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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres details: Usain Bolt Jamaica: 9.81 Justin Gatlin United States: 9.89 Andre De Grasse Canada: 9.91 200 metres details: Usain Bolt Jamaica: 19.78 Andre De Grasse Canada: 20.02 Christophe Lemaitre France: 20.12 400 metres details: Wayde van Niekerk South Africa: 43.03 WR: Kirani James Grenada: 43.76 LaShawn Merritt ...
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Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez of Spain won the Olympic men's doubles tennis title on Friday to secure their country's third gold medal of the Rio Games.
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.