Timeline History |
Olympics History Timeline 1981 - 1990 |
Year | Venue and Date | Medal count | Records | Nations participating | Athletes participating | No. of Events | News | Main Events |
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1983 |
The Best Olympics Ever? |
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1984 | Los Angeles, California, United States July 28 - August 12 |
The United States finished in first position in the
final medal rankings, with 83 gold and 174 total medals. Romania finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 20 gold medals and 53 medals overall. |
Victor Davis sets a new world record in winning the gold medal
in the 200-metre breaststroke in swimming. |
140 | 6,797 | 221 in 23 sports | Despite Soviet boycott, record number of athletes and nations, 6 million spectators, and largest TV audience in history. American Joan Benoit wins first women's Olympic marathon. Carl Lewis wins 4 golds in track and field, matching Jesse Owens' long-standing record. | Carl Lewis makes his first appearance in the Olympics of 4 and equals the performance of Jesse Owens of 1936 and wins four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 4x400m relay and the Long Jump. |
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1987 | ||||||||
1988 | Seoul, South Korea September 17 - October 2 |
USSR finished in first position in the final medal rankings, with 55 gold medals and 132 medals overall. East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold medals and 102 medals overall. |
159 | 8,465 | 263 in 27 sports | 9,600 athletes, including American Florence Griffith Joyner, who captures 3 golds. Anthony Nesty of Surinam sets Olympic 100-meter butterfly record, the first Black swimming champion and Surinam's first medalist. Ben Johnson of Canada and 10 other competitors disqualified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Matt Biondi wins 7 gold medals in swimming; Greg Louganis earns golds in platform and springboard diving. | Ben Johnson wins the 100 m in a new world record, but
is disqualified after tests positive for stanozolol. Christa Rothenburger becomes the first (and last) athlete to win Olympic medals at the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics in the same year. She adds a cycling silver to the speed skating gold she won earlier in the year in Calgary. |
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1989 |
The Olympic Marathons 1896 to 1988 |
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1990 | ||||||||
Year | Venue and Date | Medal count | Records | Nations participating | Athletes participating | No. of Events | News | Main Events |
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