All 1,039 medals of the Olympic Games have been awarded, and the United States is leaving Paris with more than any other nation.
The Americans won 126 medals, and because of team sports and relays, more than 40 percent of the team’s delegation of nearly 600 athletes received at least one.
Forty-four American athletes won multiple medals and 110 won at least one gold, with that large number stemming from the country’s success in team events. In the final medal count, which awards one medal per event, the United States tied with China with 40 golds.
All of the U.S. athletes who won at least four medals here are women — five swimmers, plus gymnast Simone Biles.
If the medals are weighted based on the number of athletes on a team — for instance, a five-person gymnastics team on the podium would count as 0.2 medals per person — swimmer Regan Smith tops the U.S. ranks. Smith won three individual silver medals and two golds in relay events.
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Athletes hailing from 41 states — plus one from the U.S. Virgin Islands — won medals for the United States.
About one-fifth of U.S. athletes named California as their home state, and 48 of those Olympians left the Games with a medal. The majority was part of a team that finished on the podium, including the 12 Californians on the bronze-winning men’s water polo squad.
Montana and Alaska which each had athletes claim at least three medals, ended the Games with the highest per capita haul.
When weighted to account for the size of medal-winning teams, the D.C. metropolitan area contributed more to the U.S. medal count than any other region. Eleven athletes from the D.C. region including sprinter Noah Lyles (Alexandria) and swimmers Katie Ledecky (Bethesda) and Torri Huske (Arlington) won 19 medals in 18 events. Ledecky and Erin Gemmell (Potomac) were part of the team that claimed a silver medal in the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle.
Smaller places such as Reno, Nev., (four medals from three athletes) and the Indianapolis region (eight medals from six athletes) outperformed their population size.
While the United States topped the global medal standings, it finished 47th in medal count when population is taken into consideration. Usually, tiny countries that sometimes win just a single medal land near the top of these per capita rankings, but some larger nations, such as New Zealand, Hungary and Australia, also overperformed in Paris.
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