Most Summer Olympic Medals by Country (All Time) Quiz

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United States 2,774 medals
Swimmer Michael Phelps alone won 23 Olympic gold medals for the team.
Soviet Union 1,010 medals
Competed at only nine Summer Games, from Helsinki 1952 to Seoul 1988.
Great Britain 986 medals
Is the only nation to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Games.
France 824 medals
The modern Olympic movement was founded by a Frenchman, Pierre de Coubertin.
China 727 medals
Its first Olympic gold came from pistol shooter Xu Haifeng at Los Angeles 1984.
Germany 687 medals
This tally excludes East and West Germany, which competed separately from 1968 to 1988.
Italy 658 medals
Fencing has brought Italy more Olympic gold medals than any other sport.
Australia 594 medals
Swimming has produced more Australian Olympic medals than any other sport.
Japan 542 medals
Judo, invented in Japan, made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Games.
Hungary 530 medals
Has won more Olympic water polo titles than any other country.
Sweden 514 medals
Hosted the 1912 Stockholm Games, which introduced electronic timing.
Russia 421 medals
Did not compete as a nation at Paris 2024; a handful of Russians entered as neutral athletes.
East Germany 409 medals
A country of about 17 million people, it won 102 medals at Seoul 1988.
Netherlands 357 medals
Fanny Blankers-Koen won four golds at London 1948 as a 30-year-old mother of two.
Canada 351 medals
At Montreal 1976 it became the first host nation not to win a gold at its own Summer Games.
South Korea 320 medals
Archery has delivered more South Korean Olympic golds than any other sport.
Romania 317 medals
Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics at Montreal 1976.
Poland 308 medals
Sprinter Irena Szewinska won seven Olympic medals across four Games from 1964 to 1976.
Finland 305 medals
Distance runner Paavo Nurmi, the 'Flying Finn', won nine Olympic golds in the 1920s.
Cuba 244 medals
Boxing has produced more Cuban Olympic gold medals than any other sport.
Bulgaria 231 medals
Wrestling is its most successful Olympic sport.
Denmark 214 medals
Its men's handball team won Olympic gold at both Rio 2016 and Paris 2024.
Switzerland 212 medals
Roger Federer won Olympic doubles gold with Stan Wawrinka at Beijing 2008.
West Germany 204 medals
Its 1972 Munich Games introduced the first official Olympic mascot, a dachshund named Waldi.
Spain 187 medals
Won 13 golds as host of Barcelona 1992, more than at all its previous Games combined.
Brazil 170 medals
Rio 2016 was the first Olympics ever held in South America.
Norway 169 medals
Its Winter Olympic medal haul is far bigger than its Summer tally.
Belgium 168 medals
Hosted the 1920 Antwerp Games, where the Olympic flag and athletes' oath debuted.
New Zealand 157 medals
Canoe sprinter Lisa Carrington has won eight Olympic gold medals.
Ukraine 151 medals
First competed at the Summer Games as an independent nation at Atlanta 1996.

Source: Wikipedia: All-time Olympic Games medal table (Summer columns) · as of 2024-08

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