It has developed from a basic illicit relationship comprising of just 14 occasions to a magnificent exhibit of in excess of 300 orders including contenders from in excess of 200 nations and regions.
Beginning 1904, the best three in any occasion are granted Gold, Silver and Bronze awards in a specific order of completing position.
Through the span of history, a sum of 18,553 decorations have been issued to rivals in the Summer Olympics.
Be that as it may, the custom of giving the decorations was not generally as we now know it.
Amid the main Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the victor was granted two things: A silver coin and an olive wreath.
The sprinter up was given a copper coin and a shrub branch.
The 1900 Summer Games were significantly more impossible to miss as winning contenders were granted trophies! In the early years of the Olympics, gold was considered too valuable to be in any way given out in its purest frame.
The United States of America drives the record-breaking Summer Olympics awards table with 2,520 decorations won. The 1904 Olympic Games were held in St. Louis, Missouri and wound up having the host country scooping 239 of the accessible 280 decorations.
This peculiar accomplishment was refined in light of the fact that numerous nations couldn't send competitors on the Trans-Atlantic excursion for the Summer Games.
The most adorned sportsman in this occasion was American swimmer Charles Daniels who got three gold awards, and one of silver and bronze.
At each Summer Olympics, it is normal that the United States, Great Britain, and Russia will go after the biggest pull of awards. Games in these nations built up an expert culture from the early years of the cutting edge Olympics.
In this way they have a substantial pool of achieved contenders to choose from.
Furthermore, the scope of controls the enormous three of the Olympics take part in is more extensive than generally countries.
For example, Kenya is celebrated for winning center and long separation track races.
In the 2012 London Olympic Games, Kenya won 11 awards in just 6 occasions every one of them track races. In the mean time, the USA won 104 awards in 16 occasions.
Brandishing society in various nations has a significant impact in the capacity to score decorations at Games. India, for instance, is a cricket frantic nation.
In any case, this is a game with beginnings from its chance as a British state. Games and different games that require physical ability are relatively unfathomable in the subcontinent.
Regardless of being the second most crowded country, India has won just a modest bunch of Olympic awards.
The Asian culture likewise sees don as a show of style as opposed to a challenge. This maybe clarifies why China has won most awards in plunging, weightlifting and tumbling.
In the Olympic Games, very gifted competitors center around winning various awards in various occasions.
Michael Phelps, an American swimmer, holds the record for the most Gold decorations won at a solitary Summer Olympics.
He won 6 Gold in 2004 and 8 awards in 2008. In the latest 2016 Rio Olympics, Phelps won 5 Gold and a Silver award.
A considerably more troublesome accomplishment would have been by American sprinter Marion Jones who won 5 Gold awards in 2004 yet later had them repealed.
By and by, the US keeps on keeping up its rank as the main entertainer in the Olympics subsequent to winning the most elevated number of awards in the 2016 Summer Olympics (121 aggregate; 46 Gold).
China (70) and Great Britain (67) won the second and third most noteworthy number of awards at the Rio Olympics.
Summer Olympic Winners By Total Medals
Rank | Country | Olympic Summer Games medal table (total medals won) from 1896 to 2016 |
---|---|---|
1 | United States | 2,520 |
2 | Russia | 1,865 |
3 | Germany | 1,681 |
4 | Great Britain | 847 |
5 | France | 713 |
6 | Italy | 577 |
7 | China | 543 |
8 | Australia | 497 |
9 | Sweden | 494 |
10 | Hungary | 491 |
11 | Japan | 439 |
12 | Romania | 306 |
13 | Finland | 303 |
14 | Canada | 301 |
15 | Netherlands | 285 |
16 | Poland | 282 |
17 | South Korea | 264 |
18 | Cuba | 220 |
19 | Bulgaria | 214 |
20 | Czech Republic | 197 |
21 | Denmark | 194 |
22 | Switzerland | 193 |
23 | Norway | 152 |
24 | Belgium | 148 |
25 | Spain | 148 |
26 | Brazil | 128 |
27 | Ukraine | 124 |
28 | Greece | 117 |
29 | New Zealand | 117 |
30 | Serbia | 110 |
31 | Kenya | 100 |
32 | Turkey | 93 |
33 | Austria | 87 |
34 | South Africa | 86 |
35 | Belarus | 85 |
36 | Jamaica | 78 |
37 | Argentina | 69 |
38 | Kazakhstan | 69 |
39 | Iran | 68 |
40 | Mexico | 67 |
41 | North Korea | 54 |
42 | Ethiopia | 53 |
43 | Azerbaijan | 44 |
44 | Estonia | 34 |
45 | Croatia | 33 |
46 | Uzbekistan | 33 |
47 | Georgia | 32 |
48 | Ireland | 32 |
49 | Thailand | 31 |
50 | Indonesia | 30 |
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