Staff USA topped the medals desk on the Paris Olympic Video games with 40 gold medals and a complete of 126.
China, who had been the final staff other than the U.S. to prime the medal desk once they did it at dwelling on the 2008 Beijing Video games, additionally received 40 golds. However as a result of they managed solely 27 silvers, they completed second on the medals desk. The U.S. earned 44 silver medals.
The U.S. ladies’s basketball staff secured Staff USA’s ultimate gold medal by edging host nation France in an exciting match that got here all the way down to the final shot.
Along with the medals, that are distinctive to every Olympic Video games, some winners will get further awards from their dwelling nations. Money prizes, cows and even flats are a few of the rewards medal winners in some sports activities or from sure nations will take pleasure in. And whereas some athletes will set world data in Paris, these could be set at different worldwide competitions. Olympic medals, nevertheless, are solely earned on the Video games.
Which nation had essentially the most medals within the 2020 Olympics?
The 2020 Olympic Video games, held in Tokyo in 2021 after a COVID-related delay, had been a way more sober affair than most Video games as a result of to the coronavirus pandemic. There, the U.S. narrowly edged out China for many gold medals, 39 to 38, however remained comfortably forward in total medals, with American athletes taking dwelling 113 medals to second-place China’s 89.
Which nation had essentially the most gold medals within the 2022 Olympics?
Within the 2022 Winter Video games, held in Beijing, the U.S. was third in each the gold-medal depend and total medals, with 9 golds and 25 total. Norway topped the depend with 16 golds and 37 complete medals, adopted by Germany in each gold medals, with 12, and total medals, with 27. Host nation China tied the U.S. within the variety of gold medals, however trailed within the complete medal depend, with 15.
Which nation has essentially the most medals total?
Based on the Olympic Basis for Tradition and Heritage, the U.S. leds the all-time medal depend going into the Paris Video games with a complete of two,975 Olympic medals, adopted by the now-defunct Soviet Union, with 1,204 medals, and Germany, with 1,058 medals.
And, as hoped, the U.S. added to its medal haul on the 2024 Video games, topping 3,000 complete medals inside the first week of competitors. The American staff is helped by the sheer variety of opponents representing Staff USA on the Paris Video games: 594 athletes, of the about 10,500 athletes competing. 4 nations on this yr’s video games have just one athlete taking a shot at medal glory: Belize, Liechtenstein, Nauru and Somalia.
And since Russia was banned for this yr’s video games, any medals garnered by its few athletes competing as particular person impartial athletes will not be tallied as a part of the nation’s total haul. The primary particular person impartial athlete to medal within the Video games was Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya of Belarus, who took silver in ladies’s trampoline.
Which nation has essentially the most gold medals total?
The U.S. will even hope to maintain its rating because the nation with essentially the most gold medals: a complete of 1,179 forward of the Paris Video games, in line with the Olympic Basis. Following is the Soviet Union, with 473 gold medals. Germany takes third, with 342 gold medals.
The U.S. notched its first gold medal of the Video games with a gold within the males’s 4×100 freestyle relay. And, in fact, Simone Biles and the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics staff turned in dominant performances to convey dwelling particular person and staff gold, and swimmers Katie Ledecky and Torri Huske every added to the tally.
Operating phenom Noah Lyles narrowly notched the gold in a photograph end to the 100 meters, and Cole Hocker pulled off a shocking upset to provide the U.S. a gold within the 1500 meters, coming from behind to beat the 2 favorites within the area. Quincy Corridor additionally got here from behind, nabbing the U.S. first gold medal within the 400 meters since 2008.
