the 2000 Sydney games.

Simon Whitfield won the gold medal when triathlon was introduced at the 2000 Sydney games. After a disappointing 11th-place finish at the 2004 Athens games, Whitfield returned to take the silver medal at the 2008 Beijing games. Whitfield was nudged out at the end of the race for the gold medal.

Canada's lone medal in volleyball was won by the beach volleyball team of John Child and Mark Heese when the event was introduced as a medal sport at the 1996 Atlanta games.

Canada's medals in weightlifting were won by Gerald Gratton in 1952, Jacques Demers in 1984, and Christine Girard in 2008 and 2012. In 2008 Christine Girard originally took fourth place at women's 63 kg weightlifting event. After a positive doping test by the silver medallist the IOC disqualified her,[2] and Girard's fourth place was retroactively upgraded to a bronze.[3] In 2012 Christine Girard originally won the bronze medal at women's 63 kg weightlifting event. After a positive doping tests by the gold and silver medallists the IOC disqualified them,[4][5] and Girard's bronze was retroactively upgraded to a gold.[6]

Canada's two gold medals in wrestling were won by Daniel Igali in the 2000 Sydney games and Carol Huynh in the 2008 Beijing games in freestyle.

• List of Canadian Summer Olympics gold medalists
• Canada at the Winter Olympics
• Own the Podium - Canada's government-sponsored program to win more medals

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• "Canada". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/CAN". olympanalyt.com.