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1996 Summer Olympics medal table


The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from 19 July to 4 August 1996. A total of 10,318 athletes from 197 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), competed in 271 events in 26 sports.

Athletes from 79 NOCs won at least one medal, leaving 118 countries without a medal. The United States won the most gold medals (44), as well as the most medals overall (101). It also won its first medal in a women's' team sport, the victorious gymnastics team later being referred to as the Magnificent Seven. Donovan Bailey of Canada set a world record in the men's 100m race (9.84 seconds). Michael Johnson of the United States also set a world record in the 200m race (19.32 seconds) and Naim Suleymanoglu from Turkey also set the record of three consecutive Olympic titles in weightlifting.

Armenia, Belarus, The Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Slovakia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan were represented for the first time at a Summer Games. Czech Republic and Slovakia had competed previously as Czechoslovakia, and the other nations were formerly part of Soviet Union. Of these, only Kyrgyzstan did not receive any medals.


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