Which sport had the most medal events in the 2018 Winter Olympics?

Speed skating had the most medal events of any sport at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The PyeongChang Games featured 14 speed-skating events: seven for men and seven for women. The programme included the 500-, 1,000-, 1,500-, 5,000-, and 10,000-metre races, along with team pursuit and mass start events. The mass start was a new Olympic event in 2018, helping raise speed skating’s total to 14 events.

Speed skating is sometimes confused with short-track speed skating, which was a separate Olympic discipline with its own races and medal events. The question’s answer refers to long-track speed skating, held at the Gangneung Oval. The sport’s many distances and team competitions give it an unusually large medal programme.

The 2018 Winter Olympics held 102 gold-medal events across seven sports and 15 disciplines. Speed skating therefore offered more individual event titles than any other sport at those Games. The Netherlands was especially dominant, winning numerous medals in the discipline.