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An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal to be won: gold, silver, and bronze, awarded to first, second, and third place, respectively. The granting of awards is laid out in detail in the Olympic protocols. Medal designs have varied considerably since the Games in 1896 ...
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games. The IOC ...
The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games. [1] Nevertheless, the IOC does publish medal tallies for information purposes, showing the ...
The Geopolitics of Winter Olympic Medal Counts, The Atlantic, February 7, 2014; One Benefit of Hosting the Olympics? More Medals, NPR, August 8, 2012
This despite CAS and the USOPC being in communication during the Paris Olympics related to an Aug. 7 ceremony where U.S. figure skaters finally got their medals from the team competition at the ...
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won gold for the discus throw. Torres won silver for the women's 4x100 freestyle team relay as anchor at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Robinson won silver for the men's 200m breaststroke at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Lange won gold for the Nacra 17 at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is ...
See also: List of 2020 Summer Olympics medal winners. From left to right: Raven Saunders, Gong Lijiao, and Valerie Adams won silver, gold, and bronze respectively during the women's shot put event. [ 23 ] Neisi Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg weightlifting competition, becoming Ecuador's first female gold medalist.