Paris Olympics 2024: United States, China expected to win most medals, with hosts France set to triple gold-medal bounty
- The US and China are projected to win 123 and 89 medals overall, respectively, and to finish 1-2 as they did at the previous Olympics in Tokyo
- The forecast was by Gracenote Sports, which supplies statistics for sports leagues and also tracks major competitions leading up to the Games
The United States and China are expected to finish 1-2 in the gold and the overall medal counts at the Paris Olympics, which open in 100 days.
The United States is projected to win 123 medals overall, including 39 golds. China is projected to win 35 gold and 89 medals overall. The two also finished 1-2 in both categories three years ago in the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics.
This forecast was done by Nielsen’s Gracenote Sports, which supplies statistical analysis for sports leagues around the world. It also tracks major competitions involving Olympic sports leading up to the Games.
Gracenote’s rankings are based on overall medals won, although others focus the rankings on gold totals.
China, the last country apart from the US to top the medal table, will retain second place with 35 gold medals, while Britain, Au stralia and Japan will win the fourth highest number of gold medals with 13 apiece, Gracenote predicts.
This would be the eighth straight time the United States have won the most medals overall in the Summer Games. In 1992 at Barcelona, the so-called Unified team topped the overall count. Those athletes were from the former Soviet Union, which had just broken up as a sovereign state.
