Gold Medal: On Day 13 of the 2024 Paris Games, the United States won its 100th medal, bringing its total to 103. In Paris, there are only three days left of competition. Team USA is ahead of second-place China by 30 medals.
But it looks like the race for the gold title might go down to the wire. On Day 11, the US passed China to have the most gold medals, but they haven’t been able to get far ahead since then. On Day 14 of the Games, Team USA only has one more gold than China.
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As of Day 13, the U.S. has won 30 gold medals at the Paris Games, one more than China, which is in second place.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Team USA came in second place with 36 gold medals, behind China with 48. This was the last time that Team USA didn’t win the most gold medals.
How many medals did the US win at the 2024 Olympics?
With 13 days left in the Paris Olympics, the United States has won 103 medals, 30 more than second-place China.
For the eighth straight Summer Games, Team USA wants to win the most gold. The last time the U.S. wasn’t in first place in terms of medals won was at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where the “Unified Team” of athletes from former Soviet countries won the most gold (45) and overall medals (112). With 37 golds and 108 medals, the U.S. came in second place in both events.
Even at the 1988 Seoul Games, the Americans didn’t have the most medals. They came in third with the third-most golds and overall top finishes, behind the Soviet Union and Germany.
How many gold medals has a country won in a single Olympics?
At the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the US won an amazing 83 gold medals, which set a new record. In 1980, the Soviet Union set a record of 80 at the Moscow Olympics, which was more than before.
The U.S. led the way in not going to the 1980 Olympics after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. Along with the United States, dozens of other countries did not take part in the Games.
What is the most awards a country has ever won at the Olympics?
Team USA also holds the record for the most medals won at a single Olympics, which is a huge amount. At the first Games held in the United States, in 1904, in St. Louis, the Americans won an amazing 239 medals.
78 of the 96 gold medals and 239 of the 280 awards given out went to the United States. But there were a few reasons why they were so far ahead.
Many of the best athletes from Europe couldn’t compete because of the Russo-Japanese War and how hard it was to get to St. Louis. Fifteen countries and a few single people ended up participating.
Here is a list of years in which the United States won the gold medal in the Summer Olympics:
USA: Summer Olympics (Gold Medal Winners)
1896: 1
1900: 1
1904: 6
1908: 4
1912: 5
1916: No Olympics (World War I)
1920: 10
1924: 11
1928: 8
1932: 12
1936: 24
1940: No Olympics (World War II)
1944: No Olympics (World War II)
1948: 38
1952: 40
1956: 32
1960: 34
1964: 36
1968: 45
1972: 33
1976: 34
1980: No Olympics (Boycott)
1984: 83
1988: 36
1992: 108
1996: 101
2000: 93
2004: 103
2008: 110
2012: 104
2016: 121
2020: 113 (held in 2021 due to COVID-19)
Note: The figure represents the cumulative number of gold medals earned by the United States in the Summer Olympics in that particular year. The United States abstained from participating in the 1980 Moscow Olympics as a result of a boycott.
