1996 Summer Olympics medal table

[2] The games featured 271 events in 26 sports across 37 disciplines, including the Olympic debuts of beach volleyball, mountain biking and softball.

[3][4][5] A total of 24 countries made their Summer Olympic debuts in Atlanta, including 11 former Soviet republics participating for the first time as independent nations.

[7][8] Armenia,[9] Belarus,[10] Burundi,[11] Costa Rica,[12] Croatia,[13] Czech Republic,[14] Ecuador,[15] Hong Kong,[16] Kazakhstan,[17] Nigeria,[18] Slovakia,[19] Syria,[20] Thailand,[21] and Ukraine won their nations' first Summer Olympic gold medals.

[22] They were also the first Summer Olympic medals of any kind for Armenia,[23] Belarus,[24] Burundi,[11] Czech Republic,[14] Ecuador,[25] Hong Kong,[26] Kazakhstan,[27] Slovakia,[19] and Ukraine.

[44] Events in boxing resulted in bronze medals being awarded to each of the competitors who lost their semi-final matches, as opposed to them taking part in a third place tiebreaker.

Head shot of Alexei Nemov smiling
Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov , pictured here in 2009, won six medals at the 1996 games (two gold, one silver, and three bronze medals), the most of any competing athlete. [ 36 ]
Shannon Miller in 2013, standing with her hands on her hips. She's shown from about the thighs up in a red shirt, smiling, while wearing two Olympic gold medals and holding her two silver and three bronze medals in her right hand.
American gymnast Shannon Miller , pictured here in 2013, won gold in the women's artistic team all-round and balance beam at the 1996 games. [ 37 ] In addition, she won five medals in gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics . [ 38 ]
Steve Regrave in a black suit sitting in a wicker chair in 2012.
British rower Steve Redgrave , pictured here in 2011, won the men's coxless pair rowing competition, which was his fourth consecutive victory in the event and Great Britain 's only gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. [ 39 ] [ 40 ]
Head shot of American sprinter Michael Jackson.
American sprinter Michael Johnson , pictured here in 1995, won two gold medals in the men's 200 metres and 400 metres events. [ 41 ]