Jump to content

1900 Summer Olympics medal table

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1900 Summer Olympics medals
American athlete Alvin Kraenzlein won four gold medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the most of any competing athlete.
LocationParis,  France
Highlights
Most gold medals France (31)
Most total medals France (112)
Medalling NOCs21
← 1896 · Olympics medal tables · 1904 →

The 1900 Summer Olympics, now officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France, from May 14 to October 28, 1900, as part of the 1900 World's Fair. A total of 1,226 athletes representing 24 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. The games featured 95 events in 19 sports.[1] Women competed in the Olympics for the first time during the 1900 games.

Athletes representing 19 NOCs received at least one medal. Over 72% of all the athletes (720 of the 997) were from the host country of France. The United States won the second-most gold with 19, silver with 14, and bronze with 15 medals, while fielding 75 athletes.

In the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations.[2] Retroactively, the IOC created the designation Mixed team (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these groups of athletes. During the 1900 games, athletes participating in mixed teams won medals in athletics, cricket, football, polo, rowing, rugby, sailing, tennis, tug of war, and water polo.

The 1900 Olympics is unique in being the only Olympic Games to feature rectangular medals, which were designed by Frédérique Vernon.[3] Gilt silver medals were awarded for 1st place in shooting, lifesaving, automobile racing and gymnastics.[4][5] Whilst 2nd place silver medals were awarded in shooting, rowing, yachting, tennis, gymnastics, sabre, fencing, equestrian and athletics.[6] With 3rd place bronze medals being awarded in gymnastics, firefighting and shooting.[7][8] In many sports, however, medals were not awarded. With most of the listed prizes were cups and other similar trophies.[9]

The International Olympic Committee has retrospectively assigned gold, silver, and bronze medals to competitors who earned first, second, and third-place finishes in order to bring early Olympics in line with current awards.[9]

Medal count

[edit]
A mixed team made up of athletes from Sweden and Denmark beat the French team to win gold in the tug of war at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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.[10][11] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[12]

 ‡  Changes in medal standings (see below)
  *   Host nation (France)

1900 Summer Olympics medal table[13][A]
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France*‡314140112
2 United States20131548
3 Great Britain‡208937
4 Belgium66618
5 Switzerland63110
6 Germany4329
7 Italy3205
8 Denmark1326
9 Mixed team1236
 Netherlands1236
11 Hungary1225
12 Cuba1102
13 Spain1001
14 Austria0336
15 Norway0235
16 India0202
17 Bohemia0112
18 Australia0033
19 Sweden0011
Totals (19 entries)969494284

Changes in medal standings

[edit]
List of official changes in medal standings
Sport/event Athlete (NOC) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Net change Comment
Cycling, men's 25 kilometres  Lloyd Hildebrand (GBR) −1 −1 Hildebrand's win was originally assigned to Great Britain, but in 2024 it was reassigned to France by the International Olympic Committee.[14]
Cycling, men's 25 kilometres  Lloyd Hildebrand (FRA) +1 +1 Hildebrand's win was originally assigned to Great Britain, but in 2024 it was reassigned to France by the International Olympic Committee.[14]

See also

[edit]

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^ Figures in table reflect all official changes in medal standings.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Parios 1900 Summer Olympics – Athletes, Medals & Results". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  2. ^ "1896 - Summer Olympics I (Athens, Greece)". TSN. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  3. ^ "Olympic Games Paris 1900 — Medal Design". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  4. ^ Greensfelder, Jim; Vorontsov, Oleg; Lally, Jim (1998). Olympic Medals: a reference guide. GVL Enterprises. pp. 9–10.
  5. ^ "Olympic Summer Games Medals from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020" (PDF). Olympic Studies Centre. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  6. ^ Greensfelder, Jim; Vorontsov, Oleg; Lally, Jim (1998). Olympic Medals: a reference guide. GVL Enterprises. pp. 9–10.
  7. ^ "Olympic Summer Games Medals from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020" (PDF). Olympic Studies Centre. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  8. ^ Greensfelder, Jim; Vorontsov, Oleg; Lally, Jim (1998). Olympic Medals: a reference guide. GVL Enterprises. pp. 9–10.
  9. ^ a b 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.
  10. ^ Ostlere, Lawrence (11 August 2024). "Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  11. ^ Araton, Harvey (18 August 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  12. ^ Cons, Roddy (10 August 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 11 August 2024.
  13. ^ "1900 Summer Olympics Overview". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  14. ^ a b "1900 Olympics cycling medal reassigned from Great Britain to France". BBC Sport. 2024-06-13. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1900_Summer_Olympics_medal_table&oldid=1266888424"