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Olympic Medal Totals: Tally as of Sunday Morning
Saturday's big jump in Olympic medals awarded saw the U.S. hold its slender lead over China in gold and total overall, and host Great Britain edging past Russia into third overall and leaping past South Korea for third in gold.
The Americans continued to swim to dominance in the Olympic medal rankings Saturday, maintaining their slim one-medal lead over China in both gold medals and total medals overall.
The third-place position, however, changed again as the "Super Saturday" bonanza of added medals made a big difference for host nation Great Britain. A day earlier, Russia stood in third place in total medals, with Great Britain tied with France for fourth. Now the host nation leads Russia by a medal for third.
The change in gold was more striking. At the end of Friday, Great Britian stood in fourth place with eight gold medals behind South Korea with nine. On Saturday, Great Britian added six golds, taking an easy lead for third, as South Korea fell back to fourth, still with nine gold medals.
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But the brightest spotlight in the American media Saturday shone on swimmer Michael Phelps when the U.S. victory in the 4x100-meter relay gave him his 22nd lifetime medal, and 18th gold, raising even higher his stature as winner of more Olympic medals than anyone else in history.
If Phelps were a country, "he would rank in the top 60 in modern Olympic history," the New York Times reported. "His 18 golds would put him No. 36, just ahead of Argentina."
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Also big on the American radar was another swimming gold for 17-year-old Missy Franklin, her fourth of the London Games, as the women's 4x100-meter relay team took first, and the gold won by Serena Williams against Maria Sharapova in the most lopsided women's singles tennis victory in Olympic history (6-0, 6-1).
Here is the Olympic medal count as of 12:30 a.m. Pacific time today, Sun., Aug. 5, according to the 2012 London Olympics:
Rank by GoldCountryGoldSilverBronzeTotal 1 United States of America 26 13 15 54 2 People's Republic of China 25 16 12 53 3 Great Britain 14 7 8 29 4 Republic of Korea 9 3 5 17 5 France 8 6 8 22 6 Germany 5 10 6 21 7 Italy 5 5 3 13 8 Kazakhstan 5 0 0 5 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 4 0 1 5 10 Russian Federation 3 15 10 28 11 Netherlands 3 1 4 8 12 South Africa 3 1 0 4 13 New Zealand 3 0 4 7 14 Japan 2 10 12 24 15 Cuba 2 2 1 5 16 Hungary 2 1 2 5 17 Poland 2 1 1 4 18 Ukraine 2 0 4 6 19 Australia 1 12 7 20 20 Romania 1 4 2 7 21 Canada 1 3 6 10 22 Belarus 1 2 3 6 23 Denmark 1 2 2 5 24 Czech Republic 1 2 1 4 25 Brazil 1 1 4 6 26 Croatia 1 1 0 2 27 Slovenia 1 0 2 3 28 Ethiopia 1 0 1 2 28 Jamaica 1 0 1 2 30 Georgia 1 0 0 1 30 Lithuania 1 0 0 1 30 Switzerland 1 0 0 1 30 Venezuela 1 0 0 1 34 Mexico 0 3 1 4 35 Sweden 0 3 0 3 36 Colombia 0 2 1 3 36 Spain 0 2 1 3 38 Slovakia 0 1 3 4 39 India 0 1 2 3 40 Belgium 0 1 1 2 40 Indonesia 0 1 1 2 40 Kenya 0 1 1 2 40 Mongolia 0 1 1 2 40 Norway 0 1 1 2 40 Serbia 0 1 1 2 46 Egypt 0 1 0 1 46 Guatemala 0 1 0 1 46 Thailand 0 1 0 1 46 Taipei (Chinese Taipei) 0 1 0 1 50 Greece 0 0 2 2 50 Republic of Moldova 0 0 2 2 52 Azerbaijan 0 0 1 1 52 Hong Kong, China 0 0 1 1 52 Islamic Republic of Iran 0 0 1 1 52 Qatar 0 0 1 1 52 Singapore 0 0 1 1 52 Tunisia 0 0 1 1 52 Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1
Olympians of El Cerrito
Meanwhile, if you like to read about El Cerrito connections to the Olympics, here are links to the the articles in our series:
- July 1, , who represented the U.S. in judo at the Beijing Olympics four years ago
- July 2, Sayaka Matsumoto's of participating in the Beijing Olympics in 2008
- July 24, profile of Teri McKeever, who's now in London as the first woman in history to be head coach of the US Olympics women's swim team
- July 25, , who ran for Taiwan in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
- July 27, , bronze-medal winner who competed in four Olympics – two for Hungary and two for the United States – and served on the U.S. Olympic Committee
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