The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables.
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See also: List of 2012 Summer Olympics medal winners To date, 29 medals have been retroactively allocated, with Russia accounting for the majority of those medals stripped at 14. ĭuring 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. However, Serbian athletes had previously won gold medals as nationals of Yugoslavia. Taekwondo athlete Milica Mandić from Serbia won the first Olympic gold medal for that nation as an independent nation. Previously, Montenegrin athletes had competed as nationals of Serbia and Montenegro and of Yugoslavia. Bahrain, 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.
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Phelps also won the greatest number of medals overall winning six in total. Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin won the most gold medals at the games with four each. Host nation Great Britain won 29 gold medals and 65 overall medals making it the most successful Olympics performance for that nation since the 1908 edition. The latter record was the largest gold medal haul for that NOC at a non-US hosted Olympics at the time. Athletes from the United States won the most medals overall with 104 and the most gold medals with 47.
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Overall, 86 nations received at least one medal, and 55 of them won at least one gold medal. A total of 10,768 athletes from 204 nations participated in 302 events in 26 sports across 39 different disciplines. 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.