Summer Olympics: Men's 100m medal table 1896-2020

The United States is, by far, the most successful nation in the history of the Men's 100 meter sprint at the Olympic Games. Since 1896, athletes from the United States have won this event 16 out of 29 times, taking home a total of 40 medals. Following the U.S., Jamaica and Great Britain have won three golds each, and eight medals overall. Jamaica's Usain Bolt is the most successful athlete in the event, with three 100m gold medals to his name. Only one medallist from this event has ever been stripped of their medal, and that was Canada's Ben Johnson in 1988, in one of the biggest doping scandals in sporting history.

Medal count by country in the Men's 100m at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020

Country/Intenational Olympic Committee	Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States	16	15	9
Great Britain	3	2	3
Jamaica	3	4	1
Canada	2	-	5
Trinidad and Tobago	1	2	1
Germany*	1	1	2
Soviet Union**	1	-	1
Italy	1	-	-
South Africa	1	-	-
Cuba	-	2	-
Namibia	-	2	-
Portugal	-	1	-
Australia	-	-	2
Barbados	-	-	1
Bulgaria	-	-	1
Hungary	-	-	1
Netherlands	-	-	1
Panama	-	-	1

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Release date

August 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

1896 to 2021

Supplementary notes

*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes medals won by the United Team of Germany (1956-1964), but does not include East or West Germany.

This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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