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The1996 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were an international summermulti-sport event held inAtlanta ,Georgia , United States from July 19 to August 4, 1996.[ 1] National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[ 2] sports across 37 disciplines, including the Olympic debuts ofbeach volleyball ,mountain biking andsoftball .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] Soviet republics participating for the first time as independent nations.[ 6]
79 nations received at least one medal, with 53 of them winning at least one gold medal, both of which were new records.[ 7] [ 8] Armenia ,[ 9] Belarus ,[ 10] Burundi ,[ 11] Costa Rica ,[ 12] Croatia ,[ 13] Czech Republic ,[ 14] Ecuador ,[ 15] Hong Kong ,[ 16] Kazakhstan ,[ 17] Nigeria ,[ 18] Slovakia ,[ 19] Syria ,[ 20] Thailand ,[ 21] Ukraine won their nations' first Summer Olympic gold medals.[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 11] [ 14] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27] [ 19] [ 22] Azerbaijan ,[ 28] Georgia ,[ 29] Moldova ,[ 30] Mozambique ,[ 31] Tonga ,[ 32] Uzbekistan won their first Summer Olympic medals.[ 33]
Athletes from the host nation of theUnited States won the most gold medals, with 44, and the most medals overall, with 101.[ 34] 1984 and the first at a non-boycotted Olympics since1968 .[ 4] [ 35] Amy Van Dyken won the most gold medals with four, while Russian gymnastAlexei Nemov won the most medals overall with six (two gold, one silver, and three bronze).[ 36]
Russian gymnastAlexei Nemov , pictured here in 2009, won six medals at the 1996 games (two gold, one silver, and three bronze medals), the most of any competing athlete.[ 36] American gymnastShannon Miller , pictured here in 2013, won gold in the women'sartistic team all-round andbalance beam at the 1996 games.[ 37] 1992 Summer Olympics .[ 38] British rowerSteve Redgrave , pictured here in 2011, won themen's coxless pair rowing competition, which was his fourth consecutive victory in the event andGreat Britain 's only gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.[ 39] [ 40] American sprinterMichael Johnson , pictured here in 1995, won two gold medals in the men's200 metres and400 metres events.[ 41] The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic 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.[ 42] [ 43] IOC country code .[ 44]
Events inboxing resulted in bronze medals being awarded to each of the competitors who lost their semi-final matches, as opposed to them taking part in athird place tiebreaker .[ 45] judo used arepechage system which also resulted in two bronze medals being awarded.[ 46]
In themen's rings andwomen's uneven bars events, there were ties for second place which resulted in two silver medals and no bronze medals being issued in each event.[ 47] [ 48] women's artistic individual all-around , two bronze medals were awarded due to a tie.[ 49] men's horizontal bars , three bronze medals were awarded due to a tie.[ 50]
* Host nation (United States )
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