United States national athletics team

USA Track & Field
Sport Track & Field
Long-Distance Running
Race Walking
Jurisdiction National
Abbreviation USATF
Founded 1979 (1979) as The Athletics Congress/USA
Headquarters Indianapolis, IN, United States
Chief Exec Max Siegel
Sponsor Nike, Inc., The Hershey Company, BMW, Visa Inc., Chobani, Garden of Life, Rosetta Stone, University of Phoenix[1]
Replaced Amateur Athletic Union
(founded) 1878
Official website
www.usatf.org
United States
Carl Lewis and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, are the US athletes with most medals at the Olympics, respectively in the men's and women's.

The United States national athletics (track and field) team represents the United States in international athletics competitions such as Olympic Games or World athletics championships.

Medal tables

The United States have 25 participations in the Olympic Games of 26 editions held (the only exception is due to the boycott of Moscow 1980)[2]

Event Medals
Tot.
Olympic Games[3] 320 251 196 767
World Championships 138 88 74 300
Total 444 310 157 1.011

Olympic Games

The United States is the nation that has clearly won the most medals in athletics at the Olympic Games, around 736, of which 312 gold.[2] Their national-level male, took part in all editions of the games already this season, 25 with the exception of Moscow 1980 known for the 1980 boycott, while women 18 editions from Amsterdam 1928.[4]

Editions Men Women Total
Greece Athens 18969 6 1 16 - - - - 9 6 1 16
France Paris 190016 13 10 39 - - - - 16 13 10 39
United States St. Louis 1904 22 22 19 63 - - - - 22 22 19 63
United Kingdom London 190816 9 10 35 - - - - 16 9 10 35
Sweden Stockholm 191214 14 11 39 - - - - 14 14 11 39
Belgium Antwerp 19209 12 8 29 - - - - 9 12 8 29
France Paris 192412 10 10 32 - - - - 12 10 10 32
Netherlands Amsterdam 19288 6 7 21 1 2 1 4 9 8 8 25
United States Los Angeles 193211 10 5 26 5 3 1 9 16 13 6 35
Nazi Germany Berlin 193612 7 4 23 2 0 0 2 14 7 4 25
United Kingdom London 194811 5 9 25 1 0 1 2 12 5 10 27
Finland Helsinki 195214 10 6 30 1 0 0 1 15 10 6 31
Australia Melbourne 195615 9 4 28 1 1 1 3 16 10 5 31
Italy Rome 19609 8 5 22 3 0 1 4 12 8 6 26
Japan Tokyo 196412 5 3 20 2 2 0 4 14 7 3 24
Mexico Mexico City 196812 5 7 24 3 1 0 4 15 6 7 28
West Germany Munich 19726 7 6 19 0 1 2 3 6 8 8 22
Canada Montreal 19766 6 7 19 0 2 1 3 6 8 8 22
Soviet Union Moscow 1980boycotted edition
United States Los Angeles 19849 8 7 24 7 7 2 16 16 15 9 40
South Korea Seoul 19887 5 5 17 6 2 1 9 13 7 6 26
Spain Barcelona 19928 5 7 20 4 3 3 10 12 8 10 30
United States Atlanta 199610 4 2 16 3 1 3 7 13 5 5 23
Australia Sydney 20006 4 3 13 4 0 3 7 10 4 6 20
Greece Athens 20046 10 3 19 2 2 2 6 8 12 5 25
China Beijing 20084 5 5 14 3 4 2 9 7 9 7 23
Total 264 205 164 633 48 31 24 103 312 236 188 736

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sponsors".
  2. 1 2 "United States Athletics". sports-reference. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Obtained by counting of the Sports-Reference, however, are excluded from the medals won at the 1906 Intercalated Games.
  4. ↑ "Team USA at the Olympic Games". usatf.org. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
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