gold medals won by Canadian athletes at the Summer Olympic Games:
2004 Athens - 3
2000 Sydney - 3
1996 Atlanta - 3
1992 Barcelona - 6
1988 Seoul - 3
1984 Los Angeles - 10
1980 Moscow - 0 (Canada did not participate)
1976 Montreal - 0
1972 Munich - 0
1968 Mexico City - 1
1964 Tokyo - 1
1960 Rome - 0
1956 Melbourne - 2
1952 Helsinki - 1
1948 London - 0
1944 London - 0 (Games Cancelled/World War II)
1940 Tokyo/Helsinki - 0 (Games Cancelled/World War II)
1936 Berlin - 1
1932 Los Angeles - 2
1928 Amsterdam - 4
1924 Paris - 0
1920 Antwerp - 3
1916 Berlin - 0 (Games Cancelled/World War I)
1912 Stockholm - 3
1908 London - 3
1904 St. Louis - 4
1900 Paris - 1
1896 Athens - 0 (Canada did not participate)
Total Summer Olympics gold medals - 54
Gold medals won by Canadian athletes at the Winter Olympic Games:
2010 Vancouver - 14
2006 Torino - 7
2002 Salt Lake - 7
1998 Nagano - 6
1994 Lillehammer - 3
1992 Albertville - 2
1988 Calgary - 0
1984 Sarajevo - 2
1980 Lake Placid - 0
1976 Innsbruck - 1
1972 Sapporo - 0
1968 Grenoble - 1
1964 Innsbruck - 1
1960 Squaw Valley - 2
1956 Corrina - 0
1952 Oslo - 1
1948 St. Moritz - 2
1944 Cortina d'Arezzo - 0 (Games Cancelled/World War II)
1940 Sapporo - 0 (Games Cancelled/World War II)
1936 Berlin - 0
1932 Lake Placid - 1
1928 St. Moritz - 1
1924 Chamonix - 1
1920 Antwerp - 1
Total Winter Olympics gold medals - 53
Total Summer and Winter Olympics gold medals - 107
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Believe it or not, Brazil has never won Olympic Gold in football (aka soccer).
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, India has won 1 medal in tennis. That was a bronze by Leander Paes in men's singles at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
Canada won six of the first seven Gold medals in hockey: Antwerp 1920 to Oslo 1952, except for Garmish 1936 where they lost to Great Britain. They then went on a fifty year drought, finally winning Gold in Salt Lake City in 2002. Therefore, Canada's men won the Gold medal in hockey seven times.
Jim Thorpe was an American of European and Native American decent. He was in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. He won gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. In the 2008 Games in Beijing, Abhinav Bindra became the first athlete representing the country of India to win gold in an individual event when he won the men's 10 meter air rifle competition. This was India's 9th gold medal in Olympic competition. The other eight have been won by the hockey team.
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