which country has won the most gold medals at the olympics?
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The United States has experienced great success in both Summer and Winter Olympic games, winning more total medals than any other nation.
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Japan tied Russia for the most gold medals claimed with four, and also earned three silver. Twenty-seven countries took home medals. Here are the individual medal count breakdowns for each tournament.
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The most-successful country in the men's event is Hungary with five medals, three of them gold. Brazil, on the other hand, has never won. Since the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the IOC has allowed professional players to participate.
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The Bahamas tops the gold medals per capita table, with one gold medal from a population of just under 400,000.
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Brazil is won the most World Cup titles (five). They last won in 2002, when the tournament was held in South Korea and Japan. Germany and Italy are just behind Brazil, winning the title four times.
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However, it is Russia (including the USSR) who have earned the most Olympic gold medals in volleyball — four each for both men and women.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was formed, and the first Games were planned for 1896 in Athens, the capital of Greece. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis.
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Each Olympic gold medal is made up of 210g of silver and is coated with 6g of 24 carat gold. The bronze medals are made of copper, zinc, tin, and a very small amount of silver.
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["Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won fifteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament. ... ", 'There are eight male and two female athletes who have won four or more Olympic medals in water polo.']
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Latynina has the most medals of any female athlete in Olympic history, with 18. She won six medals in each Olympic Games that she competed in, winning the individual all-around titles in 1956 and 1960.
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Norway finished with the most medals of any of the 92 countries to compete, with Germany coming in second with 31 medals and Canada taking third with 29. Despite a lackluster start, the United States finished fourth in the medal count with 23 — nine of which were gold.
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Of the 204 NOCs participating, 86 received at least one medal; 55 won at least one gold medal. Athletes from the United States won the most gold medals, with 46, and the most overall, with 104.
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Vietnamese Medals and Results in the Olympic Games Vietnam has won 1 gold medal in the Olympics - in total 1 Vietnamese athlete have won a gold medal.
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China has always led the world in a large number of athletic events, and in so doing has also managed to rank second in the world in terms of setting world records in the sport of weightlifting. The country has earned a total of 189 titles in the form of IWF World Weightlifting Championships and Olympic Gold Medals.
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Number of World Cup titles won by country 1930-2018. The national team of Brazil has won the most soccer World Cup titles of all time with five, winning the tournament in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and, most recently, in 2002. The most recent World Cup, which was hosted by Russia in 2018, was won by France.
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As of 2019, over sixty different editions of the championships have been staged, and over forty different countries have earned medals in both men's and women's artistic gymnastics events. The most successful nation, both in gold medal results and total number of medals, is the former Soviet Union.
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More than 90 nations competed for gold across 15 events in PyeongChang, South Korea. Norway came out on top with the most medals and tied with Germany for most golds. The United States came in fourth with only 23 medals, its lowest in 20 years.