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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)
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 ...
Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel: Swimming: Men's 100 meter breaststroke: July 26 Gold: Pablo Morales: Swimming: Men's 100 meter butterfly: July 27 Gold: Nicole Haislett: Swimming: Women's 200 meter freestyle: July 27 Gold: Crissy Ahmann-Leighton * Nicole Haislett Angel Martino Ashley Tappin* Jenny Thompson Dara Torres: Swimming
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]
The tradition of awarding medals began in 1904; in each Olympic event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals for second place, and bronze medals for third place. The Winter Olympic Games were created out of the success of the Summer Olympic Games, which are regarded as the largest and most prestigious multi-sport international ...
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.