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The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, were 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.[1][2]
2012 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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Location | London, ![]() | |||
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![alt=Map displaying countries that won medals during 2014 Winter Olympics.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/2012_Summer_Olympics_medal_map.png/640px-2012_Summer_Olympics_medal_map.png)
Legend:
Gold represents countries that won at least one gold medal.
Silver represents countries that won at least one silver medal but no gold medals.
Bronze represents countries that won only at least one bronze medal.
Blue represents countries that did not win any medals.
Red represents entities that did not participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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 104 and the most gold medals with 46.[3] The latter record was the largest gold medal haul for that NOC at a non-US hosted Olympics at the time.[3] Host nation Great Britain[lower-alpha 1] won 29 gold medals and 65 overall medals making it the most successful Olympics performance for that nation since the 1908 edition.[5]
Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin won the most gold medals at the games with four each. Phelps also won the greatest number of medals overall winning six in total.[6] Bahrain,[lower-alpha 2] Botswana, Cyprus, Gabon, Grenada, Guatemala, and Montenegro all won their first Olympic medals with Bahrain and Grenada winning their nation's first Olympic gold medal.[1] Previously, Montenegrin athletes had competed as nationals of Serbia and Montenegro and of Yugoslavia.[8][lower-alpha 3] Taekwondo athlete Milica Mandić from Serbia won the first Olympic gold medal for that nation as an independent nation.[9] However, Serbian athletes had previously won gold medals as nationals of Yugoslavia.[10]
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.[11][12] To date, 28 medals have been retroactively allocated, with Russia accounting for the majority of those medals stripped at 14.[13]