Usopc figures show division i schools spent 5 6 billion last year on olympic sports alone.
Olympic medal standings by country.
It contains all records since athens 1896 and is searchable by olympic games sport or event.
Here are the top 10 ranked countries based on olympic medals won in 1896.
See more about the olympics games in 1896.
During each olympic games canadians from every corner of the country put their national pride on full display cheering on december 26 2018 18 and then some great team canada stories of 2018.
However this is a sport with origins from its time.
As per tradition the ranking order is based first on the number of gold medals then silver and bronze.
India for example is a cricket mad country.
Access the official olympic database of results.
The following medal table is a list of national olympic committees nocs and one non noc team ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro from 5 to 21 august 2016.
1896 athens medal tally.
The first shots of india s shooting revolution were fired at the 2000 olympic games when anjali reached the final.
The ioc itself does not publish all time tables and publishes.
Latest updated information on beijing 2008 olympics medals tally count.
Vietnam kosovo fiji singapore puerto rico bahrain jordan tajikistan and ivory coast won their first olympic gold medals however bahrain retroactively won a.
In the 2012 london olympic games kenya won 11 medals in only 6 events all of them track races.
15 of them stood on the medals podium more than any other school in the country.
Another 10 stanford athletes won medals for other countries.
Total medals by country.
Meanwhile the usa won 104 medals in 16 events.
Olympic quotas nordic combined.
Stanford placed 29 athletes on the u s.
The all time medal table for all olympic games from 1896 to 2018 including summer olympic games winter olympic games and a combined total of both is tabulated below these olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 intercalated games which are no longer recognized by the international olympic committee ioc as official games.
Sporting culture in different countries has a profound effect in the ability to score medals at games.