MEDAL COUNT: Who’s topping the table in the 2024 Paris Olympics?
With 329 medal events in total, KXAN is keeping track of how many medals each participating team has won.
PARIS (KXAN) — More than 10,000 athletes from across the world are competing in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
With 329 medal events in total, KXAN is keeping track of how many medals each participating team has won.
The convention used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to sort by the number of gold medals, then silver, then bronze. This means the country that wins the most medals overall may not necessarily be at the top of the table.
The first gold medal of the 2024 Olympic Games was won by Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao (People's Republic of China) in the 10m air rifle team event. Keum Ji-hyeon and Park Ha-jun (Republic of Korea) won silver, and Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev (Kazakhstan) took bronze.
Here's a look at the number of medals won in each sport by the top 20 teams in the overall medal count. All other countries have been grouped together in the last column.
The animated chart below shows how the number of medals awarded to each team changed throughout the competition. The default view shows the total number of medals. Click through in the top right to see gold, silver or bronze medals.
Team USA medals
The first medal for the United States was silver, claimed by Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook in the women's synchronized 3m springboard diving event. Here's a look at all medals won by the U.S. in the Paris Olympics. Use the controls at the top to see medal breakdowns by sport, gender and day of competition.
In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the United States won a total of 113 medals, down from 121 in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Here's a look at the medal totals over the past six Summer Olympics:
The 121 medals won in 2016 was the third-highest total ever for Team USA, and the most since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, when 174 medals were won. The record was in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, when the United States won 231 medals in total.