Canada with 14 at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
USA broke the record for Most medals won at a single Winter Olympics by a country, with a mark of 37 just inching past the 36 medals won by Germany in 2002.
The country that holds the Guinness Record for most medals won in a single Summer Olympics is The United States, with 239 medals, of which 78 were gold, 82 were silver and 79 were bronze.
The United States won a record 37 medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics: 9 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze.
Michael Phelps
The ladies' single (figure skating) world record was the the most significant record broken at the 2010 Olympic games. Kim Yuna of South Korea broken the then world record in the short program, free skate, and total.
Michael Phelps, he got 8 gold medals for swimming
8 by Michael Phelps in 2008.
7 Gold Medals in a single Olympics. he was a swimmer.
Eric Heiden's record for the most medals won in a single Olympic Games was broken by Norwegian cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie. Heiden achieved his record by winning five gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. Dæhlie surpassed this feat by winning eight medals, including seven golds, over the course of the 1994 Lillehammer and 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Michael Phelps and Alexander Dityatin have both won 8 medals in a single Olympics.
The most amount of gold medals ever won at a single Olympic swimming competition was 8, and it was done by Michael Phelps of the US at the Beijing 2008 summer Olympics.