The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2018, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games. The IOC itself does not publish all-time tables, and publishes unofficial tables only per single Games. This table was thus compiled by adding up single entries from the IOC database.[1]

The results are attributed to the IOC country code as currently displayed by the IOC database. Usually, a single code corresponds to a single National Olympic Committee (NOC). When different codes are displayed for different years, medal counts are combined in the case of a simple change of IOC code (such as from HOL to NED for the Netherlands) or simple change of country name (such as from Ceylon to Sri Lanka). As the medals are attributed to each NOC, not all totals include medals won by athletes from that country for another NOC, such as before independence of that country (see individual footnotes for special cases such as combined teams). Names in italic are national entities that no longer exist. The totals of NOCs are not combined with those of their predecessors and successors.

World map showing nations that have won Summer Olympic medals.

World map showing nations that have won Winter Olympic medals.

NOCs with medals [ edit ]

The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Olympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze, sort first by the bronze column, then the silver, and then the gold. The table does not include revoked medals (e.g. due to doping).

Medal totals in this table are current as of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 17 January 2019 are taken into account.

Not an official country

The sum total of gold, silver and bronze medals are not equal for the following reasons:

Some sports (such as boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling) award or have previously awarded two bronze medals per competition.

Some tied performances have resulted in multiple medals of the same colour being awarded for an event. If this tie is for gold or silver, there will be a consequent absence of a silver or bronze medal for that event.

Not all medals which have been revoked have been re-awarded.

Some early events, such as cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics had only two entrants.

Retroactively awarding gold, silver and bronze medals for the 1896 and 1900 games results in some anomalies, such as the 100 metre freestyle swimming event in 1896 where no surviving records distinguish the places of those who finished between 3rd and 10th position.

NOCs without medals [ edit ]

After the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, 71 of the current 206 National Olympic Committees have yet to win an Olympic medal. Seven historic National Olympic Committees and the Refugee Olympic Team are also included in this list.

^ [2] Tejbir Bura was the first and only Nepalese person to receive an Olympic gold medal. During the 1924 Winter Olympic closing ceremony, the IOC awarded a gold medal in alpinism for the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition , which recognized 21 mountaineers, including the first athletes to be awarded medals posthumously, seven Indian sherpas who were killed in an avalanche on the third and last attempt to summit.

Variations [ edit ]

The sections above are based on information published by the International Olympic Committee. Various sources deal with some of the entries in the preceding sections differently.

Early Olympics [ edit ]

For the 1900 Summer Olympics several countries are credited with appearances that are not considered official by the IOC. Only one of these cases concerns a medal. A gold medal that is officially added to France's total is given to Luxembourg.[3]

Similar cases of disputed nationality affect the 1904 Summer Olympics. France is credited with a silver medal[4] and Norway with two gold medals.[5] In the table above these medals are listed under the United States. Furthermore, Newfoundland is occasionally listed as a separate country at the 1904 Olympics, and would be listed as a historical NOC without medals.[6]

Other differences from the official table are based on disagreements about which events were Olympic. This affects several of the events in the 1900 and 1904 Olympics. In addition, some sources include the 1906 Intercalated Games when compiling their medal tables.[7]

Alpinism and aeronautics [ edit ]

From 1924 through 1936, the IOC on several occasions awarded gold medals for feats of alpinism and aeronautics that occurred in the preceding four-year Olympiad. In 1924, 1932 and 1936, gold medals were awarded to 25 mountaineers from six nations for expeditions in the Himalayas and the Matterhorn. In 1936, a gold medal was awarded to Hermann Schreiber of Switzerland for crossing the Alps in a glider in 1935, the first time that had been done.[2][8][9][10] Some sources include these IOC awards of gold medals in the overall count.

Germany [ edit ]

Germany has competed under five different designations, including as two separate teams at several Games. Sources vary in how they present the medals won by these teams. The table below shows sourced combinations of these teams, when applied to the updated medal totals from the main table. A part of Germany, Saar, competed independently in the Summer Olympic games in 1952, but failed to win any medals. Due to most lists only listing medal counts, it's possible but not certain Saar was included as part of Germany in their calculations.

Summer Games Winter Games Combined Total Team (IOC code) № Total № Total № Total Germany (GER) [11] 16 191 192 232 615 12 92 88 60 240 28 283 280 292 855 Germany (GER) (EUA) [12] 19 219 246 268 733 15 100 94 65 259 34 319 340 333 992 Germany (GER) (EUA) (FRG) [13] 24 275 313 349 937 21 111 109 78 298 45 386 422 427 1235 Germany (GER) (EUA) (FRG) (GDR) [14] 25[15] 428 442 476 1346 21 150 145 113 408 46[15] 578 587 589 1754

Russia and the Soviet Union [ edit ]

The Russian Federation, the Russian Empire and the Olympic Athletes from Russia are often combined outside of IOC sources. The Soviet Union is sometimes combined with the post-union team that competed in 1992. Few sources combine the Soviet Union and Russia as many republics which subsequently gained or re-gained independence (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) contributed to the medal tally of the USSR.

Summer Games Winter Games Combined Total Team (IOC code) № Total № Total № Total Russia (RUS) [16] 6 149 124 153 426 6 47 38 35 120 12 196 162 188 546 Russia (RUS) (RU1, OAR) [17] 9 150 128 156 434 7 49 44 44 137 16 199 172 200 571 Soviet Union (URS) [13] 9 395 319 296 1010 9 78 57 59 194 18 473 376 355 1204 Soviet Union (URS) (EUN) [14] 10 440 357 325 1122 10 87 63 67 217 20 527 420 392 1339 Total 19 590 485 481 1556 17 136 107 111 354 36 726 592 592 1910

Serbia and Yugoslavia [ edit ]

The Olympic Committee of Serbia, created in 1910 and recognized in 1912, is deemed the direct successor to both Yugoslav Olympic Committee and the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro by IOC, and therefore the inheritor to all the records of the defunct nations.[18] In the period from 1920 to 2006, athletes representing these defunct countries won a total of 99 medals: 95 at Summer Games and 4 at Winter Games.

Summer Games Winter Games Combined Total Team (IOC code) № Total № Total № Total Serbia (SRB) 3 3 6 6 15 3 0 0 0 0 6 3 6 6 15 Kingdom of Serbia (SRB) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Kingdom of Yugoslavia (YUG) 5 3 2 3 8 3 0 0 0 0 8 3 2 3 8 SFR Yugoslavia (YUG) 11 23 27 25 75 10 0 3 1 4 21 23 30 26 79 Independent Olympic Participants (IOP) 1 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 3 2 4 3 9 3 0 0 0 0 6 2 4 3 9 Total 24 31 40 39 110 19 0 3 1 4 43 31 43 40 114

Notes [ edit ]

Obsolete nations notes [ edit ]

Name changes notes [ edit ]

Participation notes [ edit ]

Disputed participation notes [ edit ]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

All-time medal counts are compiled by various sources, often adding up related results for Russia, Germany, Serbia, Czech Republic etc.

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