The 16 action-packed days of Tokyo 2020 have flown by.
We’ve had superb sporting drama, new heroes emerging, world records broken and plenty of history made.
So what are the stats to savour from this Olympic Games? BBC Sport and Nielsen Gracenote take a look…
The United States top the medal table for the sixth time in seven Olympic Games. At all seven, they have won the most medals.
Japan’s third place in the medal table – with 58 medals including 27 gold – is the country’s joint best with Tokyo 1964 when hosting and Mexico 1968.
Great Britain finished second in Rio 2016 and third in London 2012. However, this is Team GB’s second best performance at an overseas Olympics, after Rio (67 medals).
The rest
Australia return to the top six of the medal table for the first time since Beijing 2008.
Outside the top six countries, Italy had their best ever Summer Games with 40 medals, as did the Netherlands (36 medals), New Zealand (20 medals) and Brazil (21 medals). The Brazilians repeated Great Britain’s feat of improving on their medal total at the Olympics immediately after hosting.
Germany did not finish in the top six of the medal table for the first time since re-unification of East and West Germany in 1990. The last time there was no German team in the top six of the medal table was at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
Norway’s Karsten Warholm ran an astonishing 45.94 second men’s 400m hurdles race to obliterate his previous world record and take gold at Tokyo 2020, in one of the moments of the Games. And Britain’s history-making swimming team set a new world record time in the 4x100m mixed medley relay.
But despite some pre-Games concern over shoe technology having too much sway in athletics especially, there were fewer records set in Japan.
Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis at Nielsen Gracenote, said: “The 22 world records broken in Tokyo is down on the 27 in Rio five years ago despite the addition of another sport, sport climbing, in which records can be broken. In weightlifting only four world records went – three to the same person Georgian super-heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze – compared to eight in Rio.
Source: BBc
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