All-time Olympic medal tally: USA top with 2,629 medals; India placed at 58

The 2024 Olympics in Paris starts from 26th July and we will see thousands of athletes representing their countries from across the globe. From hosts France and the United States to heavyweights like China and Great Britain, plenty of nations will try to top the medal table with impressive performances. However, not everyone is lucky and many nations are yet to win a medal in the Olympics. It's time we look at the All-time Olympic medal tally ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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All-time Olympic medal tally: Which country has the most Olympic medals?

The United States are at the top in terms of leading the podium. They have won a total of 2,629 medals in the Summer Olympics. The U.S. holds a large number of records when it comes to the Olympics, including the most gold, silver, and bronze medals won. Team USA now owns 1,061 gold medals, 830 silver, and 738 bronze. 

The Soviet Union sits second on the list with 1,010 total medals (395 gold, 319 silver, and 296 bronze medals), while Great Britain is third with 916 total medals (284 gold, 318 silver, and 314 bronze medals).

France (751 medals) and Germany (655 medals) are fourth and fifth respectively in the top five list in the all-time Summer Olympics medal standings.

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Country with the most Olympic Gold medals in a single Game?

The U.S. have the record for the most gold medals at a single Summer Olympics. They set the record in Los Angeles in 1984 by taking home 83 gold medals. Carl Lewis matched Jesse Owens’ record with four gold medals in track and field and Valerie Brisco-Hooks won three golds for the United States as an Olympic track and field athlete. She is the first Olympian to win gold medals in the 200- and 400-meter races at a single Olympics.

The USSR has the second-most gold medals at a single Games, winning 80 medals in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The third-most gold medals in a single Olympics also go to the U.S. They won 73 gold medals at the 1904 Olympics.

India ranked 58th in the All-time Olympic medal tally

India have participated in 25 Summer Olympics which is only 3 less than the US but they haven't been that much successful. India have won 10 Gold Medals, 9 silvers, and 16 Bronze medals, making it a total of 35. India's first athlete to win an individual medal was Norman Pritchard. He was the first Asian-born athlete to win medals in the Olympic Games.

Pritchard won two silver medals in the men's 200-meter and 200-meter hurdles in the Paris 1900 Games and was the only Indian medalist, individual or team, till the men's hockey team won the gold in the 1928 Amsterdam Games. He remained India's only individual medalist in the Olympics for 112 long years.

Former wrestler Sushil Kumar became the second Indian to win multiple medals after his heroics in the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Games. Sushil bagged the silver medal in the 66 kg freestyle wrestling event in Beijing to become the only second Indian wrestler after Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav to win a medal. Sushil clinched bronze in the 2012 London Games and became the first to win medals in two different editions. 

PV Sindhu became the only second Indian after Saina Nehwal to win a medal in the Summer Olympics after clinching the silver in the women's singles in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. She won a bronze in the women's singles in the Tokyo Games in 2021 as well.

Abhinav Bindra became the first Indian individual Olympic gold medalist in 2008. He won the gold in the men’s 10m air rifle event. Neeraj Chopra won India’s first-ever gold medal in athletics at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.