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Participating Countries: Norway
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Norway has won the most number of medals at the Winter Games.
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The most medals won by any athletes at the Winter Olympic Games is 12 by cross-country skier Bjorn Dählie of Norway.
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Only four athletes have ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games, including Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway.
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Norwegian Sonja Henie won three consecutive gold medals in figure skating, winning the first at the St Moritz Winter Olympics in 1928 at the age of 15.
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In Oslo in 1952, 28-year-old Norwegian truck driver Hjalmar Andersen won three speed-skating gold medals, setting Olympic records in two of the events.
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In Grenoble 1968, Norway won the most medals for the first time (14), coming in one ahead of the Soviet Union.
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In Sapporo in 1972, Norway's Magne Myrmo became the last athlete to win a cross-country skiing event using all-wooden skis.
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- more Winter Olympics Countries
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