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The United States has placed first overall in the Summer Olympic Games nineteen times, followed by the Soviet Union with six overall victories (not including the 1992 first-place finish by the Unified Team). In the Winter Olympic Games, Norway has placed first overall ten times and the Soviet Union (prior to its dissolution in 1991) had placed ...
The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games. [ 1 ]
Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account. As of completion of the 2022 Winter Olympics , 12 National Olympic Committees have participated on a standalone basis in all 24 Winter Olympic Games.
He became the first skeet shooter to win three gold medals in Olympic history having previously won in 2008 and 2012. [26] The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method.
With 18 total Olympic medals, Latynina became the world record holder for most Olympic medals won by an individual, a record that stood for 48 years until swimmer Michael Phelps surpassed that mark at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [23] [24] She also became the record holder for most gold and total Olympic medals by a female athlete. [25]
In the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, for example, Team USA won the most gold medals (39) and the most medals overall (113), according to the official Olympic leaderboard. (China nabbed 38 gold ...
Team USA’s first gold medal of this year’s games came in the men’s 4x100-m freestyle relay with a time of 3:09.28. The women’s 4x100-m freestyle relay team also garnered silver, and Katie ...
Algeria, [19] Indonesia, [4] and Lithuania won their nations' first Summer Olympic gold medals. [20] It was also the first Olympic medal of any kind for Lithuania. [20] Croatia, [21] Israel, [22] Malaysia, [23] Namibia, [24] Qatar, [25] and Slovenia won their nation's first Olympic medals. [26] Unified Team gymnast Vitaly Scherbo won the most ...