Pais Wisil from Papua New Guinea was crowned the fastest man in the Pacific after winning gold in the 100m sprint with a time ...

THE Papua New Guinea men’s and women’s 4x100m relay teams raised the flag a little bit higher last night when they blew the ...

PAPUA New Guinea is set for the first of possibly nine gold medals in weightlifting at the Pacific Mini Games – when the ...

What are Olympic medals made of? According to International Olympic Committee regulations, the Olympic gold medals must be made out of at least 92.5% silver. But then are plated with gold.

Samoa now has nine gold medals to its name, while Fiji and Australia have jumped into third and fourth spots, respectively.

ST. LOUIS — A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the ...

A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up for auction in 2021 and a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...

As of Sunday at 11:37 a.m. Eastern time, the United States stood atop the official Olympic medal table, which sorts nations based on their number of gold medals.

The fight for national bragging rights over gold medals — considered by many countries to be the most coveted prize — came down to the wire and, in the end, China and the U.S. tied with 40 apiece.

The U.S. has won the gold medal five times at the Summer Olympics. The first gold came in 1996 — the first year the competition was held — while the most recent came at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

With 23 gold medals, three silver and two bronze — won across five games — he's hands-down the Olympic athlete with the most medals. Phelps first appeared in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

The U.S. and China each ended the Paris Games with 40 gold medals, a sign of dominance from two of the countries who regularly stand at the top of the sports world.