Canada medal count 2021: Final tally of Olympic gold, silver, bronze medals

Jackie Spiegel

Canada medal count 2021: Final tally of Olympic gold, silver, bronze medals image

The 2021 Summer Olympics came and went and Canada came away with quite a haul.

Entering the Tokyo Games, Canada had won 302 medals — 64 gold, 102 silver, 136 bronze — over the course of 26 Olympiads. Across a contingent of 371 athletes, Canada brought home 24 total medals this year, a new high for a non-boycotted Summer Games. The bronze by Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent in women's C2 500-meter canoe sprint broke a tie with the hauls from Rio and Athens at 22. The gold on the final day of competition by Kelsey Mitchell in women's cycling sprint established the new mark.

The medals capped an eventful Summer Games that also included individual records.

Swimmer Penny Oleksiak became Canada's most decorated athlete — summer or winter, man or woman — by adding three medals for a total of seven. Andre De Grasse went 3 for 3 again, this time snagging gold in the 200 meters, and is now Canada's most decorated male Olympian. Damian Warner topped the lofty 9,000-point mark in the decathlon to win gold and was named flagbearer for the closing ceremony.

CANADA'S BEST: Oleskiak | De Grasse | Warner

Evan Dunfee avenged his 2016 fourth-place finish in Rio in the last men's 50-kilometer race walk. Canada's softball team won bronze in the return — and possibly the farewell again — of softball.  Mohammed Ahmed became the first Canadian to win a men's long-distance track medal at the Olympics. And who can forget the women's soccer team winning the gold medal — finally — in penalty kicks?

It was a memorable two weeks after five long years of training. "Faster, higher, stronger, together," indeed.

Sporting News tracked every medal won by Canada in the 2021 Tokyo Games. 

MORE 2021 OLYMPICS: Overall medal count

Canada Olympic medal count 2021

  • Gold: 7
  • Silver: 6
  • Bronze: 11
  • Total: 24

Canada Olympic medal results by event

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total
Archery -- -- -- --
Artistic swimming -- -- -- --
Badminton -- -- -- --
Basketball -- -- -- --
Beach volleyball -- -- -- --
Boxing -- -- -- --
Canoe slalom -- -- -- --
Canoe sprint -- 1 1 2
Cycling: BMX Racing/Freestyle -- -- -- --
Cycling Mountain -- -- -- --
Cycling Road -- -- -- --
Cycling Track 1 -- 1 2
Diving -- 1 -- 1
Equestrian -- -- -- --
Fencing -- -- -- --
Field Hockey -- -- -- --
Golf -- -- -- --
Gymnastics Artistic/Trampoline -- -- -- --
Judo -- -- 2 2
Karate -- -- -- --
Rowing 1 -- 1 2
Rugby -- -- -- --
Sailing -- -- -- --
Shooting -- -- -- --
Skateboarding -- -- -- --
Soccer 1 -- -- 1
Softball -- -- 1 1
Sport climbing -- -- -- --
Swimming Open Water -- -- -- --
Swimming Pool 1 3 2 6
Table tennis -- -- -- --
Taekwondo -- -- -- --
Tennis -- -- -- --
Track and Field 2 1 3 6
Triathlon -- -- -- --
Volleyball -- -- -- --
Water polo -- -- -- --
Weight lifting 1 -- -- 1
Wrestling -- -- -- --
Total 7 6 11 24

Who won medals for Canada?

Canoe Sprint

  • Silver: Laurence Vincent Lapointe (Women's C1 200m)
  • Bronze: Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent (Women's C2 500m)

Cycling Track 

  • Gold: Kelsey Mitchell (Women's sprint)
  • Bronze: Lauriane Genest (Women's keirin)

Diving

  • Silver: Jen Abel and Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu (Women's 3m synchronized springboard)

Judo

  • Bronze: Jessia Klimkait (Women's under-57kg); Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard (Women's under-63 kg)

Rowing

  • Gold: Susanne Grainger, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Kristen Kit (coxswain), Madison Mailey, Sydney Payne, Andrea Proske, Lisa Roman, Christine Roper,  Avalon Wasteneys (Women's eight)
  • Bronze: Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens (Women's pair)

Softball

  • Bronze: Defeated Mexico 3-2

Soccer

Swimming

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Track and Field

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Weightlifting

  • Gold: Maude Charron (Women's 64kg)

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