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2024 Olympics final medal count: U.S., China make history with 40 gold medals each; Americans earn most medals in 40 years

yahoo sports staff
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After a thrilling final day of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the United States and China both finished with 40 gold medals. It's the first time there has ever been a tie for most gold medals at the Summer Olympics, per NBC.

China took an early gold medal on Sunday as Li Wenwen won the top medal in women's weightlifting (+81kg). The United States followed that with a gold of its own as Jennifer Valente defended her women's omnium title in cycling.

The Americans then secured their 40th gold in the last event of the Olympics in women's basketball. The United States had to pull off a 10-point second-half comeback in a thriller over France to win its eighth consecutive Olympic gold.

The U.S. team's success extended well beyond the top tier of the podium. The total tally of 126 medals is the most for the Americans in the Summer Olympics since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.

The next Summer Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles in 2028.

Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay

Women’s foil

Women’s 100m butterfly

Gymnastics all-around

Women’s 1500m freestyle

Women’s team foil

Women’s individual all-around

Men’s rowing

Women’s 200m breaststroke

Men’s shot put

Women’s vault

Men’s skeet

Women’s 800 freestyle

Mixed 4x100m medley relay

Men’s 100m

Women’s individual road race

Men’s golf

Men’s 1500 freestyle

Women’s 4x100m medley relay

Women’s discus throw

Women’s surfing

Men’s 1500m freestyle

Women’s 200m freestyle

Women’s wrestling (68 kg)

Men’s 400-meter sprint

Women’s cycling team

Women’s wrestling (50 kg)

Men’s 100m hurdles

Women’s 400m hurdles

Women’s long jump

Men’s 400m hurdles

Women’s 4x100m relay

Women’s weightlifting (71 kg)

Men’s 4x400m relay

Women’s 100m hurdles

Women’s 4x400m relay

Men’s basketball

Women’s soccer

Women’s cycling (omnium)

Women’s basketball

Mixed 10m shooting

Women’s 3m springboard

Men’s 10m shooting (pistol)

Men’s 10m diving

Men’s 10m shooting (rifle)

Mixed table tennis

Women’s 10m diving

Women’s BMX freestyle

Men’s 100m freestyle

Men’s 50m rifle

Women’s 20km walk

Men’s 3m springboard

Mixed doubles badminton

Women’s table tennis

Women’s doubles badminton

Women’s tennis

Men’s table tennis

Men’s gymnastics rings

Men’s 4x100m medley relay

Men’s 25m shooting (pistol)

Men’s gymnastics parallel bars

Women’s 10m diving

Men’s weightlifting (61 kg)

Artistic swimming

Women’s weightlifting (49 kg)

Men’s 500m canoeing

Men’s 3m diving

Women’s weightlifting (59 kg)

Women’s boxing (54 kg)

Women’s 500m Canoeing

Women’s 3m diving

Men’s team table tennis

Women’s boxing (50 kg)

Men’s weightlifting (102 kg)

Women’s rhythmic gymnastics all-around

Men’s 10m diving

Women’s team table tennis

Women’s artistic swimming

Women’s boxing (75 kg)

Women’s weightlifting (+81kg)