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Men's 4 × 100 meter relay: August 8 Gold: Darnell Hall * Charles Jenkins* Michael Johnson Steve Lewis Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts: Athletics: Men's 4 × 400 meter relay: August 8 Gold: Evelyn Ashford Michelle Finn* Carlette Guidry Esther Jones Gwen Torrence: Athletics: Women's 4 × 100 meter relay: August 8 Gold: United States men's national ...
Additionally, the 1984 Olympic team won seven individual medals. [7] At the 1992 Olympics, Trent Dimas won the gold medal on the horizontal bar. [8] Then at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Jair Lynch won the silver medal on the parallel bars. [9] The men's team won the silver medal behind Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
Above, we ranked the 15 best performances by Olympic athletes in Summer Olympic games. Click through to see what we think, and watch the video below for the latest news out of Rio. TWO BIG NAMES ...
Michael Fred Phelps II [5] (born June 30, 1985) [6] is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time [7] with a total of 28 medals. [8]
not included in the Olympic program: 1904 St. Louis details: George Eyser United States: Anton Heida United States: John Duha United States: 1908–1920: not included in the Olympic program: 1924 Paris details: August Güttinger Switzerland: Robert Pražák Czechoslovakia: Giorgio Zampori Italy: 1928 Amsterdam details: Ladislav Vácha ...
The Americans swept the medals in the event for the first time in 84 years. In the 200 m, Lewis dipped under his Olympic record from 1984, running 19.79 s, but did so in second place to Joe DeLoach, who claimed the new record and Olympic gold in 19.75 s. In the final event he entered, the 4 × 100 m relay, Lewis never made it to the track as ...
Total medals Gymnast Nation Years Gold Silver Bronze Rank 15 Nikolai Andrianov Soviet Union 1972, 1976, 1980: 7: 5: 3: 1 13 Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union 1956, 1960, 1964: 7: 4: 2: 2 ...