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The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [ 16 ]
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 an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.
The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal. 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.
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Medals and Mascots of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, delivered during Victory ceremonies to medal winners. An all-time medal table for all Youth Olympic Games (YOG) from 2010 to 2020 is tabulated below. This is a summary of medal tables published by IOC on every YOG edition.
They were also the first Olympic medals of any kind for Fiji, Jordan, and Kosovo. [16] [18] [19] Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani became the first independent athlete to win a gold medal. [24] The United States led the medal table both in number of gold medals won and in overall medals, winning 46 and 121 respectively. [25]
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 ]
[1] [2] Overall 29 nations received at least one medal, and 23 of them won at least one gold medal. Athletes from Norway won the most medals overall, with 37, and the most gold medals, with 16. The latter record was the highest gold medal tally at a single Winter Games. [3]