USA edges China, takes home most gold medals from Tokyo Olympics

nbcolympics.com ^ | Aug. 8, 2021 | Nate Stuhlbarg

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It took until the final few medal events of the Tokyo Olympics, but the United States pushed ahead of China to close the 2020 Games as the big winners. The U.S. took home more gold medals than any other country (39) as well as more total medals than any other country (113).

USA and China were locked at 38 golds apiece with only a few final medals to be decided. It was the U.S. women's volleyball team that earned the Games' decisive gold with a clean, three-set sweep over Brazil.

Team USA rounded out its haul with 41 silver medals and 33 bronze. Tokyo marks the seventh consecutive Olympics that the United States has taken home the most overall medals.

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They keep track of medals won by University, keep in mind, that these are not all necessarily athletes who competed for the US:

USC and Stanford usually win because they tend to make up a lot of teams, so each individual on the team who attended the school gets counted, even if it's just one event. But the counts are pretty impressive, and just shows how important our Universities play.