United States at the Olympics

United States at the Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
Website	www.teamusa.org
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 1,174 Silver 952 Bronze 833 Total 2,959
Summer appearances
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

United States at the Olympics is a history which starts in the 1890s.

The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for the United States is USA.^[1]

History

The United States has been to every Olympic Games, except the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States.

Thomas 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. US athlete Michael Phelps has won the most medals of any Olympic athlete of any nation. He has 22 Olympic medals, including 18 golds.

American athletes have won a total of 2400 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 253 at the Winter Olympic Games.

Hosted Games

The United States has hosted the Games eight times, 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 7–15	17	252	14
1932 Summer Olympics	Los Angeles, California	July 30 – August 14	37	1332	117
1960 Winter Olympics	Squaw Valley, California	February 2–20	30	665	27
1980 Winter Olympics	Lake Placid, New York	February 13–24	37	1072	38
1984 Summer Olympics	Los Angeles, California	July 20 – August 18	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

Related pages

• List of IOC country codes

References

1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120212112626/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1964/or1964v2pt1.pdf Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine "Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964, [p. 9 of 409 PDF]]; retrieved 2012-8-18.

Other websites

Media related to United States at the Olympic Games at Wikimedia Commons

• "United States Olympic Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
• United States of America profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine