Summer Olympics Timeline

By Hannah Elton

  • First Summer Olympics

  • The first Olympic games was held in Athens Greece

    The USA won the most gold medals in the first summer Olympic games.
    The Olympics went from April 6, 1896 - April 15, 1896

  • First Olympics held in the USA

    The first game held in the USA was in 1904, It was held in St. Louis Missouri.

  • Cancelled Olympics

    The 1940 and 1944 Olympics were also cancelled due to world war II

  • Cancelled Olympics

    The Olympics were cancelled in 1916 due to World war I.

  • Barcelona Olympics

  • 1992 Olympics in Barcelona

    There were athletes from a total of 172 nations.

  • 1996 Olympics in Atlanta

    The U.S women's gymnastics team took gold.

  • 2000 Olympics in Sydney

    British rower Steven Redgrave becomes the first athlete to win gold medals in 5 consecutive Olympics.

  • 2004 Olympics in Athens

    Micheal Phelps tied an Olympic record winning 8 medals, 6 of them gold.

  • 2008 Olympics in Beijing

    China won a record of 51 total gold medals in the 2008 Olympic games

  • 2012 Olympics in London

    Queen Elizabeth II opened the games.

  • 2016 Olympics in Rio

    Michael Phelps retired with 22 total gold medals.