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A total of 1,881 individual athletes won medals. Chinese athletes won the most gold medals with 48 (100 total), and the United States won the most total medals with 112 (including 36 gold). [10] Athletes from 87 countries won medals, while 55 nations won at least one gold medal, both setting new records for Olympic Games. [11]
Afghanistan, [8] Mauritius, [9] Sudan, [10] Tajikistan [11] and Togo won their first Olympic medals of any kind. [12] Athletes from Mongolia (which previously held the record for most medals without a gold) [13] and Panama won their first Olympic gold medals. [14] Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić won the first medal for the country as an ...
An unprecedented 87 countries won at least one medal during the 2008 Games. Host nation China won the most gold medals (48), and became the seventh different team to top the Summer Olympics medal standings, winning a total of 100 medals overall. The United States placed second in the gold medal tally but won the highest number of medals overall ...
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. ... gold. 2004 Athens Olympics: bronze. 2008 ...
1500 metres The original gold medalist, Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain, was stripped of his gold medal for having committed anti-doping violations. [2] The rest of the competitors were elevated by one position accordingly. 4 × 100 metres relay Jamaican team originally won gold medals but was disqualified due to anti-doping rules violation by Nesta ...
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.U.S. athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which was boycotted by the American team and 65 other countries in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The USA Men's Basketball Team on August 10, 2008. The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. They qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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 ...