The United States has been participating at the Deaflympics from 1935 and it is also currently placed first in the all time Deaflympics medal list. US has won more than 1000 medals, the only nation to do so in Deaflympics.
USA has been participating at the Winter Deaflympics from 1967.
Medal tallies
Summer Deaflympics
Host nation Edition London 1935 1 2 1 4 Stockholm 1939 0 1 0 1 Copenhagen 1949 0 1 0 1 Brussels 1953 2 0 1 3 Milan 1957 7 6 10 23 Helsinki 1961 14 14 12 40 Washington D.C.1965 9 21 23 53 Belgrade 1969 22 23 21 66 Malmö 1973 29 22 31 82 Bucaresti 1977 38 35 30 103 Cologne 1981 45 30 35 110 Los Angeles 1985 46 30 33 109 Christchurch 1989 22 30 23 75 Sofia 1993 36 25 23 84 Copenhagen 1997 28 21 27 76 Rome 2001 26 21 23 70 Melbourne 2005 9 12 12 33 Taipei 2009 10 5 7 22 Sofia 2013 8 8 13 29 Samsun 2017 5 3 8 16 Caxias do Sul 2022 20 1124 55 Tokyo 2025 17 7 12 35Total3753213631056
Winter Deaflympics EventGoldSilverBronzeTotal19672002
Notable achievements In the 1977 Summer Deaflympics held in Romania, Jeff Float of US won 10 gold medals in Swimming, which is still considered as a unique and unprecedented record in Deaflympics history Reed Gershwind holds the record for winning the most number of medals for United States in the Deaflympics history with 30 medals. This medal tally is also the second highest for any deaflympian just behind Terence Parkin of South Africa.
See also United States at the Paralympics United States at the Olympics
References
External links 2017 Deaflympics