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Games of the XXIII Olympiad - Los Angeles 1984
Date: 28 July – 12 August.
Nations: 140.
Athletes: 6,797 (5,230 men, 1,567 women).
Sports: 23.
Events: 221.
Official opening of the Games by: President Ronald Reagan.
Olympic flame:
- Rafer Johnson(athletics).
Olympic oath: - Edwin Moses (athletics).
Official oath: - Sharon Weber (gymnastics).
Number of medal-winning nations: 47.
National medal total:
1. USA 174 (83, 61, 30).
   
                   
      The USSR reciprocated American boycott of the Moscow Games. The decision of non-participation was expounded by co-called “security reasons”. Another 18 nations of the Eastern block joined the boycott (all except Romania).
For the first time women competed in the marathon and cycling (road race), and the first Olympic champions were America’s Joan Benoit (marathon) and Connie Carpenter-Phinney (cycling). Morocco’s Nawal el Moutawakel became the first female African Olympic champion, the first female Islamic athlete to win an Olympic medal and the first Moroccan Olympic champion.
Yugoslavia participated with 140 athletes in 16 sports and won a record number of medals - 18 (7, 4, 7). Gold medals were won by the men’s water polo team; the men’s and women’s handball teams; Šaban Trstena; Vlado Lisjak; Matija Ljubek and Mirko Nišović (C-2); and Anton Josipović.

Candidate cities: no other candidate cities.

  
The most successful athlete:
Carl Lewis (USA), four gold medals (the 110m, the 200m, the 4 x 100m and the long jump)		  
               
     

SPORTS (23)

    
 		  
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Baseball
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weightlifting
  • Sailing
  • Canoe/kayak
  • Equestrian
  • Basketball
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Handball
  • Wrestling
  • Handball
  • Archery
  • Shooting
  • Tennis
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Judo
   1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USA 83 61 30
2. ROMANIA 20 16 17
3. GERMANY 17 19 23
4. CHINA 15 8 9
5. ITALY 14 6 12
6. CANADA 10 18 16
7. JAPAN 10 8 14
8. NEW ZEALAND 8 1 2
9. YUGOSLAVIA 7 4 7
10. SOUTH KOREA 6 6 7
11. GREAT BRITAIN 5 10 22
12. FRANCE 5 7 16
13. NETHERLANDS 5 2 6
14. AUSTRALIA 4 8 12
15. FINLAND 4 2 6
16. SWEDEN 2 11 6
17. MEXICO 2 3 1
18. MOROCCO 2 0 0
19. BRAZIL 1 5 2
20. SPAIN 1 2 2
21. BELGIUM 1 1 2
22. AUSTRIA 1 1 1
23. KENYA 1 0 2
24. PORTUGAL 1 0 2
25. PAKISTAN 1 0 0
26. SWITZERLAND 0 4 4
27. DENMARK 0 3 3
28. JAMAICA 0 1 2
29. NORWAY 0 1 2
30. GREECE 0 1 1
31. NIGERIA 0 1 1
32. PUERTO RICO 0 1 1
33. COLOMBIA 0 1 0
34. EGYPT 0 1 0
35. IRELAND 0 1 0
36. IVORY COAST 0 1 0
37. PERU 0 1 0
38. SYRIA 0 1 0
39. THAILAND 0 1 0
40. TURKEY 0 0 3
41. VENEZUELA 0 0 3
42. ALGERIA 0 0 2
43. CAMEROON 0 0 1
44. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 0 0 1
45. ICELAND 0 0 1
46. TAIWAN 0 0 1
47. ZAMBIA 0 0 1
  For the first time Olympic medals were won the athletes of China, Ivory Coast, Syria, Algeria, Dominican Republic and Zambia.  
             
           
                   
             
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