Paris Olympics 2024: Top 10 countries with the most Olympic medals—how many does India have?
Paris Olympics 2024: Top 10 Countries with the Most Olympic Medals: India has 35 Olympic medals and 10 gold medals, with the Indian men’s hockey team winning 8 of them.
10 nations with the most Olympic medals in the Paris Summer Olympics 2024: The Olympic Games, sometimes known as the Olympics, are a major and premier international athletic event conducted every four years, alternating between the Summer and Winter Olympics at two-year intervals, since the first modern Olympics in 1896.
In 2024, the 33rd Summer Olympics in Paris, France, will begin with an opening ceremony on Friday, July 26, 2024.
Significantly, this is the third time that the Summer Games have been selected for the French capital; the previous two times this happened were in 1900 and 1924, exactly one hundred years after the Paris Olympics of 1924.
There will be an equal number of events for each competitor in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, as well as an equal proportion of male and female athletes.
3,800 hours of live sports programming will include 10,600 competitors from 206 countries participating in 32 different sports. During the 18-day Olympics, 329 gold medals will be given out.
Athletes who succeed in their particular sports at the Olympics are rewarded with renowned medals: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place.
Notably, the United States has won the most medals of any nation in more over half of the Olympic Games. Its most well-known swimmer, Michael Phelps, is one of the most decorated Olympians of all time with 28 medals, 23 of which are gold.
Michael Phelps has won 28 Olympic medals throughout his career. (Reuters file)
The Soviet Union, which existed from 1922 to 1991, is the second-most successful country in history to win more than 1,000 Olympic medals, behind the United States. With 1,204 medals overall, including 473 gold ones, the country competed in just 18 Olympics starting in the 1950s and won the most medals in 13 of those competitions.[2]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) states that “the Olympic medals won by an athlete or team are assigned to the country that the athlete or team represented at the time of the Olympic Games” because the Soviet Union is no longer in existence.[3]
Interestingly, despite its absence for the following 30 years, having only competed in the Olympics in the 1950s, it is placed fifth in the world in terms of Olympic medal count, with strengths in gymnastics, diving, and badminton.[4]
On the other side, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Bangladesh, among the projected 70 countries, have yet to win a single Olympic medal.[5]
Top 10 countries with the most medals in the history of the Olympics:
| Rank | Country | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | Total |
| 1 | United States of America | 1175 | 951 | 833 | 2959 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 473 | 376 | 355 | 1204 |
| 3 | Germany | 305 | 305 | 312 | 922 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 296 | 323 | 331 | 950 |
| 5 | China | 285 | 231 | 197 | 713 |
| 6 | France | 264 | 293 | 332 | 889 |
| 7 | Italy | 259 | 231 | 269 | 759 |
| 8 | Sweden | 212 | 228 | 239 | 679 |
| 9 | Norway | 209 | 186 | 173 | 568 |
| 10 | Russia | 194 | 165 | 185 | 544 |
Source: Visual Capitalist
How many medals did India win in the Olympics?
India made its Olympic debut in 1900 in Paris, skipping the Summer Olympics in 1896, 1904, 1908, and 1912. Norman Pritchard made history by being the first Indian to win a medal in the men’s 200m hurdles.
Pritchard recorded a then-Olympic record of 26 seconds in the finals, winning silver behind USA’s Alvin Kraenzlein, who ran a new Olympic mark of 25.4 seconds to win gold[1].
It is worth noting that India has won ten gold medals at the Olympics, with the Indian men’s hockey team taking eight of them. Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold medal in the men’s javelin throw at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was a watershed event for India.[6]
Neeraj Chopra of India in action in the Tokyo Olympics javelin throw final. (Reuters Photo)
Chorpa became the first athlete to win gold, and just the second Indian person to do it after Abhinav Bindra. PV Sindhu, an Indian badminton player, became the first Indian woman to win numerous Olympic medals.
While India’s total medal count is not the best, placing 57th in the all-time standings, each medal is extremely valuable to the country.[7]
| Rank | Country | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | Total |
| 57 | India | 10 | 9 | 16 | 35 |
A complete list of all Indian Olympic Medal Winners, to date:
| No. | Athlete Name | Medal | Event | Olympics |
| 1 | Neeraj Chopra | Gold | Men’s javelin throw | Tokyo 2020 |
| 2 | Bajrang Punia | Bronze | Men’s 65kg wrestling | Tokyo 2020 |
| 3 | Indian hockey team | Bronze | Men’s hockey | Tokyo 2020 |
| 4 | Ravi Kumar Dahiya | Silver | Men’s 57kg wrestling | Tokyo 2020 |
| 5 | PV Sindhu | Bronze | Women’s singles badminton | Tokyo 2020 |
| 6 | Lovlina Borgohain | Bronze | Women’s welterweight boxing | Tokyo 2020 |
| 7 | Mirabai Chanu | Silver | Women’s 49kg weightlifting | Tokyo 2020 |
| 8 | Sakshi Malik | Bronze | Women’s 58kg wrestling | Rio 2016 |
| 9 | PV Sindhu | Silver | Women’s singles badminton | Rio 2016 |
| 10 | Gagan Narang | Bronze | Men’s 10m air rifle shooting | London 2012 |
| 11 | Yogeshwar Dutt | Bronze | Men’s 60kg wrestling | London 2012 |
| 12 | Mary Kom | Bronze | Women’s flyweight boxing | London 2012 |
| 13 | Saina Nehwal | Bronze | Women’s singles badminton | London 2012 |
| 14 | Vijay Kumar | Silver | Men’s 25m rapid pistol shooting | London 2012 |
| 15 | Sushil Kumar | Silver | Men’s 66kg wrestling | London 2012 |
| 16 | Sushil Kumar | Bronze | Men’s 66kg wrestling | Beijing 2008 |
| 17 | Vijender Singh | Bronze | Men’s middleweight boxing | Beijing 2008 |
| 18 | Abhinav Bindra | Gold | Men’s 10m air rifle shooting | Beijing 2008 |
| 19 | Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Silver | Men’s double trap shooting | Athens 2004 |
| 20 | Karnam Malleswari | Bronze | Women’s 54kg weightlifting | Sydney 2000 |
| 21 | Leander Paes | Bronze | Men’s singles tennis | Atlanta 1996 |
| 22 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Moscow 1980 |
| 23 | Indian hockey team | Bronze | Men’s hockey | Munich 1972 |
| 24 | Indian hockey team | Bronze | Men’s hockey | Mexico City 1968 |
| 25 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Tokyo 1964 |
| 26 | Indian hockey team | Silver | Men’s hockey | Rome 1960 |
| 27 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Melbourne 1956 |
| 28 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Helsinki 1952 |
| 29 | KD Jadhav | Bronze | Men’s bantamweight wrestling | Helsinki 1952 |
| 30 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | London 1948 |
| 31 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Berlin 1936 |
| 32 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Los Angeles 1932 |
| 33 | Indian hockey team | Gold | Men’s hockey | Amsterdam 1928 |
| 34 | Norman Pritchard | Silver | Men’s 200m | Paris 1900 |
| 35 | Norman Pritchard | Silver | Men’s 200m hurdles | Paris 1900 |
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