2020 olympic medal count

China and Japan, the host-country, were closest to matching the American gold-medal haul, winning 38 and 27 medals, respectively. The battle for most gold medals came down to the final day of competition, as Team USA's wins in women's volleyball and women's basketball pushed the country to the top of the chart. Not only did America win the gold and total medal count, but also the silver and bronze.

In the bronze medal race, the US had 33 medals to ROC's 23, followed by Great Britain and Australia who each had 22. August 3, 2021; Sean Irie in blue celebrates her victory in the Women's Featherweight gold medal match during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Kokugikan Arena. This is the table of the medal count of the 2020 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee . These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a National Olympic Committee .

The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC Country Code. Although this information is provided by the IOC, the IOC itself does not recognize or endorse any ranking system. Throughout the duration of the Olympics, the country held more than 30 gold medals in a variety of events. Not far behind was China, which also had more than 30 gold medals and more than 25 silver medals. The convention used by the International Olympic Committee is to sort by the number of gold medals, then silver, then bronze.

This means the country that wins the most medals overall may not necessarily be at the top of the table. From the time Korda wrapped up the golfing medal until the women's basketball game ended, Team USA picked up six gold medals, while China added just two (men's diving - 10m platform and women's canoe double 500m). This surge was just enough to pull the Americans within one of China in the gold medal count – 37-38. Below is the table for the final gold medal count , which USA led in with 39 total medals. Frederica Isola reacts after defeating China in the bronze medal match of the women's fencing epee team competition during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Makuhari Messe Hall on July 27, 2021. It was China who were on the edge of winning the most gold medals on Sunday, but the USA overtook them thanks to the victories in women's basketball and volleyball, as well as in cycling, in which the American team have earned their first-ever gold medal.

She and the rest of Team USA will try to extend the Americans' dominance in gymnastics. In addition, the United States has won gold in the team competition in the last two Olympics. Four years ago, Team USA set an American record with eight women's gymnastics medals. America brought home gold medals in each of the new sports that debuted in the 2020 games, including surfing, karate, and three-on-three basketball, according to NBC Sports. The US also dominated in swimming events and track and field, racking up more than 20 medals in both categories.

Concerns about the pandemic began to affect qualifying events in early 2020. Some that were due to take place in February were moved to alternative locations to address concerns about travelling to the affected areas, particularly China. For example, the women's basketball qualification was played in Belgrade, Serbia, instead of Foshan, China. The Asia & Oceania boxing qualification tournament, which was originally planned to be held from 3–14 February in Wuhan, China (the location of the original outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic), instead took place in Amman, Jordan, at the beginning of March.

The third round of the women's football qualification tournament was also affected, as the group matches formerly scheduled to be held in China were moved to Australia. The European boxing qualification began on 14 March 2020 in London, United Kingdom, but was suspended after two days of competition before being rescheduled for April 2021. It eventually resumed in June 2021 but was moved to Paris, France, because of renewed concerns over travel to the United Kingdom. Other qualifying events that were due to take place in March to June 2020 began to be postponed until later in the year and mid-2021 as part of a wider suspension of international sporting competitions in response to the pandemic. A multitude of Olympic sports were affected, including archery, baseball, cycling, handball, judo, rowing, sailing, volleyball, and water polo. New events were introduced in existing sports for 2020, including 3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX and mixed gender team events in a number of existing sports, as well as the return of madison cycling for men and an introduction of the same event for women.

New IOC policies also allowed the host organizing committee to add new sports to the Olympic program for just one Games. The disciplines added by the Japanese Olympic Committee were baseball and softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding, the last four of which made their Olympic debuts, and the last three of which will remain on the Olympic program. Hiroki Muto reacts after defeating Netherlands in the men's team bronze medal match during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Yumenoshima Archery Field on July 26, 2021. In a complete show of dominance, the U.S. won the most medals at the Olympics, raking in 113 total with 39 gold medals. The host country Japan comes in at third with 27 gold medals and a total of 58 medals. Two gold medals were awarded for a first-place tie in the men's high jump athletics event.

Bermuda, the Philippines and Qatar won their first-ever Olympic gold medals, while Burkina Faso San Marino, and Turkmenistan won their first-ever medals. In addition, North Macedonia won its first-ever silver medal, having previously received one bronze medal. The following medal table is a list of 92 National Olympic Committees and one non-NOC team ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. A total of 626 athletes competed for the USA at the Tokyo 2020 games, clinching 39 gold, 41 silver and 33 bronze medals for a grand total of 113 medals in 28 different sports. Overall, 257 members of Team USA won a medal, including 164 women and 93 men. The US actually topped China's gold medal count in some of the final events of the games, pulling ahead 39 to 38.

Delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics finally begins this week, and the United States enters the Tokyo Olympics 2021 once again as the country to beat in the medal count. The last time the United States did not top the medals table was 1992 when it finished second to the Unified Team, a joint team consisting of 12 of the 15 former Soviet republics. That said, the Olympics was meant to be an antidote to petty nationalism.

It's sad that countries seem to be so obsessed with this medal table which really tells us very little other than that countries which spend a lot on Olympic sports win a lot of Olympic medals. I admit I found it hard to cheer for Chinese athletes when I knew every medal would be treated as a propaganda coup, but I also found it hard to cheer for my country for much the same reason. He made a quiz about the total medal count and as I posted in a reply a few days ago, I made a quiz about the gold medal count. After more than two weeks of competition, the teams from around the world and the medals they racked up during the games are heading home. Team USA led the medal count throughout the Summer Olympics and is taking home more medals than any other countryand more gold medals than any other country. When it comes to total medals, Team USA has historically been slightly even more dominant than on the gold medal front.

Of the 28 Summer Games that America has competed in , they've literally never finished lower than third in total medals; and even that only happened once . Astoundingly, that means that 27 of those 28 finishes have either been first or second place in the total medal count. The one-medal, come-from-behind victory for America in the gold medal race was the smallest margin of victory in over 100 years. In the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm, Team USA finished with 25 gold medals, edging out host country Sweden by one medal in the fifth Olympiad. The only other team the margin of victory was one gold medal was the first-ever Olympiad in Athens in 1896. I personally resigned myself to the fact that Team USA would win the total medal count but would lose the gold medal race.

But the tide started to turn in the last two days, particularly as some of the team competitions began to wrap up. Both won 3 medals overall at the Games as MacNeil won individual gold in the 100 butterfly, silver in the 4×100 freestyle, and bronze in the 4×100 medley, and Smith individual silver in the 200 fly, bronze in the 100 back, and silver in the 4×100 medley. But on the final day, Team USA women's volleyball and women's basketballs won their games to bring in the final gold medals that topped off the count and solidified the win for the United States. Hong Kong placed 49th in the Olympics with 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, and 3 bronze medals for another total of 12 medals. The United States topped the medal count by both total golds and total medals , with China finishing second by both respects .

Host nation Japan finished third, setting a record for the most gold medals and total medals ever won by their delegation at an Olympic Games with 27 and 58. Great Britain finished fourth, with a total of 22 gold and 65 medals, becoming the first nation at the Summer Olympics to increase or equal their total medals won in the two Games subsequent to hosting them. The Russian delegation competing as the ROC finished fifth with 20 gold medals and third in the overall medal count, with 71 medals. Bermuda, the Philippines and Qatar won their first-ever Olympic gold medals. Burkina Faso, San Marino and Turkmenistan won their first-ever Olympic medals. Tokyo has been the first city to host two Paralympic Games since the city held the 1964 Paralympics.

22 different sports, as well as wheelchair basketball, included athletes with impairments from across the world competing for gold medals. Adriana Cerezo Iglesias reacts after being beat Panipak Wongpattanakit in the women's -49 gold medal match on July 24, 2021, during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Makuhari Messe Hall A in Tokyo, Japan. Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad won gold and silver, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles, with McLaughlin setting a world record.

American shot putter Ryan Crouser set an Olympic record three times en route to winning gold. A total of 93 nation teams won medals, breaking the previous record of 87 from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. Furthermore, 65 nations won at least one gold medal, also breaking the record established at the Rio games. The United States won the most gold medals, as well as the most overall medals.

Team USA's Skylar Diggins puts a gold medal on teammate Sue Bird during the medal ceremony for the women's basketball competition of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on August 8. Currently, the United States has 7 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 4 bronze medals; coming to a total of 14 medals so far. Hong Kong fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long won the city's first Olympic gold medal, while weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz of the Philippines also won her country's first-ever gold. Among Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines won four medals in total, while Indonesia grabbed five, followed by Thailand and Malaysia with two apiece. Team USA has held the lead at the 2020 Tokyo Games in overall medals since Day 4 and finished the games with 39 gold medals, 41 silver and 33 bronze for a grand total of 113.

America has led the gold medal count in 18 of the 29 Summer Olympiads held (this is the 32nd Olympiad, but three didn't take place due to World Wars I and II), the most of any country. The only other country to lead the gold medal count in multiple years is the Soviet Union. Below is the table for the final total medal count , which USA led in with 113 total medals.

Taiwan took 34th place in the Olympics with 2 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 6 bronze medals for a total of 12. China earned 38 gold medals, 32 silver medals, and 18 bronze medals for a total of 88 medals. Use of the flag in international sporting events such as the Olympic Games is controversial because it was used for waging aggressive war against many countries in Pacific regions, including the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The collection of bronze was completed in November 2018, with the remainder estimated to have been completed by March 2019. Simone Biles greets the Russian Olympic Committee as the celebrate winning the gold medal in the women's team final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on July 27, 2021.

Lukas Krpalek reacts to beating Guram Tushishvili in the mens judo +100 gold medal match on Friday, July 30, 2021, during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. A national sportswriter whose work appears in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has covered nine Olympic Games in person. He told readers to bet over on Team USA's gold medal count (41.5) and over on Team USA's overall medal count (102.5).

It's funny people think that the US does this to look better than China. China has four times the population and forces promising children to become athletes. That the US does as good or better than them with a team of volunteers is hilarious. It would be interesting to see a quiz that comes down to medals per capita - or since gold medals are clearly the only thing that count to some people, gold medals per capita. As a thought experiment, imagine if a country won silver in every event - would we consider them 'worse' than a country who won a single gold? The gaps between the top 3 - indeed between pretty much all of the athletes - are so small that every medal feels worthy of being celebrated to me.

After starting Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics with no medals for the first time since 1972, the United States steadily climbed the medal leaderboard and cemented its place atop the medal throne in both overall medal count and gold medals. The US took home 39 gold medals, 41 silver medals, and 33 bronze for a total of 113 medals. The U.S. used victories from from women's basketball, women's volleyball and Californian cyclist Jennifer Valente to come out on top after entering the final day of competition down two gold medals. Per the historical precedent of swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, swimming finals were held in the morning to allow live primetime broadcasts in the Americas.

NBC paid substantial fees for rights to the Olympics, so the IOC has allowed NBC to influence event scheduling to maximize U.S. television ratings when possible. On 7 May 2014, NBC agreed to a US$7.75 billion contract extension to air the Olympics through the 2032 games, which is one of the IOC's major sources of revenue. Japanese broadcasters were said to have criticized the decision, as swimming is one of the most popular Olympic events in the country.

As a result of the ban, WADA planned to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2020 Summer Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they would be excluded from team sports. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against WADA's decision. After reviewing the case on appeal, CAS ruled on 17 December 2020 that the penalty placed on Russia be reduced.

The ruling does allow for "Russia" to be displayed on the team uniform—although it should be no more visible than the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation—as well as the use of the Russian flag's colors within the uniform's design. Gabriella Schloesser and Steve Wuller of The Netherlands embrace after winning the silver medal in the mixed team archery competition on Saturday, July 24, 2021, during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Yumenoshima Archery Field in Tokyo, Japan. July 28, 2021; Daiki Hashinoto celebrates winning the gold medal during the mens individual all-around final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre. On Sunday, August 8, the Tokyo Olympics 2020have officially come to an end with the closing ceremony, which transferred the torch to Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games. The United Stateswomen's basketball team won their eighth gold in a row, while the US women's volleyball team won their first gold in the sport's history, helping the Americans pass China at the buzzer on top of the gold-medal standings on Sunday.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympicsare complete and the United States added more hardware to an already extensive collection, winning both the overall medal count and the most gold medals. The first gold medal of the 2020 Olympic Games was won by Yang Qian (People's Republic of China) in the women's 10m air rifle final. Here is the updated medal table standings after 10 days of track and field competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan, which will take place from July 30 to August 8. Updated medal table standings after 10 days of track and field competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which take place from July 30 to August 8. The IOC website allows you to rank by total golds, total silver, or total medals. I would argue that Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan were more successful than Puerto Rico or Bermuda.

If gold was the only thing that mattered, the other two medals wouldn't be handed out. China, which has 88 medals overall, finished in second in the medal count. Then something quite unexpected happened – USA's Jennifer Valente won gold in cycling in an event called omnium. However, in so doing, she brought her team into a tie with China for most gold medals – 38-38. April Ross and Alix Klineman won the women's beach volleyball competition, giving Ross one medal of each color in her Olympic career.

Next came Gable Steveson's remarkable comeback, buzzer-beating win in the 125kg wrestling final, which ultimately paralleled what Team USA would do in the gold medal race down the stretch. Regan Smith and Torri Huske have yet to swim a competitive lap for the Stanford Cardinal swimming team. Katie Ledecky is the product of coach Yuri Suguiyama and coach Bruce Gemmell. Any claims by coach Greg Meehan in the development of Katie Ledecky is not only disingenuous but grounds for dismissal. Brooke Forde did not swim in the final of the women's 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay. Simone Manuel failed to qualify in the final of the women's 50 meter freestyle.

The American men struggled far more, getting just one individual athletics gold in the shot put and ending their drought on the track with a gold medal in the 4x400 metres relay on Saturday. By adding Hong Kong and Taiwan's medals, China's self-claimed medal count jumped to 41 gold, 37 silver, and 27 bronze for an accumulative 106 medals. When the Olympics were held in Rio five years ago, China won the most medals, with Great Britain coming in second.

Team China was leading the final medal count in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games until the last day when the United States prevailed and finished with the most medals of any nation. Olympic high jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy mutually decided to share the top spot in their event. The last time the gold medal was shared among two athletes at the Olympics was 113 years ago. In boxing , judo , karate , taekwondo , and wrestling , two bronze medals are awarded in each event, for an additional 62 bronze medals. Also, two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's floor gymnastics event, for a total of 63 additional bronze medals. The record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics is 83, which the United States achieved at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, which were boycotted by the Soviet Union.