1904 Summer Olympics medal table
| 1904 Summer Olympics medals | |
|---|---|
| Location | St. Louis,  United States |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals | United States (76) |
| Most total medals | United States (231) |
| Medalling NOCs | 13 |
The 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904, as part of the St. Louis World's Fair.
A total of 651 athletes from 12 nations participated in 95 events in 16 sports at these games.[1][2]
Nine participating nations earned medals, in addition to four medals won by mixed teams. In the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations.[3] Retroactively, the IOC created the designation "mixed team" (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these groups of athletes. Some athletes won medals both individually and as part of a mixed team, so these medals are tabulated under different nations in the official counts.[4]
The United States won 231 medals, setting a record that still stands today. The Soviet Union came closest to beating the record with 195 medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics and currently is in second place. The Soviets, however, won a record 80 gold medals, surpassing 76 golds won by the Americans in 1904. However, the United States subsequently won 83 gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics, setting another all-time record.[4] Gold medals were awarded to event winners for the first time at the 1904 games. Prior to that, a silver medal was awarded to first-place finishers and a bronze medal to second-place finishers.[5][6]
Medal table
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The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[7][8] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[9]
Host nation (United States)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States* | 76 | 78 | 77 | 231 |
| 2 |  Germany | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 3 |  Canada | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 |  Cuba | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 |  Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
 Mixed team | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 7 |  Norway | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 |  Austria | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 |  Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 |  Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 |  Greece | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 |  Australia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 |  France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | 97 | 92 | 91 | 280 | |
Changes in medal standings
[edit]- Key
※ Disqualified athlete(s)
| Ruling date | Sport/Event | Athlete (NOC) | 
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Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1905 | Boxing Men's Lightweight |
Jack Egan (USA) ※ |
−1 | −1 | Jack Egan won two Olympic medals in boxing, a silver medal in the lightweight category, losing to Harry Spanjer in the final, and a tied bronze medal in the welterweight category against fellow American boxer, Joseph Lydon. By the rules of the AAU it was illegal to fight under an assumed name. (Egan's actual name was Frank Joseph Floyd.) In November 1905, the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes including his two Olympics medals.[10][11] | ||
| Russell van Horn (USA) |
+1 | −1 | 0 | ||||
| Peter Sturholdt (USA) |
+1 | +1 | |||||
| Boxing Men's Welterweight |
Jack Egan (USA) ※ |
−1 | −1 | ||||
| Joseph Lydon (USA) |
+1 | +1 |
References
[edit]- ^ "St. Louis 1904–Games of the III Olympiad". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 15, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
- ^ Sullivan, James E. (1905). Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac for 1905 (PDF). New York: American Sports Publishing Company. p. 221. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2011. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
- ^ "1896 - Summer Olympics I (Athens, Greece)". TSN. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Retrieved May 6, 2008.
- ^ a b "St. Louis 1904 – Medal Table". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 15, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
- ^ Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.
- ^ Lucas, Charles J. P. (1904). The Olympic Games 1904 (PDF). St. Louis: Woodward and Tiernan Printing Company. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
- ^ Ostlere, Lawrence (August 11, 2024). "Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024". The Independent. Archived from the original on August 12, 2024. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ^ Araton, Harvey (August 18, 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
- ^ Cons, Roddy (August 10, 2024). "What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained". Diario AS. Archived from the original on August 11, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ November 1905 Egan disqualifiedArchived 5 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Frank Floyd". Olympedia. 2021. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
External links
[edit]- "St Louis 1904". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
- "1904 Summer Olympics". Olympedia.com. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- "Olympic Analytics/1904_1". olympanalyt.com.
