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Winter Olympics medal count update: Thursday, February 15

By Mike Dyce

PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 15: Gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States celebrates during the medal ceremony for Alpine Skiing - Ladies' Giant Slalom on day six of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Medal Plaza on February 15, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 15: Gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States celebrates during the medal ceremony for Alpine Skiing - Ladies' Giant Slalom on day six of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Medal Plaza on February 15, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images) /
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Team USA added another gold, but Germany and Norway continued to extend their lead in the overall medal count at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Another day and another gold medal for Team USA. Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom event. It was the lone American medal on Thursday, but the countries atop the leader board in the medal count continued to extend their lead.

Norway, which has been jockeying for the top of the medal count leader board, now stands at 17 total (six gold, seven silver, four bronze) with a two medal lead over Germany (nine gold, two silver, four bronze).

Norway won four medals on Thursday, including gold in the men’s 20 km biathlon and women’s 10km free cross-country skiing. Germany walked away with gold in two team events, the team relay in luge and pair figure skating.

German Laura Dahlmeier won her third medal, this time a bronze in the biathlon women’s 15 km individual. Dahlmeier leads all Olympians in medals at the 2018 Winter Games. Five Germans in all have won multiple medals.

Here are the medal standings:

Here are all the results from Thursday, February 15:

MEDAL RESULT | Alpine Skiing - Women's Giant Slalom

Mikaela Shiffrin

Ragnhild Mowinckel

Federica Brignone

MEDAL RESULT | Men's Snowboarding Cross Final

Pierre Vaultier

Jarryd Hughes

Regino Hernández

MEDAL RESULT | Luge - Team Relay

Team Germany

Team Canada

Team Austria

MEDAL RESULT | Figure Skating - Pair Skating

Team Germany

Team China

Team Canada

MEDAL RESULT | Biathlon - Men's 20km Individual

Johannes Thingnes Boe

Jakov Fak

Doninik Landertinger

MEDAL RESULT | Biathlon - Women's 15km Individual

Hanna Oeberg

Anastasiya Kuzmina

Laura Dahlmeier

MEDAL RESULT | Cross-Country Skiing - Ladies' 10km Free

Ragnhild Haga

Charlotte Kalla

Marit Bjoergen

Krista Parmakoski

MEDAL RESULT | Speed Skating - Men's 10,000m

Ted-Jan Bloemen

Jorrit Bergsma

Nicola Tumolero

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