To determine the number of ways a team can sweep the gold, silver, and bronze medals, we can use permutations since the order matters. Assuming the team has three distinct members, the number of ways to assign the medals is given by 3! (3 factorial), which equals 6. Thus, the team can win the gold, silver, and bronze medals in 6 different ways.
In the men's event, Finland has won the most Olympic medals with 21 (7 gold, 7 silver, 7 bronze).In the women's event, Germany and USSR have won the most Olympic medals with 8 (Germany, 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze - USSR, 2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze).
the gold medals mean you came first in your event and the silver means you came second and the bronze means you came third.
As of the 2008 Games, India has won 17 medals (8 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze) in Summer Olympic competition. The sport that India has won the most medals in is field hockey (11 medals, 8 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). Indian athletes have also won medals in athletics, tennis, shooting, wrestling, and weightlifting.
United States won most medals in 2004 olympic games. Gold: 35 Silver: 39 Bronze: 27 TOTAL: 101
Only 1 U.S. gymnast has won 5 gold medals at a single Olympics, that being Anton Heida at the 1904 Games in St. Louis who won gold in men's horse vault, horizontal bar, side horse, team all-around, and individual 4 event all-around (side horse, long horse, horizontal bars, and parallel bars). Five other U.S. gymnasts have won 5+ total medals at a single Olympics ... George Eyser (3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) at the 1904 Games, William Merz (1 silver, 4 bronze) at the 1904 Games, Mary Lou Retton (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, Shannon Miller (2 silver, 3 bronze) at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, and Nastia Liukin (1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Badminton - No Gold, Silver or Bronze Hockey - Only 2 Bronze Handball - No Medals Judo - 3 Silver, 6 Bronze Modern Pentathlon - 6 Silver, 3 Bronze Table Tennis - No Medals Trampoline - No Medals Triathlon - 1 Bronze
In the men's event, Finland has won the most Olympic medals with 21 (7 gold, 7 silver, 7 bronze).In the women's event, Germany and USSR have won the most Olympic medals with 8 (Germany, 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze - USSR, 2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze).
There are three types: Gold - for the winner of an event (or the team that wins) Silver - for the athlete (or team) that comes second in an event Bronze - for the athlete (or team) that comes second in an event The names refer to the colours and not what they are made from.
the gold medals mean you came first in your event and the silver means you came second and the bronze means you came third.
Germany won gold Netherlands silver and Australia Bronze medals for the Men's event. The Women's event was won by the Netherlands with Argentina Silver and Great Britain Bronze. Athletes names are available under the related link
962 medal were won for the 302 events in the 2012 Summer Olympics. 302 Gold, 304 Silver Medals because 2 ties resulted in 2 Silver medals being won instead of a Silver and Bronze for each event. 356 Bronze Medals because in 56 events both Semi Finalists get the Bronze Medal if they lose the match. The winners go on to complete for the Silver and Gold Medals
As quoted from wikipedia The convention used by the IOC is to sort by the number of gold medals the athletes from a country have earned. In the event of a tie in the number of gold medals, the number of silver medals is taken into consideration, and then the number of bronze medals. If two countries have an equal number of gold, silver, and bronze medals, they are ordered in the table alphabetically by their IOC country code.
Each event only gives one gold, one silver, and one bronze. Some gives two bronze (boxing).
Final count: Gold 302, Silver: 304, and Bronze: 356 for total of 962 Note this is count by country not for individual athletes so the total number of medals is much larger because many events (e.g. Football/soccer, archery, etc.) are team events and the entire team got medals. See related links below.
Australia has won four Olympic medals in the high jump event; one gold, two silver, and one bronze.
As of the 2008 Games, athletes from Australia have excelled in swimming events. 148 medals have been won by Australian swimmers (50 gold, 48 silver, 50 bronze). The event that Australian athletes have won the second most medals is athletics where 64 have been won (18 gold, 22 silver, 24 bronze). Third is cycling (41 medals, 13 gold, 15 silver, 13 bronze).
As of the 2008 Games, India has won 17 medals (8 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze) in Summer Olympic competition. The sport that India has won the most medals in is field hockey (11 medals, 8 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). Indian athletes have also won medals in athletics, tennis, shooting, wrestling, and weightlifting.