2024 Paris Olympics Final Medal Count: United States wins with 126, ties China for most golds at 40

The final day of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has come and gone. Still, there were plenty of medals to be handed out and the United States made sure to add to its total medal count before it was all said and done.

Jennifer Valente was able to add a gold medal in the Women’s Omnium for the United States. That put Team USA within one gold medal of the People’s Republic of China in the overall count with just the women’s basketball gold medal game to be played. It also made the women’s basketball game against host country France perhaps the biggest event of the day for the Americans.

Following a dramatic final day at the 2024 Paris Olympics, here’s where the medal count ended:

2024 Paris Olympics: Medal Count after final day

1. United States: 40 gold, 44 silver, 42 bronze (126)
2. People’s Republic of China: 40 gold, 27 silver, 24 bronze (91 total)
3. Japan: 20 gold, 12 silver, 13 bronze (45)
4. Australia: 18 gold, 19 silver, 16 bronze (53)
5. France: 16 gold, 26 silver, 22 bronze (64)
6. Netherlands: 15 gold, 7 silver, 12 bronze (34)
7. Great Britain: 14 gold, 22 silver, 29 bronze (65)
8. Republic of Korea: 13 gold, 9 silver, 10 bronze (32)
9. Italy: 12 gold, 13 silver, 15 bronze (40)
10. Germany: 12 gold, 13 silver, 8 bronze (33)

The United States ended with a total medal count of 126 at the Paris Olympics. Of those medals, 40 were gold medals. That was good enough to be the top country in total medals won and tied for first in gold medals won. It was also, according to the NBC broadcast, the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics that there was a tie in the gold medal count for first.

For the United States, that total number doesn’t come close to the country’s all-time record. That was set in the 1904 Olympic Games held in St. Louis. There, the Americans took home 231 total medals. That’s a record that may be unbreakable but the 2024 Olympics were good to the United States, winning the most medals overall since the 1984 Los Angeles Games when the Americans took home 174 total medals.

There was no doubt coming into the final day of the Olympics that the United States would win the overall medal count. However, there was a race for gold with the People’s Republic of China. It was a race the United States had its opportunities in women’s volleyball and wrestling but took away a pair of silvers there. That’s before Jennifer Valente won a gold in the women’s omnium, a cycling event, to add to the gold medal count.

Also on the final day of the Olympics, the United States opened with a gold medal match in women’s indoor volleyball that they lost against Italy, earning the team silver. Then, Kennedy Blades took silver in the Women’s Wrestling 76kg final. That’s what put so much emphasis on the women’s basketball team and the final gold medal count.

It ended up being a much closer game than expected, as France gave the United States its best effort. Still, the American team was able to overcome and hold on to win the gold medal. With that, Team USA won eight straight gold medals in women’s basketball and moved into first for the overall medal count.