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The Quick 10: Top 10 Olympic Medal-Winning Countries
by Stacy Conradt - August 7, 2008 - 2:06 PM

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This includes Gold, Silver and Bronze winners for both Summer and Winter Games. You’ll also notice that it includes East Germany and the Soviet Union which no longer exist. For comparison, Russia has 327 medals, West Germany has 243 medals and the United Team of Germany (which is different than Germany) has 137. These are also approximate totals since records of the games before 1896 are rough at best.

Top 10 Olympic Medal-winning Countries

1. The United States: 2404
2. Soviet Union: 1204
3. Great Britain: 689
4. France: 679
5. Germany: 648
6. Italy: 595
7. Sweden: 588
8. East Germany: 519
9. Hungary: 454
10. Finland: 446

You can find a full list of winners here.

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  1. The lovely and talented Stacy writes:

    These are also approximate totals since records of the games before 1896 are rough at best.

    I’m trusting that’s either a typo or a joke, since the first modern Olympics were held in 1896. (And for the record, I’m not sure how many events Athens won in the ancient games, either.)

    posted by Paul on 8-7-2008 at 2:49 pm

  2. “BOTH?” Gold,Silver,and Bronze? Come on Stace!!

    posted by gus on 8-8-2008 at 6:27 am

  3. Fixed. Jeez, I am getting no love for this post! :)

    Recaptcha: enemies Lebanon. Does recaptcha have a hidden agenda??

    posted by Stacy on 8-8-2008 at 9:06 am

  4. I love you no matter what, Stacy.

    posted by Codus on 8-8-2008 at 9:26 am

  5. I feel such Cold War pride looking at those numbers. “U S A!!! U S A!!!” Eat that, Commies!

    posted by Shasta on 8-8-2008 at 4:31 pm

  6. I like the post, Stacy!

    posted by Dawn on 8-8-2008 at 11:02 pm

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