5. France
Number of Gold Medals: 243
We continue our list of the 10 countries that have the most gold medals with a country that also has to thank their fencing and alpine skiing athletes for Olympic Games success. France has won 212 gold medals at Summer Olympics, 42 of them came from fencing. 15 out of France’s 31 Winter Olympics gold medals came from alpine skiing.

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