After the coronavirus forced the Tokyo Games to be pushed back a year, athletes from across the world traveled to Japan representing their respective nations, hoping to bring home gold medals. And though spectators weren’t allowed at venues, fans of the Olympics tuned in to watch this year’s Games unfold.
But how did the final medal tally shape up? Which countries came away with the most gold medals when all was said and done?
Sporting News tracked the top 15 countries in terms of medal count during the 2021 Tokyo Games. The table below is sorted by most gold medals won and also includes tallies for silver, bronze and the total medals.
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Olympic medal count 2021
(The official Olympics medal standings are listed by total gold medals.)
Full medal standings can be found on the Tokyo Games’ official website.
Olympics schedule 2021
NBC carried every event of the Olympics across its various networks — NBC, USA, NBCSN, CNBC, Olympic Channel, Golf Channel and NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock — over the nearly three weeks of the Tokyo Games. Here’s how the broadcast schedule looked for the live events. Some events were tape-delayed and shown during the daytime.
