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The United States (USA) has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games, except the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States.

Tom Burke was the first athlete to represent the United States at the Olympics. He took first place in both the 100 meters and the 400 meters of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

American athletes have won a total of 2298 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 216 at the Winter Olympic Games. More medals have been won in athletics (track and field) (738, 29%) and swimming (489, 19%) than any others. The United States is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Winter Olympics but has only won the total medal count at Lake Placid in the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Contents 1 Hosted Games 2 Medal tables 2.1 Medals by Summer Games 2.2 Medals by Winter Games 2.3 Medals by summer sport 2.4 Medals by winter sport 3 Flagbearer 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Hosted Games

The United States has hosted the Games on eight occasions, four times each for the Summer and Winter Games:

Games	Host city	Dates	Nations	Participants	Events
1904 Summer Olympics	St. Louis, Missouri	July 1 – November 23	12	651	91
1932 Winter Olympics	Lake Placid, New York	February 4–15	17	252	14
1932 Summer Olympics	Los Angeles, California	July 30 – August 14	37	1332	117
1960 Winter Olympics	Squaw Valley, California	February 18–28	30	665	27
1980 Winter Olympics	Lake Placid, New York	February 13–24	37	1072	38
1984 Summer Olympics	Los Angeles, California	July 28 – August 12	140	6829	221
1996 Summer Olympics	Atlanta, Georgia	July 18 – August 4	197	10318	271
2002 Winter Olympics	Salt Lake City, Utah	February 8–24	77	2399	78

[edit] Medal tables

[edit] Medals by Summer Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1896 Athens	11	7	2	20	1
1900 Paris	19	14	14	47	2
1904 St. Louis (host nation)	79	83	80	242	1
1908 London	23	12	12	47	2
1912 Stockholm	25	19	19	63	1
1920 Antwerp	41	27	27	95	1
1924 Paris	45	27	27	99	1
1928 Amsterdam	22	18	16	56	1
1932 Los Angeles (host nation)	41	32	30	103	1
1936 Berlin	24	20	12	56	2
1948 London	38	27	19	84	1
1952 Helsinki	40	19	17	76	1
1956 Melbourne/Stockholm	32	25	17	74	2
1960 Rome	34	21	16	71	2
1964 Tokyo	36	26	28	90	1
1968 Mexico City	45	28	34	107	1
1972 Munich	33	31	30	94	2
1976 Montreal	34	35	25	94	3
1980 Moscow	did not participate				-
1984 Los Angeles (host nation)	83	61	30	174	1
1988 Seoul	36	31	27	94	3
1992 Barcelona	37	34	37	108	2
1996 Atlanta (host nation)	44	32	25	101	1
2000 Sydney	36	24	31	91	1
2004 Athens	36	39	27	102	1
2008 Beijing	36	38	36	110	2
Total*	930	730	638	2298	1

[edit] Medals by Winter Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1924 Chamonix	1	2	1	4	5
1928 St. Moritz	2	2	2	6	2
1932 Lake Placid (host nation)	6	4	2	12	1
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	1	0	3	4	8
1948 St. Moritz	3	4	2	9	4
1952 Oslo	4	6	1	11	2
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	2	3	2	7	6
1960 Squaw Valley (host nation)	3	4	3	10	3
1964 Innsbruck	1	2	3	6	8
1968 Grenoble	1	5	1	7	9
1972 Sapporo	3	2	3	8	5
1976 Innsbruck	3	3	4	10	3
1980 Lake Placid (host nation)	6	4	2	12	3
1984 Sarajevo	4	4	0	8	3
1988 Calgary	2	1	3	6	9
1992 Albertville	5	4	2	11	5
1994 Lillehammer	6	5	2	13	5
1998 Nagano	6	3	4	13	5
2002 Salt Lake City (host nation)	10	13	11	34	3
2006 Turin	9	9	7	25	2
Total*	78	80	58	216	2

[edit] Medals by summer sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	311	238	189	738
Swimming	214	155	120	489
Wrestling	50	43	32	125
Shooting	50	29	24	103
Diving	48	41	42	131
Boxing	48	23	38	109
Rowing	31	31	22	84
Gymnastics	30	35	30	95
Sailing	19	23	17	59
Basketball	19	2	3	24
Tennis	17	5	10	32
Weightlifting	16	16	11	43
Cycling	14	15	21	50
Archery	14	9	8	31
Equestrian	11	20	18	49
Volleyball	8	3	3	14
Canoeing	5	5	6	16
Synchronized swimming	5	2	2	9
Golf	3	3	4	10
Football	3	2	1	6
Softball	3	1	0	4
Fencing	2	7	11	20
Taekwondo	2	2	2	6
Rugby	2	0	0	2
Water polo	1	6	5	12
Tug of war	1	1	1	3
Roque	1	1	1	3
Baseball	1	0	2	3
Jeu de paume	1	0	0	1
Modern pentathlon	0	6	3	9
Judo	0	3	7	10
Polo	0	1	1	2
Lacrosse	0	1	0	1
Field hockey	0	0	2	2
Triathlon	0	0	1	1
Total*	930	729	637	2296

[edit] Medals by winter sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Speed skating	28	20	15	63
Figure skating	13	15	16	44
Alpine skiing	12	15	4	31
Bobsleigh	6	6	6	18
Snowboarding	5	4	5	14
Freestyle skiing	4	4	2	10
Short track speed skating	4	3	5	12
Ice hockey	3	8	2	13
Skeleton	3	3	0	6
Luge	0	2	2	4
Cross-country skiing	0	1	0	1
Ski jumping	0	0	1	1
Curling	0	0	1	1
Total*	78	81	59	218

*Total medal counts include two medals – one silver and one bronze – awarded in the ice hockey and figure skating events at the 1920 Summer Olympics. These medals are included in the summer games medal totals and the winter sport medal totals. This is why the totals for summer and winter games do not match the totals for summer and winter sports.

[edit] Flagbearer

Games	Athlete	Sport
1908 London	Ralph Rose	Athletics
1908 Stockholm	George Bonhag	Athletics
1920 Antwerp	Patrick McDonald	Athletics
1924 Paris	Patrick McDonald	Athletics
1928 Amsterdam	Bud Houser	Athletics
1932 Los Angeles	Morgan Taylor	Athletics
1936 Berlin	Al Jochim	Gymnastics
1948 London	Ralph Craig	Sailing
1952 Helsinki	Norman Armitage	Fencing
1956 Melbourne	Norman Armitage [1]	Fencing
1960 Rome	Rafer Johnson	Athletics
1964 Tokyo	Parry O'Brien	Athletics
1968 Mexico City	Janice Romary [2]	Fencing
1972 Munich	Olga Fikotova Connolly	Athletics
1976 Montreal	Gary Hall, Sr.	Swimming
1980 Moscow	USA did not participate	-
1984 Los Angeles	Ed Burke	Athletics
1988 Seoul	Evelyn Ashford	Athletics
1992 Barcelona	Francie Larrieu-Smith	Athletics
1996 Atlanta	Bruce Baumgartner	Wrestling
2000 Sydney	Cliff Meidl	Canoeing
2004 Athens	Dawn Staley	Basketball
2008 Beijing	Lopez Lomong	Athletics

[edit] See also

• Category:Olympic competitors for the United States

[edit] References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp. Retrieved 2007-10-11. 
• "United States Olympic Committee". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/noc/noc_uk.asp?noc_initials=USA. Retrieved 2007-10-11. 

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