USA Wins Olympic Medal Count as Tokyo Games Conclude

Official release courtesy of Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling. Graphic courtesy of NBC Olympics Twitter Page (@NBCOlympics). 

After the sixth and final day of finals at the wrestling competition of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the United States won the medal count with nine total medals.

https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/1424262160981499907

Team USA had three gold, two silver and four bronze. It is the most medals won by the USA in a non-boycotted Olympics, and is only surpassed by the 1984 Los Angeles team which won 13 medals. The USA had all five of its men’s freestyle entries win a medal, as well as a record four women’s freestyle medalists.

Right behind the USA in the medal count is the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) with eight. ROC had four gold and four bronze during the Olympics.

Host Japan is next with seven medals. They had the most gold medals with five, and added one silver and one bronze.

Three nations had four medals, Ukraine, China and Iran.

Nations getting gold medals on the final night were Japan with two (65 kg MFS, 50 kg WFS) and ROC (97 kg FS)

Total Wrestling Medals
(gold-silver-bronze)

United States 9 (3-2-4)
ROC 8 (4-0-4)
Japan 7 (5-1-1)
Ukraine 4 (1-1-2)
Iran 4 (1-1-2)
China 4 (0-2-2)
Cuba 3 (2-0-1)
Germany 3 (1-0-2)
Kyrgyzstan 3 (0-2-1)
Belarus 3 (0-2-1)
Azerbaijan 3 (0-1-2)
Turkey 3 (0-0-3)
Hungary 2 (1-1-0)
Georgia 2 (0-2-0)
India 1 (0-1-1)
Bulgaria 2 (0-0-2)
Armenia 1 (0-1-0)
Nigeria 1 (0-1-0)
Poland 1 (0-0-1)
Egypt 1 (0-0-1)
Serbia 1 (0-0-1)
Kazakhstan 1 (0-0-1)
San Marino 1 (0-0-1)
Uzbekistan 1 (0-0-1)
Mongolia 1 (0-0-1)
Italy (0-0-1)

Women’s Freestyle Medals
Japan 4 (4-0-0)
United States 4 (1-1-2)
China 3 (0-2-1)
Kyrgyzstan 2 (0-1-1)
Belarus 2 (0-1-1)
Ukraine 2 (0-0-2)
Bulgaria, 2 (0-0-2)
Germany 1 (1-0-0)
Nigeria 1 (0-0-1)
Turkey, 1 (0-0-1)
Mongolia 1 (0-0-1)
Azerbaijan 1 (0-0-1)

Men’s Freestyle Medals
ROC 5 (3-0-2)
United States 5 (2-1-2)
Iran 2 (0-1-1)
Japan 1 (1-0-0)
India 1 (0-1-0)
Belarus 1 (0-1-0)
Georgia 1 (0-1-0)
Axerbaijan 1 (0-1-0)
Kazakhstan 1 (0-0-1)
San Marino 1 (0-0-1)
Uzbekistan 1 (0-0-1)
Turkey 1 (0-0-1)
Cuba 1 (0-0-1)
Italy 1 (0-0-1)
India 1 (0-0-1)

Greco-Roman Medals
ROC 3 (1-2-0)
Cuba 2 (2-0-0)
Hungary 2 (1-1-0)
Ukraine 2 (1-1-0)
Iran 2 (1-0-1)
Japan 2 (0-1-1)
Germany 2 (0-0-2)
Georgia 1 (0-1-0)
Kyrgyzstan 1 (0-1-0)
Armenia 1 (0-1-0)
Turkey, 1 (0-0-1)
China, 1 (0-0-1)
Azerbaijan 1 (0-0-1)
Poland 1 (0-0-1)
Egypt 1 (0-0-1)
Serbia (0-0-1)



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