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United States national track and field team

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

USA Track & Field
SportTrack & Field
Long-Distance Running
Race Walking
JurisdictionNational
AbbreviationUSATF
Founded1979 (1979) as The Athletics Congress/USA
HeadquartersIndianapolis, IN, United States
CEOMax Siegel
SponsorNike, Inc., The Hershey Company, BMW, Visa Inc., Chobani, Garden of Life, Rosetta Stone, University of Phoenix[1]
ReplacedAmateur Athletic Union
(founded)1878
Official website
www.usatf.org
United States
Carl Lewis and Allyson Felix, are the US athletes with most medals at the Olympics, respectively in the men's and women's.

Medal tables

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Further information: United States at the World Athletics Championships

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
      Total
Olympic Games[3] 339 271 211 821
World Athletics Championships See United States at the World Athletics Championships

Olympic Games

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The United States is the nation that has won the most medals in athletics at the Olympic Games, around 820, of which 339 are gold.[2] The United States men's and women's teams have participated in all editions of the games except for the Moscow 1980 games due to boycott.[4]

Editions Men Women Mixed Total
                               
  Athens 1896 9 6 1 16 - - - - N/A 9 6 1 16
  Paris 1900 16 13 10 39 - - - - 16 13 10 39
  St. Louis 1904 22 22 19 63 - - - - 22 22 19 63
  London 1908 16 9 10 35 - - - - 16 9 10 35
  Stockholm 1912 14 14 11 39 - - - - 14 14 11 39
  Antwerp 1920 9 12 8 29 - - - - 9 12 8 29
  Paris 1924 12 10 10 32 - - - - 12 10 10 32
  Amsterdam 1928 8 6 7 21 1 2 1 4 9 8 8 25
  Los Angeles 1932 11 10 5 26 5 3 1 9 16 13 6 35
  Berlin 1936 12 7 4 23 2 0 0 2 14 7 4 25
  London 1948 11 5 9 25 1 0 1 2 12 5 10 27
  Helsinki 1952 14 10 6 30 1 0 0 1 15 10 6 31
  Melbourne 1956 15 9 4 28 1 1 1 3 16 10 5 31
  Rome 1960 9 8 5 22 3 0 1 4 12 8 6 26
  Tokyo 1964 12 5 3 20 2 2 0 4 14 7 3 24
  Mexico City 1968 12 5 7 24 3 1 0 4 15 6 7 28
  Munich 1972 6 7 6 19 0 1 2 3 6 8 8 22
  Montreal 1976 6 6 7 19 0 2 1 3 6 8 8 22
  Moscow 1980 boycotted edition
  Los Angeles 1984 9 8 7 24 7 7 2 16 N/A 16 15 9 40
  Seoul 1988 7 5 5 17 6 2 1 9 13 7 6 26
  Barcelona 1992 8 5 7 20 4 3 3 10 12 8 10 30
  Atlanta 1996 10 4 2 16 3 1 3 7 13 5 5 23
  Sydney 2000 5 4 3 12 2 0 2 4 7 4 5 16
  Athens 2004 7 10 3 20 2 2 2 6 9 12 5 26
  Beijing 2008 4 5 6 15 3 5 2 10 7 10 8 25
  London 2012 3 8 3 14 6 4 4 14 9 12 7 28
  Rio de Janeiro 2016 7 5 4 16 6 5 5 16 13 10 9 32
  Tokyo 2020 2 6 2 10 5 6 4 15 0 0 1 1 7 12 6 25
Total 276 224 174 674 63 47 36 146 0 0 1 1 339 271 211 820

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Sponsors".
  2. ^ a b "United States Athletics". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. 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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