Olympic Medals By Year. The charts below show all the places a country might land on a medals table, given different ways of measuring the relative worth of a gold medal to a silver, and a. Gold medallist gail devers from the united states, second placed silver medallist merlene ottey jamaica and third placed bronze medallist gwen torrence from the united states.
The number and range of sports on the olympic program has varied over time, and therefore so has the number of medals. It contains all records since athens 1896 and is searchable by olympic games, sports and events.