United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics the most successful not held in the United States: St. Louis had 239 total medals won in 1904, and Los Angeles had 174 in 1984. These Games also witnessed the thousandth Summer Olympic gold medal for the Americans. The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. <nowiki>*</nowiki> – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes: Three U.S. archers qualified for
Tunisia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics one in terms of total medals won by an African country in Rio. They won 19 total medals. Their total number of gold medals, 7, put them second in Africa, behind Nigeria with 8. Tunisia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Tunisia competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Tunisia finished the 2016 Games ranked third all time for total medals won by African countries, with 74 all time, of which 32 were gold, 28 silver and 14 bronze. They were ahead of fourth ranked Zimbabwe who had 23 gold,