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The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is ...
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 August 2016 to 21 August 2016. Approximately 11,000 athletes from 206 nations [ 1 ] participated in 306 events in 42 Olympic sport disciplines.
The 2016 Summer Olympics were the first Games in which Kosovo and South Sudan were eligible to participate. Bulgarian and Russian weightlifters were banned from Rio Olympics for numerous anti-doping violations. [60] [61] Kuwait was banned in October 2015 for the second time in five years over government interference in the country's Olympic ...
When it comes to the Olympic medal count, the U.S. is well ahead of any other country -- but one U.S. state stands out as the home of champions.
The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal. 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.
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2016 Brazil (BRA) 7: 6: 6: 19 ... The Geopolitics of Winter Olympic Medal Counts, The Atlantic, February 7, 2014; One Benefit of Hosting the Olympics? More Medals ...
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 ...