RIO DE JANEIRO—A face slap or two and then a bounding run, a moment of spring upwards and contortion backwards over the bar. Derek Drouin, track and field He is the only five-time NCAA champion in the high jump and won the 2013 Bowerman Award, track’s Heisman Trophy. Of the 204 NOCs participating, 85 received at least one medal; 55 won at least one gold medal. Canadian Derek Drouin, the reigning Olympic and world high jump champion, will not defend his world title in London this weekend due to an Achilles tendon injury.

Canada’s Derek Drouin took gold in the men’s high jump on 16 August, finishing ahead of Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Ukraine’s Bogdan Bondarenko. The way Derek Drouin sees it, there's just something different about an Olympic medal.

The 2012 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.Approximately 10,800 athletes participated in 302 events in 26 sports.