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Games: 27 summer games in 19 countries
Events: 625 distinct events in 52 sports

Participants: 102,818 (80,129 men and 22,689 women) from 226 countries
Youngest Participant: GRE Dimitrios Loundras (10 years, 216 days), 1896 Summer Games
Oldest Participant: CAN Tait McKenzie (81 years, 64 days), 1948 Summer Games
Most Medals (Athlete): URS Larisa Latynina (18 medals)
Most Medals (Country): USA United States (2318 medals)

27 Games

Glossary ▪ CSV ▪ PRE
Year City Country Countries Participants Men Women Sports Events
2008 Beijing China 204 10,902 6,294 4,608 34 303
2004 Athina Greece 201 10,558 6,257 4,301 34 301
2000 Sydney Australia 200 10,647 6,579 4,068 34 300
1996 Atlanta United States 197 10,329 6,817 3,512 31 271
1992 Barcelona Spain 169 9,385 6,662 2,723 29 257
1988 Seoul South Korea 159 8,453 6,251 2,202 27 237
1984 Los Angeles United States 140 6,794 5,224 1,570 25 221
1980 Moskva Soviet Union 80 5,253 4,133 1,120 23 203
1976 Montréal Canada 92 6,071 4,811 1,260 23 198
1972 München West Germany 121 7,113 6,053 1,060 23 195
1968 Ciudad de México Mexico 112 5,553 4,770 783 20 172
1964 Tokyo Japan 93 5,136 4,456 680 21 163
1960 Roma Italy 83 5,349 4,737 612 19 150
1956 Melbourne Australia 67 3,187 2,817 370 18 145
1952 Helsinki Finland 69 4,931 4,410 521 19 149
1948 London Great Britain 59 4,369 3,934 435 21 149
1936 Berlin Germany 49 4,460 4,100 360 24 143
1932 Los Angeles United States 41 1,876 1,678 198 18 126
1928 Amsterdam Netherlands 46 3,253 2,941 312 17 120
1924 Paris France 45 3,256 3,106 150 20 130
1920 Antwerpen Belgium 29 2,675 2,597 78 25 160
1912 Stockholm Sweden 29 2,409 2,356 53 17 107
1908 London Great Britain 22 2,024 1,980 44 24 109
1906 Athina Greece 21 840 834 6 13 74
1904 St. Louis United States 14 650 644 6 18 94
1900 Paris France 29 1,224 1,201 23 20 95
1896 Athina Greece 12 176 176 0 9 43

Athlete Medal Leaders

Glossary ▪ CSV ▪ PRE
Athlete Gold Silver Bronze Total
Larisa Latynina (URS) 9 5 4 18
Michael Phelps (USA) 14 0 2 16
Nikolay Andrianov (URS) 7 5 3 15
Boris Shakhlin (URS) 7 4 2 13
Edoardo Mangiarotti (ITA) 6 5 2 13
Takashi Ono (JPN) 5 4 4 13
Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 9 3 0 12
Birgit Fischer-Schmidt (GDR, GER) 8 4 0 12
Sawao Kato (JPN) 8 3 1 12
Jenny Thompson (USA) 8 3 1 12
Dara Torres (USA) 4 4 4 12
Aleksey Nemov (RUS) 4 2 6 12

Country Medal Leaders

Glossary ▪ CSV ▪ PRE
Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States 942 736 640 2318
Soviet Union 395 319 296 1010
Great Britain 216 272 256 744
France 212 226 259 697
Germany 202 229 250 681
Italy 203 169 179 551
Sweden 143 165 181 489
Hungary 162 148 162 472
Australia 131 140 168 439
East Germany 153 129 127 409