Jeffrey Buttle has won the bronze medal in men's figure skating at the 2006 Torino Olympics, bringing Canada's medal total for the day to four.
Thursday's Team Canada performance doubles Canada's medal count to eight.
Twenty-three year old Buttle fell during the free skate portion of his program while attempting a quad jump.
But, the Smooth Rock Falls, Ont. native still managed to score 154.3 points, which was enough to give him third place.
"Oh, my God, it's nuts," Buttle said as soon as he realized he'd made the podium. "It hasn't sunk in. It's nuts. This is huge for me."
Buttle's final score including the short program was 227.59 points.
He had to wait for two other skaters, Daisuke Takahashi and Brian Joubert, to finish their routines before receiving confirmation that he'd won bronze.
"It was only nine minutes but it really did feel like nine hours," Buttle told Canada AM on Friday. "I was weak at the knees and queasy, I think it's the hardest part, waiting to find out if you're going to get a medal.
Russia's Evgeni Plushenko took the gold with 258.33 points, and Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland took silver with a score of 231.21.
Expectations were high for Buttle's performance.
He won silver at the 2005 world championship, and he managed to come within the top three in each of his last 14 competitions. But despite his previous exposure on the world stage, Buttle told Canada AM that he was in a state of shock when he won.
"I expected there to be some sort of emotional charge but I was stunned," he said.
Canadian athletes also won medals in men's and women's speed skating and women's skeleton.
Speed skating
The Canadian men's and women's pursuit speed skating teams picked up a pair of silver medals.
The women's team of Kristina Groves of Ottawa, Clara Hughes of Winnipeg and Christine Nesbitt of London, Ontario, lost to the world champion German team in the final.
Nesbitt replaced Winnipeg's Cindy Klassen who skated in the semi-final.
The German women's trio of Daniela Anschuetz, Anni Friesinger and Claudia Pechstein finished the six-lap race in a time of 3:01.25 seconds. Canada's time was 3:02.91.
Russia beat Japan in the bronze medal race.
After an early slip, the men's team of Arne Dankers of Calgary, Justin Warsylewicz of Regina and Steven Elm of Red Deer battled to come from behind in the eight-lap race, but were unable to catch up to the underdog Italians who won the gold.
The host Italian team finished the race in 3:44.46 seconds, while Canada finished in 3:47.28.
The Netherlands beat the Norwegians to take the bronze medal.
It was the third surprise victory for the Cinderella story Italian team. They also upset the U.S. team in the quarter-finals and the Netherlands in the semifinals after two of the Dutch skaters fell.
It was the Olympic debut of the team pursuit. In the event, two teams of three skaters compete simultaneously on the oval track, starting on opposite sides from each other.
The teams complete the race when all members have crossed the finish line.
Women's skeleton
Pursuit teams weren't the only Canadian athletes making it to the podium on Thursday.
Canada's Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards took bronze in the women's skeleton.
The native of Eckville, Alta., posted a combined time of 2:01:41.
"I am so relieved, so happy," said Hollingsworth-Richards, who needed a mistake by German Diana Sartor to reach the podium. "It was a tough day. I didn't have the perfect runs I was planning on having."
She told Canada AM on Friday that her mistakes have made her appreciate her medal even more.
"Seeing that I reclaimed the bronze medal, it was overwhelming and I was… much more appreciative than if I stayed in that position and moved up to silver because I already experienced the heartbreak of losing it."
Maya Pedersen of Switzerland won gold in a time of 1:59.83, edging out Britain's Shelley Rudman at 2:01.06.
Hollingsworth-Richards has dominated the World Cup circuit this year.
She had top-three finishes in all seven races, including three victories, and easily took the overall points title.
Lindsay Alcock of Calgary finished 10th.
Disappointments
But, not all Canadian athletes made it to the medal podium on Thursday. There were a few disappointments.
In cross country, Becky Scott was disqualified for skiing in the wrong lane.
In snow boarding, Jacey-Jay Anderson was disqualified for bumping another competitor, which means Canadian snowboarders may not make it to the podium at all.
"For Canadian snowboarders, not very good for the expectations we had," Canadian snowboarder Francois Boivin told CTV News.
But, despite all of the medals won so far, the Canadian Olympic Committee is suggesting Team Canada might not reach its goal of a top three finish.
"It's going to be tough," Canadian Olympic Committee's Chris Rudge told CTV News. "We were talking about it earlier tonight. Things seem to have flattened. If you take a look at the standings, a lot of countries are doing well."
The Canadian Olympic Committee is also fighting for another medal. It's filing a complaint over the finish in the women's 500-metre short-track speedskating final.
On Wednesday, Canada's Anouk Leblanc-Boucher won bronze in the race.
But, the COC says the silver medallist from Bulgaria crossed the finish line with her front skate tilted in the air. The rules require skaters to cross the line with both skates on the ice.
If the Canadian appeal is successful, Leblanc-Boucher would win the silver, and another Canadian, Kalyna Roberge would win the bronze.
A decision is expected Saturday.
With files from The Canadian Press
