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The United States led the medal table both in number of gold medals won and in overall medals, winning 36 and 101 respectively. [8] It was the third consecutive Summer Olympic Games that the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals. [9] The United Arab Emirates, [10] Paraguay [11] and Eritrea won their first ever ...
Gold Silver Bronze Men's 20 km walk details: Ivano Brugnetti Italy: Paquillo Fernández Spain: Nathan Deakes Australia: Women's 20 km walk details: Athanasia Tsoumeleka Greece: Olimpiada Ivanova Russia: Jane Saville Australia: Men's 50 km walk details: Robert Korzeniowski Poland: Denis Nizhegorodov Russia: Aleksey Voyevodin Russia: Men's ...
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
In so doing, she became the first woman in any sport to win gold medals at 6 different Olympics, the first woman to win gold 24 years apart and the first person in Olympic history to win two or more medals in five different Games. Swimmer Michael Phelps became the first athlete to win 8 medals (6 gold and 2 bronze) in non-boycotted Olympics. [31]
[3] [4] The team was selected based on the results of the 2004 United States Olympic Trials. Adam Nelson originally claimed a silver medal in men's shot put. On December 5, 2012, the International Olympic Committee and the IAAF stripped off Ukrainian shot putter Yuriy Bilonoh's gold medal after drug re-testings of his samples were discovered ...
The Australian Olympic Committee sent a total of 470 athletes (268 men and 202 women) to the Games to compete in 29 sports. Australia finished the Athens Games having won a total of 50 medals, including 17 gold, the most gold medals to date although this was equalled in Tokyo 2020 and surpassed its total in Paris 2024 with 18 gold medals.
In all, he competed in 30 events across five Olympics: the 2000 Sydney Olympics; 2004 Athens Olympics; 2008 Beijing Olympics; 2012 London Olympics; and 2016 Rio Olympics. ... Gold medal count: 23 ...
d Russian athlete Irina Korzhanenko lost her gold medal in women's shot put due to doping, with Cuban Yumileidi Cumbá Jay replacing her as the Olympic champion, German Nadine Kleinert receiving the silver medal, and Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia receiving the bronze medal, [6] however Krivelyova was later stripped of her bronze for the same ...