The 1904 Summer Olympics were held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904, as part of the St. Louis World's Fair.

A total of 651 athletes from 12 nations participated in 95 events in 16 sports at these games.

Nine participating nations earned medals, in addition to four medals won by mixed teams. In the early Olympic Games, several team events were contested by athletes from multiple nations. Retroactively, the IOC created the designation "mixed team" (with the country code ZZX) to refer to these groups of athletes. Some athletes won medals both individually and as part of a mixed team, so these medals are tabulated under different nations in the official counts.

The United States won 248 medals, setting a record that still stands today. The Soviet Union came closest to beating the record with 195 medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics and currently is in second place. The Soviets briefly shared the record for gold medals with the Americans, matching the USA's 80 gold medals from 1904 with their own result at the 1980 Olympic Games. However, the United States subsequently won 83 gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics, setting another all-time record. Gold medals were awarded to event winners for the first time at the 1904 games. Prior to that, a silver medal was awarded to first-place finishers and a bronze medal to second-place finishers.

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.

Changes in medal standings Stripped Olympic medals

Key Disqualified athlete(s)

+ List of official changes in medal standings Ruling date Sport/Event Athlete ()Total Notes November 1905 BoxingLightweight ※ −1 −1Jack Egan won two Olympic medals in boxing, a silver medal in the lightweight category, losing to Harry Spanjer in the final, and a tied bronze medal in the welterweight category against fellow American boxer, Joseph Lydon. By the rules of the AAU it was illegal to fight under an assumed name. (Egan's actual name was Frank Joseph Floyd.) In November 1905, the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes including his two Olympics medals. +1 −1 0 +1 +1 BoxingWelterweight ※ −1 −1 +1 +1

Reallocation of Olympic medals to club affiliation IOC attribution policy From the 1896 to 1904 Olympic Games, athletes were not always entered by nationality. While many competed under their National Olympic Committees (NOCs), others were entered by clubs, particularly in team events. In such cases, participation and medals could be attributed to the country of the club rather than the athlete's nationality. Consequently,The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has applied an inconsistent approach for attributing participation and medals from the 1896–1904 Olympic Games over time, alternating between the athlete's nationality and the national affiliation of the club they represented.

Team events: Until 2024, the IOC classified all teams composed of athletes from different countries in the early Modern Olympic Games as mixed teams (IOC code ZZX), regardless of whether they represented an established club. Since 2024, teams representing a club have been attributed to the club's country, even if they included foreign athletes. Only ad hoc teams formed solely for the Olympic Games are now classified as mixed teams. Individual events: From 2021 to 2024, the IOC attributed medals in individual events according to the athlete's nationality, even when the athlete represented a foreign club. Since 2024, participation and medals have instead been attributed according to the national affiliation of the club represented by the athlete, largely restoring the attribution policy that had been applied for these Games prior to 2021.

A total of 19 medals from the 1904 Olympic Games, 16 in individual and 3 in team events, have been reallocated by the IOC since 2024. These medals have only been reallocated to two countries, 17 to the United States and 2 to Germany. + Redistribution of medals in 2024 Gold Silver Bronze Net Change +4 +7 +6 +17 +1 −1 −1 −1 0 −1 0 −1 −2 0 0 −2 −1 −1 −1 −3 −1 −1 −1 −3 −1 0 −2 −3 0 −3 −1 −4

Individual events The below table list only the medalists, whose medals were reclassified in 2024 by the IOC. Denotes medal assigned by IOC to the athlete's registered NOC (club affiliation) Medal Sport/Event Athlete (Nationality) affiliation of club Pre-2024 reallocation Post-2024 reallocation Note WrestlingFreestyle heavyweight United States Brooklyn Norwegier Turnverein WrestlingFreestyle welterweight United States Brooklyn Norwegier Turnverein GymnasticsAll-around United States Philadelphia Turngemeinde GymnasticsTriathlon GymnasticsTriathlon Germany Turnverein Esslingen GymnasticsAll-around AthleticsMarathon United States Chicago Athletic Association Swimming220 yard freestyle United States Olympic Club, San Francisco Swimming440 yard freestyle Swimming880 yard freestyle Swimming1 mile freestyle WrestlingFreestyle heavyweight United States St. Louis Southwest Turnverein WeightliftingTwo hand lift WeightliftingAll-around dumbbell Swimming440 yd freestyle United States New York Athletic Club WrestlingFreestyle light flyweight United States South Broadway AC

Team events

The below table list only the teams, whose medals were reclassified in 2024 by the IOC. Denotes medal assigned by IOC to the team's registered NOC (club affiliation) Medal Sport/Event Team (Nationality) affiliation of club/team Pre-2024 reallocation Post-2024 reallocation Note GymnasticsTeam all-around United States Philadelphia Turngemeinde Athletics4 mile team race United States Chicago Athletic Association Tug of WarTeam competition United States St. Louis Southwest Turnverein #2

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