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{{Short description|Multi-sport event in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain}}
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{{Infobox Olympic games|1992|Summer|Olympics|
| image       = 1992 Summer Olympics logo.svg
| image_size  = 230
| caption     = Emblem of the 1992 Summer Olympics
| host_city   = [[Barcelona]], Spain
| motto       = ''Friends for Life''<br />([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Amigos para siempre'', [[Catalan language|Catalan]]: ''Amics per sempre'')
| nations     = 169
| athletes    = 9,356 (6,652 men, 2,704 women)<ref>{{cite web |title=Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics – Athletes, Medals & Results |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |website=olympics.com |url=https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/barcelona-1992 |access-date=19 September 2024}}</ref>
| events      = 257 in 25 [[Olympic sports|sports]] (34 disciplines)
| opening     = 25 July 1992
| closing     = 9 August 1992
| opened_by   = [[Monarchy of Spain|King]] [[Juan Carlos I]]<ref name="Opening and Cauldron">{{cite press release |title=Factsheet - Opening Ceremony of the Games of the Olympiad|url=https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf|url-status=live |publisher=International Olympic Committee|date=9 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814215458/https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2016|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref>
| closed_by   = [[President of the International Olympic Committee|IOC President]] [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]]
| cauldron    = [[Antonio Rebollo]]<ref name="Opening and Cauldron"/>
| stadium     = [[Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys|Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc]]
| summer_prev = [[1988 Summer Olympics|Seoul 1988]]
| summer_next = [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]
| winter_prev = [[1992 Winter Olympics|Albertville 1992]]
| winter_next = [[1994 Winter Olympics|Lillehammer 1994]]
}}
{{1992 Summer Olympics}}

The '''1992 Summer Olympics''' ({{langx|es|Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992}}, {{langx|ca|Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992}}), officially the '''Games of the XXV Olympiad''' ({{langx|es|Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada}}, {{langx|ca|Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada}}) and officially branded as '''Barcelona '92''', were an international [[multi-sport event]] held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in [[Barcelona]], Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994, the [[International Olympic Committee]] decided to hold the Summer and Winter Olympics in alternating even-numbered years. The 1992 Summer and Winter Olympics were the last games to be staged in the same year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Games/All-Past-Olympic-Games/Winter/Albertville-1992/|title=Albertville 1992|publisher=www.olympic.org|access-date=12 March 2010|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140107032344/http://www.olympic.org/content/error-pages/error404/?404;http://www.olympic.org:80/en/content/olympic-games/all-past-olympic-games/winter/albertville-1992/|archive-date=7 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> These games were the second and last two consecutive Olympic games to be held in Western Europe after the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] in Albertville, France, held five months earlier. It is also the second [[Olympic Games]] to be held in a Spanish-speaking country, following the [[1968 Summer Olympics]] in Mexico City. 

The 1992 Games received universal acclaim, with the organisation, volunteers, sportsmanship, and Spanish public being lauded in the international media. Some media{{weasel inline|date=February 2025}} describe the Barcelona Games as one of the best Olympics ever.<ref name="Best ever">{{cite news|first=Simon|last=Kuper|url=https://www.ft.com/content/be6c3c56-6e64-11dc-b818-0000779fd2ac |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be6c3c56-6e64-11dc-b818-0000779fd2ac.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=Beijing strikes gold in the propaganda Olympics|newspaper=Financial Times|date=29 September 2007|page=10}}</ref><ref name="Atlanta criticism">{{cite news|title=The Coca Cola Olympics|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=5 August 1996|page=15}}</ref> The Games showed a renewed image of a democratic Spain and projected Barcelona and Catalonia to the world. Owing to the Games, the city of Barcelona was remarkably transformed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barcelona-metropolitan.com/features/6-ways-the-1992-olympics-transformed-barcelon/|title=6 Ways the 1992 Olympics Transformed Barcelona|date=22 July 2022 |publisher=www.barcelona-metropolitan.com|access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref> All the venues are still active, and the legacy of the 1992 Games was taken as an example for future Olympic events, such as [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barcelonaglobal.org/blog/en/barcelona-city-of-talent/30-anos-desde-los-juegos-olimplicos-que-cambiaron-barcelona/|title=30 years since the Olympic Games changed Barcelona for good|date=27 July 2022 |publisher=[[Open University of Catalonia]]|access-date=21 August 2024}}</ref>

The 1992 Summer Games were the first since the [[Cold War (1985–1991)|end of the]] [[Cold War]], and the first unaffected by boycotts since the [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Summer Games]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/barcelona-1992-summer-olympics |title=Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics &#124; Olympic Videos, Photos, News |publisher=Olympic.org |access-date=4 December 2011}}</ref> 1992 was also the first year South Africa was re-invited to the Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee, after a 32-year ban from participating in international sport due to [[apartheid]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/07/sports/olympics-an-era-ends-another-begins-south-africa-to-go-to-olympics.html|title = OLYMPICS; an Era Ends, Another Begins: South Africa to Go to Olympics|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 7 November 1991|last1 = Wren|first1 = Christopher S.}}</ref> The [[Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Unified Team]] (made up by the former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Republics of the Soviet Union|republics]] without the [[Baltic states]]) topped the medal table, winning 45 gold and 112 overall medals.

== Host city selection ==
Barcelona is the second-largest city in Spain and the capital of the autonomous community of [[Catalonia]]; it is also the hometown of then-[[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] president [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]] and the famous European club [[FC Barcelona]]. The city was also a host for the [[1982 FIFA World Cup]]. On 17 October 1986, Barcelona was selected to host the 1992 Summer Olympics over [[Amsterdam]], which hosted the [[1928 Summer Olympics|1928 games]]; [[Belgrade]], Yugoslavia; [[Birmingham]], United Kingdom; [[Brisbane]], Australia; and [[Paris]], France, during the 91st [[IOC Session]] in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |title=IOC Vote History |publisher=Aldaver.com |access-date=4 December 2011 |archive-date=25 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> [[New Delhi]], India, had announced a bid for the games, but withdrew in March 1986.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1141451/an-olympic-passage-to-india-40-years-ago | title=Philip Barker: An Olympic passage to India 40 years ago | date=6 October 2023 }}</ref> With 85 out of 89 members of the IOC voting by secret ballot, Barcelona won a majority of 47 votes. Samaranch abstained from voting. In the same IOC meeting, Albertville, France, won the right to host the [[1992 Winter Olympics|1992 Winter Games]]. Paris and Brisbane would eventually be selected to host the [[2024 Summer Olympics|2024]] and [[2032 Summer Olympics]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/18/sports/barcelona-gets-1992-summer-olympics.html |title=Barcelona gets 1992 Summer Olympics |format=Archives |date=18 October 1986 |first=Judith |last=Miller |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Barcelona had previously bid for the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] that were ultimately held in [[Berlin]], Germany. As an [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] response against the Games being organized by [[Nazi Germany]], the [[Generalitat de Catalunya|Government of Catalonia]] and the newly elected Spanish [[Popular Front (Spain)|Popular Front]] government advocated for the boycott of the [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic]] to the Berlin Games and the organization of an alternative games in Barcelona, known as the [[People's Olympiad]].<ref name="Harrison-1">{{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=Sam |title=The 'Protest' Olympics That Never Came to Be |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/protest-olympics-never-came-be-180978179/ |access-date=25 February 2025 |work=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |date=July 19, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> However, the same day of its planned inauguration (19 July), the [[Spanish Army]] carried out a [[Spanish coup of July 1936|coup d'état]] which led to the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Movement to Boycott the Berlin Olympics of 1936 |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007087 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095138/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007087 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2014 |website=Holocaust Encyclopedia |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |access-date=25 February 2025}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ 1992 Summer Olympics bidding results<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |title=Past Olympic Host City Election Results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630134859/https://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=30 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=3 style="background:silver;"| Round
|-
! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
! style="background:silver;"| 3
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||'''[[Barcelona]]'''|| '''{{flag|Spain}}'''|| style="text-align:center;" |'''29'''|| style="text-align:center;"|'''37'''|| style="text-align:center;"|'''47'''
|-
||[[Paris]]|| {{flag|France|1974}}|| style="text-align:center;"|19|| style="text-align:center;"|20|| style="text-align:center;"|23
|-
||[[Belgrade]]|| {{flag|SFR Yugoslavia}}|| style="text-align:center;" |13|| style="text-align:center;" |11|| style="text-align:center;" |5
|-
||[[Brisbane]]|| {{flag|Australia}}|| style="text-align:center;" |11|| style="text-align:center;" |9|| style="text-align:center;" |10
|-
||[[Birmingham]]|| {{flag|Great Britain}}|| style="text-align:center;"|8|| style="text-align:center;"|8|| style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
||[[Amsterdam]]|| {{flag|Netherlands}}|| style="text-align:center;"|5|| style="text-align:center;"|—|| style="text-align:center;"|—
|}

== Highlights ==
{{See also|1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|1992 Summer Olympics closing ceremony}}
[[File:Barcelona AUGUST 1992 the Olympic Games (Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992) - panoramio.jpg|thumb|The [[Olympic cauldron]] lit during the Games in [[Montjuïc]]]]
[[File:Dream Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.JPEG|right|thumb|[[David Robinson (basketball)|David Robinson]] shoots a free throw to help secure the gold medal for the [[1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team|United States "Dream Team".]]]]
* At the innovative opening ceremony, Greek mezzo-soprano [[Agnes Baltsa]] sang "Romiossini" as the Olympic flag was paraded around the stadium. [[Alfredo Kraus]] later sang the [[Olympic Hymn]] in Catalan, Spanish and French, as the flag was hoisted.
* The Olympic cauldron was ignited using a flaming arrow, lit from the flame of the [[Olympic flame|Olympic torch]]. It was shot by [[Paralympic]] archer [[Antonio Rebollo]], who aimed the arrow over the top of the cauldron to ignite the gas emanating from it. The arrow landed outside the stadium.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1992/07/27/pagina-36/33525453/pdf.html |title=Ciudad Olímpica: La parábola del suspiro |trans-title=Olympic City: The parable of the sigh |newspaper=[[La Vanguardia]] |date=27 July 1992 |page=36 |language=es}}</ref> This unusual method for lighting the cauldron had been carefully designed to avoid any chance of the arrow landing in the stadium if Rebollo missed his target.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics2000/926190.stm | work=[[BBC News]] | title=Ceremonial hall of shame | date=15 September 2000 | access-date=27 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/35738/rec/59 |title=Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, Barcelona 1992, v.4 |date=1992 |publisher=[[LA84 Foundation]] |isbn=84-7868-097-7 |page=72 |quote=The arrow described an arc and lit the gas issuing from the cauldron; the flame soared up to a height of three metres.}}</ref>
* South Africa rejoined the Summer Olympics having been banned for its [[apartheid]] policy after the [[1960 Summer Olympics]]. The [[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 10,000 metres|women's 10,000 metres]] event was hotly contested. White South African runner [[Elana Meyer]] and black [[Ethiopia at the Summer Olympics|Ethiopia]]n runner [[Derartu Tulu]] (winner) ran hand-in-hand in a victory lap.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1992 |title=Barcelona 1992: Did you know? |publisher=[[IOC]] |date=2002 |archive-date=4 April 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020404134346/http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1992}}</ref>
* Germany sent a unified team having [[German reunification|reunified]] in 1990, the last such team was at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]].
* As the [[Soviet Union]] was [[Collapse of the Soviet Union|dissolved in 1991]], the formerly [[Occupation of the Baltic states|Soviet-occupied]] states of [[Estonia at the Summer Olympics|Estonia]] and [[Latvia at the Summer Olympics|Latvia]] sent their own teams for the first time since 1936, while [[Lithuania at the Summer Olympics|Lithuania]] sent its own team for the first time since 1928. The other former Soviet republics decided to compete together and formed the [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]], which consisted of present-day [[Armenia at the Summer Olympics|Armenia]], [[Azerbaijan at the Summer Olympics|Azerbaijan]], [[Belarus at the Summer Olympics|Belarus]], [[Georgia at the Summer Olympics|Georgia]], [[Kazakhstan at the Summer Olympics|Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan at the Summer Olympics|Kyrgyzstan]], [[Moldova at the Summer Olympics|Moldova]], [[Russia at the Summer Olympics|Russia]], [[Tajikistan at the Summer Olympics|Tajikistan]], [[Turkmenistan at the Summer Olympics|Turkmenistan]], [[Ukraine at the Summer Olympics|Ukraine]], and [[Uzbekistan at the Summer Olympics|Uzbekistan]]. The Unified Team finished first in the medal standings, edging the [[United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics|United States]].
* The [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|separation]] of the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] led to the Olympic debuts of [[Croatia at the Summer Olympics|Croatia]], [[Slovenia at the Summer Olympics|Slovenia]] and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Summer Olympics|Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. Due to [[United Nations]] sanctions, athletes from the [[Serbia and Montenegro at the Summer Olympics|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (consisting of present-day [[Serbia]] and [[Montenegro]]) were not allowed to participate with their own team. However, some individual athletes competed under the Olympic flag as [[Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Independent Olympic Participants]]. Serbia would return to the Olympics at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] and as well as Montenegro on what would be its Olympic debut as separate states.
* In [[basketball]], the admittance of NBA players led to the formation of the "[[1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team|Dream Team]]" of the United States, featuring [[Michael Jordan]], [[Magic Johnson]], [[Larry Bird]] and other [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] stars. Prior to 1992, only European and South American professionals were allowed to compete, while the Americans used college players. The Dream Team won the gold medal and was inducted as a unit into the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hall of Famers: 1992 United States Olympic Team |url=http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/1992-united-states-olympic-team |website=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |access-date=15 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818075707/http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/1992-united-states-olympic-team |archive-date=18 August 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Fermín Cacho]] won the [[1500 metres|1,500 m]] in his home country, earning Spain's first-ever Olympic gold medal in a running event.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/fermin-cacho-ruiz |title=Fermin Cacho Ruiz |website=Olympic.org |access-date=25 August 2013}}</ref>
* [[China at the Summer Olympics|Chinese]] [[Diving (sport)|diver]] [[Fu Mingxia]], age 13, became one of the youngest Olympic gold medalists of all time.
* In men's [[artistic gymnastics]], [[Vitaly Scherbo]] from [[Belarus at the Summer Olympics|Belarus]], (representing the [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]]), won six gold medals, including four in a single day. Scherbo tied [[Eric Heiden]]'s record for individual gold medals at a single Olympics, winning five medals in an individual event ([[Michael Phelps]] would later equal this record in [[Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]).
* In women's artistic gymnastics, [[Tatiana Gutsu]] took gold in the All-Around competition edging the USA's [[Shannon Miller]].
* Russian swimmers (competing for the Unified Team) dominated the men's freestyle events, with [[Alexander Popov (swimmer)|Alexander Popov]] and [[Yevgeny Sadovyi]] each winning two events. Sadovyi also won in the relays.
* [[Evelyn Ashford]] won her fourth Olympic gold medal in the 4×100-metre relay, making her one of only four female athletes to have achieved this in history.
* The young [[Krisztina Egerszegi]] of [[Hungary at the Summer Olympics|Hungary]] won three individual swimming gold medals.
* In women's 200 m [[breaststroke]], [[Kyoko Iwasaki]] of [[Japan at the Summer Olympics|Japan]] won a gold medal at the age of 14 years and six days, making her the youngest-ever gold medalist in swimming competitions at the Olympics.
* [[Algeria]]n athlete [[Hassiba Boulmerka]], who was frequently criticized by Muslim groups in Algeria who thought she showed too much of her body when racing, received [[death threat]]s<ref name=BBC>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16962799 |title=Hassiba Boulmerka: Defying death threats to win gold |date=11 February 2012 |first=Chloe |last=Arnold |work=[[BBC News]] |location=Algiers}}</ref> and was forced to move to Europe to train, won the [[1500 metres|1,500 metres]], also holding the [[African records in athletics|African women's record]] in this distance.
* After being demonstrated in six previous Summer Olympic Games, [[baseball]] officially became an Olympic sport. [[Badminton]] and women's [[judo]] also became part of the Olympic program, while [[slalom canoeing]] returned to the Games after a 20-year absence.
* [[Roller hockey (Quad)|Roller hockey]], [[Basque pelota]], and [[taekwondo]] were all demonstrated at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
* Several of the USA men's volleyball gold medal team from the [[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Olympics]] returned to vie for another medal. In the preliminary round, they lost a controversial match to Japan, sparking them to shave their heads in protest. This notably included player [[Steve Timmons]], sacrificing his trademark red [[flattop]] for the protest. The U.S. team ultimately progressed to the playoffs and won bronze.
* [[Mike Stulce]] of the United States won the men's [[shot put]], beating the heavily favored [[Werner Günthör]] of Switzerland.
* On the 20th anniversary of the [[Munich massacre]] and the 500th anniversary of the [[Alhambra Decree]], [[Yael Arad]] became the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal, winning a silver medal in judo. The next day, [[Oren Smadja]] became Israel's first male medalist, winning a bronze in the same sport.
* [[Derek Redmond]] of Great Britain tore a hamstring during a 400-meter semi-final heat. As he struggled to finish the race, his father entered the track without credentials and helped him complete the race, to a [[standing ovation]] from the crowd.
* [[Gail Devers]] came into the 100 meters hurdles as the favorite. Though her Olympic history shows her winning the 100 meters dash twice, the first time earlier in this Olympics, she primarily made her career as a hurdler. And true to form, Devers had a commanding lead in this race until the final hurdle. Devers came up short and hit the hurdle, foot first, hard, knocking her off balance. She stumbled toward the finish line, falling on the last step, but still finished fifth, .001 out of fourth place. [[Paraskevi Patoulidou]] of Greece won the gold medal to even her own disbelief, dropping to her knees on the track when she realized she had won.
* [[Jennifer Capriati]] won the singles tennis competition at the age of 16. She had previously earned a spot in the semifinals of two grand slams at the age of 14.
* Two gold medals were awarded in solo synchronized swimming after a judge inadvertently entered the score of "8.7" instead of the intended "9.7" in the computerized scoring system for one of [[Sylvie Fréchette]]'s figures. This error ultimately placed Fréchette second, leaving [[Kristen Babb-Sprague]] for the gold medal. Following an appeal, [[FINA]] awarded Fréchette a gold medal, replacing her silver medal and leaving the two swimmers both with gold.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/events/1996/olympics/daily/july30/frec.html |title=On the Bright Side |publisher=[[CNN/SI]] |first=Michael |last=Farber |date=30 July 1996 |archive-date=16 September 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000916002627/https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/events/1996/olympics/daily/july30/frec.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Indonesia won its first-ever gold medal after winning a silver at [[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Olympics]]. [[Susi Susanti]] won the gold in [[badminton]] women's singles after defeating [[Bang Soo-hyun]] in the final round. [[Alan Budikusuma]] won the badminton men's singles competition, earning a second gold medal for Indonesia. Several years later, both players married and they received the nickname golden couple or Olympic couple.

===Records===
{{main|World and Olympic records set at the 1992 Summer Olympics}}

== Venues ==
{{Main|Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics}}
[[File:BCN-EstadiOlimpic-4860.jpg|thumb|[[Anella Olímpica]] from above]]
[[File:Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys Karsten Knoefler.jpg|thumb|[[Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys|Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc]]]]
[[File:Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi.jpg|thumb|[[Palau Sant Jordi]]]]
[[File:Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc - vista general.JPG|thumb|[[Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc]]]]
[[File:Canal Olimpic Catalunya FACILITIES.JPG|thumb|[[Canal Olímpic de Catalunya]]]]

*[[Anella Olímpica|Montjuïc Area]]: 
**Cross-country course – modern pentathlon (running)
**[[Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys|Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc]] – opening/closing ceremonies, athletics
**[[Palau Sant Jordi]] – gymnastics (artistics), volleyball (final), and handball (final)
**[[Piscines Bernat Picornell]] – modern pentathlon (swimming), swimming, synchronized swimming, and water polo (final)
**[[Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc]] – diving and water polo
**[[Institut National d'Educació Física de Catalunya]] – wrestling
**[[Mataró]] – athletics (marathon start)
**[[Palau dels Esports de Barcelona]] – gymnastics (rhythmic) and volleyball
**[[Palau de la Metal·lúrgia]] – fencing, modern pentathlon (fencing)
**[[Pavelló de l'Espanya Industrial]] – weightlifting
**Walking course – athletics (walks)
*[[Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona|Diagonal Area]]:
**[[Camp Nou]] – football (final)
**[[Palau Blaugrana]] – judo, roller hockey (demonstration final), and taekwondo (demonstration)
**[[Estadi de Sarrià]] – football
**[[Real Club de Polo de Barcelona]] – equestrian (dressage, jumping, eventing final), modern pentathlon (riding)
*[[La Vall d'Hebron|Vall d'Hebron Area]]:
**[[Camp Olímpic de Tir amb Arc|Archery Field]] – archery
**[[Pavelló de la Vall d'Hebron]] – Basque pelota (demonstration) and volleyball
**[[Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron]] – tennis
**[[Velòdrom d'Horta|Velodrome]] – cycling (track)
*Parc de Mar Area
**[[Estació del Nord Sports Hall]] – table tennis
**[[Port Olímpic|Olympic Harbour]] – sailing
**[[Pavelló de la Mar Bella]] – badminton
*Subsites
**[[C-17 highway (Spain)|A-17 highway]] – cycling (road team time trial)
**[[Lake of Banyoles|Banyoles Lake]] – rowing
**[[CB Viladecans|Camp Municipal de Beisbol de Viladecans]] – baseball
**[[Canal Olímpic de Catalunya]] – canoeing (sprint)
**[[Circuit de Catalunya]] – cycling (road team time trial start/ finish)
**[[Club Hípic El Montanyà]] – equestrian (dressage, eventing endurance)
**[[Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta]] – football
**[[Estadi Olímpic de Terrassa]] – field hockey
**[[Mestalla Stadium|Estadio Luís Casanova]] – football
**[[La Romareda]] – football
**[[L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Baseball Stadium]] – baseball (final)
**[[Camp de Tir Olímpic de Mollet|Mollet del Vallès Shooting Range]] – modern pentathlon (shooting), shooting
**[[Palau D'Esports de Granollers]] – handball
**[[Parc Olímpic del Segre]] – canoeing (slalom)
**[[Pavelló Club Joventut Badalona]] – boxing
**[[Pavelló de l'Ateneu de Sant Sadurní]] – roller hockey (demonstration)
**[[Pavelló del Club Patí Vic]] – roller hockey (demonstration)
**[[Pavelló d'Esports de Reus]] – roller hockey (demonstration)
**[[Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona|Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona]] – basketball
**[[Sant Sadurní d'Anoia|Sant Sadurní Cycling Circuit]] – cycling (individual road race)
*Some events, including diving, took place in view of construction of the [[Sagrada Família]]

== Medals awarded ==
{{main|List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners}}

The 1992 Summer Olympic programme featured 257 events in the following 25 sports:

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!1992 Summer Olympics Sports Programme
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*Aquatics
**{{GamesSport|Diving|Events=4|Format=d}}
**{{GamesSport|Swimming|Events=31|Format=d}}
**{{GamesSport|Synchronized swimming|Events=2|Format=d}}
**{{GamesSport|Water polo|Events=1|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Archery|Events=4|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Athletics|Events=43|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Badminton|Events=4|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Baseball|Events=1|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Basketball|Events=2|Format=d}}
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*{{GamesSport|Boxing|Events=12|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Canoeing|Format=d}}
**Sprint <small>(12)</small>
**Slalom <small>(4)</small>
*{{GamesSport|Cycling|Format=d}}
**Road <small>(3)</small>
**Track <small>(7)</small>
*{{GamesSport|Equestrian|Format=d}}
**Dressage <small>(2)</small>
**Eventing <small>(2)</small>
**Show jumping <small>(2)</small>
{{col-3-of-4}}
*{{GamesSport|Fencing|Events=8|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Field hockey|Events=2|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Football|Events=1|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Gymnastics|Format=d}}
**Artistic <small>(14)</small>
**Rhythmic <small>(1)</small>
*{{GamesSport|Handball|Events=2|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Judo|Events=14|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Modern pentathlon|Events=2|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Rowing|Events=14|Format=d}}
{{col-4-of-4}}
*{{GamesSport|Sailing|Events=10|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Shooting|Events=13|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Table tennis|Events=4|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Tennis|Events=4|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Volleyball|Events=2|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Weightlifting|Events=10|Format=d}}
*{{GamesSport|Wrestling|Format=d}}
**Freestyle <small>(10)</small>
**Greco-Roman <small>(10)</small>
{{col-end}}
|}

=== Demonstration sports ===
*{{GamesSport|Basque pelota|Events=10|Format=d}}
*[[File:Roller hockey pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Roller hockey at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Roller hockey (quad)]] <small>(1)</small>
*{{GamesSport|Taekwondo|Events=16|Format=d}}

== Participating National Olympic Committees ==
{{citations needed|section|date=February 2025}}
[[File:1992 Summer Olympic games countries.svg|thumb|Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics
{{legend|#1e90ff|Participating for the first time.}}
{{legend|#00ff7f|Having previously participated.}}
{{legend|#ababab|Not participating.}}
Yellow circle is host city ([[Barcelona]])]]
[[File:1992 Summer Olympics team numbers.svg|thumb|Number of athletes]]
A total of 169 nations sent athletes to compete in the 1992 Summer Games.

With the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], twelve of the fifteen new states chose to form a [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]], while the [[Occupation of the Baltic states|previously occupied]] Baltic states of [[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]] sent their own teams for the first time since 1936, and [[Lithuania]] sent its own team for the first time since 1928. [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia-Herzegovina]] competed for the first time as an independent nation after its [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|separation from Socialist Yugoslavia]], and [[Namibia]] and the unified team of [[Yemen]] (previously [[Yemen Arab Republic|North]] and [[South Yemen]]) also made their Olympic debuts. [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]] made their first Summer Olympic appearance at these games, having participated at the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] in [[Albertville]].

The 1992 Summer Olympics notably marked [[Germany]] competing as a unified team for the first time since [[United Team of Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964]] and the first time since [[Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936]] as a single nation following [[German reunification]]. [[South Africa]] returned to the Games for the first time in 32 years.

The [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] was banned due to [[United Nations|UN]] sanctions, but individual Yugoslav athletes were allowed to take part as [[Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Independent Olympic Participants]]. Four then-existing National Olympic Committees did not send any athletes to compete: [[Islamic State of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]], [[Brunei]], [[Liberia]] and [[Interim Government of Somalia|Somalia]].{{cn|date=February 2025}}

{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:100%;"
|-
! Participating [[:Category:Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics|National Olympic Committees]]
|-
|
{{div col|colwidth=18em}}
* {{flagIOC|ALB|1992 Summer|7 athletes}}
* {{flagIOC|ALG|1992 Summer|35}}
* {{flagIOC|ASA|1992 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|AND|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|ANG|1992 Summer|28}}
* {{flagIOC|ANT|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|ARG|1992 Summer|84}}
* {{flagIOC|ARU|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|AUS|1992 Summer|279}}
* {{flagIOC|AUT|1992 Summer|102}}
* {{flagIOC|BAH|1992 Summer|14}}
* {{flagIOC|BRN|1992 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|BAN|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|BAR|1992 Summer|17}}
* {{flagIOC|BEL|1992 Summer|68}}
* {{flagIOC|BIZ|1992 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|BEN|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|BER|1992 Summer|20}}
* {{flagIOC|BHU|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|BOL|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|BIH|1992 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|BOT|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|BRA|1992 Summer|182}}
* {{flagIOC|IVB|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|BUL|1992 Summer|138}}
* {{flagIOC|BUR|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|CMR|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|CAN|1992 Summer|295}}
* {{flagIOC|CAY|1992 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|CAF|1992 Summer|15}}
* {{flagIOC|CHA|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|CHI|1992 Summer|12}}
* {{flagIOC|CHN|1992 Summer|244}}
* {{flagIOC|COL|1992 Summer|49}}
* {{flagIOC|CGO|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|COK|1992 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|CRC|1992 Summer|16}}
* {{flagIOC|CRO|1992 Summer|39}}
* {{flagIOC|CUB|1992 Summer|176}}
* {{flagIOC|CYP|1992 Summer|17}}
* {{flagIOC|TCH|1992 Summer|208}}
* {{flagIOC|DEN|1992 Summer|110}}
* {{flagIOC|DJI|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|DOM|1992 Summer|32}}
* {{flagIOC|ECU|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|EGY|1992 Summer|75}}
* {{flagIOC|ESA|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|GEQ|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|EST|1992 Summer|37}}
* {{flagIOC|ETH|1992 Summer|20}}
* {{flagIOC|FIJ|1992 Summer|18}}
* {{flagIOC|FIN|1992 Summer|88}}
* {{flagIOC|FRA|1992 Summer|339}}
* {{flagIOC|GAB|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|GAM|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|GER|1992 Summer|463}}
* {{flagIOC|GHA|1992 Summer|34}}
* {{flagIOC|GBR|1992 Summer|371}}
* {{flagIOC|GRE|1992 Summer|70}}
* {{flagIOC|GRN|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|GUM|1992 Summer|22}}
* {{flagIOC|GUA|1992 Summer|14}}
* {{flagIOC|GUI|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|GUY|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|HAI|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|HON|1992 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|HKG|1992 Summer|38}}
* {{flagIOC|HUN|1992 Summer|217}}
* {{flagIOC|ISL|1992 Summer|27}}
* {{flagIOC|IND|1992 Summer|52}}
* {{flagIOC|IOP|1992 Summer|58}}
* {{flagIOC|INA|1992 Summer|42}}
* {{flagIOC|IRI|1992 Summer|36}}
* {{flagIOC|IRQ|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|IRL|1992 Summer|58}}
* {{flagIOC|ISR|1992 Summer|30}}
* {{flagIOC|ITA|1992 Summer|304}}
* {{flagIOC|CIV|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|JAM|1992 Summer|36}}
* {{flagIOC|JPN|1992 Summer|256}}
* {{flagIOC|JOR|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|KEN|1992 Summer|49}}
* {{flagIOC|PRK|1992 Summer|64}}
* {{flagIOC|KOR|1992 Summer|226}}
* {{flagIOC|KUW|1992 Summer|32}}
* {{flagIOC|LAO|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|LAT|1992 Summer|34}}
* {{flagIOC|LIB|1992 Summer|12}}
* {{flagIOC|LES|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|LBA|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|LIE|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|LTU|1992 Summer|47}}
* {{flagIOC|LUX|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|MAD|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|MAW|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|MAS|1992 Summer|26}}
* {{flagIOC|MDV|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|MLI|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|MLT|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|MTN|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|MRI|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|MEX|1992 Summer|102}}
* {{flagIOC|MON|1992 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|MGL|1992 Summer|33}}
* {{flagIOC|MAR|1992 Summer|44}}
* {{flagIOC|MOZ|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|MYA|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|NAM|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|NEP|1992 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|NED|1992 Summer|201}}
* {{flagIOC|AHO|1992 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|NZL|1992 Summer|134}}
* {{flagIOC|NCA|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|NIG|1992 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|NGR|1992 Summer|55}}
* {{flagIOC|NOR|1992 Summer|83}}
* {{flagIOC|OMA|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|PAK|1992 Summer|27}}
* {{flagIOC|PAN|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|PNG|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|PAR|1992 Summer|27}}
* {{flagIOC|PER|1992 Summer|16}}
* {{flagIOC|PHI|1992 Summer|26}}
* {{flagIOC|POL|1992 Summer|201}}
* {{flagIOC|POR|1992 Summer|90}}
* {{flagIOC|PUR|1992 Summer|71}}
* {{flagIOC|QAT|1992 Summer|28}}
* {{flagIOC|ROM|1992 Summer|173}}
* {{flagIOC|RWA|1992 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|VIN|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|SMR|1992 Summer|17}}
* {{flagIOC|KSA|1992 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|SEN|1992 Summer|20}}
* {{flagIOC|SEY|1992 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|SLE|1992 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|SIN|1992 Summer|14}}
* {{flagIOC|SLO|1992 Summer|35}}
* {{flagIOC|SOL|1992 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|RSA|1992 Summer|93}}
* {{flagIOC|ESP|1992 Summer|422}} '''(host)'''
* {{flagIOC|SRI|1992 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|SUD|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|SUR|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|SWZ|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|SWE|1992 Summer|187}}
* {{flagIOC|SUI|1992 Summer|102}}
* {{flagIOC|SYR|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|TPE|1992 Summer|31}}
* {{flagIOC|TAN|1992 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|THA|1992 Summer|46}}
* {{flagIOC|TOG|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|TGA|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|TRI|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|TUN|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|TUR|1992 Summer|41}}
* {{flagIOC|UGA|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|EUN|1992 Summer|475}}
* {{flagIOC|UAE|1992 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|USA|1992 Summer|545}}
* {{flagIOC|URU|1992 Summer|16}}
* {{flagIOC|VAN|1992 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|VEN|1992 Summer|26}}
* {{flagIOC|VIE|1992 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|ISV|1992 Summer|25}}
* {{flagIOC|WSM|1992 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|YEM|1992 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|ZAI|1992 Summer|17}}
* {{flagIOC|ZAM|1992 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|ZIM|1992 Summer|19}}
{{div col end}}

* {{flagIOC|BRU}} participated in the Opening Ceremony, but its delegation consisted of only one official. This also occurred in the [[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Games]].<ref name="Olympics Official Report">{{cite book|title=1992 Olympics Official Report. Part IV|url=http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s4p4.pdf|access-date=24 October 2012|quote=List of participants by NOC's and sport.|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225173537/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/35738/rec/59|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Barcelona 1992 Opening Ceremony on YouTube">{{YouTube|IzGCXdX6gig|Barcelona 1992 Opening Ceremony - Full Length}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|AFG|1987}} [[Afghanistan at the Olympics|Afghanistan]] did not send their athletes to compete, but the country took part in the Parade of Nations. Apparently, its flag was carried by a volunteer from the Barcelona Organising Committee.<ref name="Barcelona 1992 Opening Ceremony on YouTube" />
* {{flagIOC|LBR}} and {{flagIOC|SOM}} also participated in the Opening Ceremony, but its accredited athletes (five and two, respectively) did not enter to compete.<ref name="Olympics Official Report" /><ref name="Barcelona 1992 Opening Ceremony on YouTube" />
|}

=== Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee ===
9,356 [[athlete]]s from 169 [[National Olympic Committee|NOCs]]
{{sticky table start}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-table-head"
|- 
! [[List of IOC country codes|IOC Letter Code]]
! Country
! Athletes
|-
| USA || {{flagIOC|USA|1992 Summer}} || 545
|-
| EUN || {{flagIOC|EUN|1992 Summer}} || 475
|-
| GER || {{flagIOC|GER|1992 Summer}} || 463
|-
| ESP || {{flagIOC|ESP|1992 Summer}} || 422
|-
| GBR || {{flagIOC|GBR|1992 Summer}} || 371
|-
| FRA || {{flagIOC|FRA|1992 Summer}} || 339
|-
| ITA || {{flagIOC|ITA|1992 Summer}} || 304
|-
| CAN || {{flagIOC|CAN|1992 Summer}} || 295
|-
| AUS || {{flagIOC|AUS|1992 Summer}} || 279
|-
| JPN || {{flagIOC|JPN|1992 Summer}} || 256
|-
| CHN || {{flagIOC|CHN|1992 Summer}} || 244
|-
| KOR || {{flagIOC|KOR|1992 Summer}} || 226
|-
| HUN || {{flagIOC|HUN|1992 Summer}} || 217
|-
| TCH || {{flagIOC|TCH|1992 Summer}} || 208
|-
| NED || {{flagIOC|NED|1992 Summer}} || 201
|-
| POL || {{flagIOC|POL|1992 Summer}} || 201
|-
| SWE || {{flagIOC|SWE|1992 Summer}} || 187
|-
| BRA || {{flagIOC|BRA|1992 Summer}} || 182
|-
| CUB || {{flagIOC|CUB|1992 Summer}} || 176
|-
| ROM || {{flagIOC|ROM|1992 Summer}} || 173
|-
| BUL || {{flagIOC|BUL|1992 Summer}} || 138
|-
| NZL || {{flagIOC|NZL|1992 Summer}} || 134
|-
| DEN || {{flagIOC|DEN|1992 Summer}} || 110
|-
| AUT || {{flagIOC|AUT|1992 Summer}} || 102
|-
| MEX || {{flagIOC|MEX|1992 Summer}} || 102
|-
| SUI || {{flagIOC|SUI|1992 Summer}} || 102
|-
| RSA || {{flagIOC|RSA|1992 Summer}} || 93
|-
| POR || {{flagIOC|POR|1992 Summer}} || 90
|-
| FIN || {{flagIOC|FIN|1992 Summer}} || 88
|-
| ARG || {{flagIOC|ARG|1992 Summer}} || 84
|-
| NOR || {{flagIOC|NOR|1992 Summer}} || 83
|-
| EGY || {{flagIOC|EGY|1992 Summer}} || 75
|-
| PUR || {{flagIOC|PUR|1992 Summer}} || 71
|-
| GRE || {{flagIOC|GRE|1992 Summer}} || 70
|-
| BEL || {{flagIOC|BEL|1992 Summer}} || 68
|-
| PRK || {{flagIOC|PRK|1992 Summer}} || 64
|-
| IOP || {{flagIOC|IOP|1992 Summer}} || 58
|-
| IRL || {{flagIOC|IRL|1992 Summer}} || 58
|-
| NGR || {{flagIOC|NGR|1992 Summer}} || 55
|-
| IND || {{flagIOC|IND|1992 Summer}} || 52
|-
| COL || {{flagIOC|COL|1992 Summer}} || 49
|-
| KEN || {{flagIOC|KEN|1992 Summer}} || 49
|-
| LTU || {{flagIOC|LTU|1992 Summer}} || 47
|-
| THA || {{flagIOC|THA|1992 Summer}} || 46
|-
| MAR || {{flagIOC|MAR|1992 Summer}} || 44
|-
| INA || {{flagIOC|INA|1992 Summer}} || 42
|-
| TUR || {{flagIOC|TUR|1992 Summer}} || 41
|-
| CRO || {{flagIOC|CRO|1992 Summer}} || 39
|-
| HKG || {{flagIOC|HKG|1992 Summer}} || 38
|-
| EST || {{flagIOC|EST|1992 Summer}} || 37
|-
| IRI || {{flagIOC|IRI|1992 Summer}} || 36
|-
| JAM || {{flagIOC|JAM|1992 Summer}} || 36
|-
| ALG || {{flagIOC|ALG|1992 Summer}} || 35
|-
| SLO || {{flagIOC|SLO|1992 Summer}} || 35
|-
| GHA || {{flagIOC|GHA|1992 Summer}} || 34
|-
| LAT || {{flagIOC|LAT|1992 Summer}} || 34
|-
| MGL || {{flagIOC|MGL|1992 Summer}} || 33
|-
| DOM || {{flagIOC|DOM|1992 Summer}} || 32
|-
| KUW || {{flagIOC|KUW|1992 Summer}} || 32
|-
| TPE || {{flagIOC|TPE|1992 Summer}} || 31
|-
| ISR || {{flagIOC|ISR|1992 Summer}} || 30
|-
| ANG || {{flagIOC|ANG|1992 Summer}} || 28
|-
| QAT || {{flagIOC|QAT|1992 Summer}} || 28
|-
| ISL || {{flagIOC|ISL|1992 Summer}} || 27
|-
| PAK || {{flagIOC|PAK|1992 Summer}} || 27
|-
| PAR || {{flagIOC|PAR|1992 Summer}} || 27
|-
| MAS || {{flagIOC|MAS|1992 Summer}} || 26
|-
| PHI || {{flagIOC|PHI|1992 Summer}} || 26
|-
| VEN || {{flagIOC|VEN|1992 Summer}} || 26
|-
| ISV || {{flagIOC|ISV|1992 Summer}} || 25
|-
| GUM || {{flagIOC|GUM|1992 Summer}} || 22
|-
| BER || {{flagIOC|BER|1992 Summer}} || 20
|-
| ETH || {{flagIOC|ETH|1992 Summer}} || 20
|-
| SEN || {{flagIOC|SEN|1992 Summer}} || 20
|-
| ZIM || {{flagIOC|ZIM|1992 Summer}} || 19
|-
| FIJ || {{flagIOC|FIJ|1992 Summer}} || 18
|-
| BAR || {{flagIOC|BAR|1992 Summer}} || 17
|-
| CYP || {{flagIOC|CYP|1992 Summer}} || 17
|-
| SMR || {{flagIOC|SMR|1992 Summer}} || 17
|-
| ZAI || {{flagIOC|ZAI|1992 Summer}} || 17
|-
| CRC || {{flagIOC|CRC|1992 Summer}} || 16
|-
| PER || {{flagIOC|PER|1992 Summer}} || 16
|-
| URU || {{flagIOC|URU|1992 Summer}} || 16
|-
| CAF || {{flagIOC|CAF|1992 Summer}} || 15
|-
| BAH || {{flagIOC|BAH|1992 Summer}} || 14
|-
| GUA || {{flagIOC|GUA|1992 Summer}} || 14
|-
| SIN || {{flagIOC|SIN|1992 Summer}} || 14
|-
| ANT || {{flagIOC|ANT|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| BOL || {{flagIOC|BOL|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| ECU || {{flagIOC|ECU|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| CIV || {{flagIOC|CIV|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| MAD || {{flagIOC|MAD|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| MRI || {{flagIOC|MRI|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| PNG || {{flagIOC|PNG|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| TUN || {{flagIOC|TUN|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| UAE || {{flagIOC|UAE|1992 Summer}} || 13
|-
| CHI || {{flagIOC|CHI|1992 Summer}} || 12
|-
| LIB || {{flagIOC|LIB|1992 Summer}} || 12
|-
| SEY || {{flagIOC|SEY|1992 Summer}} || 11
|-
| SLE || {{flagIOC|SLE|1992 Summer}} || 11
|-
| SRI || {{flagIOC|SRI|1992 Summer}} || 11
|-
| BRN || {{flagIOC|BRN|1992 Summer}} || 10
|-
| BIZ || {{flagIOC|BIZ|1992 Summer}} || 10
|-
| BSH || {{flagIOC|BIH|1992 Summer}} || 10
|-
| CAY || {{flagIOC|CAY|1992 Summer}} || 10
|-
| HON || {{flagIOC|HON|1992 Summer}} || 10
|-
| RWA || {{flagIOC|RWA|1992 Summer}} || 10
|-
| KSA || {{flagIOC|KSA|1992 Summer}} || 9
|-
| TAN || {{flagIOC|TAN|1992 Summer}} || 9
|-
| ZAM || {{flagIOC|ZAM|1992 Summer}} || 9
|-
| AND || {{flagIOC|AND|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| CMR || {{flagIOC|CMR|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| DJI || {{flagIOC|DJI|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| GUI || {{flagIOC|GUI|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| IRQ || {{flagIOC|IRQ|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| NCA || {{flagIOC|NCA|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| SYR || {{flagIOC|SYR|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| UGA || {{flagIOC|UGA|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| YEM || {{flagIOC|YEM|1992 Summer}} || 8
|-
| ALB || {{flagIOC|ALB|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| CGO || {{flagIOC|CGO|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| GEQ || {{flagIOC|GEQ|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| HAI || {{flagIOC|HAI|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| LIE || {{flagIOC|LIE|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| MDV || {{flagIOC|MDV|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| TRI || {{flagIOC|TRI|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| VIE || {{flagIOC|VIE|1992 Summer}} || 7
|-
| BAN || {{flagIOC|BAN|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| BEN || {{flagIOC|BEN|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| BHU || {{flagIOC|BHU|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| BOT || {{flagIOC|BOT|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| CHA || {{flagIOC|CHA|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| GUY || {{flagIOC|GUY|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| LAO || {{flagIOC|LAO|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| LES || {{flagIOC|LES|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| LUX || {{flagIOC|LUX|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| MLT || {{flagIOC|MLT|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| MTN || {{flagIOC|MTN|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| MOZ || {{flagIOC|MOZ|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| NAM || {{flagIOC|NAM|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| VIN || {{flagIOC|VIN|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| SUD || {{flagIOC|SUD|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| SWZ || {{flagIOC|SWZ|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| TOG || {{flagIOC|TOG|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| VAN || {{flagIOC|VAN|1992 Summer}} || 6
|-
| ARU || {{flagIOC|ARU|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| GAB || {{flagIOC|GAB|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| GAM || {{flagIOC|GAM|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| LBA || {{flagIOC|LBA|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| MLI || {{flagIOC|MLI|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| OMA || {{flagIOC|OMA|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| PAN || {{flagIOC|PAN|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| TGA || {{flagIOC|TGA|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| WSM || {{flagIOC|WSM|1992 Summer}} || 5
|-
| IVB || {{flagIOC|IVB|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| BUR || {{flagIOC|BUR|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| ESA || {{flagIOC|ESA|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| GRN || {{flagIOC|GRN|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| JOR || {{flagIOC|JOR|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| MAW || {{flagIOC|MAW|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| MYA || {{flagIOC|MYA|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| AHO || {{flagIOC|AHO|1992 Summer}} || 4
|-
| ASA || {{flagIOC|ASA|1992 Summer}} || 3
|-
| NIG || {{flagIOC|NIG|1992 Summer}} || 3
|-
| COK || {{flagIOC|COK|1992 Summer}} || 2
|-
| MON || {{flagIOC|MON|1992 Summer}} || 2
|-
| NEP || {{flagIOC|NEP|1992 Summer}} || 2
|-
| SOL || {{flagIOC|SOL|1992 Summer}} || 1
|}
{{sticky table end}}

==Calendar==
<section begin="Calendar"/>
:''All times are in [[Central European Summer Time]] ([[UTC+2]])''

<div align=center>
{| class=wikitable style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%;position:relative;width:75%;"
|-8
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#00cc33;text-align:center;"|'''OC'''||Opening ceremony
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#3399ff;text-align:center;"|●||Event competitions
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#ffcc00;text-align:center;"|'''1'''||Gold medal events
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#ee3333;text-align:center;"|'''CC'''||Closing ceremony
|}

{| class=wikitable style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%; line-height:1.25em; width:75%; text-align:center;"
|-
!style=width:18%; colspan=2 rowspan=2|July/August 1992
!colspan=8|July
!colspan=9|August
!style=width:6%; rowspan=2|Events
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| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|[[File:Olympic Rings Icon.svg|20px]] Ceremonies|| ||style="background-color:#00cc33;" |'''[[1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|OC]]''' || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || style="background-color:#ee3333;" |'''[[1992 Summer Olympics closing ceremony|CC]]'''||{{n/a}}
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 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=4|Aquatics
 | style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Diving_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Diving]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Swimming_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Swimming]]
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| style="text-align:left;" |{{nowrap|[[File:Synchronized_swimming_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Synchronized swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Synchronized swimming]]}}
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 | style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Water_polo_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Water polo at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Water polo]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Archery_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Archery]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Athletics_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Athletics]]
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| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Badminton_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Badminton]]
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| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[Image:Baseball_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Baseball]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Basketball_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Basketball]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Boxing_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Boxing]]
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|align=left rowspan=2| [[Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Canoeing]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Canoeing_(slalom)_pictogram.svg|20px]] Slalom
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| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Canoeing_(flatwater)_pictogram.svg|20px]] Sprint
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|align=left rowspan=2|[[Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Cycling]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Cycling_(road)_pictogram.svg|20px]] Road cycling
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 | style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Cycling_(track)_pictogram.svg|20px]] Track cycling
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Equestrian pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Equestrian at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Equestrian]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Fencing_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Fencing]]
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| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Field_hockey_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Field hockey at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Field hockey]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Football_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Football]]
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|align=left rowspan=2|[[Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Gymnastics]]
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Gymnastics_(artistic)_pictogram.svg|20px]] Artistic
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| style="text-align:left;" |{{nowrap|[[File:Gymnastics_(rhythmic)_pictogram.svg|20px]] Rhythmic}}
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Handball_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Handball]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Judo_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Judo]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Modern pentathlon pictogram (pre-2025).svg|20px]] [[Modern pentathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Modern pentathlon]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Rowing_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Rowing]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Sailing_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Sailing]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Shooting_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Shooting]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Table_tennis_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Table tennis]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Tennis_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Tennis]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Volleyball_(indoor)_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Volleyball]]
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 | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |[[File:Weightlifting_pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]]
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!colspan=2 rowspan=2|July/August 1992

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== Medal table ==
{{Main|1992 Summer Olympics medal table}}
The following table reflects the top ten nations in terms of total medals won at the 1992 Games (the host nation is highlighted).
;Key
{{Color box|#ffffff|{{double dagger}}|border=darkgray}} Changes in medal standings ([[1992 Summer Olympics medal table#Changes in medal standings|see here]])
{{:1992 Summer Olympics medal table}}

==Broadcasting==
===International signal===
In order to guarantee that the international signal was produced objectively and impartially, for the first time in Olympic history, a host broadcaster was expressly created for each of the 1992 Olympic Games instead of delegating responsibility to a national host broadcaster. The Albertville Organizing Committee created the Organisme de radio télévision olympique '92 (ORTO'92) for the Winter Olympics and the Barcelona Organizing Committee created the Ràdio Televisió Olímpica '92 (RTO'92) for the Summer Olympics.<ref name=OR4/>

RTO'92 managed the staff and the production and technical resources hired to [[RTVE|Radiotelevisión Española]] (RTVE), the [[Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals|Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió]] (CCRTV) and the [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU). With a workforce of 3,083 people, a permanent radio and television installation at the Olympic Stadium and Palau Sant Jordi, and over 50 [[Production truck|mobile units]] for other venues, RTO'92 provided live coverage of all Summer Olympic sports for the first time ever –except for a few preliminary events–, some 2,800 hours of live television footage, to its international rights-holders. The [[International Broadcast Centre]] (IBC) was located at the exhibition halls of [[Fira de Barcelona]] in Montjuïc.<ref name=OR4>{{cite book|url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/35276/rec/58|title=Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, Barcelona 1992|volume=3|pages=64–69|year=1992|publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]]|access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref>

[[NHK]] and [[Panasonic]] developed the 1/2" DX digital system used to record the Games digitally for the first time. Also new were the underwater [[camera dolly]] on a track at the bottom of the swimming pool, the underwater microcameras at the bottom of the water polo pool, the periscope camera capable of transmit shots from below and above the water, the overhead camera dolly on a track along the canopy of the Olympic Stadium for the {{convert|35|m}} high zenithal shot of the athletics track, the stabilized optic gyro-zoom cameras, the super slow motion PAL camera and the microcamera on the high jump bar.<ref name=OR4/>

===Personalized coverage===
To cover the Games, major international broadcasting unions such as the [[Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union]] (ABU), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the [[International Radio and Television Organisation]] (OIRT), the {{lang|es|[[Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana]]|i=no}} (OTI), the [[Arab States Broadcasting Union]] (ASBU), the [[Caribbean Broadcasting Union]] (CBU) and the [[African Union of Broadcasting|Union of African National Television and Radio Organizations]] (URTNA), secured the rights for their member broadcasters in their countries. In other countries, broadcast networks secured the rights directly or pooled to secure the rights. The Games were covered by the following television and radio broadcasters:<ref>{{cite book|title=Television in the Olympics : international research project|year=1995|publisher=James F. Larson|isbn=978-0861965380|pages=257–260|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_u73VtZcJIC&pg=PA260 |edition=illustrated|editor=Miquel de Moragas, Nancy Kay Rivenburgh|access-date=27 April 2013}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Territory
!Television
!Radio
|-
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|[[Entreprise nationale de télévision|ENTV]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Argentina}}
|{{flatlist}}
*Channel 20 
*[[América TV]]
*[[Telefe]]
*[[El Trece|Canal 13]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Australia}}
|[[Seven Network]]
|[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]
|-
|{{flag|Austria}}
|[[ORF (broadcaster)|ORF]]
|ORF
|-
|{{flag|Belarus|1991}}
|[[Belteleradio|btv]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Belgium}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[VRT (broadcaster)|BRTN]]
*[[RTBF]]
{{endflatlist}}
|{{flatlist}}
*BRTN
*RTBF
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Brazil}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Rede Bandeirantes]]
*[[Rede Globo]]
*[[Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|SBT]]
*[[Rede Manchete]]
*[[SporTV|TopSport]]
{{endflatlist}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Rádio Bandeirantes|RB]]
*Rádio Brasil Itália
*[[Rádio Record]]
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|[[Bulgarian National Television|BNT]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Canada}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[CTV Television Network|CTV]]
*[[TVA (Canadian TV network)|TVA]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Chile}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Canal 13 (Chilean TV channel)|UCTV]]
*[[Televisión Nacional de Chile|TVN]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|China}}
|[[China Central Television|CCTV]]
|[[China National Radio|CPBS]]
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|[[Canal A]]
|{{flatlist}}
*[[RCN Radio]]
*[[Caracol Radio]]
*[[Inravisión]]
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Croatia}}
|[[Croatian Radiotelevision|HRT]]
|HRT
|-
|{{flag|Cuba}}
|[[Cuban Institute of Radio and Television|ICRT]]
|ICRT
|-
|{{flag|Cyprus}}
|[[Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation|CyBC]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}
|[[Czechoslovak Television|ČST]]
|Czechoslovak Radio
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|[[DR (broadcaster)|DR]]
|DR
|-
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|[[ERTU]]
|ERTU
|-
|{{flag|Estonia}}
|[[Eesti Televisioon|ETV]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Finland}}
|[[Yle]]
|Yle
|-
|{{flag|France}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[France 2|Antenne 2]]
*[[France 3|FR3]]
*[[TF1]]
*[[Canal+ (French TV channel)|Canal+]]
{{endflatlist}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Radio France]]
*[[Europe 1]]
*[[Radio France Internationale|RFI]]
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Germany}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]
*[[RTL Television|RTL]]
*[[ZDF]]
{{endflatlist}}
|ARD
|-
|{{flag|Greece}}
|[[Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation|ERT]]
|ERT
|-
|{{flag|Hong Kong|colonial}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Asia Television|HK-ATV]] ([[ATV Home]] and [[ATV World]])
*[[TVB|HK-TVB]] ([[TVB Jade]] and [[TVB Pearl]])
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|[[Magyar Televízió|MTV]]
|[[Magyar Rádió]]
|-
|{{flag|Iceland}}
|[[RÚV]]
|RÚV
|-
|{{flag|India}}
|[[Doordarshan]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Indonesia}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[TVRI (TV channel)|TVRI]]
*[[RCTI]]
*[[SCTV (TV network)|SCTV]] ([[broadcast relay|relayed]] on [[RCTI]])
*[[MNCTV|TPI]] ([[broadcast relay|relayed]] on [[TVRI (TV channel)|TVRI]])
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Iran}}
|[[Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting|IRIB]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Ireland}}
|[[RTÉ]]
|RTÉ
|-
|{{flag|Israel}}
|[[Israel Broadcasting Authority|IBA]]
|IBA
|-
|{{flag|Italy}}
|[[RAI]]
|RAI
|-
|{{flag|Japan|1870}}
|[[Japan Consortium]]
|{{flatlist}}
*FM Hokkaidō
*[[Nippon Cultural Broadcasting]]
*[[Nippon Broadcasting System]]
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Jordan}}
|[[Jordan Radio and Television Corporation|JRTV]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Lebanon}}
|[[Télé Liban]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Libya|1977}}
|[[Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation|LJBC]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Lithuania|1990}}
|[[LRT televizija|LTV]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Luxembourg}}
|[[RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg|RTL]]
|RTL
|-
|{{flag|Macau|colonial}}
|[[TDM (Macau)|TDM]]
|TDM
|-
|{{flag|Malaysia}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Radio Televisyen Malaysia|RTM]] ([[TV1 (Malaysia)|TV1]] and [[TV2 (Malaysia)|TV2]])
*[[Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad|STMB]] ([[TV3 (Malaysia)|TV3]])
{{endflatlist}}
|[[Radio Televisyen Malaysia|RTM]]
|-
|{{flag|Malta}}
|[[Public Broadcasting Services|MBA]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Mexico}}
|[[Televisa]]
|-
|{{flag|Monaco}}
|[[Radio Monte Carlo|RMC]]
|RMC
|-
|{{flag|Mongolia}}
|[[Mongolian National Broadcaster|MNB]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Morocco}}
|[[Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision|RTM]]
|RTM
|-
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|[[Nederlandse Omroep Stichting|NOS]]
|NOS
|-
|{{flag|New Zealand}}
|[[Television New Zealand|TVNZ]]
|[[Radio New Zealand|RNZ]]
|-
|{{flag|Norway}}
|[[NRK]]
|NRK
|-
|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|[[Pakistan Television Corporation|PTV]]
|[[Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation|PBC]]
|-
|{{flag|Philippines|1986}}
|[[ABS-CBN]]
|{{flatlist}}
*[[DZBB-AM|DZBB 594 Radyo Bisig Bayan]]
*[[DZSR|DZSR Sports Radio 738]]
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Poland}}
|[[Telewizja Polska|TVP]]
|[[Polskie Radio|PR S.A.]]
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}}
|[[Rádio e Televisão de Portugal|RTP]]
|RDP
|-
|{{flag|Puerto Rico|1952}}
|[[Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation|WIPR]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Romania}}
|[[Romanian Television|TVR]]
|[[Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company|Radio România]]
|-
|{{flag|Russia|1991}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Channel One Russia|Channel One]]
*[[Rossiya 1|RTR]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Singapore}}
|[[Suria (TV channel)|SBC 12]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Slovenia}}
|[[RTV Slovenija|RTVSLO]]
|RTVSLO
|-
|{{flag|South Africa|1982}}
|[[South African Broadcasting Corporation|SABC]]
|
|-
|{{flag|South Korea|1984}}
|{{flatlist}}
*Korean Consortium
**[[Korean Broadcasting System|KBS]]
**[[Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation|MBC]]
**[[Seoul Broadcasting System|SBS]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Spain}}
||{{flatlist}}
*[[Televisión Española|TVE]]
*[[Televisió de Catalunya]]
{{endflatlist}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Catalunya Ràdio]]
*[[Antena 3 Radio|Antena 3]]
*[[Cadena COPE|COPE]]
*[[Radio Nacional de España|RNE]]
*[[Onda Cero]]
*[[Cadena SER]]
{{endflatlist}}
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|[[Sveriges Television|SVT]]
|[[Sveriges Radio|SR]]
|-
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[SRG SSR]]
*[[Radiotelevisione svizzera#Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana|TSI]]
{{endflatlist}}
|SRG SSR
|-
|{{flag|Taiwan}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Taiwan Television|TTV]]
*[[China Television|CTV]]
*[[Chinese Television System|CTS]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Thailand}}
|{{flatlist}}
*[[Channel 3 (Thailand)|Channel 3]]
*[[Channel 5 (Thailand)|Channel 5]]
*[[Channel 7 (Thailand)|Channel 7]]
*[[Channel 9 (Thailand)|Channel 9]]
*[[National Broadcasting Services of Thailand|Television Thailand Channel 11]]
{{endflatlist}}
|
|-
|{{flag|Tunisia}}
|[[Établissement de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision Tunisienne|ERTT]]
|
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|[[Turkish Radio and Television Corporation|TRT]]
|TRT
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[BBC One]]
|[[BBC Radio 4]] 
|-
|{{flag|United States}}
|[[Olympics on NBC|NBC]]
|-
|-
|{{flag|Venezuela|1954}}
|[[Venevisión]]
|
|}

===HDTV coverage===
The 1992 Winter and Summer Olympics were the first in which a comprehensive coverage in [[high-definition television]] (HDTV) was attempted. The European HDTV broadcast of the Summer Olympics was managed by the joint venture "Barcelona 1250" created by RTO'92, RTVE, [[Retevisión]] and PESA, with the financial support of the [[European Economic Community]] and a workforce of over 300 production and technical staff. A total of 225 hours and 45 minutes was broadcast in analog [[HD-MAC]] standard in 1,250 lines and [[16:9 aspect ratio]], with commentary in five languages –Spanish, English, French, German and Italian– in addition to the non-commentary sound track, of eighteen different sports at seventeen venues, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. Events from five venues were covered live –80% of the total broadcast time– and other events were recorded for a delayed broadcast. On-screen text and graphics were shown in HDTV for the first time ever. Nearly 700 viewing sites installed throughout Europe, including the fifty HDTV receivers installed in various pavilions at the [[Seville Expo '92|Seville Universal Exposition]], were able to receive the broadcast.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_254-romero.pdf|title=HDTV coverage of the Barcelona Olympic Games|author1=Romero, M.|author2=Gavilán, E.|journal=EBU Technical Review|date=Winter 1992|pages=16–24|publisher=[[European Broadcasting Union]]|access-date=13 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706225141/https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_254-romero.pdf|archive-date=6 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

For Japan, NHK also covered the 1992 Summer Olympics in HDTV in their own analog [[Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding|Hi-Vision]] system.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jef.or.jp/journal/pdf/trends_9311.pdf|title=Current State of Japanese HDTV|author=Yukio, Omori|journal=Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry|year=1993|number=6|pages=36–38|access-date=14 November 2022}}</ref>

==Political controversies and terrorism==
On the eve of the Olympics, between 29 June and 14 July 1992, the police operation later known as "[[Operation Garzón]]" saw the arrest of 45 [[Catalan independence movement|Catalan pro-independence]] activists, journalists and politicians,<ref>{{cite news |last=Bracero |first=Francisco |date=26 September 1992 |title=Un alcalde y dos independentistas catalanes, detenidos por orden de Garzón |work=[[El País]] |location=Barcelona |url=http://elpais.com/diario/1992/09/26/espana/717458404_850215.html |access-date=16 February 2025}}</ref> under the accusation of belonging to the armed Catalan pro-independence and socialist organisation [[Terra Lliure]] (which already announced its dissolution in 1991), many of them without real proof. 25 of the arrested were kept in solitary confinement. They denounced torture at the hands of the [[Civil Guard (Spain)|Spanish police]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cardús |first=Pere |date=2017-06-29 |title=Ramon Piqué: 'A la sala d'interrogatoris, m'estrenyien la bossa al cap i em feien agenollar' |work=VilaWeb |url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/ramon-pique-a-la-sala-dinterrogatoris-mestrenyien-la-bossa-al-cap-i-em-posaven-de-genolls-entrevista-operacio-garzon-1992-jocs-olimpics/?f=rel |access-date=2022-11-07}}</ref> and threats of violence and rape to them and their families, as well as constant [[Anti-Catalan sentiment|Anti-Catalan]] and Catalanophobic insults.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Redacció |date=2021-07-04 |title=El fill d'un dels independentistes torturats a l'Operació Garzón recorda el relat esfereïdor del seu pare |work=VilaWeb |url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/el-fill-dun-dels-independentistes-torturats-en-loperacio-garzon-recorda-el-relat-esfereidor-del-seu-pare/ |access-date=2022-11-05}}</ref> 

Political activists argue that the Spanish State used the Operation Garzón as a tool, under the pretext of security during the Olympic Games, to weaken the left-wing branch of Catalan independence movement.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Viñes |first1=Carles (coord.) |title=Història de l'Esquerra Independentista |date=2021 |publisher=Tigre de Paper |isbn=9788416855834 |page=137}}</ref>

The [[Basques|Basque]] nationalist group [[ETA (separatist group)|ETA]] attempted to disrupt the Barcelona Games with terrorist attacks. It was already feared beforehand that ETA would use the Olympics to gain publicity for their cause in front of a worldwide audience.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.routledge.com/Securing-and-Sustaining-the-Olympic-City-Reconfiguring-London-for-2012/Fussey-Coaffee-Hobbs/p/book/9780754679455 |title=Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City: Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond |first1=Pete |last1=Fussey |first2=Jon |last2=Coaffee |first3=Dick |last3=Hobbs |date=April 2011 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=9780754679455 |page=48}}</ref> As the time of the Games approached,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/ctv-news-channel/terrorism-violence-and-the-olympics-major-incidents-throughout-the-years-1.1648070/comments-7.476505|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121182546/http://www.ctvnews.ca/ctv-news-channel/terrorism-violence-and-the-olympics-major-incidents-throughout-the-years-1.1648070/comments-7.476505|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 January 2014|title=CTV News - CTV News Channel|website=www.ctvnews.ca|access-date=17 January 2019}}</ref> ETA committed attacks in Barcelona and the [[Catalonia]] region as a whole, including the deadly [[1991 Vic bombing]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1992/0401/01061.html|title=Spain Tackles Terrorist Threat By Basques to Olympics, Expo|date=1 April 1992|access-date=17 January 2019|journal=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/08/11/the-threat-to-the-games-in-spain/37be840c-3424-4451-b037-151a53bf2491/ |title=The Threat to the Games in Spain |first1=Beth |last1=Finkelstein |first2=Noel |last2=Koch |date=11 August 1991 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730170647/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/08/11/the-threat-to-the-games-in-spain/37be840c-3424-4451-b037-151a53bf2491/ |archive-date=30 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On 10 July 1992, the group offered a two-month truce covering the Olympics in exchange for negotiations, which the Spanish government rejected.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eta-rebuffed-1532917.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eta-rebuffed-1532917.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Eta rebuffed|date=13 July 1992|website=The Independent|access-date=17 January 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> However, the Games went ahead successfully without an attack.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qMvDwAAQBAJ&q=barcelona+olympics+1992+eta+truce&pg=PA396 | title=Western Europe 2017-2018| isbn=9781475835090| last1=Thompson| first1=Wayne C| date=31 August 2017| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield}}</ref>

== Effect on the city ==
[[File:050529 Barcelona 049.jpg|thumb|[[Frank Gehry]]'s ''Fish'' sculpture in front of the [[Hotel Arts]] (left) and the [[Torre Mapfre]] (right) in the Olympic Village neighbourhood]]
The celebration of the 1992 Olympic Games had an enormous impact on the urban culture and outward projection of Barcelona, making it a prime example of how hosting a major sporting event can transform a city.<ref>{{cite web |title=Definitions of Sports Tourism |url=https://tourisports.com/sports-tourism/ |website=Tourisports |access-date=5 December 2025}}</ref> The Games provided billions of dollars for infrastructure investments, which are considered to have improved the quality of life in the city, and its attraction for investment and tourism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://olympicstudies.uab.cat/pdf/wp084_eng.pdf |title=The economic impact of the Barcelona Olympic Games, 1986–2004 |date=2005 |last=Brunet |first=Ferran |publisher=[[Autonomous University of Barcelona]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419040527/http://olympicstudies.uab.es/pdf/wp084_eng.pdf |archive-date=19 April 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Barcelona became one of the most visited cities in Europe after [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26042517|title=The Olympics Effect|last=Payne|first=Bob |date=6 August 2008 |publisher=[[MSNBC]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902014838/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26042517/ |archive-date=2 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.euromonitor.com/Top_150_City_Destinations_London_Leads_the_Way |title=Top 150 City Destinations: London Leads the Way |last=Bremner |first=Caroline |date=11 October 2007 |publisher=Euromonitor International |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901220258/http://www.euromonitor.com/Top_150_City_Destinations_London_Leads_the_Way |archive-date=1 September 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Barcelona's nomination for the 1992 Summer Olympics sparked the implementation of an ambitious plan for urban transformation that had already been developed previously.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://olympicstudies.uab.cat/pdf/od006_eng.pdf|title=An economic analysis of the Barcelona '92 Olympic Games: resources, financing, and impact |date=1995 |last=Brunet|first=Ferran|publisher=[[Autonomous University of Barcelona]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905050923/http://olympicstudies.uab.cat/pdf/od006_eng.pdf|archive-date=5 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Barcelona was opened to the sea with the construction of the Olympic Village and Olympic Port in [[El Poblenou|Poblenou]]. New centers were created, and modern sports facilities were built in the Olympic zones of [[Montjuïc]], [[Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona|Diagonal]], and [[La Vall d'Hebron|Vall d'Hebron]]; hotels were also refurbished and new ones built. The construction of [[ring road]]s around the city helped to reduce traffic density, and [[Barcelona Airport|El Prat airport]] was modernized and expanded with the opening of two new terminals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23933816-the-olympic-legacy-lessons-of-barcelona-on-thames-1992-games-provided-model-for-london-and-a-few-warnings.do|title=Lessons of Barcelona: 1992 Games provided model for London... and few warnings|last=Beard|first=Matthew|publisher=London Evening Standard|date=22 March 2011|access-date=31 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405170255/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23933816-the-olympic-legacy-lessons-of-barcelona-on-thames-1992-games-provided-model-for-london-and-a-few-warnings.do|archive-date=5 April 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Cost and cost overrun ===
The ''Oxford Olympics Study''<ref name="Oxford Study">{{Cite book|ssrn=2804554|title=The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games|last1=Flyvbjerg|first1=Bent|last2=Stewart|first2=Allison|last3=Budzier|first3=Alexander|publisher=Saïd Business School Working Papers (Oxford: University of Oxford)|year=2016|location=Oxford|pages=18–20}}</ref> estimates the direct costs of the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics to be US$9.7 billion (expressed in 2015 U.S. dollars) with a cost overrun of 266%. This includes only sports-related costs, that is: (i) ''operational costs'' incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, direct transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services; and (ii) ''direct capital costs'' incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, media and press center, and similar structures required to host the Games. Costs ''excluded'' from the study are indirect capital and infrastructure costs, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games.<ref name="Oxford Study" /><ref name="WEF">{{cite web|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/the-cost-to-cities-of-hosting-the-olympics-since-1964/|title=The cost of hosting every Olympics since 1964|type=Based on working paper from The University of Oxford and Said Business School|date=29 July 2016|author=Joe Myers|publisher=[[World Economic Forum]]}}</ref>

The costs for Barcelona 1992 may be compared with those of [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012]], which cost US$15 billion with a cost overrun of 76%, and those of [[2016 Summer Olympics|Rio 2016]] which cost US$4.6 billion with a cost overrun of 51%. The average cost for the Summer Olympics since 1960 is US$5.2 billion, with an average cost overrun of 176%.<ref name="Oxford Study" /><ref name="WEF" />

== Songs and themes ==
There were two main musical themes for the 1992 Games. The first one was "[[Barcelona (Freddie Mercury song)|Barcelona]]", a [[classical crossover]] song composed five years earlier by [[Freddie Mercury]] and [[Mike Moran (music producer)|Mike Moran]]; Mercury was an admirer of [[lyric soprano]] [[Montserrat Caballé]], both recorded the official theme as a duet. Due to Mercury's death eight months earlier, the duo was unable to perform the song together during the opening ceremony. A recording of the song instead played over a travelogue of the city at the start of the opening ceremony, seconds before the official countdown.<ref>{{cite web|title=Barcelona 92: 11 momentos inolvidables de aquellos Juegos Olímpicos (VÍDEOS, FOTOS)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2012/07/25/barcelona-92-11-momentos-_n_1700871.html|work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=25 July 2012|access-date=7 September 2016|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdksitehDJ8 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221061622/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdksitehDJ8| archive-date=2011-12-21|title=Barcelona 92: inicio de la ceremonia |publisher=YouTube |access-date=23 March 2011}}</ref>  
"[[Amigos Para Siempre]]" (''Friends for Life'') was the other musical theme and it was official theme song of the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was written by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] and [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]], and sung by [[Sarah Brightman]] and [[José Carreras]] during the closing ceremonies.

[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] composed and conducted some musical pieces at the opening ceremony musical score.<ref>{{cite web|last=Illness |first=Critical |url=http://doreendagostinomedia.com/ryuichi-sakamoto-and-decca/ |title=Doreen D'Agostino Media " Ryuichi Sakamoto and Decca |publisher=Doreendagostinomedia.com |date=3 September 2010 |access-date=23 March 2011}}</ref> The Opening Olympic fanfare was composed by [[Angelo Badalamenti]] and with orchestrations by Joseph Turrin.

== Mascot ==
{{main|Cobi and Petra}}
[[File:Figureta d'en Cobi (2).jpg|thumb|Cobi]]
The official [[mascot]] was Cobi, a [[Catalan Sheepdog|Catalan sheepdog]] in [[Cubism|cubist]] style designed by [[Javier Mariscal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Barcelona 1992 - Summer Games Mascots|url=http://www.olympic.org/barcelona-1992-mascot|website=Olympic.org|publisher=IOC|access-date=15 October 2015}}</ref> He was widely featured in merchandising products and starred his own animated television series, ''[[The Cobi Troupe]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1991/04/03/radiotv/670629602_850215.html|title="The Cobi Troupe" will be released in Spain next October|newspaper=[[El País]]|date=3 April 1991|author=Guiral, Antoni|language=es|access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref>

== Corporate image and identity ==
A renewal in Barcelona's image and corporate identity could be seen in the publication of posters, commemorative coins, stamps minted by the [[Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre – Real Casa de la Moneda|FNMT]] in Madrid, and the [[Barcelona 1992 Olympic Official Commemorative Medals]], designed and struck in Barcelona.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Catálogo de Monedas: Moneda {{!}} Various Pesetas (Mint set 1992)|url=https://colnect.com/es/coins/coin/134104-Various_Pesetas_Mint_set_1992-1949~2001_-_Mint_sets-Espa%C3%B1a|publisher=Connect {{!}} FNMT|date=2020|language=es}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{IOC seealso|games=1992 Summer Olympics}}
*[[Olympics Triplecast]]
*[[Use of performance-enhancing drugs in the Olympic Games#1992 Barcelona|Use of performance-enhancing drugs at the 1992 Olympic Games]]
*''[[Barcelona Gold]]'' – compilation album released for the 1992 Games
*[[Urban planning of Barcelona]]
*[[Seville Expo '92]] – an international exhibition event held in [[Seville]] to commemorate the [[Columbus Quincentenary|500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas]].

== References ==
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== External links ==
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*{{IOC games|games=1992 Summer Olympics }}
*[http://www.fundaciobarcelonaolimpica.es/ Barcelona Olympic Foundation]
*[http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1992/ore300/ORE300h.pdf ''Olympic Review'' 1992 - Official results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207210633/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1992/ore300/ORE300h.pdf |date=7 December 2010 }}
*[http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/albums-en/olympic-stadium/index.html Barcelona Olympic Stadium]
*[http://www.moldovastamps.org/catalogue_stamps_issue.asp?issueID=16 Postage stamps of the Republic of Moldova, celebrating the Barcelona Summer Olympics in 1992]
*[http://www.moldovastamps.org/catalogue_stamps_issue.asp?issueID=20 Postage stamps of the Republic of Moldova, celebrating medal winners at the Barcelona Summer Olympics in 1992]

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