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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. As of completion of the 2022 Winter Olympics , 12 National Olympic Committees have participated on a standalone basis in all 24 Winter Olympic Games.
The United States has placed first overall in the Summer Olympic Games nineteen times, followed by the Soviet Union with six overall victories (not including the 1992 first-place finish by the Unified Team). In the Winter Olympic Games, Norway has placed first overall ten times and the Soviet Union (prior to its dissolution in 1991) had placed ...
The United States is the defending champion of both the men's and women's tournaments. As of the 2016 Summer Olympics, 90 medals (30 of each color) have been awarded to teams from 20 National Olympic Committees. Two gold medal-winning teams were inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
In the end, more than half of all medals earned for the U.S. were in women's events: 69 of the 126 medals won by the United States were won by women. Team USA also earned six medals in mixed events.
Five skaters have won Olympic gold medals in multiple events. Evgeni Plushenko won gold in men's singles in 2006 and team event gold in 2014. Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov were the first skaters to win multiple events at a single Olympics, winning in both pairs and the team event.
This is a progressive list of Olympians that have held the record for most medals won. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings. All record-holders have competed at Summer Games rather than Winter Games.
Returning to the Olympics in 1972, Holum won her only gold medal, in the 1,500 meters, and finished her Olympic skating career winning a bronze in the 3,000 meters.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, he won bronze in the men's 50 km walk. [9] Oldest male athletics gold medalist 42 Pat McDonald: At the 1920 Summer Olympics, he won the men's 56 lbs toss. [9] Oldest female athletics medalist 40 Merlene Ottey: At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won bronze in the women's 100m dash. [9] Oldest female athletics gold ...