PARIS OLYMPICS 2024 MEDAL HAUL: Team USA catches up on gold, surpasses China in silver, bronze
As of the time this story was published on August 12, 2024, the final medal count for the Paris 2024 Olympics is as follows:
Total Gold Medals: 40 (tied between the United States and China)
Total Silver Medals: 44 (United States)
Total Bronze Medals: 42 (United States)
In total, the United States won 126 medals, while China secured 91 medals. The breakdown of medals for the United States on Day 16 (the final day of competition) includes:
Gold:
Women’s Basketball
Women’s Omnium (Cycling) – Jennifer Valente
Silver:
Women’s Freestyle 76kg Wrestling – Alexis Kennedy Blades
Women’s Volleyball
Bronze:
Men’s Water Polo
The overall performance highlights a strong showing from Team USA, particularly in women’s events, which accounted for a significant portion of their gold medals.
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, is an international multi-sport event that are occurring from 24 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with the opening ceremony having taken place on 26 July. Paris is the host city, with events held in 16 additional cities spread across Metropolitan France, and one subsite in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Paris was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. After multiple withdrawals that left only Paris and Los Angeles in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two remaining candidate cities; both of the bids were praised for high technical plans and innovative ways to use a record-breaking number of existing and temporary facilities. Having previously hosted in 1900 and 1924, Paris becomes the second city ever to host the Summer Olympics three times (after London, which hosted the games in 1908, 1948, and 2012).
Paris 2024 marks the centenary of Paris 1924 and Chamonix 1924 (which in turn marks the centenary of the Winter Olympics) and is the sixth Olympic Games hosted by France (three Summer Olympics and three Winter Olympics) and the first French Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville. The Summer Games returned to the traditional four-year Olympiad cycle, after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paris 2024 features the debut of breakdancing as an Olympic sport, and will be the final Olympic Games held during the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. The 2024 Games are expected to cost €9 billion.
