Monday, 24 February 2014

Sochi Days 15-16

Day 15 saw an Austrian 1-2 with Mario Matt taking gold and Marcel Hirscher taking silver with Henrik Kristoffersen collecting the bronze in the men's slalom while the men's relay saw gold for Russia with Germany taking silver and Austria collecting the bronze.

The ladies cross country mass start saw a clean sweep for Norway with Marit Bjoergen claiming the gold, Therese Johaug collecting the silver and Kristin Stormer Steira taking the bronze.


Finland stunned the highly favoured Americans in the men's ice hockey bronze medal match with a 5-0 win while in the men's parallel slalom saw Vic Wild take gold for the host nation with Zan Kosir taking the silver for Slovenia with Benjamin Karl (DEN) securing the bronze.

The ladies team pursuit speed skating saw an Olympic record from the Netherlands as they continued the domination of the sport with the gold ahead of Poland who took the silver and Russia who secured the bronze.


Day 16 brought the curtain down on what has been a brilliant two weeks of competition and saw the final three gold medals claimed, the four man bobsleigh saw gold for the Russian foursome of Alexander Zubkov, Alexey Negodaylo, Dmitry Trunenkov, Alexey Voevoda with the silver going to the Latvian team of Oskars Melbārdis, Daumants Dreiškens, Arvis Vilkaste, Jānis Strenga and the bronze to Steven Holcomb, Curtis Tomasevicz, Steven Langton, Christopher Fogt of the USA.

The men's mass start saw a Russian clean sweep with gold going to Alexander Legkov, silver to Maxim Vylegzhanin and the bronze to Ilia Chernousov while the men's ice hockey final saw Canada retain their Olympic title with a 3-0win over Sweden.

The final medal table sees the host nation top the standings with Great Britain in 19th in their best ever medal haul.


Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Russian Fed. 13 11 9 33
2 Norway 11 5 10 26
3 Canada 10 10 5 25
4 United States 9 7 12 28
5 Netherlands 8 7 9 24
6 Germany 8 6 5 19
7 Switzerland 6 3 2 11
8 Belarus 5 0 1 6
9 Austria 4 8 5 17
10 France 4 4 7 15
11 Poland 4 1 1 6
12 China 3 4 2 9
13 Korea 3 3 2 8
14 Sweden 2 7 6 15
15 Czech Republic 2 4 2 8
16 Slovenia 2 2 4 8
17 Japan 1 4 3 8
18 Finland 1 3 1 5
19 Great Britain 1 1 2 4
20 Ukraine 1 0 1 2
21 Slovakia 1 0 0 1
22 Italy 0 2 6 8
23 Latvia 0 2 2 4
24 Australia 0 2 1 3
25 Croatia 0 1 0 1
26 Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1















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