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Games Gold Silver Bronze 1896 Athens: not officially included in the Olympic program: 1900 Paris [a] details Great Britain (GBR) [b] James Jones Claude Buckenham William Gosling Alfred Chalk T. E. Burridge William Quash Richard Turner F. G. Spackman John Nicholas Jack Zealley Henry Haslam France (FRA) [c] Pierre Allemane Louis Bach Alfred Bloch ...
Starting with the first official football tournament in London in 1908, Denmark's Sophus Nielsen and Hungary's Antal Dunai share the record for the most total goals scored by a player in tournament history. Both have 13 goals: Nielsen scored 11 goals in 1908 and two in 1912, and Dunai scored six in 1968 and seven in 1972.
From the 1992 Summer Olympics Football games always start before the opening ceremony because of the event's calendar which needs to be longer than other sports. Since 1996, football starts two days before the games opening ceremonies and since then it is a common condition for some sports.
At 2014 Winter Olympics, Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km sprint biathlon event, tying the record number of total medals in the Winter Olympics at 12, along with Bjørn Dæhlie, and becoming the oldest Winter Olympics medalist at age 40. [5] Skeleton Oldest skeleton gold medalist 39 Duff Gibson [6] Oldest male skeleton gold medalist 39
Boxing • Football: 0 1 1 2 Carl Albert Andersen: M 1900–1908 Athletics • Gymnastics: 0 1 1 2 Alexandra Burghardt: F 2022–2024 Bobsleigh • Athletics: 0 1 1 2 79 Louis Martin: M 1900 Swimming • Water polo: 0 0 3 3 80 Hjördis Töpel: F 1924 Diving • Swimming: 0 0 2 2 Jam Handy: M 1904–1924 Swimming • Water polo: 0 0 2 2 John ...
The only Olympic Football Tournaments not to have at least one hat-trick scored were the 1976, 2008, 2012 and 2024 editions. The record number of hat-tricks in a single Olympic Football Tournament is twelve, during the 1928 Olympics in the Netherlands, including three in the Bronze medal match as Italy defeated Egypt 11–3.
For a name as powerful as a gold medal, consider Athena, embodying wisdom and strategy like the goddess of ancient Greek mythology, and paying homage to the site of the first Olympic games in 1896.
Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 49 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912. Gwynne Evans, [2] Leo Goodwin, Frank Kugler [1] and Joe Lydon [2] are the only athletes to win medals in three different sports.