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Barcelona History
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The Olympic Games of XXV were held between 25 of July and the 9 August of 1992. Barcelona was already candidate for the Games of 1924 and 1936.
The sports in this edition were: athletics, badminton, basket ball, hand ball, base ball, boxing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weight-lifting, horse riding, hockey, judo, combat, synchronized swimming, swimming, modern pentathlon, canoeing, rowing, long and high jumping, table tennis, tennis, archery, sailing, volley ball, water polo.
There were 9,364 athletes (6,657 men and 2,707 women) of 169 countries, competing in 24 sports and 257 specialties.
Final classification by medals: Gold, silver, bronze, total:
01 Unified Team (ex-URSS) 45 37 30 112
02 United States 37 33 37 107
03 Germany 33 20 27 80
04 China 17 22 16 55
05 Cuba 14 6 11 31
06 Hungry 11 12 7 30
07 South Korea 12 5 12 29
08 France 8 5 16 29
09 Australia 7 9 11 27
10 Spain 13 7 2 22
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