1992 Summer Olympics medal table

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The 1992 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, from 25 July to 9 August 1992. A total of 9,356 athletes representing 169 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. The games featured 257 events in 25 sports and 34 disciplines. Badminton, baseball, and women's judo were included as official medal events for the first time. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, athletes from twelve of the fifteen former Soviet republics competed together as part of the Unified Team. Two other former republics, Estonia and Latvia, competed independently for the first time since 1936, while Lithuania did so for the first time since 1928. The three Baltic states were annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II. South Africa, which had been excluded from the Olympics for its use of the apartheid system in sports, returned to the games for the first...

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