Variations

The sections above are based on information published by the International Olympic Committee. Various sources deal with some of the entries in the preceding sections differently.

Early Olympics

For the 1900 Summer Olympics several countries are credited with appearances that are not considered official by the IOC. Only one of these cases concerns a medal. A gold medal that is officially added to France's total is given to Luxembourg.^[2]
Similar cases of disputed nationality affect the 1904 Summer Olympics. France is credited with a silver medal^[3] and Norway with two gold medals.^[4] In the table above these medals are listed under the United States. Furthermore, Newfoundland is occasionally listed as a separate country at the 1904 Olympics, and would be listed as a historical NOC without medals.^[5]
Other differences from the official table are based on disagreements about which events were Olympic.This affects several of the events in the 1900 and 1904 Olympics. In addition, some sources include the 1906 Intercalated Games when compiling their medal tables.^[6]

Germany

Germany has competed under five different designations, including as two separate teams at several Games. Sources vary in how they present the medals won by these teams. The table below shows sourced combinations of these teams, when applied to the updated medal totals from the main table.

	Summer Games					Winter Games					Combined Total
Team (IOC code)	№				Total	№				Total	№				Total
Germany (GER)[7]	16	191	192	232	615	11	78	78	53	209	27	269	270	285	824
Germany (GER) (EUA)[8]	19	219	246	268	733	14	86	84	58	228	33	305	330	326	961
Germany (GER) (EUA) (FRG)[9]	24	275	313	349	937	20	97	99	71	267	44	372	412	420	1204
Germany (GER) (EUA) (FRG) (GDR) (SAA)[10]	25[11]	428	442	476	1346	20	136	135	106	377	45[11]	564	577	582	1723

Russia and the Soviet Union

The Russian Federation and the Russian Empire are often combined outside of IOC sources. The Soviet Union is combined with the post-union team that competed in 1992. Some sources combine the Soviet Union and Russia.

	Summer Games					Winter Games					Combined Total
Team (IOC code)	№				Total	№				Total	№				Total
Russia (RUS)[12]	6	149	133	159	441	6	49	40	35	124	12	198	173	194	565
Russia (RUS) (RU1)[13]	9	150	137	163	450	6	49	40	35	124	15	199	176	197	573
Soviet Union (URS)[9]	10	412	336	315	1063	9	78	57	59	194	19	490	393	374	1257
Soviet Union (URS) (EUN)[10]	11	457	374	344	1175	10	87	63	67	217	21	544	437	411	1392
Russia (RUS) (RU1)  Soviet Union (URS) (EUN)[14]	19	590	494	488	1572	16	136	103	102	341	35	726	597	590	1913