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Succesful Olympic nations by sport

For each sport, give the country that won most medals in that sport. WARNING! USA not included, see below. The number of medals won by the country has been given.
Because the United States wins many medals in so many different sports, it has not been counted, same with the Soviet Union (current countries in the territory of the former Soviet Union have been included with their past-1992 medals). Where those countries have more medals than the country asked for, their number is given in the second column
This includes former countries (except the Soviet Union)
In a few cases two countries have the same largest number of medals. In those cases, either country is being considered correct
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Last updated: March 26, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 8, 2014
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sport
USA/USSR
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archery (43)
 
South Korea
athletics (210)
USA (827)
United Kingdom
badminton (47)
 
China
basketball (7)
USA (30), USSR (12)
Yugoslavia
boxing (78)
USA (117)
Cuba
canoeing (86)
 
Hungary
cycling (100)
 
United Kingdom
diving (81)
USA (141)
China
equestrianism (56)
 
Germany
fencing (130)
 
Italy
field hockey (18)
 
Netherlands
football (7)
 
Brazil
golf (3)
USA (13)
United Kingdom
gymnastics (103)
USSR (182), USA (117)
Japan
handball (5)
 
France
judo (96)
 
Japan
karate (4)
 
Turkey
modern pentathlon (23)
 
Hungary
rowing (70)
USA (89)
United Kingdom
rugby sevens (3)
 
Fiji, New Zealand
sailing (63)
 
United Kingdom
shooting (67)
USA (116)
China
skateboarding (5)
 
Japan
sport climbing (2)
 
Japan
swimming (212)
USA (578)
Australia
sport
USA/USSR
Answer
artistic swimming (14)
 
Japan
table tennis (60)
 
China
taekwondo (22)
 
South Korea
tennis (43)
 
United Kingdom
triathlon (8)
 
United Kingdom
volleyball (11)
USSR (12), USA (11)
Brazil
beach volleyball (13)
 
Brazil
water polo (16)
 
Hungary
weightlifting (62)
USSR (62)
China
wrestling (86)
USSR (138), USA (119)
Sweden
alpine skiing (128)
 
Austria
biathlon (55)
 
Norway
bobsleigh (32)
 
Germany
cross-country skiing (129)
 
Norway
ski jumping (36)
 
Norway
nordic combined (35)
 
Norway
curling (12)
 
Canada
figure skating (29)
USA (54)
Canada
freestyle skiing (30)
USA (33)
Canada
ice hockey (16)
 
Canada
luge (43)
 
Germany
snowboarding (17)
USA (35)
Canada
skeleton (9)
 
United Kingdom
speed skating (133)
 
Netherlands
short track speed skating (53)
 
South Korea
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Level 58
Feb 24, 2014
Medals from Sochi 2014 now included. One substantial change: Canada is not correct any more for figure skating. The others had just the number of medals changed.
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Level 58
Sep 15, 2015
Standard type-ins have been added.
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Level 58
Aug 25, 2016
The quiz has been changed for the Rio games. Apart from changes in numbers, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are now correct for triathlon; Japan is no longer correct for volleyball. Also the handball answer has been changed, but that is a correction: It seems that previously I used a medal table which only included the men's event.
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Level 58
Mar 26, 2022
The Tokyo and Beijing games have been added, resulting in various changes:

* cycling: was France, now UK

* shooting: was Sweden, now China

* biathlon: was Germany, now Norway

* bobsleigh: was Switzerland, now Germany

* figure skating: was Russia, now Canada

* snowboarding: was Switzerland, now Canada

* triathlon: was any of Australia, UK and Switzerland, now only UK is correct

Also handball has been changed from South Korea to France, but I don't understand how I could ever have put South Korea there in the first place...

Also karate, rugby sevens, skateboarding and rock climbing have been added.