Olympic Gold Medal Tokyo 2020
From Silver Shadows to Golden Glory: Brazil’s First Men’s Olympic Crown.
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports. A total of 11,417 athletes from 206 nations participated in 339 medal events in 33 sports across 50 disciplines. Overall, the event saw two records: 93 nations received at least one medal, and 65 of them won at least one gold medal. Athletes from the United States won the most medals overall, with 113, and the most gold medals, with 39. Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions.
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- American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five.
- Australian swimmer Emma McKeon won the greatest number of medals overall, with seven in total, tying Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya's seven medals at the 1952 Summer edition for most medals won at a single Games by a female athlete.
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