| 1992 Summer Olympics medals | |
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| Location | Barcelona,  Spain |
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| Most gold medals |  Unified Team (45) |
| Most total medals | Unified Team (112) |
| Medalling NOCs | 64 |
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The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held in Barcelona, Spain, from 25 July to 9 August 1992. [1] [2] A total of 9,356 athletes representing 169 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. [1] The games featured 257 events in 25 sports and 34 disciplines. [2] [3] Badminton, baseball, and women's judo were included as official medal events for the first time. [4] [5] [6]
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Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, athletes from twelve of the fifteen former Soviet republics competed together as part of the Unified Team. [7] [8] Two other Soviet republics, Estonia and Latvia, competed independently for the first time since 1936, [9] [10] while Lithuania did so for the first time since 1928. [11] South Africa, which had been excluded from the Olympics for its use of the apartheid system in sports, returned to the games for the first time since 1960. [12]
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia competed independently, as opposed to as a part of Yugoslavia, for the first time following the breakup of Yugoslavia. [13] [14] Due to conduct in the ongoing Yugoslav Wars, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was placed under sanctions by United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, which prevented the country from taking part in the Olympics. [15] [16] Individual Yugoslav athletes were allowed to take part as independent participants and, with Macedonian athletes who could not appear under their own flag because their NOC had not yet been formed, combined to form the Independent Olympic Participants team. [8] [16] East and West Germany also competed together for the first time since 1964, following the German reunification. [17] [8]
Athletes representing 64 NOCs received at least one medal, with 37 NOCs winning at least one gold medal. [18] The Unified Team won the most gold medals, with 45, and the most overall medals, with 112. [18] Algeria, [19] Indonesia, [4] and Lithuania won their nations' first Summer Olympic gold medals. [20] It was also the first Olympic medal of any kind for Lithuania. [20] Croatia, [21] Israel, [22] Malaysia, [23] Namibia, [24] Qatar, [25] and Slovenia won their nation's first Olympic medals. [26] Unified Team gymnast Vitaly Scherbo won the most gold and overall medals among individual participants, with six (all gold). [27]
