After 16 eventful days, Paris 2024 is over.

There was plenty of sporting drama, new heroes emerging, world records broken and much history made.

So what stats are there to enjoy from these Olympics? BBC Sport takes a look…

Medals count

The United States is at the top of the medal table for the seventh time in eight Olympic Games. They have won the most medals overall in all eight Games.

With the 60-medal mark, Great Britain achieved the same number of medals as in London 2012 for the fourth time in a row.

With 65 points, they were one point better than in Tokyo three years ago, but the Games also marked a positive development, as they only won 14 gold medals, their lowest number since Athens 2004.

Meanwhile, Japan continued its record success at the home Games in Tokyo, where it won 27 gold medals, and shone with a further 20 gold medals – the second-highest haul ever.

Their total was boosted by their status as top wrestling powers, where they won eight gold medals at the Champ de Mars Arena.

Australia’s 18 gold medals also helped the team to fourth place, surpassing their previous record of 17 in Athens and Tokyo.

The world records that fell

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone beat her own world record to sensationally win Olympic gold in the 400m hurdles with a time of 50.37 seconds, while fellow Americans Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Kaylyn Brown and Bryce Deadmon set a new record in the 4x400m mixed relay.

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis had already won the gold medal in the men’s pole vault when he improved his world record of 6.24 m, set in April, by one centimeter.

A total of 31 world records were broken, with the majority (39%) coming in the velodrome. Three of these were broken by Britain’s Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane on their way to the gold medal in the women’s team sprint.

Compared to Tokyo, where 22 world records were set, this is a favorable figure and is also slightly above the 27 world records broken in Rio eight years ago.

The athletes who excelled at the Games

Paris 2024 saw the rise of a new swimming superstar: Leon Marchand became the first French athlete to win four individual gold medals at a single Summer Olympic Games.

The 22-year-old made headlines on home soil as he became only the third male swimmer to achieve the feat, following American greats Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz, and added to his medal collection with a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay.

With his five medals, he is the most decorated athlete of the Games, along with his swimming colleagues Mollie O’Callaghan from Australia and Torri Huske from the USA.

Away from the pool, Simone Biles was back in top form and the presence of A-listers Lady Gaga, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Spike Lee, Tom Brady and Tom Cruise underlined her status as the hottest ticket in town.

With three triumphs – the all-around and jumping titles as well as the team competition – she has now won a total of seven Olympic gold medals.

Nations exceed expectations

While the USA, with a population of just over 112,000, tops the official medal table, Grenada was actually the most successful nation in winning Olympic medals considering the size of the country.

Anderson Peters and Lindon Victor’s bronze medals in the men’s javelin and decathlon meant they averaged one medal per population of 56,289.

Dominica, St. Lucia and New Zealand, which won an average of one medal per 266,945 inhabitants, occupy the first four places.

Ireland, meanwhile, finished 18th, Great Britain 24th, the USA 47th and China 74th. Medal-hungry India were at the bottom of the table, averaging one medal per 234,151,666 spectators.

India sent a group of 117 athletes to Paris, but their efforts yielded only a meagre haul of five bronze medals and a single silver medal. They were also one of 28 teams that failed to win gold in any sport.

How did the individual neutral athletes (AIN) fare?

One of the biggest changes in the medal table was the absence of Russia, which in the past had always been among the four countries with the most medals and one of the strongest contingents.

However, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the country was banned from the Games, and its ally Belarus was also excluded. Instead, a handful of athletes from those countries (15 from Russia, 17 from Belarus) were invited to compete as neutral individual athletes (AIN), without a national flag or anthem.

They had to meet strict eligibility criteria – they had to pass a background check to ensure they were not actively supporting the war and were not under contract to the Russian or Belarusian military or national security agencies.

AINs won medals in five events, but these are not included in the official medal table. Only at one medal ceremony was the specially composed anthem for the AIN gold medalists played.

Belarusians won medals in two trampoline events (Ivan Litvinovich – gold in the men’s event, Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya – silver in the women’s event), one in rowing (Yauheni Zalaty – silver) and one in weightlifting (Yauheni Tsikhantsou – bronze).

The only medal the Russians won was silver for tennis players Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider in the women’s doubles.

Was Lyles’ 100m gold the closest of the Games?

At all Olympic Games, medals are decided by narrow margins.

This was especially true in Paris, where Noah Lyles won a stunning gold medal in the 100-meter dash by stretching his upper body across the finish line first.

However, this lead (either in time or points) was not the smallest when calculated as a percentage of the winning time or the total points.

It wasn’t even the closest race on the track, as the women’s 10,000m, won by Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet, was closer, coming in at just 0.005% of the total time.

Great Britain’s photo-finish victory over the Netherlands in the women’s quadruple sculls was also much clearer, as were Adam Peaty and Matt Richards’ silver medals in the pool.

The closest match, however, was the men’s horizontal bar final, where Japan’s Shinnosuke Oka and Colombia’s Angel Barajas were barely separated. Both scored exactly 14.533 points, but the former won due to a higher execution score.

Where did GB’s medals come from?

Keely Hodgkinson’s outstanding gold medal in the 800m was one of the moments of the Games for Team GB, who, with ten medals on the track, achieved their best record at an Olympic Games since 1984, when they won 16 medals, including golds for Sebastian Coe, Daley Thompson and Tessa Sanderson.

Alex Yee pulled off a sensational sprint to top the podium in the men’s triathlon, Bryony Page capped two decades of dedication to her craft with gold on the trampoline, while Ellie Aldridge celebrated an exhilarating success in kitesurfing.

Lewis Richardson made sure the British boxing team did not go home empty-handed by taking home a bronze medal after all five of his teammates were defeated in their opening fights.

Tom Pidcock also defied a puncture to defend his Olympic mountain bike title, while Great Britain won medals in 19 different sports.

Of the 14 gold medals won by Team GB, six each came in the men’s and women’s events and two in mixed equestrian events, in which male and female riders compete together – but the team jumping event was won by an all-male trio of Scott Brash, Harry Charles and Ben Maher.