USA medal count 2021: Final tally of Olympic gold, silver, bronze medals for United States

Edward Sutelan

USA medal count 2021: Final tally of Olympic gold, silver, bronze medals for United States image

No country has dominated the Olympics quite like the United States.

Including the 2021 Tokyo Games, the U.S. has 2,941 total medals between the winter and summer games, including 1,166 gold medals. The next-closest nation is the Soviet Union, which had 1,204 total medals and 473 gold — Russia has 618 total and 216 gold.

The Summer Games in particular are where the U.S. has found success. Team USA has 1,061 gold medals in the history of the Summer Games and 2,636 total medals.

It helps to have had dominant athletes like Simone Biles and Michael Phelps in recent years; both are considered the greatest of all time in their respective sports. Phelps is retired but Biles was back, as were star swimmer Katie Ledecky, a dominant women's soccer team and two basketball teams laden with stars that all helped to add to the tally.

Sporting News tracked every medal won by the United States in the 2021 Tokyo Games.

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USA Olympic medal count 2021

  • Gold: 39
  • Silver: 41
  • Bronze: 33
  • Total: 113

USA Olympic medal results by event

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total
Archery
Artistic swimming
Athletics 7 12 7 26
Badminton
Baseball 1 1
Softball 1 1
Basketball 2 2
Basketball 3x3 1 1
Beach volleyball 1 1
Boxing 3 1 4
Canoe slalom
Canoe sprint 1 1
Cycling: BMX Racing/Freestyle 1 1
Cycling Track 1 1 2
Diving 2 1 3
Equestrian 2 2
Fencing 1 1 2
Football (soccer) 1 1
Golf 2 2
Gymnastics 2 2 2 6
Handball
Hockey
Judo
Karate 1 1
Marathon swimming
Modern Pentathlon
Rowing
Rugby
Sailing
Shooting 3 2 1 6
Skateboarding 2 2
Sport climbing 1 1
Surfing 1 1
Swimming 11 10 9 30
Table tennis
Taekwondo 1 1
Tennis
Trampoline gymnastics
Triathlon 1 1 2
Volleyball 1 1
Water polo 1 1
Weightlifting 1 1 2
Wrestling 3 2 4 9
Total 39 41 33 113

Edward Sutelan

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Edward Sutelan joined The Sporting News in 2021 after covering high school sports for PennLive. Edward graduated from The Ohio State University in 2019, where he gained experience covering the baseball, football and basketball teams. Edward also spent time working for The Columbus Dispatch and Cape Cod Times.