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Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
It includes top-three placings in the 1896 Olympic Games and 1900 Olympic Games, before medals were actually awarded for those placings. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. For simplicity, when an athlete has won medals for more than one nation, their entry in this list only mentions the last Nation represented.
*This table does not include two medals – one silver awarded in the ice hockey and one bronze awarded in the figure skating events at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The United States has never won an Olympic medal in the following current summer sports or disciplines: badminton, handball, rhythmic gymnastics, table tennis and trampoline gymnastics.
For the fourth consecutive Summer Olympics, the U.S. women will win more medals than the U.S. men. As of early Saturday evening, American women have won 58 percent of the total U.S. medals.
This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since 1992. Summer Olympics. 1992 Barcelona ... United States national baseball team. Brett ...
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [ 16 ]
United States: Alice Brown United States: Merlene Ottey Jamaica: 1988 Seoul details: Florence Griffith Joyner United States: Evelyn Ashford United States: Heike Drechsler East Germany: 1992 Barcelona details: Gail Devers United States: Juliet Cuthbert Jamaica: Irina Privalova Unified Team: 1996 Atlanta details: Gail Devers United States ...
The United States competed in all sports except handball and was represented by more female than male athletes for the fourth consecutive time in the Summer Olympics (278 men and 314 women). [ 6 ] The team topped the medal rankings for the fourth consecutive and 19th overall time , with a total of 40 gold, 44 silver, and 42 bronze medals. [ 7 ]