2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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The US trailed Australia since day 3 of swimming competition but a strong final day moved the US to the top of the medal table. The US has led the medal table now in the last 9 Olympics, with that stretch beginning in 1992.
Earning the first gold of the night for the US was Bobby Finke. Finke won the men’s 1500 freestyle in a new World Record of a 14:30.67. Finke also continued the streak for the US men as the US men have won at least one individual gold in every Olympics since 1900. The streak was at risk as the men’s 1500 free was the final individual event, but Finke came in clutch.
In the final race of the meet, the US women won gold in the 4×100 medley relay. Australia won the event in Tokyo and now silver in Paris, but the US could not be denied, winning in a new World Record finishing over 3 seconds ahead of Australia as well.
The US also led the competition with 28 total medals while Australia had the 2nd most with 18. China had the 3rd most total medals with 12 but only two golds. China picked up its second gold tonight winning the men’s 4×100 medley relay, snapping the streak that the US men had in the event.
Swimming Medal Table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 8 | 13 | 7 | 28 |
| 2 | Australia | 7 | 8 | 3 | 18 |
| 3 | France | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Canada | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | China | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 6 | Italy | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Sweden | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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12
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Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Romania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
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14
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Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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16
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Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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18
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South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Congratulations to the USA on a last minute win on the Medal Table.
Congratulations to the Australian women for topping the women’s gold medal tallies for successive Olympics:
Paris: Australia 6-5
Tokyo: Australia 8-3
Australia wins Paris medal tally if the 3 new events were not added from Tokyo.
USA did not win mens 800m free???
Anya Pelshaw is going to be real mad whenever Australia wins 2 gold medals tomorrow in open water!
The US was always on top of the medal table. We had the most total medals. The gold medals just shows our dominance.
Regan Smith OR and WR holder, best backstroker in the world
Rumors of Dressels demise is greatly over exaggerated. 49.40 split.
I must of missed the medal ceremony where Regan was wearing gold medal 100m/200m backstroke in Paris. Can you link it to me?
For as often as Americans got run down in the last 15 meters of races we sure waited until under the flags to win this medal table. There were some of the best moments of the meet for the US in this session. But I hope that favorable last impression doesn’t let USA Swimming think they can avoid a deep dissection of itself. A few races didn’t come through for Australia, but if they had this medal table would look very different (and well done to Australia! Your stars really showed up, great swimmers, great meet). The US scraped by this year, but unless they make some major adjustments 2028 could turn out even worse.
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Thank god
A country w 25 million people (Australia) vs a country w 350 (more like 400) million people and Americans are excited about the results? Americans win on sheer numbers.
Just let more people immigrate to Australia
Australia, stop being sore losers
America’s one of the reasons only two entrants are allowed per event big dawg
I’d change to auto qualify swimmers if you are in the top 16 in the world then it’ll find the best swimmers in the world.
A fun fact to provide context…By my count, US and AUS have competed in 24 Olympics in swimming since 1920 when AUS started competing as a separate entity. Of these…
1) in all 3 US sites, US has beat AUS in both gold and total medals.
2) in all 19 neutral sites, US has beat AUS in both gold and total medals.
3) in most recent of 2 AUS sites (Sydney), US beat AUS in both gold and total medals.
4) only once, in Melbourne AUS in 1956, did AUS beat US (both gold and total medals)
By this logic, there shouldn’t be a medal table or any sort of medal count, eh?
The whole meet Australia was ahead, we couldn’t hear the end of it. When the US wins, well who cares they have people.
Worst performance in the history of our country and it still tops the rest of the world.
It was kinda like WW2. They won some battles, but we all knew who would win the war.
And that womens 4×100 medley was the nuclear bomb.
ew
there’s no winners in a war
All time great analogy