Group USA Tops 2024 Olympics With Most Medals Gained in Paris

Team USA topped the medals desk on the Paris Olympic Games with 40 gold medals and a complete of 126.

China, who have been the final workforce aside from the U.S. to high the medal desk after they did it at dwelling on the 2008 Beijing Video games, additionally gained 40 golds. However as a result of they managed solely 27 silvers, they completed second on the medals desk. The U.S. earned 44 silver medals.

The U.S. girls’s basketball workforce secured Group USA’s closing gold medal by edging host nation France in a thrilling match that got here all the way down to the final shot.

Along with the medals, that are distinctive to every Olympic Video games, some winners will get further awards from their dwelling nations. Money prizes, cows and even residences are among the rewards medal winners in some sports activities or from sure nations will get pleasure from. And whereas some athletes will set world records in Paris, these could be set at different worldwide competitions. Olympic medals, nevertheless, are solely earned on the Video games.

Which nation had probably the most medals within the 2020 Olympics?

The 2020 Olympic Games, held in Tokyo in 2021 after a COVID-related delay, have been a way more sober affair than most Video games because of to the coronavirus pandemic. There, the U.S. narrowly edged out China for many gold medals, 39 to 38, however remained comfortably forward in general medals, with American athletes taking dwelling 113 medals to second-place China’s 89.

Which nation had probably the most gold medals within the 2022 Olympics?

Within the 2022 Winter Games, held in Beijing, the U.S. was third in each the gold-medal depend and general medals, with 9 golds and 25 general. Norway topped the depend with 16 golds and 37 whole medals, adopted by Germany in each gold medals, with 12, and general medals, with 27. Host nation China tied the U.S. within the variety of gold medals, however trailed within the whole medal depend, with 15.

Which nation has probably the most medals general?

In keeping with the Olympic Basis for Tradition and Heritage, the U.S. leds the all-time medal count going into the Paris Video games with a complete of two,975 Olympic medals, adopted by the now-defunct Soviet Union, with 1,204 medals, and Germany, with 1,058 medals.

And, as hoped, the U.S. added to its medal haul on the 2024 Video games, topping 3,000 total medals inside the first week of competitors. The American workforce is helped by the sheer number of competitors representing Group USA on the Paris Video games: 594 athletes, of the about 10,500 athletes competing. 4 nations on this 12 months’s video games have just one athlete taking a shot at medal glory: Belize, Liechtenstein, Nauru and Somalia. 

And since Russia was banned for this 12 months’s video games, any medals garnered by its few athletes competing as individual neutral athletes will not be tallied as a part of the nation’s general haul. The primary particular person impartial athlete to medal within the Video games was Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya of Belarus, who took silver in girls’s trampoline.

Which nation has probably the most gold medals general?

The U.S. can even hope to maintain its rating because the nation with probably the most gold medals: a complete of 1,179 forward of the Paris Video games, in line with the Olympic Basis. Following is the Soviet Union, with 473 gold medals. Germany takes third, with 342 gold medals. 

The U.S. notched its first gold medal of the Games with a gold within the males’s 4×100 freestyle relay. And, after all, Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team turned in dominant performances to carry dwelling particular person and workforce gold, and swimmers Katie Ledecky and Torri Huske every added to the tally. 

Working phenom Noah Lyles narrowly notched the gold in a photograph end to the 100 meters, and Cole Hocker pulled off a surprising upset to present the U.S. a gold within the 1500 meters, coming from behind to beat the 2 favorites within the discipline. Quincy Hall also came from behind, nabbing the U.S. first gold medal within the 400 meters since 2008.