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Top U.S. Women of the Olympics

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U.S. women's basketball team

Photograph By Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images

The U.S. women's basketball team dominated France to win its fifth consecutive gold medal and 41st straight Olympic contest. The Americans' winning streak started in the bronze-medal game in 1992. In that stretch, the women have won by an average of nearly 30 points a game.
  • Allyson Felix
  • Gabby Douglas
  • Missy Franklin
  • Sanya Richards-Ross
  • Claressa Shields
  • Kimberly Rhode
  • U.S. women's soccer team
  • U.S. women's basketball team
  • U.S. women's water polo team
  • Misty-May Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings
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