The Rio 2016 badminton competition produced medallists from ten countries, with four of the five newly crowned Olympic champions hailing from four different nations, a sign of the sport’s spread across the globe. Taking the respective honours in the men’s and women’s singles events were Carolina Marin of Spain and Chen Long of China.

Great Britain’s Andy Murray completed a successful defence of the men’s singles title, while Monica Puig produced a shock in the women’s singles to win Puerto Rico’s first ever Olympic gold medal. Rafael Nadal collected his second Olympic gold as he and Marc Lopez clinched the men’s doubles, while Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia scooped gold in the women’s doubles, and American pair Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock did likewise in the mixed doubles.

From the South African runner Wayde Van Niekerk, who broke the world record in the men’s 400m, to the Fiji men’s rugby sevens team, who won their NOC’s first ever gold medal, Rio 2016 was awash with records and landmark moments.

28 sports, 306 events and more than 11,000 athletes vying for the honour of having a medal around their neck. Facts and figures from the Olympic Games Rio 2016 make for impressive reading – and those concerning Youth Olympic Games (YOG) athletes who have made the step up to the grandest stage of all are no exception. Here, we take a look at the pick of the bunch…

Michael Phelps led an all-star cast of multiple medal winners at Rio 2016, with Katie Ledecky, Simone Biles, Usain Bolt, Jason Kenny, Katinka Hosszu, Ryan Murphy and Danuta Kozak also featuring high on the bill, along with a clutch of other distinguished Olympians.

China’s Chen Long stepped out of compatriot Lin Dan’s shadow to deny Malaysian Lee Chong Wei a golden Olympic swan song and win the men's badminton singles title in Rio.

After beating India’s P.V. Sindhu to become the first female athlete outside of Asia to win badminton singles gold, we give 10 fun facts about Spain’s Carolina Marín.

Spain’s reigning two-time world champion Carolina Marin came from set down to beat India’s Pusarla Sindhu in the women’s badminton singles final at Rio 2016, while China’s Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan edged a three-set thriller to take the men’s doubles title.

Japan’s Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi claimed the women's doubles gold medal on 18 August and secured their nation’s first ever Olympic Games badminton title.

A silver medal in the men’s team event at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 has raised hopes that Koki Niwa could bring an end to China’s decades-long dominance of the sport, with glory in Tokyo in four years’ time.