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The 2016 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and one non-NOC team ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016.[1]
Vietnam, Kosovo, Fiji, Singapore, Puerto Rico, Bahrain, Jordan, Tajikistan and Ivory Coast won their first Olympic gold medals. They were also Kosovo's, Fiji's, and Jordan's first Olympic medals of any kind.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani became the first independent athlete to win a gold medal,[12][13] though gold medals have been won under the Olympic flag by other entities, such as the Unified Team in 1992.
Great Britain became the first nation to improve their medal total at the Games immediately after hosting a Summer Olympics winning a total of 67 medals overall, two more than at London ahead of China in second place, a feat made even more remarkable when in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta they finished in 36th place with just one gold medal and just fifteen medals overall.[14]
Medals
The design for the Olympic medals for the 2016 Summer Olympics featured the largest medals in terms of diameter of any medal presented at the Olympics.[15] The golds are purer than any presented at all preceding Olympics. The silvers were made from recycling mirrors, solder, and X-ray plates. Much of the copper used in the bronzes came from recycling waste from the mint that minted the medals. The obverse of the medals features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.[16]
Medal table
This is the table of the medal count of the 2016 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). These rankings sort by the number of gold medals, earned by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). 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.[17][18]
In boxing (13 disciplines), judo (14), taekwondo (8), and wrestling (18), two bronze medals are awarded in each event (53 additional bronze medals total).
Two gold medals were awarded for a first-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle swimming event. No silver medal was awarded as a consequence.
Three silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's 100 metre butterfly swimming event. No bronze medal was awarded as a consequence.
Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's 100 metre backstroke swimming and in the men's K-1 200 metres canoeing events.
- Key
* Host nation (Brazil)
1 | United States (USA) | 46 | 37 | 38 | 121 |
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2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 27 | 23 | 17 | 67 |
3 | China (CHN) | 26 | 18 | 26 | 70 |
4 | Russia (RUS) | 19 | 18 | 19 | 56 |
5 | Germany (GER) | 17 | 10 | 15 | 42 |
6 | Japan (JPN) | 12 | 8 | 21 | 41 |
7 | France (FRA) | 10 | 18 | 14 | 42 |
8 | South Korea (KOR) | 9 | 3 | 9 | 21 |
9 | Italy (ITA) | 8 | 12 | 8 | 28 |
10 | Australia (AUS) | 8 | 11 | 10 | 29 |
11 | Netherlands (NED) | 8 | 7 | 4 | 19 |
12 | Hungary (HUN) | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
13 | Brazil (BRA)* | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
14 | Spain (ESP) | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
15 | Kenya (KEN) | 6 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
16 | Jamaica (JAM) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
17 | Croatia (CRO) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
18 | Cuba (CUB) | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
19 | New Zealand (NZL) | 4 | 9 | 5 | 18 |
20 | Canada (CAN) | 4 | 3 | 15 | 22 |
21 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 |
22 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 |
23 | Colombia (COL) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
24 | Switzerland (SUI) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
25 | Iran (IRI) | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
26 | Greece (GRE) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
27 | Argentina (ARG) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
28 | Denmark (DEN) | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 |
29 | Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 |
30 | South Africa (RSA) | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
31 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
32 | Serbia (SRB) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
33 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
34 | North Korea (PRK) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
35 | Belgium (BEL) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Thailand (THA) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
36 | Slovakia (SVK) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
37 | Georgia (GEO) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
39 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 1 | 7 | 10 | 18 |
40 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
41 | Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
42 | Armenia (ARM) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
43 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 |
44 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
45 | Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
46 | Indonesia (INA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
47 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
48 | Bahrain (BRN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Vietnam (VIE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
50 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
51 | Bahamas (BAH) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Ivory Coast (CIV) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
54 | Fiji (FIJ) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Jordan (JOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Kosovo (KOS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Puerto Rico (PUR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Tajikistan (TJK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
60 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
61 | Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
62 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
64 | Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
65 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
67 | India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
69 | Burundi (BDI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Grenada (GRN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Niger (NIG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
74 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
75 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Tunisia (TUN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
77 | Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
78 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dominican Republic (DOM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Estonia (EST) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Moldova (MDA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Portugal (POR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total (87 NOCs) | 307 | 307 | 361 | 975 |
Changes in medal standings
On 18 August 2016, Kyrgyz weightlifter Izzat Artykov was stripped of his bronze medal in the men's 69 kg event after testing positive for strychnine. Luis Javier Mosquera of Colombia, who had been the fourth-place finisher before Artykov's qualification, was moved into third place.[19][20][21]
List of changes
Ruling date | Sport | Event | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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18 August 2016 | Weightlifting | Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | −1 | −1 | ||
Colombia (COL) | +1 | +1 |
See also
References
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- ^ "Veteran Deehani wins men's double trap gold – First-ever gold medal won by Kuwaiti at Olympics". Kuwait Times. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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- ^ CAS AD 16/07 International Olympic Committee v. Izzat Artykov