Final Olympic medal count 2016: Men's basketball win finalizes USA's gold medal rout

Source: www.sbnation.com --- Sunday, August 21, 2016
With 121 podium placements, no other country came within 50 medals of the United States. It's official; the United States owned the 2016 Summer Olympics. Americans dominated the medal table in Rio de Janeiro, tallying up 121 medals to essentially lap the rest of the field in the world's biggest sporting gala. Sunday's men's Basketball blowout was the icing on the cake for Team USA. Carmelo Anthony earned his third gold medal and fourth overall by leading a team stocked with NBA talent  to a 96-66 win over Serbia . Before that, the Americans made history in the Games' final combat events. Claressa Shields made history by  becoming the only boxer in the nation's history to defend her gold medal by dominating the Netherlands Nouchka Fontijn. Kyle Snyder  became the youngest U.S. wrestler to stand atop the podium when he won the 97kg freestyle crown by defeating Azerbaijan's Khetag Gazyumov. Those efforts led to 46 gold medals at the XXXI Olympiad. Those American golds included: The country's first-ever medals in the 1500m race ( gold for Matthew Centrowitz Jr. , bronze for Jenny Simpson ) Pretty much everything Michael Phelps did ( five golds, one silver ) The Games' first gold medal, won by the extremely metal-named Virginia Thrasher in shooting Pretty much everything Katie Ledecky did ( four golds, one silver ) Kayla Harrison's continued quest  to obliterate any woman bold enough to step in front of her on the judo mat Pretty much ...

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