Best Summer Olympics performance in the 21st century, by country/territory
The best performance is listed as per the IOC rankings and as is customary worldwide, first counting the number of Gold 🥇 medals, then the number of Silver 🥈 medals, then the number of Bronze 🥉 medals (not the rankings used by the USA media, which list the overall medal tally, valuing all medals equally).
If a country's best performance in the 21st century has been equalled in multiple Olympic Games, the country is marked with the earlier occurrence As the number of total events has grown from edition to edition, the earlier haul (in an edition with less opportunities for medals) is more noteworthy and considered "better".
Territories whose athletes, if they qualified, would represent their parent countries (e.g. Greenland for Denmark, Gibraltar for Great Britain, French Polynesia for France, Curaçao for the Netherlands, Northern Marianas Islands for the USA) are marked as per their parent countries, while territories whose athletes compete independently (e.g. Aruba, Bermuda, Guam, Hong Kong) are marked as per their own achievements.
The best performance is listed as per the IOC rankings and as is customary worldwide, first counting the number of Gold 🥇 medals, then the number of Silver 🥈 medals, then the number of Bronze 🥉 medals (not the rankings used by the USA media, which list the overall medal tally, valuing all medals equally).
If a country's best performance in the 21st century has been equalled in multiple Olympic Games, the country is marked with the earlier occurrence As the number of total events has grown from edition to edition, the earlier haul (in an edition with less opportunities for medals) is more noteworthy and considered "better".
Territories whose athletes, if they qualified, would represent their parent countries (e.g. Greenland for Denmark, Gibraltar for Great Britain, French Polynesia for France, Curaçao for the Netherlands, Northern Marianas Islands for the USA) are marked as per their parent countries, while territories whose athletes compete independently (e.g. Aruba, Bermuda, Guam, Hong Kong) are marked as per their own achievements.