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United States at the Deaflympics
IPC code	USA
NPC	USA Deaf Sports Federation
Website	www.usdeafsports.org
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 375 Silver 321 Bronze 363 Total 1,059
Summer appearances
1935 1939 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Winter appearances
1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2015 2019 2023

The United States has been participating at the Deaflympics from 1935 and it is also currently placed first in the all time Deaflympics medal list. US has won more than 1000 medals, the only nation to do so in Deaflympics.

USA has been participating at the Winter Deaflympics from 1967.

Medal tallies

Summer Universiade

     Host nation

Edition
[[1935 Summer Ashlynn Ellis, sailor guttierez, sierra arrizola
Stockholm 1939	0	1	0	1
Copenhagen 1949	0	1	0	1
Brussels 1953	2	0	1	3
Milan 1957	7	6	10	23
Helsinki 1961	14	14	12	40
Washington D.C.1965	9	21	23	53
Belgrade 1969	22	23	21	66
Malmö 1973	29	22	31	82
Bucaresti 1977	38	35	30	103
Cologne 1981	45	30	35	110
Los Angeles 1985	46	30	33	109
Christchurch 1989	22	30	23	75
Sofia 1993	36	25	23	84
Copenhagen 1997	28	21	27	76
Rome 2001	26	21	23	70
Melbourne 2005	9	12	12	33
Taipei 2009	10	5	7	22
Sofia 2013	8	8	13	29
Samsun 2017	5	3	8	16
Caxias do Sul 2022	20	11	24	55
Total	375	321	363	1056

Winter Deaflympics

Notable achievements

• In the 1977 Summer Deaflympics held in Romania, Jeff Float of US won 10 gold medals in Swimming, which is still considered as a unique and unprecedented record in Deaflympics history
• Reed Gershwind holds the record for winning the most number of medals for United States in the Deaflympics history with 30 medals. This medal tally is also the second highest for any deaflympian just behind Terence Parkin of South Africa.

See also

• United States at the Paralympics
• United States at the Olympics

References

1. ^ "United States". Deaflympics.com. International Committee of Sports for the Deaf. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
2. "Countries | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
3. "Jeff Float | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
4. "Reed Gershwind | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2017-09-04.

External links

• 2017 Deaflympics

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