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1996 Summer Olympics medal table

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]

1996 Summer Olympics medals
American swimmer Amy Van Dyken, shown from about the chest while smiling.
American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won four gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the most of any competing athlete.
LocationAtlanta,  United States
Highlights
Most gold medals United States (44)
Most total medals United States (101)
Medalling NOCs79
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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]

Medal table

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Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov, pictured here in 2009, won six medals at the 1996 games (two gold, one silver, and three bronze medals), the most of any competing athlete.[36]
 
American gymnast Shannon Miller, pictured here in 2013, won gold in the women's artistic team all-round and balance beam at the 1996 games.[37] In addition, she won five medals in gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[38]
 
British rower Steve Redgrave, pictured here in 2011, won the men's coxless pair rowing competition, which was his fourth consecutive victory in the event and Great Britain's only gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.[39][40]
 
American sprinter Michael Johnson, pictured here in 1995, won two gold medals in the men's 200 metres and 400 metres events.[41]

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)

1996 Summer Olympics medal table[34]
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States*443225101
2  Russia26211663
3  Germany20182765
4  China16221250
5  France1571537
6  Italy13101235
7  Australia992341
8  Cuba98825
9  Ukraine921223
10  South Korea715527
11  Poland75517
12  Hungary741021
13  Spain56617
14  Romania47920
15  Netherlands451019
16  Greece4408
17  Czech Republic43411
18  Switzerland4307
19  Denmark4116
  Turkey4116
21  Canada311822
22  Bulgaria37515
23  Japan36514
24  Kazakhstan34411
25  Brazil33915
26  New Zealand3216
27  South Africa3115
28  Ireland3014
29  Sweden2428
30  Norway2237
31  Belgium2226
32  Nigeria2136
33  North Korea2125
34  Algeria2013
  Ethiopia2013
36  Great Britain18615
37  Belarus16815
38  Kenya1438
39  Jamaica1326
40  Finland1214
41  FR Yugoslavia1124
  Indonesia1124
43  Iran1113
  Slovakia1113
45  Armenia1102
  Croatia1102
47  Portugal1012
  Thailand1012
49  Burundi1001
  Costa Rica1001
  Ecuador1001
  Hong Kong1001
  Syria1001
54  Argentina0213
55  Namibia0202
  Slovenia0202
57  Austria0123
58  Malaysia0112
  Moldova0112
  Uzbekistan0112
61  Azerbaijan0101
  Bahamas0101
  Chinese Taipei0101
  Latvia0101
  Philippines0101
  Tonga0101
  Zambia0101
68  Georgia0022
  Morocco0022
  Trinidad and Tobago0022
71  India0011
  Israel0011
  Lithuania0011
  Mexico0011
  Mongolia0011
  Mozambique0011
  Puerto Rico0011
  Tunisia0011
  Uganda0011
Totals (79 entries)271273298842

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