Date uploaded: 2021-08-08 16:52:23
Team USA finished the Tokyo Olympics with 113 overall medals to China's 88, including 39 golds — the most of any country.
Overall, U.S. women finished the Games with 66 medals to lead the team. They also delivered some of the memorable and iconic moments of the Olympics. The basketball team claimed its seventh consecutive gold, beating Japan on Sunday, while the water polo team won its third gold in a row and the volleyball team won its first.
Sunisa Lee became the fifth all-around Olympic champion in gymnastics and fourth consecutive for the Americans, following Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Nastia Liukin and Carly Patterson.
Molly Seidel became only the third American woman to medal in the marathon, claiming bronze.
And Allyson Felix – in her fifth Olympics and first since having her daughter in 2018 – claimed bronze in the 400 meters and gold in the 4x400 relay, giving her the 10th and 11th Olympic medals of her career.
During the Tokyo Olympics, three countries also claimed their first-ever Olympic medals – Burkina Faso, Turkmenistan and San Marino.
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