List of Countries With Most Olympic Medals (1896-2016)

The much-acclaimed games of all, the Summer Olympics was first held in the year 1896 and since then the event has grown its popularity globally. With only 14 sports event to begin, now these sports affair has grown on a large scale with more than 300 disciplines, where competitors participate and represent from more than 200 countries.

The athlete participating in this prestigious Olympic event always aims to sweep a medal for his country. So the biggest achievement for any country is achieving the most medals to his name. Since the inception of the Olympic event, a total of 18,553 medals have been issued in the Summer Olympic, where the United States is topping the list of winning a total of 2,520 medals.

A highly talented athlete always focuses on winning the multiple medals, where renowned American swimmer Michael Phelps, holds the record of winning the maximum no of gold medals at a single summer Olympics. He has grabbed 6 gold and 8 silver medals in the year 2004. Also in the recently concluded 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Phelps once again won 5 Gold and a Silver Medal for his country. Thus it is an accomplishment and commitment of an athlete towards the game, brings a proud moment for the country.

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Following the US, Russia, Germany, UK, and France are leading the chart of winning the most number of medals in the Summer Olympics so far. Russia is standing at second place with a total of 1865 medals. USSR has so far emerged as a stable competitor against its strong contender USA in terms of winning the medals. The host country of the 2020 Summer Olympics Japan, is standing with 439 medals and this time they are expecting of winning more medals on an average.

List of Countries With Most Olympic Medals (1896-2016)

The following table shows the List of Countries with most Olympic Medals from 1896 – 2016. The medals assigned to the country is based on the average total medals won by individual Olympiad, though whether using total gold or all medals.

Rank	Country	Total Olympic Medals won from 1896 to 2016
1	USA	2520
2	Russia	1865
3	Germany	1681
4	Great Britain	847
5	France	713
6	Italy	577
7	China	543
8	Australia	497
9	Sweden	494
10	Hungary	491
11	Japan	439
12	Romania	306
13	Finland	303
14	Canada	301
15	Netherlands	285
16	Poland	282
17	South Korea	264
18	Cuba	220
19	Bulgaria	214
20	Czech Republic	197
21	Denmark	194
22	Switzerland	193
23	Norway	152
24	Belgium	148
25	Spain	148
26	Brazil	128
27	Ukraine	124
28	Greece	117
29	New Zealand	117
30	Serbia	110
31	Kenya	100
32	Turkey	93
33	Austria	87
34	South Africa	86
35	Belarus	85
36	Jamaica	78
37	Argentina	69
38	Kazakhstan	69
39	Iran	68
40	Mexico	67
41	North Korea	54
42	Ethiopia	53
43	Azerbaijan	44
44	Estonia	34
45	Croatia	33
46	Uzbekistan	33
47	Georgia	32
48	Ireland	32
49	Thailand	31
50	Indonesia	30