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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.
At 2014 Winter Olympics, Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km sprint biathlon event, tying the record number of total medals in the Winter Olympics at 12, along with Bjørn Dæhlie, and becoming the oldest Winter Olympics medalist at age 40. [5] Skeleton Oldest skeleton gold medalist 39 Duff Gibson [6] Oldest male skeleton gold medalist 39
During the 2008 Summer Olympics, with China and the U.S. topping the gold and total medal tallies respectively, [23] and then again at the 2010 Winter Olympics when Canada and the U.S. finished 1st and 3rd respectively in the "gold first" ranking, [24] and 3rd and 1st respectively in terms of total medals won. [25]
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 ]
Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel: Swimming: Men's 100 meter breaststroke: July 26 Gold: Pablo Morales: Swimming: Men's 100 meter butterfly: July 27 Gold: Nicole Haislett: Swimming: Women's 200 meter freestyle: July 27 Gold: Crissy Ahmann-Leighton * Nicole Haislett Angel Martino Ashley Tappin* Jenny Thompson Dara Torres: Swimming
If you rank the world's nations by how many medals they've won per capita since 1896, three of the top five countries are in one area.
Hungary has won more Olympic medals than any other existing nation never to have hosted the Games. After overtaking Finland at the 2020 Olympic Games, it is now the country with the highest number of gold medals won at Summer Olympics per capita (not counting microstates with less than 1 million inhabitants). [1]
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)