1996 Summer Olympics medals | |
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Location | Atlanta, United States |
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Most gold medals | United States (44) |
Most total medals | United States (101) |
Medalling NOCs | 79 |
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1996 Summer Olympics |
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The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from July 19 to August 4, 1996. [1] A total of 10,318 athletes representing 197 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. [2] The games featured 271 events in 26 sports across 37 disciplines, including the Olympic debuts of beach volleyball, mountain biking and softball. [3] [4] [5] A total of 24 countries made their Summer Olympic debuts in Atlanta, including 11 former Soviet republics participating for the first time as independent nations. [6]
79 nations received at least one medal, with 53 of them winning at least one gold medal, both of which were new records. [7] [8] Armenia, [9] Belarus, [10] Burundi, [11] Costa Rica, [12] Croatia, [13] Czech Republic, [14] Ecuador, [15] Hong Kong, [16] Kazakhstan, [17] Nigeria, [18] Slovakia, [19] Syria, [20] Thailand, [21] and Ukraine won their nations' first Summer Olympic gold medals. [22] They were also the first Olympic medals of any kind for Armenia, [23] Belarus, [24] Burundi, [11] Czech Republic, [14] Ecuador, [25] Hong Kong, [26] Kazakhstan, [27] Slovakia, [19] and Ukraine. [22] Meanwhile, Azerbaijan, [28] Georgia, [29] Moldova, [30] Mozambique, [31] Tonga, [32] and Uzbekistan won their first Summer Olympic medals. [33]
Athletes from the host nation of the United States won the most gold medals, with 44, and the most medals overall, with 101. [34] It marked the first time the United States led the medal count in both gold and overall medals since 1984 and the first at a non-boycotted Olympics since 1968. [4] [35] Among individual participants, American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won the most gold medals with four, while Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov won the most medals overall with six (two gold, one silver, and three bronze). [36]
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. [42] [43] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code. [44]
In the men's rings and women's uneven bars events, there were ties for second place which resulted in two silver medals and no bronze medals being issued in each event. [45] [46] In the women's artistic individual all-around, two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie. [47] Additionally, in the men's horizontal bars, three bronze medals were awarded due to a tie. [48]
* Host nation (United States)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States* | 44 | 32 | 25 | 101 |
2 | Russia | 26 | 21 | 16 | 63 |
3 | Germany | 20 | 18 | 27 | 65 |
4 | China | 16 | 22 | 12 | 50 |
5 | France | 15 | 7 | 15 | 37 |
6 | Italy | 13 | 10 | 12 | 35 |
7 | Australia | 9 | 9 | 23 | 41 |
8 | Cuba | 9 | 8 | 8 | 25 |
9 | Ukraine | 9 | 2 | 12 | 23 |
10 | South Korea | 7 | 15 | 5 | 27 |
11 | Poland | 7 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
12 | Hungary | 7 | 4 | 10 | 21 |
13 | Spain | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
14 | Romania | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 |
15 | Netherlands | 4 | 5 | 10 | 19 |
16 | Greece | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
17 | Czech Republic | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
18 | Switzerland | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
19 | Denmark | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Turkey | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
21 | Canada | 3 | 11 | 8 | 22 |
22 | Bulgaria | 3 | 7 | 5 | 15 |
23 | Japan | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
24 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
25 | Brazil | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 |
26 | New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
27 | South Africa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
28 | Ireland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
29 | Sweden | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
30 | Norway | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
31 | Belgium | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
32 | Nigeria | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
33 | North Korea | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
34 | Algeria | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Ethiopia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
36 | Great Britain | 1 | 8 | 6 | 15 |
37 | Belarus | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 |
38 | Kenya | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
39 | Jamaica | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
40 | Finland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
41 | FR Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
43 | Iran | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Slovakia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
45 | Armenia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Croatia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
47 | Portugal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Thailand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
49 | Burundi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Costa Rica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Ecuador | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Syria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
54 | Argentina | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
55 | Namibia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Slovenia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
57 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
58 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Moldova | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Uzbekistan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
61 | Azerbaijan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Bahamas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Latvia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Philippines | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Tonga | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Zambia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
68 | Georgia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Morocco | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
71 | India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mozambique | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Uganda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (79 entries) | 271 | 273 | 298 | 842 |
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