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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The games were postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] A total of 11,417 athletes from 206 nations participated in 339 events in 33 sports across 50 different disciplines.[3]
2020 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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![]() The Japan National Stadium during the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||||
Location | Tokyo, ![]() | |||
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Most gold medals | ![]() | |||
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![Map displaying countries that won medals during 2020 Summer Olympics](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/2020_Summer_Olympics_medal_map.svg/640px-2020_Summer_Olympics_medal_map.svg.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 2020 Summer Olympics.
![Map displaying countries by number of medals won during 2020 Summer Olympics.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Countries_by_medals_2020_Summer_Olympics.svg/640px-Countries_by_medals_2020_Summer_Olympics.svg.png)
Overall, a record 93 nations received at least one medal, and 65 of them won at least one gold medal, which was also a record.[4][5] Athletes from the United States won the most medals overall, with 113 and the most gold medals, with 39.[6] Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals and 58 medals overall, making it their most successful Olympics performance.[7] The former tally surpassed the 16 gold medals won at both the 1964 and 2004 Summer Games; the latter result surpassed the 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics.[8]
American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the games with five.[9] Australian swimmer Emma McKeon won the greatest number of medals overall, winning seven in total.[10] As a result, she tied Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya's seven medals at the 1952 summer edition for most medals won at a single games by a female athlete.[11] Bermuda, Qatar, and the Philippines won their nation's first Olympic gold medals.[12] Burkina Faso, Turkmenistan and San Marino won their nation's first Olympic medals.[12] However, Turkmenistani athletes had previously competed as nationals of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union.[lower-alpha 2][13][14]