United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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United States at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  USA
NOC United States Olympic Committee
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Competitors
Flag bearer Bruce Baumgartner (opening)
Michael R. Matz (closing)
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
44		 Silver
32		 Bronze
25		 Total
101
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The United States was the host nation for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Contents

[edit] Medals

The United States finished first in the final medal rankings, with 44 gold and 101 total medals.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Kim Rhode — Shooting, Women's Double Trap
  • Tom Dolan — Swimming, Men's 400 m Individual Medley
  • Kendall Cross — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight (57 kg)
  • Tom Brands — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight (62 kg)
  • Kurt Angle — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight (100 kg)

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Dana Chladek — Canoeing, Women's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
  • Erin Hartwell — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Time Trial
  • Jair Lynch — Gymnastics, Women's Parallel Bars
  • Todd Hulander, Sean Forbell, Frank Skagleon, Chap Johnson, Kenneth Bateh, Kelly Carney, Ben Fitzgerald — Powerlifting, Three-Day Event Team
  • Amy Chow — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
  • Karen Kraft and Missy Schwen — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs
  • Teresa Bell and Lindsay Burns — Rowing, Women's Lightweight Double Sculls
  • Josh Lakatos — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
  • Brandon Paulson — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight (52 kg)
  • Dennis Hall — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight (57 kg)
  • Matt Ghaffari — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight (> 100 kg)

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Susan De Mattei — Cycling, Women's Cross-Country Mountainbike
  • Kerry Millikin — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual
  • Guenter Seidel, Robert Dover, Michelle Gibson, and Steffen Peters — Equestrian, Dressage Team
  • Lance Bade — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
  • Jim Barton, Kent Massey and Jeff Madrigali — Sailing, Men's Soling Class
  • Courtenay Becker-Day — Sailing, Women's Europe


[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

The United States claimed both of the gold medals in the men's archery competitions, with Justin Huish claiming the individual medal and the three-man team claiming the team medal. The American women were not as successful.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Janet Dykman - round of 16, 16th place (2-1)
  • Lindsay Langston - round of 32, 22nd place (1-1)
  • Judi Adams - round of 64, 39th place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

Women's Team Competition:

  • Dykman, Langston, and Adams - round of 16, 13th place (0-1)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Huish, Johnson, and White - final (4-0) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's 1,500 metres

  • Jason Pyrah
  • Qualification — 3:39.91 (→ did not advance)
  • Brian Hyde
  • Qualification — 3:48.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5.000 metres

  • Qualification — 13:54.57
  • Semifinal — 13:27.90
  • Final — 13:12.35 (→ 6th place)
  • Qualification — 13:53.16
  • Semifinal — 14:27.72 (→ did not advance)
  • Matt Giusto
  • Qualification — 14:30.76 (→ did not advance)

Men's 10.000 metres

  • Brad Barquist
  • Qualification — 29:11.20 (→ did not advance)
  • Dan Middleman
  • Qualification — 29:50.72 (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 3:00.56
  • Semi Final — 2:57.87
  • Final — 2:55.99 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

Men's 400m Hurdles

  • Heat — 48.46s
  • Semi Final — 47.76s
  • Final — 47.54s (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Heat — 48.94s
  • Semi Final — 47.91s
  • Final — 47.96s (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 49.06s
  • Semi Final — 50.32s (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

  • Final Result — 8824 points (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Final Result — 8644 points (→ 4th place)
  • Final Result — 8300 points (→ 10th place)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualification — 63.66m
  • Final — 65.42m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualification — 62.36m
  • Final — 56.30m (→ 12th place)
  • Qualification — 61.82m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification — 78.56m
  • Final — 81.12m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification — 73.46m (→ did not advance)
  • Ken Popejoy
  • Qualification — 72.46m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Keith Brantly — 2:18.17 (→ 28th place)
  • Bob Kempainen — 2:18.38 (→ 31st place)
  • Bruce Deacon — 2:19.56 (→ 39th place)
  • Mark Coogan — 2:20.27 (→ 41st place)

[edit] Women's Competition

Women's 10.000 metres

  • Joan Nesbit
  • Qualification — 32:33.48 (→ did not advance)
  • Kate Fonshell
  • Qualification — 32:48.05 (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — 34:12.54 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x400m Relay

  • Qualification — 3:22.71
  • Final — 3:20.91 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

Women's 400m Hurdles

  • Qualification — 54.92
  • Semifinals — 53.65
  • Final — 53.08 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification — 55.23
  • Semifinals — 53.38
  • Final — 53.22 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Qualification — 55.55
  • Semifinals — 54.73 (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Kelly Blair
  • Final Result — 6307 points (→ 8th place)
  • Final Result — 6292 points (→ 9th place)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification — 56.04m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — 57.48m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — 56.24m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

  • Qualification — 19.08m
  • Final — 19.22m (→ 5th place)
  • Qualification — 18.55m
  • Final — 18.48m (→ 9th place)
  • Valeyta Althouse
  • Qualification — 18.16m (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 6.70m
  • Final — 7.00m (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Marieke Veltman
  • Qualification — 6.49m (→ did not advance)
  • Shana Williams
  • Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

  1. Qualification — 14.26m
  2. Final — 14.02m (→ 11th place)
  1. Qualification — 13.95m (→ did not advance)
  • Diana Orrange
  1. Qualification — NM (→ no ranking)

Women's High Jump

  • Tisha Waller
  1. Qualification — 1.93m
  2. Final — 1.93m (→ 10th place)
  • Connie Teaberry
  1. Qualification — 1.90m (→ did not advance)
  1. Qualification — 1.85m (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon

  • Linda Somers — 2:36.58 (→ 31st place)
  • Jenny Spangler — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10km Walk

  • Debbie Lawrence — 45:32 (→ 20th place)
  • Victoria Herazo — dsq (→ no ranking)

[edit] Baseball

The United States, which had barely missed medalling in the first official Olympic baseball tournament, tried again in 1996. This time, they were successful. In the preliminary round, they defeated six of their seven opponents, losing only to the undefeated Cubans. The Americans were second place in the round, pitting them in a semifinal match against the third-place Japanese team. In a game much more reminiscent of the Japanese victory in the 1992 bronze medal game than the American win in the 1996 preliminary round, the United States was defeated and found itself playing in their second bronze medal game in as many Olympiads. This time, however, they defeated Nicaragua to win their first baseball medal.

Men's Team Competition:

  • United States (7-2) — Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round
  • Defeated Argentina (96:68)
  • Defeated Angola (87:54)
  • Defeated Lithuania (104:82)
  • Defeated PR China (133:70)
  • Defeated Croatia (102:71)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Brazil (98:75)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Australia (101:73)
  • Final
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (95:69) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round
  • Defeated Cuba (101:84)
  • Defeated Ukraine (98:65)
  • Defeated Zaire (107:47)
  • Defeated Australia (96:79)
  • Defeated South Korea (105:64)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Japan (108:93)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Australia (93:71)
  • Final
  • Defeated Brazil (111:87) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

  • Albert Guardado
    1. First Round — Defeated Modiradilo Healer (Botswana), 11-9
    2. Second Round — Defeated Anicet Rasoanaivo (Madagascar), 9-4
    3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Oleg Kiryukhin (Ukraine), 14-19

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

  • Zahir Raheem
    1. First Round — Defeated Jong-Gil Hoe (North Korea), 19-4
    2. Second Round — Lost to Arnaldo Mesa (Cuba), referee stopped contest in first round

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

  • Terrance Cauthen → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Defeated Mahamatkodir Abdullaev (Uzbekistan), 18-6
    2. Second Round — Defeated Tumentsetsec Ultumen (Mongolia), 10-9
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Veongviact Phongsit (Thailand), 14-10
    4. Semi Finals — Lost to Tontcho Tontchev (Bulgaria), 12-15

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

  • David Diaz
    1. First Round — Defeated Jacobo Garcia (US Virgin Islands), referee stopped contest in third round
    2. Second Round — Lost to Oktay Urkal (Germany), 6-14

Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

  • Rhoshii Wells → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Defeated Sefid Dashti Mollal (Iran), 24-7
    2. Second Round — Defeated Ricardo Rodríguez (Brazil), 16-2
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Dilshod Yarbekov (Uzbekistan), 8-8 (judges cards)
    4. Semi Finals — Lost to Ariel Hernández (Cuba), 8-17

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

  • Antonio Tarver → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Defeated Dmitri Vybornov (Russia), 5-2
    2. Second Round — Defeated David Kowah (Sierra Leone), referee stopped contest in first round
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Enrique Flores (Puerto Rico), referee stopped contest in third round
    4. Semi Finals — Lost to Vassili Jirov (Kazakhstan), 9-15

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

  • Nate Jones → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Fola Okesola (Great Britain), referee stopped contest in third round
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Jiang Tao (China), 21-4
    4. Semi Finals — Lost to David Defiagbon (Canada), 10-16

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Time Trial

  • Final — 1:06:28 (→ 6th place)
  • Final — 1:08:29 (→ 16th place)

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Jeanne Golay
  • Final — 02:37:06 (→ 29th place)
  • Linda Brenneman
  • Final — 02:40:27 (→ 36th place)
  • Final — 02:41:21 (→ 37th place)

Women's Individual Time Trial

  • Linda Brenneman
  • Final — 38:52 (→ 11th place)
  • Jeanne Golay
  • Final — 39:36 (→ 16th place)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's Points Race

  • Brian McDonough
  • Final — 5 points (→ 19th place)

[edit] Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country

  • David Juarez
  • Final — 2:35.15 (→ 19th place)
  • Don Myrah
  • Final — 2:35:50 (→ 20th place)

Women's Cross Country

  • Final — 1:52.36 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Final — 1:58.32 (→ 10th place)

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] Men's Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Did not advance
  • Team Roster

[edit] Women's Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group E)
  • Semifinals
  • Finals

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Men's Competition

The US men's field hockey team competed for the sixth time at the Summer Olympics. On home soil the squad coached by Jon Clark once again finished twelfth and last. The team was formed by the following players, including three (Van Randwijck, Wentges and Wassenaar) originally from Holland: Tom Vano, Steve Danielson, Larry Amar, Marq Mellor, Scott Williams, Steve Jennings, Steven van Randwijck, Mark Wentges, John O'Neill, Eelco Wassenaar, Nick Butcher, Ahmed Elmaghraby, Phil Sykes, Otto Steffers, Ben Maruquin, and Steve Wagner.

[edit] Women's Competition

The US women's field hockey team competed for the third time at the Summer Olympics. On home soil the team coached by Pam Hixon finished fifth. The squad was formed by the following players: Patty Shea (gk), Laurel Martin, Liz Tchou, Marcia Pankratz, Cindy Werley, Diane Madl, Kris Fillat, Kelli James, Tracey Fuchs, Antoinette Lucas, Katie Kauffman, Andrea Wieland (gk), Leslie Lyness, Barbara Marois, Jill Reeve en Pamela Bustin.

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Michael Gostigian - 5305 pts, 16th place

[edit] Softball

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round Robin
  • Defeated Puerto Rico (10:0)
  • Defeated Netherlands (9:0)
  • Defeated Japan (6:1)
  • Defeated Chinese Taipei (10:0)
  • Defeated Canada (4:2)
  • Lost to Australia (1:2)
  • Defeated PR China (3:2)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated PR China (1:0)
  • Final
  • Defeated PR China (3:1) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach: Ralph Raymond

[edit] Swimming

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's 50 m Freestyle

  • Gary Hall Jr.
    1. Heat – 23.36
    2. Final – 22.26 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • David Fox
    1. Heat – 22.64
    2. Final – 22.68 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Gary Hall Jr.
    1. Heat – 48.90
    2. Final – 48.81 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Jon Olsen
    1. Heat – 50.17
    2. B-Final – 49.80 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Josh Davis
    1. Heat – 1:48.63
    2. Final – 1:48.54 (→ 7th place)
  • John Piersma
    1. Heat – 1:50.59
    2. B-Final – 1:49.90 (→ 12th place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • John Piersma
    1. Heat – 3:53.58
    2. B-Final – 3:50.69 (→ 9th place)
  • Tom Dolan
    1. Heat – 3:53.91
    2. B-Final – scratched

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

  • Peter Wright
    1. Heat – 15:25.43 (→ did not advance, 12th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Jeff Rouse
    1. Heat – 54.20
    2. Final – 54.10 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Tripp Schwenk
    1. Heat – 1:59.58
    2. Final – 1:58.99 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Jeremy Linn
    1. Heat – 1:01.53
    2. Final – 1:00.77 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Kurt Grote
    1. Heat – 1:02.01
    2. Final – 1:01.69 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Eric Wunderlich
    1. Heat – 2:15.18
    2. Final – 2:15.69 (→ 7th place)
  • Kurt Grote
    1. Heat – 2:14.63
    2. Final – 2:16.05 (→ 8th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • John Hargis
    1. Heat – 54.06
    2. B-Final – 54.29 (→ 16th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

  • Tom Malchow
    1. Heat – 1:58.69
    2. B-Final – 1:57.44 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Ray Carey
    1. Heat – 2:01.10 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Greg Burgess
    1. Heat – 2:01.93
    2. Final – 2:02.56 (→ 6th place)
  • Tom Dolan
    1. Heat – 2:01.99
    2. Final – 2:03.89 (→ 7th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Tom Dolan
    1. Heat – 4:17.66
    2. Final – 4:14.90 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Eric Namesnik
    1. Heat – 4:16.21
    2. Final – 4:15.25 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay

[edit] Women's Competition

Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Amy Van Dyken
    1. Preliminary Heat – 25.12
    2. Final – 24.87 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Angel Martino
    1. Preliminary Heat – 25.47
    2. Final – 25.31 (→ 4th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Angel Martino
    1. Heat – 55.44
    2. Final – 54.93 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Trina Jackson
    1. Heat – 2:00.29
    2. Final – 1:59.57 (→ 4th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Janet Evans
    1. Heat – 8:38.08
    2. Final – 8:38.91 (→ 6th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

  • Beth Botsford
    1. Heat – 1:02.00
    2. Final – 1:01.19 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

  • Beth Botsford
    1. Heat – 2:14.16
    2. B-Final – 2:13.48 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Amanda Beard
    1. Heat – 1:09.04
    2. Final – 1:08.09 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Amanda Beard
    1. Heat – 2:28.10
    2. Final – 2:25.75 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Jilen Siroky
    1. Heat – 2:31.57
    2. B-Final – 2:33.43 (→ 15th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Amy Van Dyken
    1. Heat – 1:00.04
    2. Final – 59.13 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Angel Martino
    1. Heat – 59.31
    2. Final – 59.23 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Trina Jackson
    1. Heat – 2:12.69
    2. Final – 2:11.96 (→ 8th place)
  • Annette Salmeen
    1. Heat – 2:14.69
    2. B-Final – 2:13.64 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Allison Wagner
    1. Heat – 4:44.06
    2. Final – 4:42.03 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Whitney Metzler
    1. Heat – 4:44.74
    2. B-Final – 4:46.20 (→ 8th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Women's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Men's Team Indoor Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Poland (3-0)
  • Defeated Argentina (3-0)
  • Lost to Cuba (2-3)
  • Lost to Brazil (0-3)
  • Lost to Bulgaria (2-3)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Did not advance → Ninth place
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach: Fred Sturm


[edit] Women's Team Indoor Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Ukraine (3-0)
  • Defeated the Netherlands (3-1)
  • Lost to China (1-3)
  • Defeated Japan (3-0)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-2)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Lost to Cuba (0-3)
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Lost to South Korea (0-3)
  • 7th/8th place: Defeated Germany (3-1) → Seventh place
  • Team Roster


[edit] Men's Team Beach Competition



  • Defeated João Brenha – Miguel Maia (POR), 15-7
  • Defeated Francisco Alvarez – Juan Rossell (CUB), 15-13
  • Lost to Karch Kiraly – Kent Steffes (USA), 15-17
  • Lost to João Brenha – Miguel Maia (POR), 13-15


[edit] Women's Team Beach Competition

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • United States – Italy 7-10
  • United States – Greece 9-7
  • United States – Ukraine 9-7
  • United States – Romania 10-5
  • United States – Croatia 10-8
  • Quarter Finals
  • United States – Spain 4-5
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: United States – Greece 6-7
  • 7th/8th place: United States – Yugoslavia 12-8 (→ Seventh place)
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach: Richard Corso

[edit] Weightlifting

Men's 108 kg

  • Snatch — 175.0 kg
  • Clean & Jerk — 220.0 kg
  • Total — 395.0 kg (→ 6th place)
  • Konstatine Starikovich
  • Snatch — 177.5 kg
  • Clean & Jerk — 210.0 kg
  • Total — 387.5 kg (→ 12th place)

[edit] References