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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]
China at the 2024 Summer Olympics; IOC code: CHN: NOC: Chinese Olympic Committee: Website: www.olympic.cn (in Chinese and English) in Paris, France 26 July 2024 () – 11 August 2024 () Competitors: 388 in 33 sports: Flag bearer (opening) Ma Long & Feng Yu: Flag bearer (closing) Li Fabin & Ou Zixia: Medals Ranked 2nd: Gold 40 Silver 27 Bronze ...
China won 32 golds and ranked 2nd at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece. Liu Xiang became the first Chinese male athlete to win gold medal in an Olympic track event, 110 m hurdles, equaling the world record of 12.91 seconds. He became the China's flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
A pair of teenagers claimed the first gold medal awarded at the Paris Olympics. Huang Yuting, 17, and Sheng Lihao, 19, upheld the Chinese shooting team’s history of success, defeating Korea’s ...
Team USA’s 126 gold, silver and bronze medals far exceeds China’s 91, the next closest nation. Team USA had a chance to move past the Chinese in the gold standings on the final day.
China is celebrating its best-ever performance at an overseas Olympics after winning the same number of golds as the United States at the Paris 2024 Games.. Both countries finished with 40 golds ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
The U.S. team edged China in gold at the 2020 Tokyo Games, 39-38. The United States won the 2024 Olympics overall medal count with 126. China was second with 91, and Great Britain was third with ...