

Anastasia Zueva came in second, 1.86 seconds behind Franklin. teammate Missy Franklin won her third gold medal of the London 2012 Games and set a new world record of 2 minutes and 4.06 seconds as she won the 200m backstroke. ET: You can see the best photos from today's action in our daily gallery. The audience also included Prince William and his wife, Catherine. The United States finished atop the medal table at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a total of 104 medals, including 46 gold. The swimmers then made their way around the pool, accepting applause and posing for photos, and tossing the bouquets of flowers they'd just received to family members who were watching from the stands. The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) were an international multi-sport event held between 27. Immediately after the medal ceremony, Phelps looked a bit distracted as he and the other medalists stayed in place to pose for photographers, all smiling - until someone told Phelps that as the gold medalist, his rightful place was in the middle of the trio. ET: The finality of the moment seemed to be on Phelps' mind as he stood on the podium. Official medal table of the Summer Olympic Games in London. The Netherlands hosted the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The first gold medal at the Winter Games was earned by Sjoukje Dijkstra in ladies' figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics. The end of that race will also bring an end to his competitive career. The first individual gold medal at the Summer Games was earned by Maurice Peeters in cycling at the 1920 Summer Olympics, in the men's 1000 metres sprint event. Here’s a look at USA’s medal count since 1896 and while the Greeks in that year, with 169 participants compared to the USA. The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and also known as Tokyo 2020, was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. Gonna be some gold coming home from Tokyo, yo. The New Zealand Olympic Committee sent 184 athletes, 97 men, and 87 women to the Games to compete in 16 sports, the nations largest ever delegation. USA athletes have won a total of 2,523 medals (1,022 of them gold) at the Summer Olympic Games, the most of any country in the world. This was the nations twenty-fourth appearance at the Olympics. It was the 17th and final individual Olympic gold medal for Phelps, who has only one more event - the medley relay - left at the London Games. New Zealand competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
