page_title: 2016 Summer Olympics medal table
section_title: Medal table
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 Summer Olympics medal table / Medal table
caption_attribution_description: Português: Rio de Janeiro - Estados Unidos vence o revezamento 4 x 100m nado livre nos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016, no Estádio Aquático.
context_page_description: The following medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees and one non-NOC team ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016.
  Vietnam, Kosovo, Fiji, Singapore, Puerto Rico, Bahrain, Jordan, Tajikistan and Ivory Coast won their first Olympic gold medals. They were also Kosovo's, Fiji's, and Jordan's first Olympic medals of any kind. Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani became the first independent athlete to win a gold medal, though gold medals have been won under the Olympic flag by other entities, such as countries that competed under the flag at 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow or the Unified Team in 1992.
  The United States of America led the medal table both in number of gold medals won, and in overall medals, winning 46 gold and 121 total medals respectively. Behind the United States, Great Britain were second on the medal table by golds, and third by overall medals – their highest finish in the former case since the home games of 1908 and in the latter since 1920, while China were third by golds, but second by overall medals.
context_section_description: This is the table of the medal count of the 2016 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). These rankings sort by the number of gold medals, earned by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC Country Code. Although this information is provided by the IOC, the IOC itself does not recognize or endorse any ranking system.
  The 2016 Summer Olympic program featured 28 sports with 41 disciplines, and a total of 306 events, tentatively resulting in 306 medal sets to be distributed. Athletes from 87 countries won medals, and 59 of them won at least one gold medal. Both of these categories set new records.
  Two gold medals were awarded for a first-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle swimming event. No silver medal was awarded as a consequence.
  Three silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's 100 metre butterfly swimming event. No bronze medal was awarded as a consequence.
  In boxing (13 disciplines), judo (14), taekwondo (8), and wrestling (18), two bronze medals are awarded in each event (53 additional bronze medals total). Additionally, two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's 100 metre backstroke swimming and in the men's K-1 200 metres canoeing events.
   Host nation (Brazil)
caption: The American final team (Adrian, Held, Phelps, and Dressel), after winning the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Olympics.
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