United States national track and field team

United States national athletics team

USA Track & FieldSport| Track & Field
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Jurisdiction| National
Abbreviation| USATF
Founded| 1979 (1979) as The Athletics Congress/USA
Headquarters| Indianapolis, IN, United States
CEO| 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

Carl Lewis and Allyson Felix, 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 the Olympic Games or the World Athletics Championships.

## 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

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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

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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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* Sport of athletics portal

* Summer Olympics medal table
* World Athletics Championships medal table
* USA Track & Field

## 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.

## External links

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* United States of America at AthleticsPodium.com \-- List of international athletics medals
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