How Many Countries Have Won Medals at Each Olympic Games?

How Many Countries Have Won Medals at Each Olympic Games?

At the primary Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the one nations represented within the swimming competitors have been Greece, Austria, Hungary and the United States. Only the U.S. was locked out of the medals. Fast ahead 128 years, to the 2024 Games in Paris. In the French capital, 19 nations despatched at the least one athlete to the rostrum, led by Team USA with 28 medals.

Over the previous 10 Summer Games, spanning 1988 in Seoul by means of the 2024 Games in Paris, the variety of nations claiming at the least one swimming medal has ranged from 18 to 22. Those figures point out consistency over the previous three-plus many years, with 21 medaling nations the whole in 2008 (Beijing), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro) and 2020 (Tokyo).

The first two Games of the Nineteen Eighties featured boycotts, the United States main opposition of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and the Soviet Union fronting an Eastern-Bloc denial of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. When the world acquired again collectively for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, a file was set with 22 nations showing on the rostrum. That mark has not been eclipsed, even with the variety of occasions rising.

The addition of the 50-meter stroke occasions to the 2028 Games in Los Angeles will convey the variety of occasions to 41. It might be fascinating to see if this newest progress promotes a better variety of medal-winning nations, or if that determine will stay in current vary resulting from same-nation dominance.

Here is a year-by-year have a look at what number of nations have medaled at every Olympic Games:

1896-3
1900-8
1904-5
1908-8
1912-7
1920-7
1924-6
1928-12
1932-10
1936-7
1948-7
1952-12
1956-8
1960-8
1964-8
1968-11
1972-11
1976-8
1980-11
1984-13
1988-22
1992-18
1996-19
2000-18
2004-20
2008-21
2012-19
2016-21
2020-21
2024-19