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2016 Summer Olympics medal table

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2016 Summer Olympics medals
LocationRio de Janeiro,  Brazil
Highlights
Most gold medals United States (46)
Most total medals United States (121)
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2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.[1][2][3][4] A total of 11,238 athletes representing 207 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, including first-time entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team.[3] The games featured 306 events in 28 sports and 41 disciplines.[3][5] The 2016 Summer Games were the first Olympics to be held in South America.[6]

Overall, 87 teams received at least one medal, breaking the record of most teams winning a medal at a single edition of the Olympics.[7] However, following reallocation due to doping sanctions, an 87th country was later awarded a medal at the 2008 Olympics, tying the record. Athletes from 59 nations earned gold medals at these games, also breaking the record for the most nations winning gold at a single games.[8] Host country Brazil won seven gold medals, their most at any single Summer Olympics. Bahrain,[9] Fiji,[10] Ivory Coast,[11] Jordan,[12] Kosovo,[13] Puerto Rico,[14] Singapore,[15] Tajikistan,[16] and Vietnam won their first Olympic gold medals (however, Bahrain was retroactively awarded a gold medal for the 2012 Summer Olympics in 2017 due to medals reallocation).[17] They were also the first Olympic medals of any kind for Fiji, Jordan, and Kosovo.[10][12][13] Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani became the first independent athlete to win a gold medal.[18]

The United States led the medal table both in number of gold medals won and in overall medals, winning 46 gold and 121 total medals respectively.[19] American swimmer Michael Phelps won the most gold medals at the games with five and the most total medals with six (five gold, one silver).[20] This marked the second consecutive Summer Olympic Games in which Phelps led all athletes in gold and total medals.[21]

Medals

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See also: Olympic medal

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. 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.[22]

Medal table

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World map which highlights different countries in different colors based on their performance at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Legend:
   represents countries that won at least one gold medal.
   represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals.
   represents countries that won at least one bronze medal but no gold or silver medals.
   represents countries that did not win any medals.
   represents entities that did not participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The American final team (Adrian, Held, Phelps, and Dressel), after winning the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Olympics.
Medalists in the weightlifting men's 85 kg event. Iranian Kianoush Rostami won the competition
Medalists at the women's 57 kg taekwondo. Great Britain's Jade Jones (second from left) successfully defended her title

The medal table is based on information provided by the IOC and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[23][24]

Events in boxing result in a bronze medal being awarded to each of the two competitors who lose their semi final matches, as opposed to fighting in a third place tie breaker, while judo, taekwondo, and wrestling make use of a repechage system which results in two bronze medals being awarded.[25][26]

Two gold medals and no silver medals were awarded due to a first-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle swimming event.[27], while three silver medals and no bronze medals were awarded due to a second-place tie in the men's 100 metre butterfly swimming event.[28] Additionally, 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.[29][30]

Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan originally won the gold medal in men's 77 kg weightlifting but was disqualified in March 2022 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for doping violations.[31][32] As of July 2024, the medals have not yet been re-allocated and will not be until final rulings by the IOC have been issued.[33] The table below reflects the stripped medal but not the new medalists resulting from reallocation.

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

2016 Summer Olympics medal table[A]
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States463738121
2 Great Britain27231767
3 China26182670
4 Russia19172056
5 Germany17101542
6 Japan1282141
7 France10181442
8 South Korea93921
9 Italy812828
10 Australia8111029
11 Netherlands87419
12 Hungary83415
13 Brazil*76619
14 Spain74617
15 Kenya66113
16 Jamaica63211
17 Croatia53210
18 Cuba52411
19 New Zealand49518
20 Canada431522
21 Uzbekistan42713
22 Colombia3238
23 Switzerland3227
24 Iran3148
25 Greece3126
26 Argentina3104
27 Denmark26715
28 Sweden26311
29 South Africa26210
30 Kazakhstan251017
31 Ukraine25411
32 Serbia2428
33 Poland23611
34 North Korea2327
35 Belgium2226
 Thailand2226
37 Slovakia2204
38 Georgia2147
39 Azerbaijan171018
40 Belarus1449
41 Turkey1348
42 Armenia1304
43 Czech Republic12710
44 Ethiopia1258
45 Slovenia1214
46 Indonesia1203
47 Romania1124
48 Bahrain1102
 Vietnam1102
50 Chinese Taipei1023
51 Bahamas1012
 Independent Olympic Athletes[B]1012
 Ivory Coast1012
54 Fiji1001
 Jordan1001
 Kosovo1001
 Puerto Rico1001
 Singapore1001
 Tajikistan1001
60 Malaysia0415
61 Mexico0325
62 Venezuela0213
63 Algeria0202
 Ireland0202
65 Lithuania0134
66 Bulgaria0123
67 India0112
 Mongolia0112
69 Burundi0101
 Grenada0101
 Niger0101
 Philippines0101
 Qatar0101
74 Norway0044
75 Egypt0033
 Tunisia0033
77 Israel0022
78 Austria0011
 Dominican Republic0011
 Estonia0011
 Finland0011
 Morocco0011
 Nigeria0011
 Portugal0011
 Trinidad and Tobago0011
 United Arab Emirates0011
Totals (86 entries)306307359972

Changes in medal standings

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See also: List of stripped Olympic medals
List of official changes in medal standings
Ruling date Event Athlete (NOC) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Net change Comment
18 August 2016 Weightlifting, men's 69 kg  Izzat Artykov (KGZ) DSQ −1 −1 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 disqualification, was moved into third place.[38][39][40]
 Luis Javier Mosquera (COL) +1 +1
8 December 2016 Weightlifting, men's 85 kg  Gabriel Sîncrăian (ROM) DSQ −1 −1 On 8 December 2016, the CAS disqualified weightlifter Gabriel Sîncrăian of Romania after he tested positive for exogenous testosterone[41] and boxer Misha Aloian of Russia after he tested positive for tuaminoheptane.[41][42] In the men's 85 kg weightlifting event Denis Ulanov of Kazakhstan was moved into third place. In the men's flyweight (52 kg) boxing event Yoel Finol of Venezuela was moved into second place; the released bronze medal was not awarded to anyone. Following the ranking established by the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), the ranking for this event is now closed, and there is no reallocation of released bronze medal planned.[citation needed]
 Denis Ulanov (KAZ) +1 +1
Boxing, men's flyweight  Misha Aloyan (RUS) DSQ −1 −1
 Yoel Finol (VEN) +1 −1 0
30 January 2017 Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 metres  Serghei Tarnovschi (MDA) DSQ −1 −1 Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova was stripped of his bronze medal in the men's C-1 1000 metres canoeing event after testing positive for GHRP-2, a growth hormone-releasing peptide.[43]
 Ilia Shtokalov (RUS) +1 +1
22 March 2022 Weightlifting, men's 77 kg  Nijat Rahimov (KAZ) DSQ −1 −1 Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan was stripped of his gold medal in the men's 77 kg weightlifting event for doping.[44] The IOC has not yet redistributed the medals.<[33]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Figures in table reflect all official changes in medal standings.
  2. ^ The Independent Olympic Athletes team was composed of nine Kuwaiti athletes competing under the Olympic flag, as the Kuwait Olympic Committee had been suspended by the IOC due to political interference.[34][35][36] While the Refugee Olympic Team also competed under the Olympic flag, they were not considered independent.[37]

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