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In the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, the university with the most Olympic medals in the U.S. was Stanford University (26 medals), followed by the University of Southern California (21 medals), the University of Florida (17 medals), UCLA (16 medals) and UC Berkeley (16 medals).
The following medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and one non-NOC team ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016.
Changes in medals. On 18 August 2016, Kyrgyz weightlifter Izzat Artykov was stripped of his bronze medal in the men's 69 kg event after testing positive for strychnine. Luis Javier Mosquera of Colombia, who had been the fourth-place finisher before Artykov's disqualification, was moved into third place.
Katelyn Michelle Ohashi (born April 12, 1997) is an American [1] who competed for the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a six-time All-American and was a four-time member of USA Gymnastics ' Junior National Team, the 2011 junior national champion, [2] and the winner of the 2013 American Cup.
- 1932 Olympics. UCLA. No one believed Los Angeles would make good on its promise to host the 10th Summer Olympics at the height of the Great Depression. And in 1932, UCLA had just moved to its new Westwood campus.
- Florence Griffith Joyner. UCLA Athletics. Gold medal-winning sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, who attended UCLA in the early 80s, is remembered almost as much for her sense of style as she is for shattering world records.
- Jackie Robinson. UCLA. The Olympian who wasn’t. At UCLA, Jackie Robinson was the first person to letter in four varsity sports in a single year and he later famously broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation. A 1986 graduate, Jackie Joyner-Kersee is considered one of America’s greatest Olympians, having won three gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals over four Olympics.
Jul 22, 2016 · July 22, 2016. Mallory Pugh and Samantha Mewis. This August, 36 athletes and coaches with UCLA affiliations will take part in the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These 2016 Olympians include former UCLA Bruins competitors, coaches and other alumni, along with seven current students and incoming freshmen.
The United States topped the medal table, winning the most gold medals (46) and the highest number of medals overall (121); the US team also won its 1,000th Summer Olympic gold medal overall. Great Britain finished second and became the first country to increase its tally of medals in the Olympiad immediately after being host nation in 2012 . [6]
