THE WINNERS’ CIRCLE

How other countries stack up

The US has accumulated the most medals ever at the Olympics, with 2,656 (including 113 from Tokyo 2020). The nation finishing second isn’t even on the map anymore: The Soviet Union, with 1,010 medals. Its last Olympics was in 1992, when athletes participated as the Unified Team representing 12 of the former Republics. Who has the most golds? The US again, with 1,070, followed by the USSR’S 395.

Great Britain is catching up, with 285.

Not only did host country Japan gets its

best gold haul at Tokyo 2020 (27), it made its best showing at the Olympics, with 58 medals, coming third on the leaderboard. This year, three nations took home gold medals for the first time. Bermuda and

The Philippines bagged one each in women’s triathlon and women’s weightlifting. Qatar took home a gold in men’s weightlifting, and followed it up with a second (shared) gold in high jump. The US led the leaderboard at Tokyo 2020, with 39 golds, closely followed by China with 38 golds.

Tokyo 2020 set two records: For most

nations to win a medal (88) and most

nations to win a gold (63).

Three nations took home Olympic medals for the first time: Turkmenistan, San Marino and Burkina Faso. San Marino won three, in women’s trap shooting, mixed trap shooting and men’s wrestling. San Marino is now the country with the

most Olympic medals relative to its population. The European nation has just over 33,000 people, giving it one medal for every 11,310 people.