Countries With the Most Olympic Medals

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony along the River Seine tonight, where Lady Gaga and Celine Dion will reportedly be performing together. It’s the third time Paris has hosted the games, exactly one hundred years on from the French capital’s last Olympics.

This year, more than 10,000 athletes are set to take part in the competition, with events scheduled not only in Paris but several other cities around France, including Nantes, Marseille and Châteauroux, while the surfing event will take place in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

As data compiled by the Olympedia website shows, The United States has won the most medals in the Summer Olympics since 1896. U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,655 medals - 1,070 gold, 841 silver and 744 bronze. Meanwhile, the second most successful nation is the USSR, which only took part between 1952 and 1988. In just ten summer events, Soviet athletes won 395 gold medals, 319 silver medals and 296 bronze medals, for a total of 1,010 medals.