2020 Summer Olympics medal table

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2020 Summer Olympics medals
Japan National Stadium in 2021
Japan National Stadium during the 2020 Summer Olympics.
LocationTokyo,  Japan
Highlights
Most gold medals United States (39)
Most total medals United States (113)
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Map displaying countries that won medals during 2020 Summer Olympics.
World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 2020 Summer Olympics.[a]
Legend:
  Gold represents countries that won at least one gold medal.
  Silver represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals.
  Bronze represents countries that won only at least one bronze medal.
  Blue represents countries that did not win any medals.
  Red represents entities that did not participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Map displaying countries by number of medals won during 2020 Summer Olympics.
The number of the total medals of each team during the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Tokyo, the capital of the Japan, from 23 July−8 August 2021. The games were scheduled one year from its original date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] A total of 11,417 athletes from 206 nations participated in 339 events in 33 sports across 50 different disciplines.[3]

Overall, a record 93 nations received at least one medal, and 65 of them won at least one gold medal, which was also a record.[4] Athletes from the United States won the most medals overall with 113 and the most gold medals with 39.[5] Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals and 58 overall medals making it the most successful Olympics performance.[6] The former tally surpassed the 16 gold medals won at both the 1964 and 2004 Summer Games; the latter one surpassed the 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics.[7]

American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the games with five.[8] Australian swimmer Emma McKeon won the greatest number of medals overall, winning seven in total.[9] As a result, she tied Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya's seven medals at the 1952 summer edition for most medals won at a single games by a female athlete.[10] Bermuda, Qatar, and The Philippines won their nation's first Olympic gold medals.[11] Burkina Faso, Turkmenistan and San Marino won their nation's first Olympic medal.[11] However, Turkmenistani athletes had previously competed as nationals of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union.[12][13][b]

Medals[]

See also: Olympic medal

The design for the Olympic medals for the 2020 Summer Olympics was created by Junichi Kawanishi.[14] The medals were manufactured using metal extracted from recycled small electronic devices donated by the public.[14] The ribbon uses the traditional Japanese design motifs found in ichimatsu moyo, a harmonised chequered pattern, and kasane no irome, a traditional kimono layering technique, in a modern presentation.[15] The case is manufactured from Japanese ash wood dyed with the same colour as the Olympic emblem. The circular lid and the body of the case can be opened like a ring connected by a magnet.[15] The obverse of the medals features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, in front of Panathenaic Stadium and the Olympic rings.[16]

As a result of safety protocols stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, athletes were presented with their medals on trays, and were asked to put them on themselves (or each other, in case of team winners), rather than having them placed around their necks by a dignitary.[17]

Medal count[]

Caeleb Dressel in 2018.
Caeleb Dressel won five gold medals which was the highest number of gold medals by an athlete at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[18]
Neisi Dajomes in 2021.
Neisi Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 76kg weightlifting competition.[19]
April Ross in 2017.
April Ross (pictured) and Alix Klineman won gold medals in the women's beach volleyball event.[20]
Daniel Ståhl in 2019.
Daniel Ståhl won the gold medal in the men's discus throw competition.[21]
Damian Warner in 2018.
Damian Warner won the gold medal in the men's decathlon.[22]
Vincent Hancock in 2021.
Vincent Hancock won a gold medal in the men's skeet competition. He became the first skeet shooter to win three gold medals in Olympic history having previously won in 2008 and 2012.[23]
See also: List of 2020 Summer Olympics medal winners

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.

In boxing, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling, two bronze medals are awarded in each weight class.[24][25][26][27] Two gold medals (and no silver) were awarded for a first-place tie in the men's high jump athletics event.[28] Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's floor gymnastics event.[29]


Key

  *   Host nation (Japan)

2020 Summer Olympics medal table[30]
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)394133113
2 China (CHN)38321888
3 Japan (JPN)*27141758
4 Great Britain (GBR)22212265
5 ROC (ROC)20282371
6 Australia (AUS)1772246
7 Netherlands (NED)10121436
8 France (FRA)10121133
9 Germany (GER)10111637
10 Italy (ITA)10102040
11 Canada (CAN)761124
12 Brazil (BRA)76821
13 New Zealand (NZL)76720
14 Cuba (CUB)73515
15 Hungary (HUN)67720
16 South Korea (KOR)641020
17 Poland (POL)45514
18 Czech Republic (CZE)44311
19 Kenya (KEN)44210
20 Norway (NOR)4228
21 Jamaica (JAM)4149
22 Spain (ESP)38617
23 Sweden (SWE)3609
24 Switzerland (SUI)34613
25 Denmark (DEN)34411
26 Croatia (CRO)3328
27 Iran (IRI)3227
28 Serbia (SRB)3159
29 Belgium (BEL)3137
30 Bulgaria (BUL)3126
31 Slovenia (SLO)3115
32 Uzbekistan (UZB)3025
33 Georgia (GEO)2518
34 Chinese Taipei (TPE)24612
35 Turkey (TUR)22913
36 Greece (GRE)2114
 Uganda (UGA)2114
38 Ecuador (ECU)2103
39 Ireland (IRL)2024
 Israel (ISR)2024
41 Qatar (QAT)2013
42 Bahamas (BAH)2002
 Kosovo (KOS)2002
44 Ukraine (UKR)161219
45 Belarus (BLR)1337
46 Romania (ROU)1304
 Venezuela (VEN)1304
48 India (IND)1247
49 Hong Kong (HKG)1236
50 Philippines (PHI)1214
 Slovakia (SVK)1214
52 South Africa (RSA)1203
53 Austria (AUT)1157
54 Egypt (EGY)1146
55 Indonesia (INA)1135
56 Ethiopia (ETH)1124
 Portugal (POR)1124
58 Tunisia (TUN)1102
59 Estonia (EST)1012
 Fiji (FIJ)1012
 Latvia (LAT)1012
 Thailand (THA)1012
63 Bermuda (BER)1001
 Morocco (MAR)1001
 Puerto Rico (PUR)1001
66 Colombia (COL)0415
67 Azerbaijan (AZE)0347
68 Dominican Republic (DOM)0325
69 Armenia (ARM)0224
70 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0213
71 Mongolia (MGL)0134
72 Argentina (ARG)0123
 San Marino (SMR)0123
74 Jordan (JOR)0112
 Malaysia (MAS)0112
 Nigeria (NGR)0112
77 Bahrain (BRN)0101
 Lithuania (LTU)0101
 Namibia (NAM)0101
 North Macedonia (MKD)0101
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)0101
 Turkmenistan (TKM)0101
83 Kazakhstan (KAZ)0088
84 Mexico (MEX)0044
85 Finland (FIN)0022
86 Botswana (BOT)0011
 Burkina Faso (BUR)0011
 Ghana (GHA)0011
 Grenada (GRN)0011
 Ivory Coast (CIV)0011
 Kuwait (KUW)0011
 Moldova (MDA)0011
 Syria (SYR)0011
Totals (93 NOCs)3403384021080

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ As a result of penalties imposed on Russia due to doping controversies, Russian athletes participated under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) rather than the country itself.[1] The Refugee Olympic Team is not represented on the map.
  2. ^ During the 1992 Summer Olympics, Turkmenistani athletes competed as part of the Unified Team.[12]

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