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Games of the II Olympiad - Paris 1900
Date: 14 May – 28 October.
Nations: 24.
Athletes: 1,225
(1,206 men, 19 women).
Sports: 18.
Events: 95.
Official opening of the Games by:
no official opening.
Olympic flame:
(first time in Amsterdam in 1928).
Olympic oath:
(first time in Antwerp in 1920)
Official oath:
(first time in Munich in 1972)
Number of medal-winning nations: 21.
National medal total:
1. France 101 (26, 41, 34).
   
                   
      The Games turned out to be a failure, as they were organised as a part of the World’s Fair and lasted for over five months.
For the first time women participated in the Games, and the first female Olympic champion was Great Britain’s Charlotte Cooper who won the tennis gold.
Due to the World’s Fair organisers’ whim, international teams, or doubles, consisting of athletes from different countries were entered for football, polo, rowing, tug-of-war and tennis tournaments.
America’s Raymond Ewry in a single day triumphed in all three standing jump events.
Serbia and Montenegro did not participate, but Milan Neralić, originally from Slunj, was amongst the medallists. He won the bronze medal for Austria

Due to the World’s Fair organisers’ whim, international teams, or doubles, consisting of athletes from different countries were entered for football, polo, rowing, tug-of-war and tennis tournaments.
America’s Raymond Ewry in a single day triumphed in all three standing jump events.
Serbia and Montenegro did not participate, but Milan Neralić, originally from Slunj, was amongst the medallists. He won the bronze medal for Austria in the masters sabre fencing.
Candidate cities: no other candidate cities.		  
The most successful athlete: Alvin Kraenzlein (USA) won four gold track-and-field medals 		 
     

SPORTS (18)

            
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Cycling
  • Rowing
  • Football
  • Gymnastics
  • Golf2
  • Sailing
  • Equestrian
  • Cricket2
  • Croquet2
  • Fencing
  • Tug-of-War3
  • Basque Pelota2
  • Polo
  • Rugby
  • Archery
  • Shooting
  • Tennis
   1 - Aquatics
swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming
2 - discontinued events
3 - This event used to be on the Olympic programme, and today it is a sport with its own independent international federation, but it is no longer on the programme of the Games.
 		  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. FRANCE 26 39 30
2. USA 20 17 16
3. GREAT BRITAIN 18 8 12
4. SWITZERLAND 6 1 1
5. BELGIUM 5 5 5
6. GERMANY 3 2 2
7. DENMARK 2 3 2
8. ITALY 2 2 0
9. AUSTRALIA 2 0 4
10. HUNGARY 1 2 2
11. NETHERLANDS 1 1 4
12. CUBA 1 1 0
13. CANADA 1 0 1
14. SWEDEN 1 0 1
15. LUXEMBOURG 1 0 0
16. AUSTRIA 0 3 3
17. NORWAY 0 2 3
18. INDIA 0 2 0
19. BOHEMIA 0 1 2
20. MIXED TEAMS 2 3 4
  For the first time the Olympic medals were won by the athletes from Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Cuba, Canada, Sweden, Luxembourg, Austria, Norway, India and Bohemia.  
                   
                 
                   
             
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