Olympic medal count:Which nation tops the standings following Day 1?
Updated Olympic medal count tally for the Summer Games in 2024
From Paris, the Olympic Games are under way!
We have a comprehensive summary of everything airing, along with where and how to watch, for a complete recap of all the events every day. Peacock will provide live streaming for every Olympic event.
The United States is favored to win the most medals in terms of total medal count. China has a possibility to win more gold medals than the Americans, but it is unlikely to surpass them in total medal count.
Which nation has won the most medals as of the opening day of competition? Here is the total number of Olympic medals (read on for additional highlights from Day 1 including Team USA).
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have begun, with action starting early on Saturday morning. The United States has already made it to the podium in a number of aquatic competitions, taking home two silver medals in synchronized diving and the delegation’s first gold in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay. In the women’s 400-meter freestyle, decorated swimmer Katie Ledecky won her 11th Olympic medal, although Australian Ariarne Titmus took first place. Australia and Team USA are currently tied for the most medals won at the Olympics, ensuring that the next two weeks will be filled with an amazing rivalry.
With the most Olympic medals ever won in the Summer Games, the United States came into these games leading the field. As of Saturday, 1,062 of the 2,634 medals won by Americans have been gold. When it comes to the total number of medals won at the Summer Olympics, the United States has actually finished top 18 times. Second place goes to the former Soviet Union with 1,010 total medals, followed by Great Britain in third place with 918, and France, the host nation for 2024, in fourth place with 755. At the end of the Summer Olympics, every country has placed first in the medal count once. This year, the French are expecting to surpass the Americans and close the gap with their European neighbors by putting on a historic performance over the next two weeks.
Olympic medal count
With 83 gold medals earned in 1984, one of the host nations while the Soviet Union led a boycott of the Los Angeles Games. It’s unlikely that such high totals will be reached in 2024. America’s only goal in Paris is to replicate its triumph from the Tokyo Games three years prior, when it won 39 gold, 41 silver, and 33 bronze medals.
See the medal total for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris below. It will be updated every time something happens until the Summer Olympics end on August 11.
Team USA Highlights: Day 1
On Sunday, there were thirteen gold medal events in all. Men’s Street Skateboarding was supposed to take place on Sunday, but due to the weather, it was moved to Monday instead.
However, what is the ideal method to begin the Olympic opening day of competition? Cook and Bacon.
That would be Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook of Team USA. Friends since they were eight years old, the two won a silver medal in the women’s synchronized three-meter springboard competition.
It was Team USA’s first medal of the 2024 Games.
The mixed team air rifle event was the venue for China’s first gold medal of the games.
USA AND AUSTRALIA REMAIN IN THE POOL RIVALRY
In the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay, Americans Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong, Caeleb Dressel, and Chris Guiliano combined to win the gold, marking Team USA’s first Olympic gold medal in Paris.
In the end, the Americans won the event for the third time in a row with a time of 3:09.28.
Italy won bronze with a time of 3:10.70, while Australia finished in second place with a time of 3:10.35.
In the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, Australia turned the tables on the United States, winning gold and breaking an Olympic record with a time of 3:28.92.
China claimed bronze, while Team USA set a new American record with a time of 3:30.20 to win silver.
Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske, Kate Douglass, and Simone Manuel are the four swimmers representing Team USA that are taking home gold.
Gretchen Walsh and Katie Ledecky shine.
Star American swimmer Katie Ledecky earned bronze in the 400-meter freestyle on Saturday in the individual finals of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, earning her eleventh overall medal overall.
She finished in second place behind Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who won her second consecutive 400-meter gold medal in 3:57.49.
In the meantime, Gretchen Walsh of Connecticut ran a mark of 55.38 seconds in the women’s 100-meter butterfly semifinals, shattering the Olympic record. Walsh contested her own 55.18 world record time.
With a semifinal time of 56.0, fellow American Torri Huske recorded the second-best time.
The 100-meter butterfly final is scheduled for Sunday at 2:40 PM Eastern Time.
