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The Scandinavian country won 16 gold medals, eight silver medals and 13 bronze. Coming in second in the total count was the Russian Olympic Committee, with 32, and third was Germany, with 27 medals.

In the history of the modern Olympic Games, no other country is even close to Team USA’s total medal count. Since competing in Athens in 1896, the United States has won 2,985 total medals ...

This would make it the eighth consecutive time that the USA won the most medals at the Summer Olympics ... The top-30 medal winning countries are shown in our article here. However, there is ...

While Kenya has had no difficulty winning medals over the past Olympic games, some countries have never won an Olympic medal. These nations range across Africa, Asia, North and South America ...

Its 12 gold medals are also more than any other country. How many Olympic medals has the United States won in taekwondo? The United States has won a total of 10 taekwondo medals (three gold, two ...

In seeking to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil promised “green games for a blue planet.” It pledged to clean up waterways around future Olympic sites, including a lagoon in front of the ...

Extra lightweight Tadahiro Nomura won his third consecutive Olympic championship ... preparation proved worthwhile when the host nation was the only country to win two gold medals in judo that year.

Canada's Liam Brearley won his first career world championship medal with gold in snowboard slopestyle, leaving Beijing Olympic silver medalist Su Yiming of China to settle for second place once ...