USA 16 Gold Medals in Swimming, Rest of World Wins 17

2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES

FINAL SWIMMING RIO MEDAL TABLE

The United States passed up their total medal count from London (31) with 33 this week, and ended in a tie for golds with their team from London (16). Overall, their 16 golds was just one shy of the rest of the world’s golds– 17.

The American medley relays were firing on all cylinders, with Kathleen BakerLilly KingDana Vollmer, and Simone Manuel earning the gold for the women and Michael PhelpsCody MillerRyan Murphy, and Nathan Adrian swimming to gold for the men.

Also earning medals were Simone Manuel and Connor Jaeger. Manuel nearly tied for another gold, finishing .02 behind Denmark’s Pernille Blume in the 50 free to earn a silver. Meanwhile, Jaeger popped a new American record in the 1500 free to earn the silver in that– the United States’ first medal in this event since 2004.

Thus far in these Games, the USA Swim team has won 24 of the USA’s total 40 golds.

Country
1

United States
16 8 9 33
2

Australia
3 4 3 10
3

Hungary
3 2 2 7
4

Japan
2 2 3 7
5

Great Britain
1 5 0 6
6

China
1 2 3 6
7

Canada
1 1 4 6
8

Sweden
1 1 1 3
9

Italy
1 0 2 3
10

Denmark
1 0 1 2
10

Spain
1 0 1 2
11

Kazakhstan
1 0 0 1
11

Singapore
1 0 0 1
12

South Africa
0 3 0 3
13

Russia
0 2 2 4
14

France
0 2 0 2
15

Belgium
0 1 0 1
16

Belarus
0 0 1 1

CURRENT OVERALL MEDAL TABLE

Country
1

United States
24 18 18 60
2

China
13 11 17 41
3

Great Britain
10 12 7 29
4

Germany
8 5 3 16
5

Japan
7 3 14 24
6

Russia
6 9 8 23
7

Australia
6 7 9 22
8

Italy
6 7 5 18
9

South Korea
6 3 4 13
10

France
5 8 5 18
11

Hungary
5 3 3 11
12

Netherlands
3 2 3 8
13

Spain
3 0 2 5
14

New Zealand
2 6 0 8
15

Canada
2 2 7 11
16

Kazakhstan
2 2 3 7
17

Thailand
2 1 1 4
18

Croatia
2 1 0 3
19

Switzerland
2 0 1 3
20

Iran
2 0 0 2
21

Sweden
1 3 1 5
22

Denmark
1 2 3 6
23

North Korea
1 2 2 5
24

Belarus
1 2 1 4
25

Brazil
1 1 2 4
25

Poland
1 1 2 4
25

Romania
1 1 2 4
28

Belgium
1 1 1 3
28

Slovenia
1 1 1 3
30

Colombia
1 1 0 2
30

Slovakia
1 1 0 2
30

Vietnam
1 1 0 2
33

Czech Republic
1 0 4 5
34

Ethiopia
1 0 2 3
34

Chinese Taipei
1 0 2 3
36

Greece
1 0 1 2
36

Independent Olympic Athletes
1 0 1 2
36

Jamaica
1 0 1 2
39

Argentina
1 0 0 1
39

Fiji
1 0 0 1
39

Kosovo
1 0 0 1
39

Puerto Rico
1 0 0 1
39

Singapore
1 0 0 1
44

South Africa
0 5 1 6
45

Ukraine
0 3 1 4
46

Azerbaijan
0 2 0 2
46

Indonesia
0 2 0 2
46

Kenya
0 2 0 2
49

Cuba
0 1 2 3
49

Lithuania
0 1 2 3
51

Georgia
0 1 1 2
52

Ireland
0 1 0 1
52

Malaysia
0 1 0 1
52

Mongolia
0 1 0 1
52

Philippines
0 1 0 1
52

Turkey
0 1 0 1
57

Uzbekistan
0 0 3 3
58

Egypt
0 0 2 2
58

Israel
0 0 2 2
58

Norway
0 0 2 2
61

Estonia
0 0 1 1
61

Kyrgyzstan
0 0 1 1
61

Portugal
0 0 1 1
61

Tunisia
0 0 1 1
61

United Arab Emirates
0 0 1 1

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Aaron
7 years ago

Any other country, there;d be a 100 comments by armchair athletes screaming “doping doping doping!”

ddu
7 years ago

ioc should remove swimming and athletics because the massive doping scandal

Lane Four
Reply to  ddu
7 years ago

When are you on this website? So you would prefer SwimSwam be renamed SwimScram?

SZ2016
7 years ago

16 out of 24, yes?

Steve Nolan
Reply to  SZ2016
7 years ago

Yes. 16+17=24, checks out to me.

SZ2016
Reply to  Steve Nolan
7 years ago

I am referring to the sentence which says the Olympic swim team has won 24 out of USA’s 40 golds. As far as I can see, swimming only won 16, and US in general has won 24. 16 out of 24 rather than 24 out of 40

mikeh
7 years ago

Utter domination, awesome!

pinodee
7 years ago

I mean i guess that’s okay…haha. Amazing work this week Team USA, each and every one of you made us proud!!

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Karl Ortegon

Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.

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