Who is leading in gold medals

Then she ran another one in October. Then she finished third at the Olympics, in a tough race, given the heat and humidity. I also enjoyed seeing what her warm-up run looked like on Strava.

Sweden scored first, in the 34th minute, and Canada tied it up at with a penalty kick in the 67th minute. That remained the score through extra time, until Canada won in a penalty shootout. It was more difficult than many U. But as he did so consistently this tournament, Durant proved himself the best player in Tokyo. Jayson Tatum scored 19 and others on the team contributed enough.

Team USA led by five at halftime, and stretched the lead to 14 in the third quarter. France hung around and tightened things up, but at no point in the second half did it ever really feel like the U. A few cool story lines after the win: JaVale McGee joins his mom Pamela as a gold medalist, after she won one in basketball in Alys Williams opened the scoring 27 seconds into the game, and the team never looked back.

The final was 14—5, as Spain was nearly kept off the board for the entire second half. Maggie Steffens and Maddie Musselman led the team with 18 goals in seven games, six of them wins. And Ashleigh Johnson was a star in goal. She blitzed the rest of the field in Round 2 to build a four-shot lead, but the final round had a little more drama. A double-bogey on the seventh hole dropped Korda into a tie for first, but she rebounded with three straight birdies.

And her sister Jessica shot a 64, the lowest score anyone carded in the final round, to finish tied for 15th place. Today our photo staff also put together a gallery with SI photos of some of the greatest Olympians throughout the years. Cycling: Races begin at p. Water Polo: The U. Basketball: The U.

Volleyball: The U. Boxing: Four gold-medal bouts start at a. For the U. Adam Varga finished second. Kopasz came in as the reigning world champion and was locked in a tough battle with Fernando Pimenta of Portugal over the first meters before his final push to the win.

Varga edged Pimenta by 0. Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica completed her second straight Olympic sprint sweep, finishing the meters in Thompson-Herah topped surprise second-place finisher Christine Mboma of Namibia by.

Athing Mu won the meter gold medal for the United States in her first Olympics after leading almost from start to finish. Mu was never seriously challenged down the home straight as she strode away to win in 1 minute, Mihambo won the world championship title in and finished just off the podium in fourth place at the Olympics. The year-old Reese now has back-to-back Olympic silver medals at the Tokyo Games and from Rio de Janeiro after winning the title at London in Ese Brume of Nigeria, who led after the first round and was in top spot again after the fourth, also finished on 6.

The year-old Wlodarczyk added the Tokyo title to her victories at Rio de Janeiro and London with a mark of Wang Zheng of China took the silver medal at Karsten Warholm of Norway obliterated his own world record in the Olympic meter hurdles, finishing in One of the most anticipated races on the program more than lived up to the hype.

Second-place finisher Rai Benjamin of the United States finished in This time, it was good for only second. Warholm flashed that trademark look of amazement when he crossed the line first. Alison dos Santos of Brazil finished third and six of the eight runners broke either a world, continental or national record.

Armand Duplantis of Sweden won the Olympic gold medal in the pole vault. The year-old Duplantis clinched victory at the Tokyo Games with a height of 6. Duplantis missed all three times when he tried to improve on the world record mark of 6.

Christopher Nilsen of the United States took silver with a personal best of 5. Thiago Braz of Brazil won bronze at 5. Djuraev failed a clean and jerk at kilograms but returned to lift kg and overtake Martirosyan for the gold medal spot with a total of kg. Arturs Plesnieks of Latvia took the bronze with a total of kg. Mensah-Stock defeated Olympic gold medalist Sara Dosho in the first round and beat Feng Zhao of China by technical superiority in the quarterfinals.

She defeated former world champion Alla Cherkasova of Ukraine in the semifinals. Mensah-Stock joins Helen Maroulis as American women to win gold.

Maroulis won the 53kg class in Cherkasova defeated Dosho in a bronze medal match. Finally, on a few occasions, the IOC has revoked a medal from an athlete found to have broken the rules and awarded it to another athlete. That said, here are the top 10 winners in total medals for the Summer, then Winter Olympics as of Olympic Medals By Country Here are the 10 countries with the most Olympic medals: United States medals United Kingdom medals Germany medals France medals Italy medals China medals Sweden medals Australia medals Japan medals Russia medals.

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