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The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, was a summer multi-sport event held in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August. A total of 10,768 athletes from 204 nations participated in 302 events in 26 sports across 39 different disciplines. [1][2] Overall, 86 nations received at ...
LOCOG. v. t. e. The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad[ a ] and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales ...
Mexico competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twenty-second appearance at the Olympics since its debut in 1900. Comité Olímpico Mexicano sent a total of 102 athletes to the Games, 64 men and 38 women, to compete in 23 sports.
The Washington Post. Associated Press. 5 August 2012. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2012. ^ "Molfetta wins Olympic gold in men's plus-80K". Huffington Post. Retrieved 11 August 2012. ^ Fordyce, Tom (6 August 2012). "Grenada's Kirani James wins Olympic 400m gold".
Japanese athletes have won 542 medals at the Summer Olympic Games (except art competitions), with the most gold medals won in judo, gymnastics, wrestling, and swimming, as of the end of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan has also won 76 medals at the Winter Olympic Games. Its most successful Olympics is the 2020 Games hosted in Tokyo.
1 Summer Olympics. 2 Winter Olympics. 3 ... Host nation Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank; 1896 ... One Benefit of Hosting the Olympics? More Medals, NPR, August 8, 2012
The 46-gold medal record was the most the United States had ever won in any Olympics in which it was not the host nation. [3] At least one medal was awarded to U.S. athletes in sixteen sports, thirteen of which contained at least one gold. U.S. athletes dominated the nations' medal standings in swimming, wherein they won a total of 31 medals ...
Day 10: August 6. Athletics. Jenn Suhr of the United States won the gold medal in the women's pole vault with Yarisley Silva of Cuba taking the silver and defending champion Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia earning bronze. [174] Valerie Adams of New Zealand claimed gold in the women's shot put final.