Olympic history of the United States

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The United States , whose NOK , the United States Olympic Committee , was founded in 1894 and recognized by the IOC in the year the IOC was founded, has participated in the Summer Olympics since 1896. Since 1924 athletes have also been sent to the winter games. The United States has been the most successful nation 16 times in summer and once in winter. This also makes them the most successful sports nation at the Olympic Games.

history

The United States has hosted the Olympic Games eight times. In 1904, 1932, 1960, 1984 and 1996 the Summer Games and in 1932, 1960, 2002 the Winter Games were held at different locations. Here was Lake Placid with 1932 and 1980, twice hosted the Winter Games.

A total of 9288 athletes, including 2,426 women, competed. Athletes from the United States have won 2,680 medals so far, including 2,390 at summer and 280 at winter games. The most successful athlete is the swimmer Michael Phelps , who won a total of 22 Olympic medals. The first medalist was Bob Garrett , who won a total of four medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics . The most successful sports are athletics in summer with 320 gold, 250 silver and 196 bronze medals and speed skating in winter with 29 gold, 22 silver and 16 bronze medals. In 2010, a new all-time record was set with 37 total medals.

The youngest member of a team from the United States in 1928 was the water diver Dorothy Poynton-Hill , who started at the age of 13. In 1904, at the age of 71, archer Thomas Scott was the oldest competitor in US Olympic history.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports				total
1896 Athens		14th	14th		3	11	7th	2	20th
1900 Paris		75	68	7th	10	19th	14th	15th	48
1904 St. Louis		526	520	6th	18th	76	78	77	231
1906 Athens	Matthew Halpin	38	38		5	12	12	6th	30th
1908 London	Ralph Rose	122	122		10	23	12	12	47
1912 Stockholm	George Bonhag	174	174		11	26th	19th	19th	64
1920 Antwerp	Pat McDonald	288	274	14th	18th	41	27	27	95
1924 Paris	Pat McDonald	299	275	24	18th	45	27	27	99
1928 Amsterdam	Bud Houser	280	236	44	15th	22nd	18th	16	56
1932 Los Angeles	Morgan Taylor	474	400	74	17th	44	36	30th	110
1936 Berlin	Alfred Jochim	359	313	46	21st	24	21st	12	57
1948 London	Ralph Craig	300	262	38	19th	38	27	19th	84
1952 Helsinki	Norman Cohn-Armitage	286	245	41	18th	40	19th	17th	76
1956 Melbourne	Norman Cohn-Armitage	305	258	47	19th	32	25th	17th	74
1960 Rome	Rafer Johnson	292	241	51	17th	34	21st	16	71
1964 Tokyo	Parry O'Brien	346	267	79	19th	36	26th	28	90
1968 Mexico City	Jan York-Romary	357	274	83	18th	45	28	34	107
1972 Munich	Olga Fikotová-Connolly	400	316	84	21st	33	31	30th	94
1976 Montreal	Gary Hall	396	278	118	19th	34	35	25th	94
1980 Moscow	no participation
1984 Los Angeles	Ed Burke	522	338	183	25th	83	61	30th	174
1988 Seoul	Evelyn Ashford	527	331	195	27	36	31	27	94
1992 Barcelona	Francie Larrieu Smith	545	355	189	28	37	34	37	108
1996 Atlanta	Bruce Baumgartner	647	375	272	31	44	32	25th	101
2000 Sydney	Cliff Meidl	586	333	253	31	37	24	32	93
2004 Athens	Dawn Staley	533	279	254	31	36	39	26th	101
2008 Beijing	Lopez Lomong	588	306	282	32	36	38	36	110
2012 London	Mariel Zagunis	530	262	268	31	46	28	29	103
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Michael Phelps	554	262	292	31	46	37	38	121

Winter games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports				total
1924 Chamonix	Clarence Abel	24	22nd	2	6th	1	2	1	4th
1928 St. Moritz	Godfrey Dewey	24	21st	3	7th	2	2	2	6th
1932 Lake Placid	Billy Fiske	65	58	6th	8th	6th	4th	2	12
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Rolf Monsen	55	46	9	8th	1		3	4th
1948 St. Moritz	Jack Heaton	69	59	10	9	3	4th	2	9
1952 Oslo	Jim Bickford	66	56	10	8th	4th	6th	1	11
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Jim Bickford	67	57	10	8th	2	3	2	7th
1960 Squaw Valley	Don McDermott	79	61	18th	8th	3	4th	3	10
1964 Innsbruck	Bill Disney	90	71	19th	10	1	2	4th	7th
1968 Grenoble	Richard McDermott	76	55	21st	10	1	5	1	7th
1972 Sapporo	Dianne Holum	103	77	26th	10	3	2	3	7th
1976 Innsbruck	Cindy Nelson	106	76	30th	10	3	3	4th	10
1980 Lake Placid	Scott Hamilton	101	76	25th	10	6th	4th	2	12
1984 Sarajevo	Frank Masley	107	77	30th	10	4th	4th		8th
1988 Calgary	Lyle Nelson	118	86	31	11	2	1	3	6th
1992 Albertville	Bill Koch	147	97	50	12	5	4th	2	11
1994 Lillehammer	Cammy Myler	147	95	52	12	6th	5	2	13
1998 Nagano	Eric Flaim	186	105	81	14th	6th	3	4th	13
2002 Salt Lake City	Amy Peterson	202	115	87	15th	10	13	11	34
2006 Turin	Chris Witty	204	117	87	15th	9	9	7th	25th
2010 Vancouver	Mark Grimmette	212	120	92	15th	9	15th	13	37
2014 Sochi	Todd Lodwick	223	122	101	15th	9	9	10	28

See also

• List of Olympic medalists from the United States

Web links

• United States in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• United States on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)