rt's International Federation. Sports that were new to the 2016 Olympics (rugby and golf) have been placed in Category E.
The current categories are:
|A||3||athletics, aquatics, gymnastics|
|B||5||basketball, cycling, football, tennis, volleyball|
|C||8||archery, badminton, boxing, judo, rowing, shooting, table tennis, weightlifting|
|D||9||canoe/kayaking, equestrian, fencing, handball, field hockey, sailing, taekwondo, triathlon, wrestling|
|E||3||modern pentathlon, golf, rugby|
|1||United States (USA)||27||1022||795||705||2522|
|2||Soviet Union (URS)||9||395||319||296||1010|
|3||Great Britain (GBR)||28||263||295||289||847|
|9||East Germany (GDR)||5||153||129||127||409|
|No.||Year||Host||Opened by||Dates||Nations||Competitors||Sports||Disciplines||Events||Top nation||Ref|
|I||1896||Athens, Greece||King George I||6–15 April||14||241||241||0||9||10||43||United States (USA)|||
|II||1900||Paris, France||N/A||14 May – 28 October||24||997||975||22||19||20||85A[›]||France (FRA)|||
|III||1904||St. Louis, United States||Former Governor David R. Francis||1 July – 23 November||12||651||645||6||16||17||94B[›]||United States (USA)|||
|IV||1908||London, United Kingdom||King Edward VII||27 April – 31 October||22||2008||1971||37||22||25||110||Great Britain (GBR)|||
|V||1912||Stockholm, Sweden||King Gustaf V||6–22 July||28||2407||2359||48||14||18||102||United States (USA)|||
|VI||1916||Awarded to Berlin|
Cancelled due to World War I
|VII||1920||Antwerp, Belgium||King Albert I||14 August – 12 September||29||2626||2561||65||22||29||156C[›]||United States (USA)|||
|VIII||1924||Paris, France||President Gaston Doumergue||4 May – 27 July||44||3089||2954||135||17||23||126||United States (USA)|||
|IX||1928||Amsterdam, Netherlands||Prince Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin||28 July – 12 August||46||2883||2606||277||14||20||109||United States (USA)|||
|X||1932||Los Angeles, United States||Vice President Charles Curtis||30 July – 14 August||37||1332||1206||126||14||20||117||United States (USA)|||
|XI||1936||Berlin, Germany||Chancellor Adolf Hitler||1–16 August||49||3963||3632||331||19||25||129||Germany (GER)|||
|XII||1940||Originally awarded to Tokyo, then awarded to Helsinki|
Cancelled due to World War II
|XIII||1944||Awarded to London|
Cancelled due to World War II
|XIV||1948||London, United Kingdom||King George VI||29 July – 14 August||59||4104||3714||390||17||23||136||United States (USA)|||
|XV||1952||Helsinki, Finland||President Juho Kusti Paasikivi||19 July – 3 August||69||4955||4436||519||17||23||149||United States (USA)|||
|XVI||1956||Melbourne, Australia||Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh||22 November – 8 December||72D[›]||3314||2938||376||17||23||151E[›]||Soviet Union (URS)|||
|XVII||1960||Rome, Italy||President Giovanni Gronchi||25 August – 11 September||83||5338||4727||611||17||23||150||Soviet Union (URS)|||
|XVIII||1964||Tokyo, Japan||Emperor Hirohito||10–24 October||93||5151||4473||678||19||25||163||United States (USA)|||
|XIX||1968||Mexico City, Mexico||President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz||12–27 October||112||5516||4735||781||18||24||172||United States (USA)|||
|XX||1972||Munich, West Germany||President Gustav Heinemann||26 August – 10 September||121||7134||6075||1059||21||28||195||Soviet Union (URS)|||
|XXI||1976||Montreal, Canada||Queen Elizabeth II||17 July – 1 August||92||6084||4824||1260||21||27||198||Soviet Union (URS)|||
|XXII||1980||Moscow, Soviet Union||Chairman Leonid Brezhnev||19 July – 3 August||80||5179||4064||1115||21||27||203||Soviet Union (URS)|||
|XXIII||1984||Los Angeles, United States||President Ronald Reagan||28 July – 12 August||140||6829||5263||1566||21||29||221||United States (USA)|||
|XXIV||1988||Seoul, South Korea||President Roh Tae-woo||17 September – 2 October||159||8391||6197||2194||23||31||237||Soviet Union (URS)|||
|XXV||1992||Barcelona, Spain||King Juan Carlos I||25 July – 9 August||169||9356||6652||2704||25||34||257||Unified Team (EUN)|||
|XXVI||1996||Atlanta, United States||President Bill Clinton||19 July – 4 August||197||10318||6806||3512||26||37||271||United States (USA)|||
|XXVII||2000||Sydney, Australia