1992 Summer Olympics medal table
1992 Summer Olympics medals | |
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Location | Barcelona, Spain |
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Most gold medals | Unified Team (45) |
Most total medals | Unified Team (112) |
Medalling NOCs | 64 |
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The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. [1] A total of 9,356 athletes representing 169 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[2] The games featured 257 events in 25 sports and 34 disciplines. Badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics and Baseball were included as official medal events for the first time ever.
Athletes representing 64 NOCs received at least one medal, with 37 of them winning at least one gold medal. South Africa competed in the Olympics for the first time since 1960 due to the fall of apartheid. Latvia and Estonia competed as independent countries for the first time since 1936, and Lithuania competed independently for the first time since 1928. During the Cold War they were illegally occupied by the Soviet Union. Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Slovenia competed independently (as opposed to as a part of Yugoslavia) for the first time.[3]
The Unified Team (ex-USSR countries that competed together because the Soviet Union broke up several months before the start of the games) won the most medals overall, 112, as well as the most gold medals, 45.[4] Unified Team gymnast Vitaly Shcherbo won the most gold and overall medals among individual participants, with six.[5]
Medal table
[edit]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.[6][7] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[8]
- Key
‡ Changes in medal standings (see below)
* Host nation (Spain)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Unified Team‡ | 45 | 38 | 29 | 112 |
2 | United States | 37 | 34 | 37 | 108 |
3 | Germany | 33 | 21 | 28 | 82 |
4 | China | 16 | 22 | 16 | 54 |
5 | Cuba | 14 | 6 | 11 | 31 |
6 | Spain* | 13 | 7 | 2 | 22 |
7 | South Korea | 12 | 5 | 12 | 29 |
8 | Hungary | 11 | 12 | 7 | 30 |
9 | France | 8 | 5 | 16 | 29 |
10 | Australia | 7 | 9 | 11 | 27 |
11 | Canada | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
12 | Italy | 6 | 5 | 8 | 19 |
13 | Great Britain | 5 | 3 | 12 | 20 |
14 | Romania | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 |
15 | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
16 | North Korea | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
17 | Japan | 3 | 8 | 11 | 22 |
18 | Bulgaria | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
19 | Poland | 3 | 6 | 10 | 19 |
20 | Netherlands | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 |
21 | Kenya | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
22 | Norway | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
23 | Turkey | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
24 | Indonesia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
25 | Brazil | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
26 | Greece | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
27 | Sweden | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
28 | New Zealand | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
29 | Finland | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
30 | Denmark | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
31 | Morocco | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
32 | Ireland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
33 | Ethiopia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
34 | Algeria | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Estonia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
37 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
38 | Jamaica | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Nigeria | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
40 | Latvia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
41 | Austria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Namibia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
South Africa | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
44 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Croatia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Independent Olympic Participants | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Iran | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
48 | Israel | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
49 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Mexico | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Peru | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
52 | Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
54 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Bahamas | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ghana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Philippines | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Qatar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Suriname | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Thailand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (64 entries) | 260 | 257 | 298 | 815 |
Changes in medal standings
[edit]Sport/event | Athlete (NOC) | Net change | Comment | |||
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Weightlifting, men's 82.5 kg | Ibragim Samadov (EUN) | −1 | −1 | Medal vacated, not re-assigned. |
See also
[edit]- All-time Olympic Games medal table
- List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners
- 1992 Winter Olympics medal table
References
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