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THE RESULTS OF THE GAMES
OF THE XXV OLYMPIAD
IN BARCELONA
Twenty-five sports appeared on the Olympic programme of these
twenty-second summer Olympic Games, three of them for the first
time: badminton, baseball and women’s judo, which had previously
been demonstration sports. Out of the total of 257 events,
159 were open to men, 86 to women and the remaining twelve
were mixed. Some 1697 medals were awarded. A total of 10,563
athletes were accredited, 7,555 men and 3,008 women. There
were also three demonstration sports: Basque pelota, rink hockey
and taekwondo. In athletics, two events were organized for the
disabled.
ABBREVIATIONS USED:
is available to us, we have used the abbreviation of the
NOC of origin for participants in the Unified Team
NWR : new world record; NOR new Olympic placed in individual events.
record; AB: did not finish; NFOR: new final Olympic
record; DQ: disqualified.
In the pages that follow, we are giving the results
of the competitions as we obtained them from the
AMICS system. Most of the Information contained in the
The list of abbreviations of NOCs appears on page
578 of the Review: However, we would point out that
IOP stands for Independent Olympic Participant (see
summaries is also drawn from this source.
We would like to say a very special thank you to Jenny
Elonen for her work in keying in all these data and to
Nikolai Gueorguiev for checking them. As this exhaus-
OR No 299) and EUN for Unified Team (Equipe Uni- tive work is not exempt from errors or confusions. we
fiée), the latter consisting of representatives of the Re- would ask you please to be kind enough to point out to
publics of the CIS plus Georgia. Where the information us any you may find.
FROM 25TH JULY TO
9TH AUGUST 1992
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