What is total number of medals in 2012 summer Olympics?

Answer 1

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.

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Answer 2

962 medals including 302 gold medals 304 Silver Medals and 356 bronze medals

Below are the reasons for more than the 302 event medals for the Silver and Bronze medals.

Two silver medals (and no bronze) were awarded for second place ties in both the men's 200 metre freestyle swimming and the men's 100 metre butterfly swimming events.

In boxing, judo, Taekwondo, and wrestling, two bronze medals are awarded in each weight class. Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's keirin cycling race; three bronze medals were awarded for a three-way third-place tie in the men's high jump.

There were many more medals distributed as every athlete on a pair or team receives a medal event if they were only part of the qualification process and not in the final event. There were over 500 athletes that received Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medals as members on the Men and women's team events of Basketball, Field hockey, Football, Handball, Indoor Volleyball & Water Polo for just those 12 events