1904 Summer Olympics medal table

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1904 Summer Olympics medals
Location St. Louis, US flag 45 stars.svg  United States
Highlights
Most gold medalsUS flag 45 stars.svg  United States  (76)
Most total medalsUS flag 45 stars.svg  United States  (231)
Medalling NOCs13
  1900  · Olympics medal tables ·  1908  
The silver medal awarded for the 800m run during the 1904 Summer Olympics Silver medal of 1904 Summer Olympics.jpg
The silver medal awarded for the 800m run during the 1904 Summer Olympics

The 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904, as part of the St. Louis World's Fair.

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A total of 651 athletes from 12 nations participated in 95 events in 16 sports at these games. [1] [2]

Nine participating nations earned medals, in addition to four medals won by mixed teams. In the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations. [3] Retroactively, the IOC created the designation "mixed team" (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these groups of athletes. Some athletes won medals both individually and as part of a mixed team, so these medals are tabulated under different nations in the official counts. [4]

The United States won 231 medals, setting a record that still stands today. The Soviet Union came closest to beating the record with 195 medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics and currently is in second place. The Soviets, however, won a record 80 gold medals, surpassing 76 golds won by the Americans in 1904. However, the United States subsequently won 83 gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics, setting another all-time record. [4] Gold medals were awarded to event winners for the first time at the 1904 games. Prior to that, a silver medal was awarded to first-place finishers and a bronze medal to second-place finishers. [5] [6]

Medal table

Charles Daniels won three gold, one silver, and one bronze medal in swimming for the United States during the 1904 games. Charles Meldrum Daniels.jpg
Charles Daniels won three gold, one silver, and one bronze medal in swimming for the United States during the 1904 games.

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. [7] [8] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code. [9]

  *   Host nation (United States)

1904 Summer Olympics medal table [10]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1US flag 45 stars.svg  United States*777978234
2Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany 45615
3Flag of Canada (1868-1921).svg  Canada 4116
4Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 3003
5Flag of Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Hungary 2114
6Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2002
7Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg  Austria 1113
8Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 1102
9Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 1023
10Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg  Greece 1012
11Olympic flag.svg  Mixed team 1001
12Flag of Australia (1903-1908).svg  Australia 0314
13Flag of France.svg  France 0101
Totals (13 entries)979291280

Changes in medal standings

Key

   Disqualified athlete(s)

List of official changes in medal standings
Ruling dateSport/EventAthlete (NOC)Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgTotalNotes
November 1905 Boxing
Men's Lightweight
US flag 45 stars.svg  Jack Egan  (USA)−1−1 Jack Egan won two Olympic medals in boxing, a silver medal in the lightweight category, losing to Harry Spanjer in the final, and a tied bronze medal in the welterweight category against fellow American boxer, Joseph Lydon. By the rules of the AAU it was illegal to fight under an assumed name. (Egan's actual name was Frank Joseph Floyd.) In November 1905, the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes including his two Olympics medals. [11] [12]
US flag 45 stars.svg  Russell van Horn  (USA)+1−10
US flag 45 stars.svg  Peter Sturholdt  (USA)+1+1
Boxing
Men's Welterweight
US flag 45 stars.svg  Jack Egan  (USA)−1−1
US flag 45 stars.svg  Joseph Lydon  (USA)+1+1

References

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