The following statistics show the winning nations at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Depending on the counting method for the Olympic medal table, these are the nations that won the most gold medals or the most medals overall. At the Summer Games of 1896, 1912, 1964 and 2008; as well as at the Winter Games of 1980, 1984, 1994, 2002, 2010, and 2014, the winning nations were not identical according to the two counting methods.
The gold first ranking system is used by most of the world media, as well as the International Olympic Committee (IOC); and also listed here in the further statistics and tables. At this ranking system, the United States has placed first overall by Olympic medal table in the Summer Olympic Games nineteen times, followed by the Soviet Union with six overall victories (not including the 1992 first-place finish by the Unified Team). In the Winter Olympic Games, Norway has placed first overall eleven times and the Soviet Union (prior to its dissolution in 1991) had placed first seven times.
Summer Olympics List by Games
Games1st placeMed2nd placeMed3rd placeMedNations with medals 1896 Athens 11106 117 175252 1900 Paris 312020 194113840159 1904 St. Louis 8054 885418351 1908 London 56238 1951126391211 1912 Stockholm 262310 18192515191716 1920 Antwerp 411915 22272015272513 1924 Paris 451413 27271315271010 1928 Amsterdam 22 10 8 33187 816 14 9 1932 Los Angeles 44 12 10 273612 53012 4 1936 Berlin 3824 10 323121 13212 5 1948 London 38 16 10 372711 619 17 13 1952 Helsinki 4022 16 43193010171916 1956 Melbourne 37 3213 38 292583217 14 1960 Rome 43 3413 4429 21103116 13 1964 Tokyo 3630 16 41 2631 5283529 1968 Mexico City 4529 11 442832 73430 25 1972 Munich 5033 20 482731 23 2230 23 1976 Montreal 49 4034 41 41 253535 25 25 1980 Moscow 80 47 8 366937 164642 17 1984 Los Angeles 83 20 17 47 6116 19301723 1988 Seoul 55 3736 52 313530463027 1992 Barcelona 45 3733 6438 34 21 2937 28 1996 Atlanta 44 26 20 7932211825 1627 2000 Sydney 37 32 28 802428 16 33 2914 2004 Athens 36 32 28 74 39 17 262614 36 2008 Beijing 48 3624 87223913303723 2012 London 48 3929 86263118322218 2016 Rio 46 27 26 86 37 23 18 38 17 26 2020 Tokyo 39 38 27 93 41 32 14 33 19 17 2024 Paris 40 40 20 91 44 27 12 42 24 13 Only at four Summer Olympic Games did the leader in the medal standings not also win the most medals in total. In all these occasions, the second-place nation in the medal ranking won the most medals in total, and the first-place nation won the second-most: 1896: (2nd place, 47 medals) 1912: (2nd place, 65 medals) 1964: (2nd place, 96 medals) 2008: (2nd place, 112 medals)
List by team Summer Olympics Rank Nation1st place2nd place3rd place1 19822 6303 1424 1235 1146 1037 100 8 031 03110 022 11 011 011 13 010 01015 00416 002 17001 001 001 001Total20 nations303030
Winter Olympics List by Games Games1st place2nd place3rd placeNations with medals 1924 Chamonix 4 4 2 107 4 16 3 0 1928 St. Moritz 6 2 2 12 42 2 52 1 1932 Lake Placid 6 3 1 104 4 2 2 3 0 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 7 32 11 53 23 03 1948 St. Moritz (tie for 1st place) 4 None 3 13 3 4 3 3 1952 Oslo 7 4 3 133 6 4 61 2 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 7 4 3 133 3 36 41 1960 Squaw Valley 7 4 3 145 3 4 9 13 1964 Innsbruck 11 43 148 56 6 3 6 1968 Grenoble 6 54 156 5 32 3 2 1972 Sapporo 8 4 4 17 5 3 3 37 3 1976 Innsbruck 13 73 166 5 38 7 4 1980 Lake Placid 10 9 6 196 7 4 67 2 1984 Sarajevo 9 64 179 10 4 6 9 0 1988 Calgary 11 95 179 10 5 96 5 1992 Albertville 10 9 9 2010 6 6 68 5 1994 Lillehammer 11 10 9 228 11 7 4 58 1998 Nagano 12 10 9 249 10 6 8 53 2002 Salt Lake City 1312 10 245 16 13 78 11 2006 Turin 11 9 9 2612 9 76 7 7 2010 Vancouver 14 10 9 26 713 155 7 13 2014 Sochi 11 10 10 26 610 1010 9 5 2018 Pyeongchang 14 14 11 30 1410 811 7 10 2022 Beijing 16 12 9 29 8 10 9 13 5 7 2026 Milano Cortina 18 12 10 30 12 12 7 11 9 3 Only at six Winter Olympic Games did the leader in the medal standings not also win the most medals in total. In almost all of these occasions, the second-place nation in the medal ranking won the most medals in total, except for one in which the third-place nation in the medal ranking won the most: 1980: (2nd place, 23 medals) 1984: (2nd place, 25 medals) 1994: (2nd place, 26 medals) 2002: (2nd place, 36 medals) 2010: (3rd place, 37 medals) 2014: (2nd place, 29 medals)
List by team Winter Olympics Rank Nation1st place2nd place3rd place111322 72033514 147514061037 1028 1119 02210 012 11 010 01013 003 14 001 001Total15 nations262425
Notes
Sources
Official site Database olympics