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A] Athletes from 59 nations earned gold medals at these games, also breaking the record for the most nations winning gold at a single games. [12] Bahrain , [ 13 ] [ B ] Fiji , [ 16 ] Ivory Coast , [ 17 ] Jordan , [ 18 ] Kosovo , [ 19 ] Puerto Rico , [ 20 ] Singapore , [ 21 ] Tajikistan , [ 22 ] and Vietnam won their first Olympic gold medals ...
Gold Silver Bronze 50 m freestyle details: Pernille Blume Denmark: 24.07 NR: Simone Manuel United States: 24.09 Aliaksandra Herasimenia Belarus: 24.11 NR: 100 m freestyle details: Simone Manuel United States Penny Oleksiak Canada: 52.70 OR, AR 52.70 OR, WJR, AR: Not awarded as there was a tie for gold. Sarah Sjöström Sweden: 52.90 200 m ...
The United States topped the medal table, winning the most gold medals (46) and the highest number of medals overall (121); the U.S. team also won its 1,000th Summer Olympic gold medal. Great Britain finished second and became the first country to increase its tally of medals in the Summer Olympiad immediately after being the host nation. [7]
This year at the 2016 Rio Olympics,we witnessed a first that was very special: The United States brought the most female athletes to the Games in Olympic history -- 292 to be exact.
Where two or more athletes have exactly the same number of gold, silver and bronze medals, the ranking is shown as a tie and the athletes are shown in order by career years and name. This list includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, even though these Games pre-dated the awarding of medals for top-three placings.
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.
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings, as noted above, won beach volleyball gold medals in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The other is Karch Kiraly, who won gold with the United States men's indoor team in 1984 and 1988 and in beach volleyball in 1996. Kiraly is the only player of either gender to win medals in both indoor and beach volleyball. [15]