Olympic medal count 2018: Germany ahead in golds with 2 on Wednesday

The Winter Olympics are in full swing, and Germany leads the medal count, but just barely. They have 12 total medals, but their real advantage is in gold medals, of which they have seven. The Netherlands and Norway both have 11 total medals, but have five and three golds, respectively.

In the early morning on Wednesday (at least for those of us in the United States), four gold medals were on the line in the Nordic Combined Normal Hill 10-kilometer, the Speed Skating Women’s 1000-meter, the Biathlon Women’s 15-kilometer Individual and the Luge Doubles competition.

The United States didn’t medal in any of those events, though one where they have a chance is the biathlon, which was postponed due to heavy winds. Medals were handed out in the other events though, and Germany, once again, cleaned up nicely.

Germany’s Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt took gold in the doubles luge, while Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, also of Germany, took bronze in the event. It was Peter Penz and Georg Fischler of Austria who managed the silver. Germany’s Eric Frenzel also took the Nordic Combined event, earning the gold ahead of Japan’s Akito Watabe and Austria’s Lukas Klapfer.

Finally, the Netherlands added to their speed skating dominance when Jorien ter Mors won the women’s 1000-meter, ahead of Nao Kodaira and Miho Takagi of Japan.

Canada is fourth in the total medal count with 10, including three gold. The United States and Japan both have seven total medals, but the U.S. has four gold, while Japan has none.

Multiple medals will be awarded on Wednesday evening and we’ll update this post when that happens.