In the 1904 Summer Olympics, how many gold medals did the USA athletics team win in the 25 events held?

At the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, twenty-five athletics events were contested, all for men only. A total of 74 medals (25 gold, 25 silver, 24 bronze) were awarded. The bronze medal was not awarded for the 4 miles team race due to only two teams completing the race.

Multi-event competitions, the all-around and triathlon, were introduced. The short steeplechase was lengthened slightly, from 2500 to 2590 metres, while the long steeplechase was eliminated. The 5000 metre team race was replaced with the 4 mile team race (6,437 m). A 56-pound weight throw was added. In all, the 25 events featured in 1904 were 2 more than were held in 1900.

There was a total of 25 events during the Summer Olympics of which the USA team won 23 gold, 23 silver and 22 bronze medals. The two events that USA did not win the gold medal in were the 56 pound weight throw won by Canada and the All-around event won by Great Britain.

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Glenn Harshman

The actual answer to this question is 78, The USA won a total of 239 total medals in the 1904 Olympics. If you can't justify your answers don't print the questions. It's getting very old when the questions aren't researched and proven.

Vernon Ross

Correct answer is 79!👎😝😜

Vernon Kingsbury

There was 95 events not 25

James Chartier

I would have expected better research from Stevie G

Stephen Greufe

Some events had more than one category , which accounts for more gold medals than events, but you should have explained this.

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Nicholas Miernicki

Glenn Harshman, Reading, it's fundamental!

Elsy O. Stromberg

Barbara Bland, The majority is often right, but not always. In this case the answers are all wrong.

dowill

Why are there more and more ambiguous questions that can be taken in a mutitude of ways? The questions need to be clear cut as to what is being asked.

Stevie G

Glenn Harshman, Another person who does not understand English and claims a correct answer to the question is wrong .....

Stevie G

Lyle Ridout, Don Bardwell, Barbara Ell, You really do have to read the question and understand what it is saying before jumping in and claiming a perfectly good question is correct. The key to the question is "USA athletics team" and not the "USA team". There were only 25 athletic events in the 1904 Summer Olympics !!!!!!!

Boyd Tracy

The problem here is again one of definition. I.e You could count "Fencing" as "An Event" but fact is there were several fencing events and thus several fencing gold medals. Looking at it that way the USA won over 75 gold medals. However counting each general category as an event there were in fact only 25 generically separate events and USA failed to get a gold medal in two of them.