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Games of the IX Olympiad - Amsterdam 1928
Date: 17 May – 12 August.
Nations: 46.
Athletes: 3,014 (2,724 men, 290 women).
Sports: 14.
Events: 109.
Official opening of the Games by:
HRH Prince Hendrik.
Olympic flame: - lit at a tower next to the stadium, but it was not relayed from Greece.
Olympic oath: - Henri Dénis (football).
Official oath: - (first time in Munich in 1972).
Number of medal-winning nations: 33.
National medal total:
1. USA 56 (22, 18, 16)
   
                   
      For the first time the compulsory programme of the Games was made: athletics, aquatics (swimming, water polo, diving), boxing, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, greco-roman and free style wrestling, rowing, cycling, equestrian, sailing, weightlifting), while the Games host could include in the programme some of the following sports: football, rugby, polo, field hockey, handball, basketball and kayak.
For the first team, Greece, as the birthplace of the Games, led the parade of nations at the opening ceremony, and the host team of the Netherlands marched last. The marching order (Greece first, host nation last) became a part of the protocol of the opening ceremony of the Games.
For the first time Asian athletes won gold medals - Mikio Oda (Japan) in the triple jump, and his fellow countryman Yoshiyuki Tsuruta in swimming, the 200m breaststroke.
Yugoslavia participated with 34 athletes competing in six sports, and the most successful were the gymnasts who won (all) five medals - 1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze.

Candidate city: Los Angeles.		  
The most successful athlete: USA’s Elizabeth Robinson (100m) was the first woman to win an Olympic gold in athletics		  
     

SPORTS (14)

    
 		  
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weightlifting
  • Sailing
  • Equestrian
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Wrestling
  • Football
  • Hockey
   1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USA 22 18 16
2. GERMANY 10 7 14
3. FINLAND 8 8 9
4. SWEDEN 7 6 12
5. ITALY 7 5 7
6. SWITZERLAND 7 4 4
7. FRANCE 6 10 5
8. NETHERLANDS 6 9 4
9. HUNGARY 4 5 0
10. CANADA 4 4 7
11. GREAT BRITAIN 3 10 7
12. ARGENTINA 3 3 1
13. DENMARK 3 1 2
14. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2 5 2
15. JAPAN 2 2 1
16. ESTONIA 2 1 2
17. EGYPT 2 1 1
18. AUSTRIA 2 0 1
19. AUSTRALIA 1 2 1
20. NORWAY 1 2 1
21. POLAND 1 1 3
22. YUGOSLAVIA 1 1 3
23. SOUTH AFRICA 1 0 2
24. INDIA 1 0 0
25. IRELAND 1 0 0
26. NEW ZEALAND 1 0 0
27. SPAIN 1 0 0
28. URUGUAI 1 0 0
29. HAITTI 0 1 2
30. BELGIUM 0 1 0
31. CHILE 0 1 0
32. PHILIPPINES 0 0 1
33. PORTUGAL 0 0 1
  Ireland, Chile and Philippines won their first Olympic medals.  
             
           
                   
             
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