1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (United States)

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United States
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The United States hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta with 646 athletes, 271 women and 375 men, in 31 sports.

Since 1896 it was the 22nd participation of a US team in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

Wrestler Bruce Baumgartner carried the United States flag during the opening ceremony on July 19 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium ; During the closing ceremony it was worn by show jumper Michael Matz .

Medalist

44 won gold, 32 silver and 25 bronze medals, the US team finished before the Russian and the German Team 1st place in the medals table .

Gold medal.svg gold

Name / s sport competition
Charles Barkley, Anfernee Hardaway, David Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Reggie Miller, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Shaquille O'Neal, Mitch Richmond, Gary Payton, Grant Hill & Hakeem Olajuwon basketball Men's tournament
Jennifer Azzi, Ruthie Bolton, Teresa Edwards, Venus Lacey, Nikki McCray, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Katrina McClain, Carla McGhee, Dawn Staley, Kathryn Steding & Sheryl Swoopes basketball Women's competition
Justin Huish Archery singles
Justin Huish, Butch Johnson & Rodney White Archery team
David Reid Boxing Light middleweight
Michelle Akers, Thori Staples Bryan, Brandi Chastain, Amanda Cromwell, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Carin Gabarra, Mia Hamm, Mary Harvey, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Tiffany Roberts, Briana Scurry, Tisha Venturini, Saskia Webber & Staci Wilson Soccer Women's tournament
Michael Johnson athletics 200 meters
400 meters
Allen Johnson athletics 110 meter hurdles
Derrick Adkins athletics 400 meter hurdles
LaMont Smith , Alvin Harrison , Derek Mills & Anthuan Maybank athletics 4 × 400 meters
Charles Austin athletics high jump
Carl Lewis athletics Long jump
Kenny Harrison athletics Triple jump
Randy Barnes athletics Shot put
Dan O'Brien athletics Decathlon
Gail Devers athletics Women, 100 meters
Gail Devers, Inger Miller , Chryste Gaines & Gwen Torrence athletics Women, 4 × 100 meters
Rochelle Stevens , Maicel Malone , Kim Graham & Jearl Miles athletics Women, 4 × 400 meters
Kendall Cross Wrestling Bantamweight, freestyle
Thomas Brands Wrestling Featherweight, freestyle
Kurt Angle Wrestling Heavyweight, freestyle
Kim Rhode shoot Women, double trap
Jeff Rouse swim 100 meters back
Brad Bridgewater swim 200 meters back
Tom Dolan swim 400 meter locations
Jon Olsen , Josh Davis , Bradley Schumacher & Gary Hall junior swim 4 × 100 meter freestyle
Josh Davis, Joseph Hudepohl , Bradley Schumacher & Ryan Berube swim 4 × 200 meter freestyle
Jeff Rouse, Mark Henderson , Gary Hall Junior & Jeremy Linn swim 4 × 100 meter layers
Amy Van Dyken swim Women, 50 meters freestyle
women, 100 meters butterfly
Brooke Bennett swim Women, 800 meters freestyle
Beth Botsford swim Women, 100 meters back
Angel Martino , Amy Van Dyken, Catherine Fox & Jenny Thompson swim Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle
Trina Jackson , Cristina Teuscher , Sheila Taormina & Jenny Thompson swim Women 4 × 200 meter freestyle
Beth Botsford, Amanda Beard , Angel Martino & Amy Van Dyken swim Women, 4 × 100 meter medley
Suzannah Bianco, Tammy Cleland, Becky Dyroen Lancer, Heather Pease, Jill Savery, Nathalie Schneyder, Heather Simmons Carrasco & Jill Sudduth Synchronized swimming team
Danielle Tyler, Christa Williams, Laura Berg, Gillian Boxx, Sheila Cornell, Lisa Fernandez, Michele Granger, Lori Harrigan, Dionna Harris, Kim Maher, Leah O'Brien, Dorothy Richardson, Julie Smith, Michele Smith & Shelly Stokes Softball Women's tournament
Andre Agassi tennis singles
Lindsay Davenport tennis Women, singles
Gigi Fernández & Mary Joe Fernández tennis Women, doubles
Amanda Borden , Amy Chow , Dominique Dawes , Shannon Miller , Dominique Moceanu , Jaycie Phelps & Kerri Strug do gymnastics Women, team all-around
Shannon Miller do gymnastics Women, balance beam
Charles Kiraly & Kent Steffes beach volleyball Men's tournament

Silver medal.svg silver

Name / s sport competition
Dana Chladek canoe Women, single kayak, slalom
Mark Crear athletics 110 meter hurdles
Jon Drummond , Tim Harden , Michael Marsh , Dennis Mitchell athletics 4 × 100 meter relay
John Godina athletics Shot put
Lance deal athletics Hammer throw
Kim Batten athletics Women, 400 meter hurdles
Marty Nothstein Cycling sprint
Erin Hartwell Cycling 1000 meter time trial
Leslie Burr , Anne Kursinski , Peter Leone & Michael Matz horse riding Show jumping, team
Bruce Davidson , Jill Henneberg , David O'Connor & Karen O'Connor horse riding Versatility, team
Townsend Saunders Wrestling Lightweight, freestyle
Brandon Paulson Wrestling Flyweight, Greco-Roman
Dennis Hall Wrestling Bantamweight, Greco-Roman
Matt Ghaffari Wrestling Super heavyweight, Greco-Roman
Tim Young , Brian Jamieson , Eric Mueller & Jason Gailes rowing Double fours
Teresa Bell & Lindsay Burns rowing Women, lightweight double sculls
Karen Kraft & Melissa Schwen rowing Two without a helmsman
Josh Lakatos shoot Trap
Gary Hall Junior swim 50 meter freestyle
100 meter freestyle
Tripp Schwenck swim 200 meters back
Jeremy Linn swim 100 meters chest
Tom Malchow swim 200 meter butterfly
Eric Namesnik swim 400 meter locations
Whitney Hedgepeth swim Women, 100 meters back
women, 200 meters back
Amanda Beard swim Women, 100 meters breast
women, 200 meters breast
Allison Wagner swim Women, 400 meter medley
Jair Lynch do gymnastics Ingots
Amy Chow do gymnastics Uneven bars
Michael Dodd & Mike Whitmarsh beach volleyball Men's tournament

Bronze medal.svg bronze

Name / s sport competition
Seth Greisinger, Chad Allen, Andrew Jay Hinch, Robert Allen Dickey, Kris Benson, Troy Glaus, Jason Williams, Kip Harkrider, Jacque Jones, Billy Koch, Mark Kotsay, Mall LeCroy, Travis Lee, Braden Looper, Brian Lloyd, Warren Morris, Augie Ojeda, Jim Parque, Jeff Weaver, Chad Green baseball Men's tournament
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Boxing Featherweight
Terrance Cauthen Boxing lightweight
Roshii Wells Boxing medium weight
Antonio Tarver Boxing Light heavyweight
Nate Jones Boxing Heavyweight
Jimmy Pedro Judo lightweight
Calvin Davis athletics 400 meter hurdles
Joe Greene athletics Long jump
Gwen Torrence athletics Women, 100 meters
Tonja Buford-Bailey athletics Women, 400 meter hurdles
Jackie Joyner-Kersee athletics Women, long jump
Susan DeMattei Cycling Women, mountain bikes, cross-country
Robert Dover , Michelle Gibson , Steffen Peters & Guenter Seidel horse riding Dressage, team
Kerry Millikin horse riding Versatility, single
Bruce Baumgartner Wrestling Super heavyweight, freestyle
Marc Schneider , Jeffrey Pfaendtner , David Collins & William Carlucci rowing Lightweight four without a helmsman
Lance Bade shoot Trap
Angel Martino swim Women, 100 meters freestyle
women, 100 meters butterfly
Courtenay Becker-Dey sailing Women, Europe
Jim Barton , Jeff Madrigali & Kent Massey sailing Soling
Dominique Dawes do gymnastics Women, floor exercise
Mark Lenzi Diving Jumping
Mary Ellen Clark Diving Diving

Participants by sport

badminton badminton

baseball baseball

basketball basketball

Archery Archery

Boxing Boxing

fencing fencing

  • Cliff Bayer
    Foil, singles: 34th place
    Foil, team: 10th place
  • Peter Devine
    Foil, singles: 37th place
    Foil, team: 10th place
  • Nick Bravin
    Foil, singles: 39th place
    Foil, team: 10th place
  • Jim Carpenter
    Epee, singles: 25th place
    Epee, team: 8th place
  • Mike Marx
    Epee, singles: 28th place
    Epee, team: 8th place
  • Tamir Bloom
    Epee, singles: 31st place
    Epee, team: 8th place
  • Peter Cox junior
    Saber, singles: 28th place
    Saber, team: 9th place
  • Tom Strzalkowski
    Saber, single: 34th place
    Saber, team: 9th place
  • Peter Westbrook
    Saber, single: 37th place
    Saber, team: 9th place
  • Ann Marsh
    Women, foil, singles: 7th place
    Women, foil, team: 10th place
  • Felicia Zimmermann
    Women, foil, singles: 21st place
    Women, foil, team: 10th place
  • Suzanne Paxton
    Women, foil, singles: 33rd place
    Women, foil, team: 10th place
  • Leslie Marx
    Women, swords, singles: 16th place
    Women, epee, team: 8th place
  • Nhi Lan Le
    Women, swords, singles: 37th place
    Women, epee, team: 8th place
  • Elaine Cheris
    Women, swords, singles: 39th place
    Women, epee, team: 8th place

Soccer Soccer

Weightlifting Weightlifting

Handball Handball

hockey hockey

Judo Judo

canoe canoe

  • Wayne Dickert
    Two-man canoe, slalom: 11th place
  • Traci Phillips
    Women, single kayak, 500 meters: semifinals
  • DeAnne Hemmens
    Women, two-person kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals
    Women, four-man kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals
  • Lia Rousset
    Women, two-person kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals
    Women, four-man kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals
  • Alexandra Harbold
    Women, four-man kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals
  • Drusilla van Hengel
    Women, four-man kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals
  • Dana Chladek
    Women, single kayak, slalom: silver silver
  • Cathy Hearn
    Women, single kayak, slalom: 7th place

athletics athletics

Modern pentathlon Modern pentathlon

Cycling Cycling

horse riding horse riding

Rhythmic sports gymnastics Rhythmic sports gymnastics

Wrestling Wrestling

rowing rowing

shoot shoot

swim swim

  • Gary Hall Junior
    50 meters freestyle: silver silver
    100 meter freestyle: silver silver
    4 × 100 meter freestyle: gold gold
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • David Fox
    50 meter freestyle: 6th place
    4 × 100 meter freestyle: gold gold
  • Jon Olsen
    100 meters freestyle: 9th place
    4 × 100 meter freestyle: gold gold
    4 × 200 meter freestyle: gold gold
  • Josh Davis
    200 meters freestyle: 7th place
    4 × 100 meter freestyle: gold gold
    4 × 200 meter freestyle: gold gold
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • John Piersma
    200 meters freestyle: 12th place
    400 meters freestyle: 9th place
  • Tom Dolan
    400 meters freestyle: 17th place
    200 meter medley: 7th place
    400 meter medley: gold gold
  • Peter Wright
    1500 meters freestyle: 12th place
  • Carlton Bruner
    1500 meters freestyle: 12th place
  • Brad Schumacher
    4 × 100 meter freestyle: gold gold
    4 × 200 meter freestyle: gold gold
  • Scott Tucker
    4 × 100 meter freestyle: gold gold
  • Joe Hudepohl
    4 × 200 meter freestyle: gold gold
  • Ryan Berube
    4 × 200 meter freestyle: gold gold
  • Jeff Rouse
    100 meters back: gold gold
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • Tripp pan
    100 meters back: 5th place
    200 meter back: silver silver
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • Brad Bridgewater
    200 meters back: gold gold
  • Jeremy Linn
    100 meters chest: silver silver
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • Kurt Grote
    100 meters chest: 6th place
    200 meters chest: 8th place
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • Eric Wunderlich
    200 meters chest: 7th place
  • Mark Henderson
    100 meter butterfly: 9th place
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • John Hargis
    100 meter butterfly: 16th place
    4 × 100 meter layers: gold gold
  • Tom Malchow
    200 meter butterfly: silver silver
  • Ray Carey
    200 meter butterfly: 21st place
  • Greg Burgess
    200 meter medley: 6th place
  • Eric Namesnik
    400 meter layers: silver silver
  • Amy Van Dyken
    Women, 50 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 100 meters freestyle: 4th place
    Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 100 meters butterfly: gold gold
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Angel Martino
    Women, 50 meters freestyle: 4th place
    Women, 100 meters freestyle: bronze bronze
    Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 100 meters butterfly: bronze bronze
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Trina Jackson
    Women, 200 meters freestyle: 4th place
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 200 meters butterfly: 8th place
  • Cristina Teuscher
    Women, 200 meters freestyle: 6th place
    Women, 400 meters freestyle: 8th place
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
  • Janet Evans
    Women, 400 meters freestyle: 17th place
    Women, 800 meters freestyle: 6th place
  • Brooke Bennett
    Women, 800 meters freestyle: gold gold
  • Catherine Fox
    Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Jenny Thompson
    Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Lisa Jacob
    Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
  • Melanie Valerio
    Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: gold gold
  • Sheila Taormina
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
  • Annette Salmeen
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
    Women, 200 meters butterfly: 12th place
  • Ashley Whitney
    Women, 4 × 200 meters freestyle: gold gold
  • Beth Botsford
    Women, 100 meters back: gold gold
    Women, 200 meters back: 10th place
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Whitney Hedgepeth
    Women, 100 meters back: silver silver
    Women, 200 meters back: silver silver
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Amanda Beard
    Women, 100 meters chest: silver silver
    Women, 200 meters chest: silver silver
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Kristine Quance
    Women, 100 meters chest: 19th place
    Women, 200 meter medley: 9th place
    Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: gold gold
  • Jilen Siroky
    Women, 200 meters chest: 15th place
  • Allison Wagner
    Women, 200 meter medley: 6th place
    Women, 400 meter medley: silver silver
  • Whitney Metzler
    400 meter medley: 8th place

sailing sailing

Softball Softball

Synchronized swimming Synchronized swimming

tennis tennis

Table tennis Table tennis

do gymnastics do gymnastics

  • John Roethlisberger
    Individual all-around: 7th place
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Bars: 13th place in qualification
    Floor: 10th place in qualification
    Horse jump: 29th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 9th place in qualification
    Rings: 11th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 45th place in qualification
  • Blaine Wilson
    Individual all-around: 10th place
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Bars: 29th place in qualification
    Floor: 50th place in qualification
    Horse jump: 20th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 18th place in qualification
    Rings: 7th place
    Pommel horse: 25th place in qualification
  • John MacReady
    Individual all-around: 29th place
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Bars: 73rd place in qualification
    Floor: 34th place in qualification
    Horse jump: 76th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 27th place in qualification
    Rings: 44th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 50th place in qualification
  • Jair Lynch
    Individual all-around: 65th place in qualification
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Ingot: silver silver
    Floor: 14th place in qualification
    Horse jump: 25th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 104th place in qualification
    Rings: 64th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 22nd place in qualification
  • Kip Simons
    Individual all-around: 80th place in qualification
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Bars: 39th place in qualification
    Floor: 60th place in qualification
    Horse jump: 42nd place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 38th place in qualification
    Rings: 17th place in qualification
  • Chainey Umphrey
    Individual all-around: 95th place in qualification
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Bars: 104th place in qualification
    Floor: 64th place in qualification
    Horse jump: 103rd place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 99th place in qualification
    Rings: 25th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 62nd place in qualification
  • Mihai Bagiu
    Individual all-around: 108th place in qualification
    Team all-around competition: 5th place
    Bars: 102nd place in qualification
    Horse jump: 97th place in qualification
    Horizontal bar: 68th place in qualification
    Pommel horse: 56th place in qualification
  • Shannon Miller
    Women, individual all-around: 8th place
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, floor: 18th place in qualification
    Women, horse jump: 8th place
    Women, balance beam: gold gold
    Women, uneven bars: 9th place in qualification
  • Dominique Moceanu
    Women, individual all-around: 9th place
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, floor: 4th place
    Women, horse jump: 48th place in qualification
    Women, balance beam: 6th place
    Women, uneven bars: 11th place in qualification
  • Dominique Dawes
    Women, individual all-around: 17th place
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, bottom: bronze bronze
    Women, horse jumping: 6th place
    Women, balance beam: 11th place in qualification
    Women, uneven bars: 4th place
  • Kerri Strug
    Women, individual all-around: 7th place in the qualification
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, floor: 1st place in qualification
    Women, horse jump: 5th place in the qualification
    Women, balance beam: 15th place in qualification
    Women, uneven bars: 14th place
  • Jaycie Phelps
    Women, individual all-around: 17th place in qualification
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, floor: 15th place in qualification
    Women, horse jump: 21st place in the qualification
    Women, balance beam: 38th place in qualification
    Women, uneven bars: 13th place
  • Amy Chow
    Women, individual all-around: 95th place in qualification
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, horse jump: 11th place in qualification
    Women, balance beam: silver silver
  • Amanda Borden
    Women, individual all-around: 97th place in qualification
    Women, team all-around: gold gold
    Women, floor: 10th place in qualification
    Women, balance beam: 19th place in qualification

beach volleyball beach volleyball

Volleyball (hall) Volleyball (hall)

Water polo Water polo

Diving Diving

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Participant in the 1996 Olympic Games
Africa

Algeria  • Angola  • Egypt  • Equatorial Guinea  • Ethiopia  • Benin  • Botswana  • Burkina Faso  • Burundi  • Djibouti  • Ivory Coast  • Gabon  • Gambia  • Ghana  • Guinea  • Guinea-Bissau  • Cameroon  • Cape Verde  • Kenya  • Comoros  • Lesotho  • Liberia  • Libya  • Madagascar  • Malawi  • Mali  • Morocco  • Mauritania  • Mauritius  • Mozambique  • Namibia  • Niger  • Nigeria  • Republic of the Congo  • Rwanda  • Zambia  • São Tomé and Príncipe  • Senegal  • Seychelles  • Sierra Leone  • Zimbabwe  • Somalia  • South Africa  • Sudan  • Swaziland  • Tanzania  • Togo  • Chad  • Tunisia  • Uganda  • Zaire  • Central African Republic

America

American Virgin Islands  • Antigua and Barbuda  • Argentina  • Aruba  • Bahamas  • Barbados  • Belize  • Bermuda  • Bolivia  • Brazil  • British Virgin Islands  • Cayman Islands  • Chile  • Costa Rica  • Dominica  • Dominican Republic  • Ecuador  • El Salvador  • Grenada  • Guatemala  • Guyana  • Haiti  • Honduras  • Jamaica  • Canada  • Colombia  • Cuba  • Mexico  • Nicaragua  • Netherlands Antilles  • Panama  • Paraguay  • Peru  • Puerto Rico  • St. Kitts and Nevis  • Saint Lucia  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines  • Suriname  • Trinidad and Tobago  • Uruguay  • Venezuela  • United States

Asia

Afghanistan  • Bahrain  • Bangladesh  • Bhutan  • Brunei  • China  • Chinese Taipei  • Hong Kong  • India  • Indonesia  • Iraq  • Iran  • Japan  • Yemen  • Jordan  • Cambodia  • Kazakhstan  • Qatar  • Kyrgyzstan  • Kuwait  • Laos  • Lebanon  • Malaysia  • Maldives  • Mongolia  • Myanmar  • Nepal  • North Korea  • Oman  • Pakistan  • Palestine  • Philippines  • Saudi Arabia  • Singapore  • Sri Lanka  • South Korea  • Syria  • Tajikistan  • Thailand  • Turkmenistan  • Uzbekistan  • United Arab Emirates  • Vietnam

Europe

Albania  • Andorra  • Armenia  • Azerbaijan  • Belgium  • Bosnia and Herzegovina  • Bulgaria  • Denmark  • Germany  • Estonia  • Finland  • France  • Georgia  • Greece  • Great Britain  • Ireland  • Iceland  • Israel  • Italy  • Yugoslavia  • Croatia  • Latvia  • Liechtenstein  • Lithuania  • Luxembourg  • Malta  • Macedonia  • Moldova  • Monaco  • Netherlands  • Norway  • Austria  • Poland  • Portugal  • Romania  • Russia  • San Marino  • Sweden  • Switzerland  • Slovakia  • Slovenia  • Spain  • Czech Republic  • Turkey  • Ukraine  • Hungary  • Belarus  • Cyprus

Oceania

American Samoa  • Australia  • Cook Islands  • Fiji  • Guam  • Nauru  • New Zealand  • Papua New Guinea  • Solomon Islands  • Samoa  • Tonga  • Vanuatu

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