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Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel: Swimming: Men's 100 meter breaststroke: July 26 ... Gold: United States women's national soccer team. Nicole Barnhart;
On August 2, 2012, she won the Olympic title in the –78 kg category, defeating Gemma Gibbons of Britain by two yukos, to become the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in judo. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] She earned a second Olympic gold medal in the same weight class in 2016 in Rio , defeating Audrey Tcheuméo of France.
The hosts, on the other hand, had 169 athletes competing and won 46 medals. The American team managed to win only 20 medals, dwarfed by the enormous Greek team. However, the United States managed to win 11 gold medals, edging out Greece, who secured 10 golds, and allowing Team USA to finish first in the gold medal tally.
Team USA has dominated men's 5x5 basketball at the Olympics, winning 16 of 20 gold medals since the event made its debut as a medal sport in 1936.
Mead returned gold to Team USA in the men's coxless four rowing race after 64 years, and Ledecky is Team USA's most decorated female swimmer of all time. ... Thursday that gold medal winners Katie ...
“The value of a gold medal depends on the current market prices of silver and gold,” Stone explained. “Presently, 1 gram of gold is valued at $74.94, while 1 gram of silver is priced at $0.73.
Ledecky won her second gold medal of the Olympics and her seventh of all time in the 800-meter freestyle. Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row ...
The two teams met again in the gold medal game, which the United States won 3–1. [6] The Canadian and American teams have established a strong rivalry since the 1998 Winter Games, playing each other in the gold medal game in all but one instance. In a rematch between the two at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Canada won 3–2.