Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Updated Tally, Winners List After Saturday's Results
The 2016 Olympic Games feature 12 medal events across seven sports on Saturday, ensuring there is no time wasted when it comes to handing out hardware.
Archery, cycling, fencing, judo, shooting, swimming and weightlifting are all in the spotlight for the first full day of competition in Rio de Janeiro. This is the moment these athletes have worked their entire life for, dialing up the intensity to a level few people in the world will ever experience.
Here's the full medal count as things stand, along with a look at the winners from each event as they go final:
Men's Cycling
| Gold | Greg Van Avermaet | Belgium | 6:10.05 |
| Silver | Jakob Fuglsang | Denmark | 6:10.05 |
| Bronze | Rafal Majka | Poland | 6:10.10 |
Greg Van Avermaet ended a 20-year gold medal drought for Belgium's male athletes when he won the crash-riddled 150-mile road race on Saturday.
Julie DiCaro of 670 The Score summed up the race perfectly:
The 31-year-old Van Avermaet was in a close battle with Jakob Fuglsang and Rafal Majka over the final 500 meters. Van Avermaet just pulled ahead during the late spring to secure his victory, leaving Fuglsang to settle for a silver medal.
Neal Rogers of Cycling Tips noted the apparent strategy that Van Avermaet and Fuglsang devised as they were making their move:
Majka was leading late coming out of a crash that wiped out a lot of the top group with about 7.5 miles left, including Vincenzo Nibali and Sergio Henao. There was a group of five riders chasing Majka late, so there was a lot of work remaining that his legs just couldn't finish because of the grueling grind such a long race has on the body.
The first two medal events at the Olympics saw a 19-year-old American set a new Olympic record in shooting and a wild finish to end Belgium's long gold-medal drought. There's still two weeks remaining, so the drama is going to be off the charts in Rio.
Women's Shooting
| Gold | Virginia Thrasher | United States | 208.0 (Olympic Record) |
| Silver | Du Li | China | 207.0 |
| Bronze | Yi Siling | China | 185.4 |
The United States captured the first gold medal of the 2016 Olympics thanks to an outstanding effort from 19-year-old Virginia Thrasher in the women's 10-meter air rifle event.
Per ESPN's Paul Carr, Thrasher is the third-youngest American to medal in a shooting event. The event was a battle between Thrasher and China's Du Li, who came within one point of matching the West Virginia star's Olympic record score of 208.
West Virginia's rifle team tweeted out a picture of Thrasher with her medal and a note of congratulations on her monumental victory:
If Thrasher had any nerves going into the final round against Li, she did not show them. Her first shot was a bullseye that earned her 10.9 points.
Fellow American Olympian Lolo Jones tweeted out congratulations to Thrasher for getting the U.S. off to a strong start in these games:
While USA was able to take the gold-medal glory thanks to Thrasher, China did take the very-early lead in the overall medal count thanks to Li claiming a silver and her fellow countrywoman Yi Siling capturing a bronze.
Li looked like the favorite coming out of qualifying earlier in the day with an Olympic record 420.7 points. The 34-year-old won gold in this event 12 years ago but had to settle for a silver this time around because Thrasher was on point in the finals.
Men's Archery
| Gold Medal Match | South Korea | 6-0 | United States |
| Bronze Medal Match | Australia | 6-2 | China |
South Korea was as unbeatable as a team on the Olympic stage could be. They swept both points in each set to reel off a 6-0 victory where they were near perfect in nearly every frame.
With six shots per set, the highest score a team could attain per shot is 10, meaning the maximum score is 60. In its three sets, South Korea reeled off scores of 60, 58 and 59.
Kim Woo-jin capped off a world record performance in the final, as his 72-arrow Olympics yielded a score of 700 points, per BBC.com.
Women's Fencing: Individual Epee
| Gold | Emese Szasz | Hungary |
| Silver | Rosella Fiamingo | Italy |
| Bronze | Yiwen Sun | China |
The third-oldest fencer in the field took home the gold as Hungarian Emese Szasz edged Italy's Rosella Fiamingo 15-13 in the final match.
The FIE showed the 33-year-old on the podium with Rosella and bronze medalist Yiwen Sun:
Sun won her medal in a 15-13 decision over France's Lauren Rembi.
Judo: Women's 48kg
| Medal | Fighter | Country |
| Gold | Paula Pareto | Argentina |
| Silver | Bokyeong Jeong | South Korea |
| Bronze | Ami Kondo | Japan |
| Bronze | Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh | Kazakhstan |
Brazil's biggest rival Argentina took gold before the hosts did on Saturday as Paula Pareto took home the country's first-ever gold medal in Judo.
She defeated South Korea's Bokyeong Jeong 10s2-0.
Judo: Men's 60kg
| Gold | Beslan Mudranov | Russia |
| Silver | Yeldos Smetov | Kazahkstan |
| Bronze | Diyorbek Urozboev | Uzbekistan |
| Bronze | Orkhan Safarov | Azerbaijan |
While judo might not be the most popular sport at the Olympics, Russia's Beslan Mudranov saw his fame grow, via Google Trends:
His victory over Kazahkstan's Yeldos Smetov provided Russia with its first gold medal of the Olympics as the country will be under the watchful eye of the IOC throughout the Games due to their problems with performance enhancing drugs.
Men's 10m Air Pistol
| Gold | Xuan Vinh Hoang | Vietnam | 202.5 (FOR) |
| Silver | Felipe Almeida Wu | Brazil | 202.1 |
| Bronze | Wei Pang | China | 180.4 |
Xuan Vinh Hoang earned the first gold medal ever for Vietnam by putting up a final Olympic record score of 202.5.
For the country, it was a six-decade wait that finally came to an end thanks to Hoang's heroics.
He put up scores of at least 19.1 or higher in each of his final seven series in Stage No. 2 as it was just enough to edge Brazil's Felipe Almeida Wu.
The top-two medalists were by far and away the class of the event as their scores were at least 22 points better than the third-place Wei Pang of China.
Men's 400M Individual Medley
| Gold | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 4:06.05 |
| Silver | Chase Kalisz | United States | 4:06.75 |
| Bronze | Daiya Seto | Japan | 4:09.71 |
Japan's Kosuke Hagino finished in third place four years ago in this same event at the London Summer Games.
On Saturday night, he got his gold as he held off the charging American Chase Kalisz, who does his training with Michael Phelps.
NBC Olympics showed the final portion of the race:
The medley is a race that features four styles of swimming in the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Under the 400-meter format, swimmers were required to do each style for two laps each.
Men's 400M Freestyle
| Gold | Mack Horton | Australia | 3:41.55 |
| Silver | Yang Sun | China | 3:41.68 |
| Bronze | Gabriele Detti | Italy | 3:43.49 |
Australia's Mack Horton was just able to ward off China's Sun Yang, who won gold in London 2012, winning gold by 0.13 seconds.
The race was largely dominated by Great Britain's James Guy, who led for 300 of a possible 400 meters.
But after the 300-meter turn, he began to fade as Guy and Yang quickly overtook him. Neither swimmer took a lead more than a neck in the final 100 meters.
The United States featured two swimmers, but Conor Dwyer and Connor Jaeger could only muster a fourth and fifth place finish.
Women's 400M Individual Medley
| Gold | Katinka Hosszu | Hungary | 4:26.36 (WR) |
| Silver | Maya DiRado | United States | 4:31.15 |
| Bronze | Mireia Belmonte Garcia | Spain | 4:32.39 |
There's a reason why Katinka Hosszu is known as the "Iron Lady." On Saturday night in the women's 400M individual medley, Hosszu put on a world-record showing on her way to gold with a time of 4:26.36.
While the United States' Maya DiRado might have put on a strong showing in her silver-medal performance, she had not shot at catching Hosszu, per Nick Zaccardi of NBC:
Hosszu was close to setting the world record earlier on Saturday during her preliminary heat, but she finished just 0.15 seconds off of the mark.
Women's 4x100M Freestyle Relay
| Gold | Australia | 3:30.65 (WR) |
| Silver | United States | 3:31.89 |
| Bronze | Canada | 3:32.89 |
For a second-straight medal event, the United States was denied a gold medal due to a world record-breaking performance.
This time in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay, it was Australia to put on a dominant showing.
Its four racers, Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell and Cate Campbell, recorded times under 54 seconds in each of their 100 meters, making them impossible to catch.
Women's Weightlifting 48kg
| Gold | Sopita Tanasan | Thailand | 200 |
| Silver | Sri Wahyuni Agustiani | Indonesia | 192 |
| Bronze | Hiromi Miyake | Japan | 188 |
Thailand's Sopita Tanasan might be just 21 years old, but she was beyond her years on weightlifting's biggest stage on Saturday.
In an event that combines the top scores of the snatch along with the clean and jerk, Tanasan laid her claim for gold down early.
She was the only lifter to snatch more than 90kg in the opening round, which helped her open up a seven-point lead heading into the clean and jerk portion of the event.
In the second round, she put up another 108kg on the clean and jerk, which built her lead to as many as nine. In a last-ditch effort to take the gold away from Tanasan, Indonesia's Sri Wahyuni Agustiani went for a clean and jerk of 115kg, which was just two kilograms off of the Olympic record, but she was unable to lift it in two attempts.
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