Early modern
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
allowed for individuals in a team to be from different
nation
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those ...
s. The
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
(IOC) grouped their results together under the ''mixed team'' designation (
IOC code
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter abbreviation country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games. Each geocode usually identifies a National Olympic Committee (NOC), but there are s ...
ZZX).
A total of 25 medals were won by mixed teams in the first three modern Games, from 1896 to 1904.
Medal tables
Medals by Games
List of medalists of mixed teams
Medals by sport
Medals by nation combination
See also
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Australasia at the Olympics
Australasia was a combined team of athletes from Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand that competed together at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. When the Olympic Games resumed in 1920 after World War I, the two nations sent separate te ...
, a combined team consisting of Australian and New Zealand competitors, which competed in the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games
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Unified Team at the Olympics
The Unified Team (russian: Объединённая команда) was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union
(except the Baltic states) at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelon ...
, a combined team consisting of competitors from former Soviet Union states, which competed in the 1992 Winter and Summer Olympics
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Mixed-NOCs at the Youth Olympics
Mixed-NOCs (IOC code: MIX) are Youth Olympic Games teams consisting of athletes representing different National Olympic Committees (NOCs). The concept of mixed-NOCs was introduced at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, in which athletes from different ...
References
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