Rio Olympics 2016

Question: In the recently concluded Rio Olympics-2016, which of the following player has scored the most individual medals?
(a) Usain Bolt
(b) Michael Phelps
(c) Rafaela Silva
(d) Katie Ledecky
Ans: (b)
Related facts:

• The 2016 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016 was a major international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 August to 21 August 2016.
• In November 2014 Vinicius and Tom are announced as the official mascots of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics respectively in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• More than 11,000 athletes from 207 National Olympic Committees, including first time entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee, took part.
• With 306 sets of medals, the games featured 28 Olympic sports.
  

  India at the Rio Olympics 2016

   

• The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) had sent a total of 123 athletes.
• This was the nation’s largest ever delegation in Summer Olympic history.
• Badminton player P V Sindhu won historic silver medal in women’s singles badminton event.
• With this, she became the first Indian woman to clinch a silver medal in Olympics.
• Sindhu become the fifth female athlete from India to a medal in Olympics.
• Wrestler Sakshi Malik secured a bronze in the 58 kg category to become India’s first female wrestler to win an Olympic medal.
• Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian female ever to book an Olympic spot in the apparatus events and all-around event at the Olympic Test Event.
• Indian athletes have won a total of 28 medals so far, all at the Olympic Games

Michael Phelps

• Michael Phelps has won the most individual medals including 5 Gold and 1 silver.
• Phelps was chosen as the American flag bearer at the opening ceremony, the first Olympic opening ceremony that he would attend.
• He is 18-time Olympic gold medalist, who currently holds seven world records in swimming.
• He is the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals 23 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.
• Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13).
• In his first event on August 7, the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, he won his first gold medal of the 2016 Games and his 19th Olympic gold medal overall.
• In his second event on August 9, the 200-meter butterfly, he became the first swimmer in history to make five finals in the same event, after finishing 5th in 2000, 1st in 2004 and 2008, and 2nd in 2012.
• On August 9, Phelps won his 21st gold medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay together with Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, and Ryan Lochte.
• On August 11, Phelps won his 22nd gold medal in the 200 m individual medley.
• On August 13, in the 4 × 100-meter medley relay, Phelps ended his career with another gold medal, his 23rd at the Olympics and his 28th medal overall.
• Katie Ledecky won the second highest number of medals in the Oylmpics.
• She won a total of 5 medals including 4 gold and 1 silver medal.
• At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bolt won the 100 metres gold medal with a time of 9.81 seconds. With this win, Bolt became the first athlete to win the event three times at the Olympic Games.
• He also won the gold medal in the 200 m, which also makes him the first athlete to win the 200 m three times at the Olympic Games.
• With the winning 4 x 100 m relay and he secured his third consecutive gold medal in the event.
• With that win, Bolt obtained the “triple-triple”, three sprinting gold medals in three consecutive Olympics.
  

  2016-Summer Olympics medal table

  Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
  1	United States (USA)	46	37	38	121
  2	Great Britain (GBR)	27	23	17	67
  3	China (CHN)	26	18	26	70
  4	Russia (RUS)	19	18	19	56
  5	Germany (GER)	17	10	15	42
  6	Japan (JPN)	12	8	21	41
  7	France (FRA)	10	18	14	42
  8	South Korea (KOR)	9	3	9	21
  9	Italy (ITA)	8	12	8	28
  10	Australia (AUS)	8	11	10	29

• Indian bagged a total of two medals, one silver and one bronze, in the games, and stood at the 67th place in the medal tally.

• The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

Reference:
https://www.rio2016.com/en/medal-count-country
https://www.rio2016.com/en/medal-count-athletes
http://www.olympic.ind.in/images/Athletes-qualified-India-Rio-2016.pdf
https://www.rio2016.com/en/search-athletes?q=&c=India