2012 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, was a summer multi-sport event held in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August. A total of 10,768 athletes from 204 nations participated in 302 events in 26 sports across 39 different disciplines.
Overall, 86 nations received at least one medal, and 55 of them won at least one gold medal. Athletes from the United States won the most medals overall, with 105, and the most gold medals, with 48. The latter record is the largest gold medal haul for the country at a non-US-hosted Olympics. Host nation Great Britain won 29 gold medals and 65 overall medals, making it the most successful Olympics performance for that nation since the 1908 edition.
Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin won the most gold medals at the Games with four each. Phelps also won the highest number of medals overall, winning six in total. Bahrain, Botswana, Cyprus, Gabon, Grenada, Guatemala, and Montenegro all won their first Olympic medals, with Bahrain and Grenada as well as Serbia winning their nation's first Olympic gold medal. Previously, Montenegrin athletes had competed as nationals of Serbia and Montenegro and of Yugoslavia. Taekwondo athlete Milica Mandić from Serbia won the first Olympic gold medal as an independent nation.
During and after the Games, many athletes who were caught doping, or tested positive for banned substances, were disqualified from competition and had their medals revoked. To date, 42 medals have been stripped, with Russia accounting for 19 of those.
Medal table
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals. If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.In boxing, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling, two bronze medals are awarded in each weight class. Two silver medals were awarded for second-place ties in both the men's 200 metre freestyle swimming and the men's 100 metre butterfly swimming events. Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's keirin cycling race; three bronze medals were awarded for a three-way third-place tie in the men's high jump.
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Changes in medal standings
Changes in medal standings
On 29 August 2016, a report indicated that a retested sample for Besik Kudukhov of Russia, the silver medallist in the men's 60 kg freestyle wrestling event, had returned a positive result. Kudukhov died in a car crash in December 2013. On 27 October 2016, the International Olympic Committee dropped all disciplinary proceedings against Kudukhov, stating that such proceedings cannot be conducted against a deceased person.;Key
Disqualified athlete
| Ruling date | Sport/Event | Athlete | Total | Notes | |||
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