This count includes the 1906 Olympic Games, deemed unofficial 43 years after they were held (Canada won gold and silver).

Canada has never won an Olympic medal in the following current or recent summer sports or disciplines: aquatics (water polo), archery, badminton, baseball, basketball (3-on-3), canoeing and kayaking (slalom), cycling (BMX freestyle), cycling (BMX racing), field hockey, handball, karate, modern pentathlon, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, table tennis, volleyball (indoor), and wrestling (Greco-Roman).

Canada has been very successful in synchronized swimming at the Olympics, winning medals at every games in which the sport was competed except for 2004 & 2008.

After George Hodgson won two gold medals in the 1912 Stockholm games, it would be 72 years before Alex Baumann became the second Canadian swimmer to win Olympic gold, when he won both individual medley events in world record time in the 1984 Los Angeles games.

Victor Davis (1984), Anne Ottenbrite (1984), Mark Tewksbury (1992), Penny Oleksiak (2016), Maggie Mac Neil (2020) and Summer McIntosh (2024) are the other Canadian swimmers to win gold medals.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Penny Oleksiak became the most decorated Canadian Olympian of all time, winning a total of 7 medals.

After a positive doping test by the silver medallist Great Britain, the IOC disqualified the team.

Lennox Lewis won the super heavyweight gold medal in Seoul, before competing for his native Great Britain as a professional.

Canada's Phil Wizard won the gold medal in the first Olympic men's breakdancing competition at the 2024 games.

Adam van Koeverden and Caroline Brunet are recent multiple medal winners for Canada.

Canada's first gold medal in equestrian events was won by the show jumping team in Mexico City.

Canada has won one Olympic medal in fencing, a bronze by Eleanor Harvey in the women's individual foil at the 2024 games.

Golf was only included in the Olympic program for the 1900 and 1904 games, at which George Lyon won the individual gold medal.

Canada has only won a single medal in artistic gymnastics, a gold by Kyle Shewfelt in Athens.

Canada won the gold medal when ice hockey was introduced in the program of the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

Most recently, Jessica Klimkait and Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard won bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Lacrosse was only part of the Olympic program in the 1904 and 1908 games; Canadian teams won the gold medal each time.

Canada never qualified a rugby union team for an Olympic games prior to its removal from the program in 1924.

Lemieux was later presented an award from IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch to honor his act of bravery.

Since her victory was unexpected, and the sport is not very popular, the event was not broadcast live and Canadian television crews had to scramble to put taped images on the air.

Karine Sergerie won silver in the 67 kilogram event, achieving Canada's best-ever finish in taekwondo at the Olympic Games.

Canada's first medal in Olympic tennis was the surprising victory by Sébastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor in the men's double competition of the 2000 Sydney games, beating the home favourite Australian team.

After a positive doping test by the silver medallist the IOC disqualified her,[15] and Girard's result was retroactively upgraded to a bronze.