The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5 to 21, 2016. U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which they boycotted in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. For the second consecutive time in the Summer Olympics, the United States was represented by more female than male athletes (264 men and 291 women).
The 2016 Olympics were the third most successful for the United States in terms of overall medal count (121) and the most successful not held in the United States: U.S. athletes won 231 total medals at St. Louis in 1904 and 174 at Los Angeles in 1984. These Games also witnessed the thousandth Summer Olympic gold medal for the Americans.
Medalists
The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
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Medal Name Sport Event Date ShootingWomen's 10 m air rifle Caeleb DresselAnthony ErvinJimmy FeigenRyan HeldMichael PhelpsBlake PieroniSwimmingMen's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay SwimmingWomen's 400 m freestyle SwimmingMen's 100 m backstroke Swimming Women's 100 m breaststroke Gabby DouglasLaurie HernandezMadison KocianAly RaismanGymnastics Women's artistic team all-around SwimmingMen's 200 m butterfly Jack CongerConor DwyerTownley HaasRyan LochteMichael PhelpsClark SmithSwimmingMen's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay Swimming Women's 200 m freestyle CyclingWomen's time trial Missy FranklinKatie LedeckyMelanie MargalisCierra RungeAllison SchmittLeah SmithSwimmingWomen's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay GymnasticsWomen's artistic individual all-around JudoWomen's 78 kg SwimmingMen's 200 m backstroke SwimmingMen's 200 m individual medley SwimmingWomen's 100 m freestyle AthleticsWomen's shot put SwimmingMen's 50 m freestyle SwimmingWomen's 800 m freestyle Swimming Women's 200 m backstroke Athletics Men's long jump Tessa GobboElle LoganMeghan MusnickiAmanda PolkEmily ReganLauren SchmetterlingKerry SimmondsKatelin SnyderRowing Women's eight Kevin CordesCaeleb DresselCody MillerRyan MurphyMichael PhelpsDavid PlummerTom ShieldsSwimmingMen's 4 × 100 m medley relay Lilly KingSimone ManuelKatie MeiliOlivia SmoligaDana VollmerAbbey WeitzeilKelsi Worrell SwimmingWomen's 4 × 100 m medley relay GymnasticsWomen's vault Jack SockTennis Mixed doubles AthleticsMen's triple jump GymnasticsWomen's floor AthleticsWomen's 100 m hurdles AthleticsWomen's long jump AthleticsMen's 400 m hurdles AthleticsMen's shot put AthleticsMen's decathlon AthleticsWomen's 400 m hurdles WrestlingWomen's freestyle 53 kg Tianna BartolettaTori BowieAllyson FelixEnglish Gardner AthleticsWomen's 4 × 100 m relay CyclingMen's BMX Water polo Women's tournament Athletics Men's 1500 m Arman HallTony McQuayLaShawn MerrittGil RobertsDavid VerburgAthleticsMen's 4 × 400 m relay Allyson FelixPhyllis FrancisNatasha HastingsFrancena McCororyCourtney OkoloAthleticsWomen's 4 × 400 m relay BasketballWomen's tournament TriathlonWomen's BasketballMen's tournament BoxingWomen's middleweight WrestlingMen's freestyle 97 kg Zach GarrettJake KaminskiArcheryMen's team Swimming Men's 400 m individual medley Swimming Women's 400 m individual medley Simone ManuelLia NealAllison SchmittDana VollmerAmanda WeirAbbey WeitzeilSwimmingWomen's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay FencingMen's foil Steele JohnsonDivingMen's synchronized 10 m platform SwimmingWomen's 100 m backstroke JudoMen's 81 kg Michael HixonDivingMen's 3 m synchronized springboard FencingMen's sabre SwimmingMen's 200 m breaststroke GymnasticsWomen's artistic individual all-around SwimmingMen's 100 m butterfly AthleticsWomen's 100 m Chloé DygertSarah HammerJennifer ValenteCyclingWomen's team pursuit RowingWomen's single sculls SwimmingMen's 1500 m freestyle SwimmingWomen's 50 m freestyle AthleticsMen's 100 m GymnasticsWomen's uneven bars Venus WilliamsTennisMixed doubles AthleticsWomen's 400 m GymnasticsWomen's balance beam AthleticsMen's triple jump CyclingWomen's omnium GymnasticsMen's parallel bars Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar GymnasticsWomen's floor AthleticsMen's 3000 m steeplechase AthleticsWomen's 100 m hurdles AthleticsWomen's long jump Kent FarringtonBeezie MaddenMcLain WardEquestrianTeam jumping AthleticsMen's shot put AthleticsWomen's pole vault CyclingWomen's BMX AthleticsMen's 5000 m BoxingMen's bantamweight ShootingWomen's trap SwimmingMen's 100 m breaststroke SwimmingWomen's 400 m freestyle SwimmingWomen's 100 m butterfly SwimmingMen's 200 m freestyle SwimmingMen's 100 m backstroke SwimmingWomen's 100 m breaststroke EquestrianIndividual eventing SwimmingWomen's 200 m individual medley SwimmingMen's 100 m freestyle ArcheryMen's individual BoxingMen's light flyweight Laura GravesKasey Perry-GlassSteffen PetersEquestrianTeam dressage Race ImbodenAlexander MassialasGerek MeinhardtFencingMen's team foil ShootingWomen's skeet SwimmingMen's 50 m freestyle Jack SockTennisMen's doubles Ibtihaj MuhammadDagmara WozniakMariel ZagunisFencingWomen's team sabre AthleticsMen's 400 m GolfMen's GymnasticsMen's pommel horse WeightliftingWomen's +75 kg AthleticsMen's 800 m Athletics Men's pole vault Athletics Women's 3000 m steeplechase GymnasticsWomen's balance beam AthleticsWomen's 1500 m SailingMen's Finn AthleticsWomen's 200 m AthleticsWomen's 100 m hurdles Kerri Walsh JenningsVolleyballWomen's beach AthleticsWomen's 400 m hurdles DivingMen's 10 m platform TaekwondoWomen's +67 kg Volleyball Women's indoor tournament WrestlingMen's freestyle 86 kg AthleticsMen's marathon VolleyballMen's indoor tournament | style="text-align:left; width:22%; vertical-align:top;"|
+Medals by sportSportTotalSwimming168933Athletics 13 10 932Gymnastics 4 6 212Cycling 2 3 05Wrestling 2 0 13Basketball 2 0 02Boxing 1 1 13Tennis 1 1 13Judo 1 1 02Rowing 1 1 02Shooting 1 0 23Triathlon 1 0 01Water polo 1 0 01Fencing 0 2 24Diving 0 2 13Equestrian 0 1 23Archery 0 1 12Volleyball 0 0 33Golf 0 0 11Sailing 0 0 11Taekwondo 0 0 11Weightlifting 0 0 11Total463738121
+Medals by dayDayDateTotal1August 6 1 4 052August 7 2 1 473August 8 2 2 374August 9 4 1 275August 10 2 3 166August 11 5 1 067August 12 4 1 7128August 13 4 5 1109August 14 2 3 4910August 15 0 2 4611August 16 2 5 2912August 17 2 4 3913August 18 5 1 1714August 19 3 2 0515August 20 5 2 41116August 21 3 0 25Total463738121
+Medals by genderGenderTotalPercentageFemale2717176150.4%Male1818205646.3%Mixed12143.3%Total463738121100%
+Multiple medalistsNameSportTotalMichael PhelpsSwimming 5 1 06Katie LedeckySwimming 4 1 05Simone BilesGymnastics 4 0 15Simone ManuelSwimming 2 2 04Maya DiRadoSwimming 2 1 14Nathan AdrianSwimming 2 0 24Ryan MurphySwimming 3 0 03Allyson FelixAthletics 2 1 03Aly RaismanGymnastics 1 2 03Tori BowieAthletics 1 1 13Dana VollmerSwimming 1 1 13Tianna BartolettaAthletics 2 0 02Anthony ErvinSwimming 2 0 02Caeleb DresselSwimming 2 0 02Kathleen BakerSwimming 1 1 02Laurie HernandezGymnastics 1 1 02Madison KocianGymnastics 1 1 02 Allison SchmittSwimming 1 1 02Abbey WeitzeilSwimming 1 1 02Conor DwyerSwimming 1 0 12Katie MeiliSwimming 1 0 12LaShawn MerrittAthletics 1 0 12Cody MillerSwimming 1 0 12David PlummerSwimming 1 0 12Jack SockTennis 1 0 12Leah SmithSwimming 1 0 12Sarah HammerCycling 0 2 02Danell LeyvaGymnastics 0 2 02David BoudiaDiving 0 1 12Brady EllisonArchery 0 1 12Alexander MassialasFencing 0 1 12
Athletes who participated in preliminary rounds but not the final round.
Competitors
| width=78% align=left valign=top | The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in field hockey, football, and handball are not counted: SportMenWomenTotalArchery 3 1 4Athletics (track & field) 64 64 128Badminton 3 4 7Basketball 12 12 24Boxing 6 2 8Canoeing 3 2 5Cycling 8 12 20Diving 5 5 10Equestrian 6 6 12Fencing 7 9 16Field hockey 0 16 16Football (soccer) 0 18 18Golf 4 3 7Gymnastics 6 12 18Judo 3 3 6Modern pentathlon 1 2 3Rowing 21 20 41Rugby sevens 12 12 24Sailing 8 7 15Shooting 13 7 20Swimming 25 22 47Synchronized swimming — 2 2Table tennis 3 3 6Taekwondo 2 2 4Tennis 5 6 11Triathlon 3 3 6Volleyball 16 16 32Water polo 13 13 26Weightlifting 1 3 4Wrestling 10 4 14 Total 263 291 554
Archery
Three U.S. archers qualified for the men's events after having secured a top eight finish in the men's team recurve at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Another U.S. archer also qualified for the women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the same tournament.
AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / ScoreSeedOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankBrady EllisonMen's individual6902W 6–0W 6–2W 6–4W 6–2L 5–6W 6–2Zach Garrett67415W 6–0W 7–3L 4–6did not advanceJake Kaminski66031W 6–4L 2–6did not advanceBrady EllisonZach GarrettJake KaminskiMen's team20242colspan=2 W 6–2W 6–0L 0–6Mackenzie BrownWomen's individual64119W 6–4L 3–7did not advance
Athletics (track and field)
U.S. athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event). The team was selected based on the results of the 2016 United States Olympic Trials (July 1 to 10).
Six marathon runners (three per gender) were the first set of U.S. track and field athletes selected for the Games by virtue of their top three finish at the Olympic Team Trials in Los Angeles on February 13, 2016. One week later in Santee, California, three-time Olympian John Nunn joined them on the team by winning the men's walk trials under the entry standard (4:06:00).
Two female race walkers (Michta-Coffey and Melville) were added to the U.S. track and field team by finishing among the top two within the qualifying standard (1:36:00) in the walk at the first day of the Olympic Team Trials in Salem, Oregon. Meanwhile, Nunn won the men's race (1:25:37), but failed to achieve the entry standard of 1:24:00.
Following the completion of the Olympic Trials, a total of 126 athletes (61 men and 65 women) were named to the U.S. track and field team for the Games, with Bernard Lagat running in the long-distance at his fifth Olympics and hurdler Sydney McLaughlin establishing herself as the youngest (aged 16) in four decades. Apart from Lagat and McLaughlin, the U.S. team also featured six Olympic champions: sprinters Justin Gatlin (2004), LaShawn Merritt (2008), and Allyson Felix (2012), long jumper Brittney Reese, decathlete and world record holder Ashton Eaton, and triple jumper Christian Taylor. Hammer throwers Kibwe Johnson, Conor McCullough, and Rudy Winkler were added to the team on July 14, after the IAAF extended invitations to fill out the event.
On August 16, with about 2000 meters to go in a qualifying heat for the women's 5000 meter race at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Abbey D'Agostino tripped over Nikki Hamblin who had fallen in front of her. Instead of immediately continuing the race, she first helped Hamblin up, encouraging her not to quit. Accessible only in US D'Agostino herself, however, had torn her ACL and meniscus. Despite her obvious pain, she nevertheless finished the race, after which she and Hamblin embraced. D'Agostino, Hamblin and Jennifer Wenth were advanced to the final because of the incident, but D'Agostino wasn't able to compete because of her injuries. On August 20, for their actions at the Rio Olympics, D'Agostino and Hamblin received Fair Play awards from The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP), with the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Track & road events Men