The U.S. has powered its manner into an Olympics report and reached a milestone of three,000 medals with its newest wins on the 2024 Paris Video games — the primary nation ever to take action.
Headed into this 12 months’s summer season video games, the U.S. had earned a whopping 2,975 medals at previous summer season and winter Olympics, based on the Olympic Basis for Tradition and Heritage. On Tuesday, the U.S. crossed the three,000 mark after Workforce USA earned its twenty sixth medal on this 12 months’s Olympics — and there are nonetheless many extra medal possibilities forward earlier than the Paris Video games finish on Aug. 11.
What medals has the U.S. gained this 12 months?
Up to now this 12 months, the U.S. has gained 26 medals: 4 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze medals.
A lot of this 12 months’s medals come from swimming occasions. Up to now, the U.S. has taken house 15 swimming medals, three in fencing, two in gymnastics, two in biking, two in skateboarding, one in diving and one in rugby.
Notably, Workforce USA’s males’s gymnasts earned their first Olympic medal within the crew occasion in 16 years, capturing a bronze on Monday. The ladies’s crew took house gold within the crew competitors on Tuesday, with Simone Biles main the gymnasts to victory.
Workforce USA additionally medaled for the primary time in ladies’s rugby, beating Australia within the final second to take the bronze.
Which international locations have essentially the most Olympic medals total?
The Worldwide Olympic Committee doesn’t compile rankings, however the Olympic Basis for Tradition and Heritage — a company described by the Olympics because the “leading international exponent in promoting and disseminating Olympism in the fields of culture, heritage and values-based education” — does hold a depend.
Forward of this 12 months’s video games, the muse stated the U.S. was adopted within the rankings by the Soviet Union, with 1,204 medals, and Germany, with 1,058 medals.
The Olympic Basis counts one medal per occasion independently of the variety of athletes competing. It additionally doesn’t embrace medals gained within the arts competitors or in demonstration occasions.
The Soviet Union disbanded in 1991. Its former republics, equivalent to Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia, now compete within the Olympics as unbiased international locations.
As of Tuesday on the 2024 Paris Video games, the U.S. is adopted within the medal depend by France and China, with 18 and 14, respectively.
Forward of this 12 months’s Olympics, France had gained 897 whole medals and China had gained 713, based on the Olympic Basis for Tradition and Heritage.
Which international locations have essentially the most gold medals?
Whereas the U.S. is just not main within the gold rankings this 12 months, it does maintain the report for the nation with essentially the most gold medals.
Earlier than this 12 months’s Olympics started, the U.S. had earned a complete of 1,179 golds, based on the Olympic Basis. Workforce USA is adopted by the Soviet Union, with 473 gold medals. Germany takes third, with 342 gold medals earlier than the beginning of the 2024 video games.
Up to now this 12 months the U.S. has gained gold 4 occasions: twice in swimming, as soon as in gymnastics and as soon as in fencing.
Nice Britain, France, Italy, China, Sweden and Norway have all gained greater than 200 gold medals, based on the Olympic Basis.
