Final Medal Count in Rio Olympics 2016

The United States owned the 2016 Summer Olympics. Americans dominated the medal table in Rio de Janeiro, tallying up 121 medals to essentially lap the rest of the field in the world’s biggest sporting gala.

Sunday’s men’s basketball blowout was the icing on the cake for Team USA. Carmelo Anthony earned his third gold medal and fourth overall by leading a team stocked with NBA talent to a 96-66 win over Serbia. Before that, the Americans made history in the Games’ final combat events.

Great Britain have secured second place in the Olympic medal table at the Rio Games after it was confirmed that China could no longer win enough gold medals to overtake them, with Team GB already surpassing their record haul at any Games after surging past the 65 medal count achieved at London 2012.