This is the No. 1 college in America for Olympic medals
Stanford athletes (incoming, current and former) have won 18 Olympic medals in Rio as of Thursday morning, the most of any American university and more medals than most of the 200 member nations competing at the Games, according to the NCAA. If Stanford were a country, it’d currently be ranked No. 10 in the total medal count.
The second and third institutions on the list are also California schools. Just behind Stanford with 16 medals is Bay Area neighbor and longtime football rival, the University of California, Berkeley. And in at No. 3 is the University of Southern California.