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Team sports medals, such as in football or basketball count as one, even if there are multiple players on each team, who get a medal. Some tied performances have resulted in multiple medals of the same colour being awarded for an event. If this tie is for gold or silver, there will be a consequent absence of a silver or bronze medal for that event.
Gold medals Date Athlete Nation Sport Record gold-medal event Earlier gold-medal events Gender 1 [1] 1896-04-06: James Connolly United States: Athletics: Triple jump — M Robert Garrett United States: Athletics: Discus: M 1896-04-07 Ellery Clark United States: Athletics: Long jump: M Thomas Burke United States: Athletics: 400 metres: M 2 [1 ...
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold–silver–bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Total 1896: winners: table: Athens, Greece: 43 43 43 36 122 Hermann Weingärtner (3–2–1) Carl Schuhmann (4–0–0) 1900: winners: table: Paris, France: 95 [d] 96 95 93 284 Irving Baxter (2–3–0)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best-placed athletes in each event of the 1896 and 1900 Games. [ 16 ] [ 15 ] If there is a tie for any of the top three places all competitors are entitled to receive the appropriate medal according to IOC rules. [ 17 ]
In cases where two or more athletes have the same number of total medals, the first tiebreaker is the number of gold medals, followed by the number of silver medals. If the tied athletes have exactly the same number of gold, silver and bronze medals, the ranking is given as a tie and the athletes are listed in order first by career years and ...
Where two or more athletes have exactly the same number of gold, silver and bronze medals, the ranking is shown as a tie and the athletes are shown in order by career years and name. This list includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, even though these Games pre-dated the awarding of medals for top-three placings.
During the 2008 Summer Olympics, with China and the U.S. topping the gold and total medal tallies respectively, [23] and then again at the 2010 Winter Olympics when Canada and the U.S. finished 1st and 3rd respectively in the "gold first" ranking, [24] and 3rd and 1st respectively in terms of total medals won. [25]
This is a list of most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.