Summer Olympic Games - List of Modern Summer Olympic Games

List of Modern Summer Olympic Games

Games Year Host Opened by Dates Nations Competitors Sports Events Ref
Total Men Women
I 1896 Athens, Greece King George I 6–15 April 14 241 241 0 9 43
II 1900 Paris, France N/A 14 May – 28 October 24 997 975 22 18 95
III 1904 St. Louis, United States Governor David R. Francis 1 July – 23 November 12 651 645 6 17 91
IV 1908 London, United Kingdom King Edward VII 27 April – 31 October 22 2008 1971 37 22 110
V 1912 Stockholm, Sweden King Gustaf V 6 July – 22 July 28 2407 2359 48 14 102
VI 1916 Originally awarded to Berlin, cancelled because of World War I
VII 1920 Antwerp, Belgium King Albert I 20 April – 12 September 29 2626 2561 65 22 154
VIII 1924 Paris, France President Gaston Doumergue 4 May – 27 July 44 3089 2954 135 17 126
IX 1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands 28 July – 12 August 46 2883 2606 277 14 109
X 1932 Los Angeles, United States Vice President Charles Curtis 30 July – 14 August 37 1332 1206 126 14 117
XI 1936 Berlin, Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler 1–16 August 49 3963 3632 331 19 129
XII 1940 Originally awarded to Tokyo, then awarded to Helsinki, cancelled because of World War II
XIII 1944 Originally awarded to London, cancelled because of World War II
XIV 1948 London, United Kingdom King George VI 29 July – 14 August 59 4104 3714 390 17 136
XV 1952 Helsinki, Finland President Juho Kusti Paasikivi 19 July – 3 August 69 4955 4436 519 17 149
XVI 1956 Melbourne, Australia Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 22 November – 8 December 72 3314 2938 376 17 145
XVII 1960 Rome, Italy President Giovanni Gronchi 25 August – 11 September 83 5338 4727 611 17 150
XVIII 1964 Tokyo, Japan Emperor Hirohito 10–24 October 93 5151 4473 678 19 163
XIX 1968 Mexico City, Mexico President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz 12–27 October 112 5516 4735 781 18 172
XX 1972 Munich, West Germany President Gustav Heinemann 26 August – 10 September 121 7134 6075 1059 21 195
XXI 1976 Montreal, Canada Queen Elizabeth II 17 July – 1 August 92 6084 4824 1260 21 198
XXII 1980 Moscow, Soviet Union Chairman Leonid Brezhnev 19 July – 3 August 80 5179 4064 1115 21 203
XXIII 1984 Los Angeles, United States President Ronald Reagan 28 July – 12 August 140 6829 5263 1566 21 221
XXIV 1988 Seoul, South Korea President Roh Tae-woo 17 September – 2 October 160 8391 6197 2194 23 237
XXV 1992 Barcelona, Spain King Juan Carlos I 25 July – 9 August 169 9356 6652 2704 25 257
XXVI 1996 Atlanta, United States President Bill Clinton 19 July – 4 August 197 10318 6806 3512 26 271
XXVII 2000 Sydney, Australia Governor-General William Deane 15 September – 1 October 199 10651 6582 4069 28 300
XXVIII 2004 Athens, Greece President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos 13–29 August 201 10625 6296 4329 28 301
XXIX 2008 Beijing, China President Hu Jintao 8–24 August 204 10942 6305 4637 28 302
XXX 2012 London, United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II 27 July – 12 August 204 10820 26 302
XXXI 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5–21 August future event
XXXII 2020 Istanbul, Turkey or
Tokyo, Japan or
Madrid, Spain
 TBD future event
XXXIII 2024 TBD TBD future event
XXXIV 2028 TBD TBD future event

^ A: The 1906 Intercalated Games are no longer considered official Games by the IOC.
^ B: Due to Australian quarantine laws, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm several months before the rest of the 1956 Games in Melbourne.

Note: Although the Games of 1916, 1940, and 1944 had been cancelled, the Roman numerals for those Games were still used because the Summer Games' official titles count Olympiads, not the Games themselves; those Olympiads occurred anyway per the Olympic Charter. This is in contrast to the Roman numerals in the official titles of the Winter Olympic Games, which ignore the cancelled Winter Games of 1940 & 1944; those titles count Games instead of Olympiads.

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