How many medals did the United States win in the 2016 Summer Olympics?

The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was a major international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 August to 21 August 2016.

More than 11,000 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees, including first time entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team, took part. With 306 sets of medals, the games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city, and at five in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília, and Manaus.

The United States topped the medal table for the fifth time in the past six Summer Olympics, winning the most golds (46) and most medals overall (121), as well as its 1,000th Olympic gold medal overall.

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billyboy915

Boyd Tracy, That's what makes it trivia.

Joseph A. Robitaille

The women pulled more of their share of getting the medals.

John W Shreve

Boyd Tracy, There are people who are very interested in these matters. They don't usually try to memorize the numbers, but through study, the figures are burned into their minds. I'm like that with baseball. Ty Cobb had 4190 hits in his career, not 4191, as believed for over half a century. I've met thousands of people who know this and argue about it.

Boyd Tracy

By the way that wasn't sour grapes in my first post. I guessed right!

Boyd Tracy

I dislike this sort of question unless you happen for some quirky reason or cheat by looking it up it is purely a guessing game at a statistic the in no more than general terms has any significance. Who really cares what the total was?