Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Final Updates on Medal Standings for Each Nation
After 16 days in Rio de Janeiro, the 2016 Olympics come to an end Sunday. Eight sports are left to crown medal winners, and the last day will determine the three nations with the most total medals.
Men's basketball, the men's marathon and rhythmic gymnastics are among the marquee events taking place.
Before Rio closes out a memorable two weeks of Olympic action, here are the updated medal standings and results from each event as they go final.
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Medal Count
Men's Basketball
| Gold | United States |
| Silver | Serbia |
| Bronze | Spain |
The United States saved its best performance in men's basketball for the end, defeating Serbia 96-66 to secure the country's third straight Olympic gold medal and 15th overall.
Kevin Durant led Team USA with 30 points on 10-of-19 shooting. DeMarcus Cousins was a wizard on the glass with 15 rebounds, including six offensive boards.
The U.S. defense continued its excellent performance throughout these Olympics, holding Serbia to just 38.2 percent shooting, including 4-of-24 from three-point range.
With the win, Carmelo Anthony became the first men's basketball player to earn three Olympic gold medals. He also declared that this is his last go-round in the Olympics, via NBC Olympics:
The game of the day, however, was earlier with Spain squeaking by Australia, 89-88 to earn the bronze medal.
There were at least 14 lead changes between the two teams, with the final one coming after Sergio Rodriguez made two free throws for Spain after a controversial foul call against Patty Mills.
NBC Olympics had the highlights:
Australia did have an opportunity to win at the end, but Spain's opportunistic defense prevented the Australians from getting off a shot before the buzzer.
Men's Volleyball
| Gold | Brazil |
| Silver | Italy |
| Bronze | United States |
It was a three-set sweep, even though none was decided by more than three points, but Brazil's men's volleyball team won gold in front of a partisan Rio crowd against Italy.
Brazil's win also helped it become a part of history, per ESPN Stats & Info:
The victory also allowed Brazil's men's volleyball team to get over being a bridesmaid at the Olympics after previously taking silver in 2008 and 2012.
In the bronze-medal match, the United States stunned Russia in five sets. The Americans were down two sets right out of the gate before responding with set victories of 25-19, 25-19 and 15-13 to earn the country's first Olympic medal since winning gold in 2008.
Wrestling - Men's 97kg Freestyle
| Gold | Kyle Snyder (United States) |
| Silver | Khetag Gazyumov (Azerbaijan) |
| Bronze | Albert Saritov (Romania), Magomed Abdulmuminovich Ibragimov (Uzbekistan) |
Kyle Snyder's wrestling talent has translated nicely to the Olympics, as the 20-year-old won a gold medal in his first-ever appearance in the summer games with a 3-1 victory over Azerbaijan's Khetag Gazyumov.
If there was ever an Olympics designed to serve as an athlete's coronation, Snyder in 2016 was it. He went 179-0 in three years of high school wrestling and followed that up by winning a national championship as a heavyweight at Ohio State during his sophomore year.
Per Nate Scott of USA Today, Snyder is the youngest American to win Olympic gold in wrestling. This came one year after he won gold at the 2015 World Championships and Pan American Games.
Rhythmic Gymnastics
| Gold | Russia | 36.233 |
| Silver | Spain | 35.766 |
| Bronze | Bulgaria | 35.766 |
Russia got a terrific performance in the second rotation of the rhythmic gymnastics final to take home a gold for the fifth straight time at the Olympics.
After ending the first rotation in third place with a score of 17.600, trailing Spain and Bulgaria, Russia didn't bother messing around any longer. The team posted a high score of 18.633 to secure another victory in the competition.
The Olympics' official Twitter account captured the image of Russia's team learning they had won a gold medal:
Spain and Bulgaria finished with the same score of 35.766, but Spain was awarded the silver medal via tiebreaker.
Per Julia Fincher of NBCOlympics.com, Russia, Spain and Bulgaria previously medaled together at the 2015 World Championships, but that day it was Bulgaria taking home the silver.
No matter the order of things behind them, the Russians remain the class of rhythmic gymnastics in the world and continue to show no signs of slowing down.
Men's Cross-Country Cycling
| Gold | Nino Schurter (Switzerland) | 1:33.28 |
| Silver | Jaroslav Kulhavy (Czech Republic) | 1:34.18 |
| Bronze | Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spain) | 1:34.51 |
Nino Schurter's slow ascent to the top of the cross-country cycling world culminated with his first Olympic gold medal in 2016.
The Switzerland star first competed at this event in the Olympics eight years ago, winning a bronze. He returned four years later with a silver medal ride in London.
UCI-MTB provided the photo of Schurter sitting at the finish line after winning his first-ever Olympic gold:
Jaroslav Kulhavy of the Czech Republic was unable to defend his Olympic gold from four years ago, though he did make it to the medal podium by finishing in second place.
Carlos Coloma Nicolas earned his first Olympic medal with a third-place finish. He previously came in sixth during the London Games four years ago.
Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 65kg
| Gold | Soslan Ramonov (Russia) |
| Silver | Toghrul Asgarov (Azerbaijan) |
| Bronze | Frank Chamizo (Italy), Ikhtiyor Navruzov (Uzbekistan) |
In the finals of the men's wrestling freestyle 65kg, Russia's Soslan Ramonov dominated Azerbaijan's Toghrul Asgarov.
Ramonov was in control of the match from the opening bell, winning by a final score of 11-0. He previously won gold at the Russian Championships earlier this year and World Championships in 2014.
Asgarov did earn a second consecutive Olympic medal for his performance in Rio. He won gold four years ago as a 60kg wrestler in London, but was moving up in weight class this time around and unable to get anything going against Ramonov.
Boxing - Women's 75kg
| Gold | Claressa Shields (United States) |
| Silver | Nouchka Fontijn (Netherlands) |
| Bronze | Dariga Shakimova (Kazakhstan), Li Qian (China) |
Claressa Shields' reign of dominance in the middleweight boxing division continues, as the 21-year-old American won her second straight Olympic gold with a unanimous decision victory over Netherlands' Nouchka Fontijn.
Per Rodger Sherman of SB Nation, Shields came to Rio prepared with all of the hardware she would need:
Shields' excellence extends far beyond the Olympics. She has won gold at the 2014 and 2016 World Championships, as well as at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Given Shields' age and continued growth as a boxer, the sky truly is the limit for one of America's brightest young athletes.
Boxing - Men's 52kg
| Gold | Shakhobidin Zoirov (Uzbekistan) |
| Silver | Mikhail Aloyan (Russia) |
| Bronze | Yoel Finol (Venezuela), Hu Jianguan (China) |
At the age of 23, Shakhobidin Zoirov won gold at the 2016 Rio Games with a unanimous-decision victory over Russia's Mikhail Aloyan.
Zoirov took a difficult path to the crown, starting in the round of 32 and needing to compete in an additional fight, but he was on point throughout these Olympics. The Uzbekistan star won all 15 rounds he fought in over the last eight days.
Aloyan was unable to earn a gold medal this time around, but the Russian boxer did have his best finish in the Olympics with a silver medal. He previously won a bronze at London in 2012.
Men's Marathon
| Gold | Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) | 2:08.44 |
| Silver | Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia) | 2:09.54 |
| Bronze | Galen Rupp (United States) | 2:10.05 |
After sitting with the lead group most of the way, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge pulled away from the field in the closing stages of the men's marathon to take home his third career Olympic medal and first gold.
Kipchoge previously won silver in 2004 and bronze in 2008 in the 5,000-meter race. BBC Sport captured the image of the 31-year-old as he prepared to cross the finish line knowing he was going to win gold:
Kipchoge's victory also gave Kenya its first Olympic men's marathon gold since Samuel Wanjiru in 2008 and just its second since 2000.
Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa took the silver, finishing more than one minute behind Kipchoge. He missed out on making the Olympic team in 2012, so this is nice redemption for the 26-year-old.
Galen Rupp of the United States earned the bronze; it's the first medal for the country in the men's marathon since Mebrahtom Keflezighi won silver in 2004.
In true American fashion, Rupp drew a parallel between his path to running marathons and Happy Gilmore's path to golfing.
“I was watching Happy Gilmore the other day,” Rupp told NBC’s Lewis Johnson, via Yahoo Sports' Kevin Kaduk. “He fights being a golfer for a while, saying he’s a hockey player. I fought being a marathoner and wanted to run on the track, but maybe this is my best event.”
Athletes always have weird motivations for why they want to do something. If Happy Gilmore helped Rupp tap into his inner runner, who can argue with the outcome?
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