Athletics (Track & Field)

The events - men:

The events - women:

The Games:
total men women
comp prev tot comp prev tot comp prev tot
Athina 1896 63 - 63 63 - 63
Paris 1900 119 7 175 119 7 175
St. Louis 1904 118 7 286 118 7 286
Athina 1906 233 28 491 233 28 491
London 1908 431 66 856 431 66 856
Stockholm 1912 534 83 1307 534 83 1307
Antwerpen 1920 509 40 1776 509 40 1776
Paris 1924 659 116 2319 659 116 2319
Amsterdam 1928 706 131 2894 611 131 2799 95 - 95
Los Angeles 1932 386 82 3198 332 74 3057 54 8 141
Berlin 1936 775 106 3867 677 93 3641 98 13 226
London 1948 746 28 4585 602 21 4222 144 7 363
Helsinki 1952 963 182 5366 776 151 4847 187 31 519
Melbourne 1956 720 168 5918 573 135 5285 147 33 633
Roma 1960 1016 248 6686 812 193 5904 204 55 782
Tokyo 1964 1018 276 7428 782 210 6476 236 66 952
Ciudad de México 1968 1029 269 8188 786 202 7060 243 67 1128
München 1972 1330 340 9178 961 245 7776 369 95 1402
Montréal 1976 1006 314 9870 703 213 8266 303 101 1604
Moskva 1980 960 212 10618 694 137 8823 266 75 1795
Los Angeles 1984
Soul 1988
Barcelona 1992
Atlanta 1996
Sydney 2000
Athina 2004
Beijing 2008
London 2012
Rio de Janeiro 2016
Tokyo 2021

The countries - Men
1896 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 total
Afghanistan 2 5 7
Algeria 2 2-1 1 2-1 1-1 4-1 4 9 21
Angola 3 3
Antigua & Barbuda 8 8
Argentina 10 7 11-1 8-2 22 10-3 1 4-1 2-1 5-1 8-1 2 80
Australia 1 1 1 3 6-1 4 4 9 6-1 3 4-1 13 13-3 55-6 17-8 24-7 16-5 11-4 16-1 14-4 180
Austria 2 10 2 8-3 7-1 2 2 21-2 3 8-1 1-1 6-1 5-2 7-1 8-1 3-2 10-2 88
Azerbaijan 1 1 1-1 1 3
Bahamas 1 2-1 3-1 8-1 7-2 7-3 20
Barbados 1 2 2 7 12
Belarus 1 3 1-1 2 3-1 5-1 4 2-1 6 23
Belgium 2 6-1 2-1 42 17-7 24-5 11 16 21-4 6-2 12-3 10-5 14-3 13-6 17-7 12-6 175
Belize 2 2-1 3
Benin 1 8 9
Bermuda 4 2 7 13
Bolivia 4 1 5
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 1 2-1 1 2 1-1 2 1 9
Botswana 7 7
Brazil 1 8 19 10-3 6 7-2 6-3 4-2 1 2-1 5-1 10-1 66
Bulgaria 4 2 3 5 5-1 5-1 3-1 4 22-3 47
Burkina Faso 1 1 2
Cambodia 3 3
Cameroon 1 1 4-1 1 6
Canada 4 8 4-1 27-2 18-4 15 27-3 25-3 20-5 20-2 18 16-2 11-1 12-3 9-3 19-2 23-5 36-7 269
Central African Republic 1 1
Chad 1 1 2-1 3-2 3-1 6
Chile 6 2 3 8-2 9 11 11-2 5-1 3-1 3 6-1 1 1-1 61
China 1 21-1 1 22
Chinese Taipei 1 1-1 2 4 3-1 3-1 7-1 4-2 19
Colombia 1 5 2 4-1 4 4-2 5-2 7-2 4-2 27
Congo (Br) 2 6 6-3 11
Costa Rica 1 1-1 1
Côte d'Ivoire 6 7-4 6-3 7-2 17
Croatia 3 3 1-1 8-1 4 8-2 2-1 6-2 1-1 1 4 4-2 3-2 36
Cuba 1 1 3 5-3 1 2 2-1 12-1 8-3 18-5 13-4 49
Cyprus 1 2 2 1 1-1 2-1 1-1 3 2-1 11
Czechia 4 5 3-3 14-2 16 16-3 10-3 2-1 25-2 7-1 15-2 11-5 19-6 10-3 6-2 14-3 5-2 10-2 152
Denmark 3 4 4 8 14-1 17-1 9-3 10-2 2 10-1 10 10-2 2-2 5-1 2-1 4 10-3 3-2 2-1 109
Dominican Republic 1 9-1 1 1 11
Ecuador 3 1 4
Egypt 7 2 1 4 2 7 2 1 26
El Salvador 8 8
Estonia 4 7-2 9-4 4-1 1 7 3 3-1 1 2 3-2 1 2-1 4-1 39
Eswatini 1 1
Ethiopia 8 5-1 5-2 9-5 20-5 23-4 53
Fiji 1 2-1 1 2 1 6
Finland 3 15-1 23-4 26-8 52-16 35-9 22-8 33-10 33 56-12 19-7 25-8 15-4 8-3 27-2 25-9 23-9 330
France 4 20 1 14-1 20-5 26-7 59-5 65-13 39-15 12-5 36-4 49 39-13 23-8 23-10 30-11 30-12 41-9 38-18 22-5 450
Georgia 1 3 1-1 2 1-1 1-1 1-1 6
Germany 5 6-1 2 15-3 19-1 23-3 47 22-5 64-11 27 29-4 64-9 69-13 84-22 92-35 60-22 49-8 540
Ghana 7 7 9-2 7-4 11-4 31
Great Britain 5 9-1 16 102-4 57-13 35-4 64-6 53-16 19-4 41-8 58-6 50-15 44-14 45-10 44-10 48-12 45-13 31-8 39-13 648
Greece 30 3-3 10 75-4 12-8 5-3 9-1 10-3 12-5 6-2 11-1 13-1 11-5 6-1 19-5 5-3 7-1 9-2 8-2 6-1 216
Guatemala 5 5 3-2 11
Guinea 3 3
Guyana 2 1-1 1-1 1 1 3 1 1 9
Haiti 3 2-2 2-2 6 7 16
Honduras 6 3 9
Hong Kong 4 4
Hungary 2 8 2-1 8-2 14-2 18-6 16-1 25-3 5-2 24-3 11-1 29-8 17-10 19-6 20-6 19-8 21-8 10-4 15-3 209
Iceland 1 1 4 12 9-2 2 7-2 2-1 3-2 3 5-1 4-2 43
India 1 3 7 7-2 4 4 8 6 7-1 11-1 12-3 2 7-1 4-1 9-3 80
Indonesia 1 3 1-1 4
Iran 1 2-1 1 5 1 3 4-1 15
Iraq 2 11 4-2 6 21
Ireland 1 3 3-1 24-2 4 5-1 10 10-2 4-1 10 2-1 2 8-1 6-1 5-1 10-1 6-3 7-1 104
Israel 4 1 5-1 3-1 1 1-1 12
Italy 2 6 12-4 12-1 24-3 36-8 18-8 21-8 27-4 17-2 25-7 15-3 39-6 21-7 22-9 33-11 25-9 17-5 277
Jamaica 1 6 5-4 6 5-3 11-4 10-3 11-3 5-3 9-2 47
Japan 2 11-1 8-2 15-1 22-5 36-4 16 17-2 15-4 49-9 19-8 16-7 13-4 192
Kazakhstan 1 1-1 1 1-1 2 2 2 8
Kenya 8 5-4 11-1 15-5 20-10 39
Kuwait 2 2 6 8-2 16
Kyrgyzstan 1 1-1 1-1 2 3
Laos 5 5
Latvia 1 15 11-1 4-2 2 7-3 2 1-1 1 3 2-1 2-1 2-2 1 43
Lebanon 1 1 1 2 5
Lesotho 1 5 6
Liberia 4 4-3 1 5 11
Libya 1 7 8
Liechtenstein 2 2 2 2-1 2 1 10
Lithuania 4 3 4 3 2 16
Luxembourg 1 2 6 3-1 4 6 3 7-2 3-3 6 3-2 1-1 1-1 3 1-1 39
Madagascar 3 3-1 7-1 2 13
Malawi 8 8
Malaysia 8 3 10-1 10-4 6-2 3-1 32
Mali 2 1 1-1 2-1 4
Malta 2 1 3
Mexico 11 11-1 24-2 3-1 5 1 1 5 4 22 11-4 7-1 7-4 99
Moldova 1 1
Monaco 2 1 1-1 3
Mongolia 1 1 2
Montenegro 2 2 1 5
Morocco 1 1 8 4-2 4 6-2 20
Mozambique 1 7 8
Myanmar 1 1 1-1 2 2-1 2-1 1 7
Nepal 2 2 5-1 8
Netherlands 19 1 11 20-3 39-10 2-1 10-1 11-1 5-1 5-1 3-2 2 2 5 7 122
Nepal 1 1
New Zealand 3 1 2 1 2 5 3-1 3 3-1 5 10-2 10-7 8-1 13-4 7-3 57
Nicaragua 7 4-3 5-1 1 13
Nigeria 1 9 10-4 8-1 12-3 10-2 14-7 10 57
North Korea 1 2 3-1 3-2 6
Norway 2 7 11-3 21-5 16-1 10-1 13-2 3-1 11-1 19-1 18-11 5-2 10-2 4-2 3 11-1 8-2 137
Pakistan 5 16-1 17-6 12-7 6-2 5 2-2 45
Panama 1 1 1 3
Papua New Guinea 3 3
Paraguay 2 1 3
Peru 9 9 3 4-1 1-1 3 27
Philippines 1 2 1-1 6-1 1 1 2 5 5-2 2-1 1 1 23
Poland 14 11-4 4 14-2 4 20 16-3 33-11 28-11 23-11 29-7 28-11 31-7 188
Portugal 3 2 3 1 2 4 7 5 3-1 1-1 6-1 6-3 3-1 39
Puerto Rico 4 9-1 6-2 7-3 6-1 6-1 9-2 9-4 42
Romania 2 1-1 11 5 9 3-1 5 5-2 3-1 6 6-3 8-2 54
Russia 12 36 32-7 35-9 31-14 20-3 16-4 19-3 31-4 188
San Marino 1 1
Saudi Arabia 10 14-1 23
Senegal 1 1 1 12 9-5 12-4 8-5 8-2 36
Serbia 1 3 1 4 3 4 3 1 3 3 7-2 31
Seychelles 1 7 8
Sierra Leone 2 10 12
Singapore 1 2 1 1-1 3 7
Slovakia 1 1 1 4-1 8-3 2-1 1 2 1 1 1 5-1 2-2 8-2 28
Slovenia 1 4 2 1 1-1 6-1 4-1 1 3 1 21
Somalia 3 3
South Africa 3 6 7 13-2 12-3 8-2 3 14 5-2 10-1 7-1 7-2 82
South Korea 2 1 8 5-2 7-2 5-2 10-1 3-1 1 34
South Sudan 1 1 1-1 2
Spain 14 13-2 10-2 7 13 6-1 10-4 11-4 16-5 21-1 102
Sri Lanka 1 3 1 1-1 1 1 1 3 4 15
Sudan 1 1 5 7
Suriname 1 1 2-1 3
Sweden 1 8 13-1 31-8 106-13 64-8 33-13 23-8 9-4 36-4 45-1 38-12 15-6 22-9 15-5 15-1 17-6 17-6 10-1 412
Switzerland 1 1 1-1 13 17-5 9-3 3-2 19-2 20-1 26-3 21-2 12-2 20-4 19-2 6-3 13-3 168
Syria 10 10
Tanzania 4 3 7-3 11-1 21
Thailand 8 8 8-4 12-2 4 4-2 36
Togo 2 2
Trinidad & Tobago 3 3 1 6-1 8-1 9-1 10-3 9-6 37
Tunisia 11 6 3-2 4-1 21
Türkiye 1 2-1 4 5-1 12 13-5 10-2 4-3 4-1 3-1 2-1 45
Uganda 3 4 6-2 3-1 6-1 6-2 22
Ukraine 1 10 11-1 14-5 16-6 13-4 17-5 10-6 13-3 75
Uruguay 5 1-1 1 1-1 2 1 9
US Virgin Islands 1 1-1 2 1 2 6
USA 10 41-2 87-6 30-15 84-18 109-12 90-3 96-16 81-14 67-11 64-14 64-3 62-15 62-15 63-18 66-17 66-17 64-14 61-13 1044
Uzbekistan 1 1
Venezuela 7 4 7-2 6-4 6-2 9-2 1 30
Vietnam 1 2 1 3 7
Zambia 5 3 4 9-1 20
Zimbabwe 2 3 4 9
switchers -1 0-2 -3
total 63
119
-7
118
-7
233
-28
431
-66
534
-83
509
-40
659
-116
611
-131
332
-74
677
-93
602
-21
776
-151
573
-135
812
-193
782
-210
786
-202
961
-245
703
-213
694
-137
8823

The countries - Women
1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 total
Algeria 1 1
Argentina 2 6-1 1 4 1-1 1 13
Australia 1 1 1 5 4-1 21-1 11-5 10-3 8-3 11-3 11-3 7-3 69
Austria 2 8 12-1 7-5 2 3 3 5-3 7-3 3-2 1-1 38
Azerbaijan 1 1
Bahamas 1 1 2
Barbados 5 2-2 5
Belarus 1 2-1 1 5 8
Belgium 8 2 2 1 2 8 7-4 26
Benin 1 1
Bermuda 2 2-1 1 4
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2 2
Brazil 6 3-1 1-1 1 2-1 3 1 14
Bulgaria 1 3 4-1 4-1 15-3 15-4 25-8 50
Cambodia 1 1
Cameroon 3 3
Canada 6 8 7-1 9 6 7-1 4-1 6 9-3 9-1 19-6 77
Chile 1 4 4-2 1 1-1 2 1-1 10
China 1 1
Chinese Taipei 3 2-1 4-2 3-1 8
Colombia 2 2
Costa Rica 1 1
Côte d'Ivoire 1 1
Croatia 2 2 3-2 3-2 6
Cuba 1 1-1 1 6-1 11-4 8-3 4-3 20
Cyprus 1 1-1 1 1-1 2
Czechia 4 4-2 5-2 8-3 2-2 3 6-2 4-3 4-1 25
Denmark 6 1-1 4 2 2-1 3-1 15
Dominican Republic 1 1 2
Ecuador 1 1
El Salvador 2 2
Estonia 1 1-1 1 2
Ethiopia 2 2
Fiji 1 1
Finland 4 3 13-1 1 2 2 5 6-3 3-1 34
France 9 4-1 13 11-3 4 6-2 8-2 10-1 8-2 6-2 9-2 73
Georgia 3 1-1 1 4
Germany 16 5-3 15-3 18 14-2 26-5 28-12 30-7 57-12 52-18 33-15 217
Ghana 3 1-1 2-1 4
Great Britain 5 10-2 20-1 16-2 11-6 16-2 18-5 20-6 25-11 21-4 22-7 138
Greece 1 1-1 1
Guatemala 1 1
Guyana 1 1 1 3
Haiti 1 3 4
Hungary 1 1 1 6-1 2-1 7 11-4 12-7 12-4 6-2 12-3 49
Iceland 1 2 3
India 2 1 1 1 2 7
Indonesia 1 1-1 1
Iran 3 3
Ireland 1 1-1 1-1 3 1-1 4
Israel 3 3 2 1 1 1-1 10
Italy 6 5 8-1 8-2 6-3 8-3 1 4 7-2 7-1 9-2 55
Jamaica 4 2-1 4 5-4 10-3 9-6 7-4 23
Japan 1 9 7 3-1 3-1 5 15-1 3 2 45
Kazakhstan 1 2 1 4
Kenya 3 2-1 4
Kyrgyzstan 1 2 3
Laos 2 2
Latvia 2 1 1 2 1 7
Lebanon 1 1
Liechtenstein 2 2
Lithuania 1 1 1-1 1 2 5
Luxembourg 3 3
Madagascar 1 1
Malawi 3 3
Malaysia 1 1 2 4
Mali 1 1
Mexico 1 1 1 4-1 6
Mongolia 2 1-1 2
Morocco 1 2 3
Mozambique 2 2
Netherlands 11 5-1 8 11-2 5-2 5 5-2 10-1 5-2 2-1 2 58
New Zealand 1 1 1 4 4-2 4-1 1 3 3 19
Nicaragua 1 1 2
Nigeria 2 5 5 6 18
Norway 1 1 1 2 2-1 2 2-1 9
Panama 4 4-2 6
Peru 2 1-1 2 4
Philippines 2 2 6-1 2-2 5-1 13
Poland 4 3 3-2 3-1 9 7-2 16-6 8-5 8-1 16-4 4-2 17-3 72
Puerto Rico 1 1
Romania 2 3 2-1 4-2 7-3 8-4 12-5 10-6 13-5 35
Russia 14 16-4 17-6 20-12 14-2 17-7 17-6 18-5 91
San Marino 2 2
Senegal 2 3 5
Serbia 1 2 1-1 1 2-1 1 1-1 1-1 6
Seychelles 1 1
Sierra Leone 2 2
Singapore 1 2 1 4
Slovakia 1 1 3-1 2-1 3-2 6
Slovenia 1 1 2-1 4-1 1-1 2 2-1 2 11
South Africa 1 1-1 1 2-1 2 5
South Korea 1 1 1 7 1 1-1 11
Spain 1 1
Sweden 6 1 5 7-1 2-2 4-1 1-1 3-1 9-1 2-1 6-1 37
Switzerland 2 2 9-2 1 2 14
Syria 1 2 3
Tanzania 5 5
Thailand 6 6
Trinidad & Tobago 1 1
Tunisia 1 1
Türkiye 1 3 4
Uganda 2 2 4
Ukraine 1 1-1 4-1 5 6 6-3 10-5 23
Uruguay 1 1 1-1 1 3
US Virgin Islands 1 1
USA 17 15-3 13-4 12 9-1 19-3 18-8 19-4 25-8 31-11 31-10 157
Uzbekistan 1 1-1 1 2
Venezuela 1 1-1 1
Vietnam 4 4
Zambia 1 3 4
nation switchers -2 -1 -2 -5
total 95 54
-8
98
-13
144
-7
187
-31
147
-33
204
-55
236
-66
243
-67
369
-95
303
-101
266
-75
1795

Total list : (complete until 1980)


Written 2000-12-26 - last modified 2023-05-08

This page is part of the site "Full Olympians" by Herman De Wael. See here for a full Introduction.