united states has the most gold medals in the 2012 olympics.
united states has the most gold medals in the 2012 olympics.
which country has the most gold medals in the 2012 olympics?
united states
on 28 july 2012, jin won the gold medal in the men's 10 m air pistol at the 2012 summer olympics. on 5 august, he won the gold medal in the 50m, becoming the first man to successfully defend the 50-metre pistol olympic title. by doing so, jin also became the first man to win the 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol gold medals at the same olympics, and one of the five shooters to win two individual gold medals at one olympics, being the first man to have done so since otto olsen of norway at the 1920 summer olympics. he is one of three shooters to have won three olympic individual gold medals, along with ralf schumann of germany and kim rhode of the united states. he became the first korean athlete to win three individual olympic gold medals, to win four (and five) individual olympic medals, to defend an individual title in the summer olympics (while sim kwon-ho won olympic gold medals for greco-roman wrestling in 1996 and 2000, he won two different weight divisions), to win two individual gold medals at one summer olympic games and to win an individual medal for one event at three consecutive olympic games (kim soo-nyung won individual gold, silver and bronze medals respectively for archery in the 1988, 1992 and 2000 but these olympics were non-consecutive).
jin jong-oh
at the 1992 winter olympics, south korea's kim ki-hoon became the first short track speed skater to win two gold medals, by winning gold medals in both of the available events (1000m, 5000m relay). in 1994 kim (1000m) and american cathy turner (500m) became the first to successfully defend their respective olympic title; kim thus became the first short-tracker to win three olympic gold medals. since then chun lee-kyung of south korea (1000m, 1994–1998) and wang meng of china (500m, 2006–2010) also defended an individual olympic title. in 1998, chun and yang yang (s) of china became the first short-tracker to win three medals in one olympic. by helping south korea to defend 3000m relay title as well as defending her 1000m gold medal, chun became the first (and thus far, only) athlete to successfully defend two olympic titles. in 2006, south korea's jin sun-yu and then ahn hyun-soo became the first two short-trackers to have won three gold medals in one olympic. ahn also won a bronze medal in the same games, becoming the first (and thus far, only) short-tracker to win four medals in one olympic; he repeated the same feat in 2014. in 2010, wang became the first athlete to have won three individual gold medals in the sport, and in 2014 ahn became the first to have won four individual gold medals, and six gold medals overall in the sport. south korean short track speed skaters have won a combined 42 medals, including 21 golds, more than any other nation in both measures. south korea is also the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every olympics in which short-track speed skating has been held; canada and china share with south korea the honour of being the only nations to have athletes win a medal at every olympics in the sport. as of the 2010 winter olympics, 144 medals (48 of each color) have been awarded and have been won by short track speed skaters from 11 national olympic committees (noc).
list of olympic medalists in short track speed skating