united states has the most medals in the olympic games.
united states has the most medals in the olympic games.
who has the most medals in the olympic games?
united states
while isolated american gymnasts, including kurt thomas and cathy rigby, won medals in world championship meets in the 1970s, the united states team was largely considered a "second power" until the mid- to late 1980s, when american gymnasts began medaling consistently in major, fully attended competitions. in 1984, the olympic men's team won the gold. the team included tim daggett, peter vidmar, mitch gaylord, bart conner, scott johnson, jim hartung, and the team alternate jim mikus. also in 1984, mary lou retton became the first american olympic all-around champion and won individual medals as well. in 1991, kim zmeskal became the first american world all-around champion. at the 1992 olympics, the american women won their first team medal (bronze), as well as their highest all-around ranking, a silver medal by shannon miller, in a fully attended games. in men's gymnastics, trent dimas was able to capture the gold medal on the horizontal bar. this was the second time that an american gymnast, male or female, won a gold medal in an olympics held outside the united states. the u.s. women's team has become increasingly successful in the modern era, with the 1996 olympic team victory of the magnificent seven in atlanta, the 2003 worlds team victory in anaheim, california, and multiple-medal hauls in both wag and mag at the 2004 olympics. at the 2012 olympics and 2016 olympics, the u.s. women won the team gold. the united states has produced individual gymnasts such as olympic all-around champions carly patterson (2004), nastia liukin (2008), gabby douglas (2012), and simone biles (2016), and world all-around champions kim zmeskal (1991), shannon miller (1993, 1994), chellsie memmel (2005), shawn johnson (2007), bridget sloan (2009), jordyn wieber (2011), simone biles (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018), and morgan hurd (2017). of particular note is that at the 2005 world championships in melbourne, american women won the gold and silver the all-around and went 1–2 in every single event final except vault (in which they placed third). they continue to be one of the most dominant forces in the sport. the men's team has also matured, making the medal podium at both the 2004 and 2008 olympics; they also made the podium at the 2003 and 2011 world championships. paul hamm, the most successful u.s. male gymnast, became the first american to win the world all-around title in 2003. he followed this up by winning the gold medal at the 2004 olympic games. 2010 world all-around bronze medalist jonathan horton captured the silver medal on the horizontal bar at the 2008 olympic games, and danell leyva won the all-around bronze medal at the 2012 olympic games, as well as two silver medals (parallel bars and high bar) at the 2016 olympic games.
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when the olympic games returned to greece in athens 2004, the colombian delegation collected two bronze medals through weightlifter mabel mosquera and cyclist maría luisa calle, who won colombia's first olympic medal in cycling. calle was originally stripped of her medal after failing an antidoping test for heptaminol. she assured that hours before the race, she took a anti-migraine pill which contained isometheptene, a substance which transforms into heptaminol during laboratory analyses. the bronze medal she won in the women's points race was later returned, being one of a few cases in which ioc returned a medal stripped for doping. for the beijing olympics in 2008, the colombian roster won two medals: weightlifter diego salazar won silver in the men's 62kg, and jackeline rentería won colombia's first olympic medal in wrestling, earning bronze in women's freestyle 55kg category. during a wave of retests in 2016, it was disclosed that original gold and bronze medalists in the women's weightlifting 69kg event failed an antidoping test; weightlifter leidy solís finished fourth in that event back in 2008. later in january 2017 the disgraced aforementioned medalists were officially disqualified, meaning that solís was upgraded to second place. she received her silver medal in december 2017. colombia made its winter olympics debut in 2010 in vancouver. us-born swiss skier cynthia denzler represented the country in the women's slalom and giant slalom. she ranked 51st in the slalom event. to participate at the 2012 olympics, colombia sent a delegation composed of 104 athletes; this was the first time a delegation exceeded one hundred participants. the performance of national athletes improved remarkably as well. the maximum number of medals won in one edition of the games was three, number reached at munich 1972 and beijing 2008. in london the colombian contingent won eight medals in six different sports. bmx rider mariana pajón won colombia's first golden medal since sydney 2000. cyclist rigoberto urán won silver in the men's road race, the first olympic medal in road cycling competitions for the country. track and field athlete caterine ibargüen won silver in the women's triple jump, the first medal in athletics since barcelona 1992. weightlifter óscar figueroa won also silver in the men's 62kg, setting an olympic record of 177kg in the clean and jerk phase. jackeline rentería matched her performance in beijing and won again a bronze medal, joining helmut bellingrodt as the only colombian athletes to win two olympic medals. carlos oquendo also won bronze in the cycling men's bmx race, on the same day pajón won gold in the women's race. the bronze medals won by yuri alvear in judo and óscar muñoz oviedo in taekwondo, were the first olympic medals for colombia in those sports. the good performance achieved in london 2012 continued and improved in rio de janeiro 2016. competing at the first olympic games held in south america, colombian athletes won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals, winning again a total of eight medals. triple jump world champion caterine ibargüen won a gold medal in the women's event, the first olympic golden medal in athletics for colombia. óscar figueroa upgraded his silver medal to gold in the men's weightlifting 62kg category, keeping colombia's good streak in olympic weightlifting since 2000 and becoming the first male olympic champion for the country. mariana pajón became the first colombian athlete to be olympic gold medalist twice, as she won again the women's cycling bmx race. judoka yuri alvear won silver in the women's 70kg event, improving her 2012 bronze medal. ibargüen, figueroa, pajón and alvear joined shooter bellingrodt and wrestler rentería as the only colombian athletes to have won two olympic medals. boxers yuberjén martínez and ingrit valencia won colombia's first olympic medals in boxing since seoul 1988; martínez won silver and valencia earned bronze, making her the first colombian female boxer to win an olympic medal. bmx rider carlos ramírez won bronze in the men's race. weightlifter luis javier mosquera originally finished fourth in the men's 69kg event, but was later awarded the bronze medal as original winner kyrgyzstan's izzat artykov was disqualified after testing positive for the stimulant strychnine. after an absence of eight years, colombia competed again at the winter olympics in 2018 in pyeongchang. the colombian delegation was made up of athletes competing in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and ice speed skating, becoming in the first latin american country to compete in the latter.
colombia at the olympics