Venues of the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic Ring
Table:
Venue

Sports

Capacity

Ref.

Alexander Memorial Coliseum
Boxing
10,000

[1][2]

Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium
Baseball
54,000

[1][3]

Clark Atlanta University Stadium
Field hockey
5,000

[1][4]

Cycling road course
Cycling (road)
800

[5][6]

Georgia Dome
Basketball (final), Gymnastics (artistic), Handball (men's final)
34,500 (each side)

[7][8]

Georgia State University Gymnasium
Badminton
3,500

[3][7]

Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming, Water polo
15,000

[7][9]

Georgia World Congress Center
Fencing, Handball, Judo, Modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting), Table tennis, Weightlifting, Wrestling
3,900 (fencing)
7,300 (handball)
7,300 (judo)
4,700 (table tennis)
5,000 (weightlifting)
7,300 (wrestling)

[10][11]

Marathon course
Athletics (marathon)
800

[5][12]

Morehouse College Gymnasium
Basketball
6,500

[5][13]

Morris Brown College Stadium
Field hockey (final)
15,000

[4][5]

Olympic Stadium
Athletics, Ceremonies (opening/ closing)
85,600

[5][14]

Omni Coliseum
Volleyball (indoor final)
16,500

[15][16]

Walking course
Athletics (walks)
800

[5][12]

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Hank McCamish Pavilion , nicknamed The Thrillerdome and originally known as Alexander Memorial Coliseum , is an indoor arena located on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , Georgia . It is the home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men 's basketball and Yellow Jackets women 's basketball teams . The venue previously hosted the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) from 1968 to 1972 and again from 1997 to 1999 . Tech 's women 's volleyball team occasionally uses the facility as well , primarily for NCAA tournament games and other matches that draw crowds that would overflow the O'Keefe Gymnasium .
Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta . The boxing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 4 August . Twelve boxing events were contested , with the participation of 355 athletes from 97 countries . There was significant controversy surrounding judging of the fight between Floyd Mayweather of the US and Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria , with Todorov winning the semi-final bout which , according to many observers , was won by Mayweather .
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium , often referred to as Fulton County Stadium and originally named Atlanta Stadium , was a multi-purpose stadium in the southeastern United States , located in Atlanta . It was built to attract a Major League Baseball team and in 1966 succeeded when the Milwaukee Braves relocated from Wisconsin . The Braves and expansion Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League shared the venue for 26 years , until the Falcons moved into the newly completed Georgia Dome in 1992 . The Braves continued to play at the stadium for another five years , then moved into Turner Field in 1997 , the converted Centennial Olympic Stadium built for the previous year 's Summer Olympics .
Baseball had its second appearance as an official medal sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , United States , with games played at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium . Eight nations competed , with the preliminary phase consisting of each team playing every other team . Playoffs were then held , with the four highest ranked teams advancing . For the semifinals , the 1st place team played the 4th place team and the 2nd place team played against the 3rd place team . The winners of those semifinals competed against each other for the gold medal , with the loser getting the silver medal . The teams defeated in the semifinal played a match for the bronze medal . Baseball was an event open only to amateurs for the second and last time .
Panther Stadium is a 5,000-seat stadium located on the campus of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . It was the secondary venue for field hockey events during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . It is currently home to the Clark Atlanta University Panthers , NCAA Division II member . The athletics track surrounding the field was moved there from Centennial Olympic Stadium after the Olympic events concluded and the stadium was converted into Turner Field .
The Olympic field hockey tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , United States , was held in Herndon Stadium and Panther Stadium from July 20 to August 2 , 1996 .
The cycling competitions at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta consisted of three separate categories : road cycling , track cycling and mountain biking . The road cycling events took place in downtown Atlanta , track cycling was carried out at the Stone Mountain velodrome in neighboring DeKalb County , and the mountain biking events were held at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers .
The Georgia Dome was a domed stadium in the Southeastern United States . Located in Atlanta between downtown to the east and Vine City to the west , it was owned and operated by the State of Georgia as part of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority . Its successor , Mercedes-Benz Stadium , was built adjacent to the south and opened on August 26 , 2017 . The Georgia Dome was demolished on November 20 , 2017 . The Georgia Dome was the home stadium for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League ( NFL ) and the Georgia State University Panthers football team . It hosted two Super Bowls ( XXVIII and XXXIV ) , 25 editions of the Peach Bowl ( January 1993 through December 2016 ) and 23 SEC Championship Games ( 1994−2016 ) . In addition , the Georgia Dome also hosted several soccer matches since 2009 with attendances over 50,000 . In its 25 years of operation , the Georgia Dome hosted over 1,400 events attended by over 37 million people . The Georgia Dome was the only stadium in the United States to host the Olympics , Super Bowl and Final Four . At its debut in 1992 , the Georgia Dome was the second-largest covered stadium in the world by capacity , behind the Pontiac Silverdome ; it was also surpassed by AT & T Stadium in Arlington , Texas , and Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , Wales .
Basketball contests at the 1996 Olympic Games was the fourteenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event . It held from July 20 , 1996 to August 4 , 1996 . Games took place in the Morehouse College Gymnasium and in the Georgia Dome .
At the 1996 Summer Olympics , two different gymnastics disciplines were contested : artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics . The artistic gymnastics events were held at the Georgia Dome from July 20-25 and July 28-29 . The rhythmic gymnastics events were held at Stegeman Coliseum in nearby Athens , on the campus of the University of Georgia from August 1-4 . The womens rhythmic group all-around was contested for the first time at these Games . This marked the second time that a womens only sport was introduced to the Games .
Final results for the Handball competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics .
The Georgia State University Sports Arena is an indoor arena located in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . It is the home of the basketball teams of Georgia State University and hosted the badminton competition of the 1996 Summer Olympics . Georgia State 's women 's volleyball team uses the facility as well .
Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics included the four events ( men 's and women 's singles , men 's and women 's doubles ) as well as a new event : mixed doubles . An additional change to the tournament was the playoff game for the bronze medal rather than the awarding of two bronzes . The tournament was single-elimination . Matches consisted of three sets , with sets being to 15 except . The tournament was held at the Georgia State University gymnasium .
The Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center ( abbreviated CRC , formerly known as the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center and the Georgia Tech Student Athletic Center ) is part of the Georgia Tech campus .
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center , from 26 July to 2 August , comprising a total of 121 divers from 40 nations .
Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics .
The swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta , United States . There were 762 competitors from 117 countries . This was the last Olympics where swimming B-finals were held . At the time of the games , the facility had a temporary 50m warm-up pool located behind the locker rooms and entry concourse ( on the ground ) ; as well as a temporary roof , and open walls ( there were wall-like structures/curtains at the diving well and turning end of the pool ) . The open walls allowed for temporary seating to be in place during the games . A wall and new roof have since been placed on the facility .
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the team event in women 's synchronized swimming was contested . It was the first appearance of the team event , which replaced the duet and solo events held previously . ( The duet event would return four years later . ) Eight countries qualified for the Olympic Games at an Olympic qualifying event held in conjunction with the 1995 FINA Synchronized Swimming World Cup . Each team consisted of eight swimmers ( chosen from a total team of ten ) . The competition included two events , the technical routine program and the free routine program . The technical routine required entries to perform a series of required elements in prescribed order . It had a time limit of two minutes and 50 seconds . Music selection and choreography was up to the discretion of each team . In the free routine , there were no specifications for the routine other than the five-minute time limit . In both the technical and free routines , a panel of 10 judges ( five giving scores for technical merit and five awarding scores for artistic impression ) awarded points from 0 to 10 in one tenth point increments . When the technical merit and artistic impression scores were calculated for a total score , the technical routine score was weighted to 35 percent and the free routine to 65 percent .
The water polo tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held from 20 to 28 July 1996 , in Atlanta , United States .
The Georgia World Congress Center ( GWCC ) is a convention center in Atlanta , Georgia , USA . Enclosing some 3.9 million ft2 ( 360,000 m2 ) in exhibition space and hosting more than a million visitors each year , the GWCC is the third-largest convention center in the United States . Opened in 1976 , the GWCC was the first state-owned convention center established in the United States . The center is operated on behalf of the state by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority , which was chartered in 1971 by Georgia General Assembly to develop an international trade and exhibition center in Atlanta . The authority later developed the Georgia Dome , Centennial Olympic Park , and Mercedes-Benz Stadium , which replaced the Georgia Dome . In 2017 , the Georgia Dome was closed on March 5 and demolished by implosion on November 20 while Mercedes-Benz Stadium officially opened on August 26 . While the GWCCA owns Mercedes-Benz Stadium , AMB Group , the parent organization for the National Football League 's Atlanta Falcons and Major League Soccer 's Atlanta United FC , is responsible for the stadium 's operations . In addition to convention and trade shows , the GWCC often coordinated with the Georgia Dome to host activities in conjunction with major events being held at the dome . Every year , the center hosts SEC Football Fanfare , a two-day fan festival for the thousands of Southeastern Conference football fans in the city for the SEC Championship Game . The center played host to a similar event in tandem with WrestleMania XXVII , WrestleMania Axxess . Family Feud started taping at Georgia World Congress Center in 2015 and stayed there until 2018 , when it moved back to Los Angeles . The GWCC is located in downtown Atlanta at 285 Andrew Young International Boulevard NW , adjacent to CNN Center and State Farm Arena .
At the 1996 Summer Olympics , ten fencing events were contested .
This page shows the final results of the Judo Competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta .
The table tennis competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics consisted of four events .
The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes .
At the 1996 Summer Olympics , two different wrestling disciplines were contested : freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling .
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , 44 events in athletics were contested . There were a total number of 2053 participating athletes from 191 countries .
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Alonzo Herndon Stadium , named for Alonzo Herndon , is a 15,011-seat stadium on the campus of Morris Brown College in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . It is the only two-sided stadium in the Atlanta University Center . It is one block over from the locally known Herndon Home , and sits above the MARTA East-West rail line . During the 1996 Summer Olympics , Herndon Stadium hosted field hockey . It was also used as the stand-in for the demolished Fairfield Stadium in Huntington , West Virginia during filming of the 2006 movie We Are Marshall . The stadium was the home to the former Georgia Mustangs and the former Atlanta Beat women 's soccer club of the WUSA league . Due to the college 's financial hardships , the stadium has been abandoned and fell into a state of disrepair , gutted by vandals and covered in graffiti and trash .
Centennial Olympic Stadium was the 85,000-seat main stadium of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games and the 1996 Summer Paralympic Games in Atlanta . Construction of the stadium began in 1993 , and it was complete and ready for the Opening Ceremony in July 1996 , where it hosted track and field events and the closing ceremony . After the Olympics and Paralympics , it was reconstructed into the baseball-specific Turner Field , used by the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball for 20 seasons ( 1997-2016 ) . After the Braves departed for Truist Park , the facility was purchased by Georgia State University , which rebuilt the stadium a second time as Georgia State Stadium , designed for American football .
Omni Coliseum ( often called The Omni ) was an indoor arena in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . Completed in 1972 , the arena seated 16,378 for basketball and 15,278 for hockey . It was part of the Omni Complex , now known as the CNN Center . It was the home arena for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association from 1972 until the arena 's closure in 1997 and the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League from their inception in 1972 until 1980 , when the franchise was sold and relocated to Calgary , Alberta . It also hosted the 1977 NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Tournament , the 1988 Democratic National Convention , and the 1996 Summer Olympics indoor volleyball competition . The Omni was closed and demolished in 1997 . Its successor , State Farm Arena , was constructed within the Omni 's footprint and opened in 1999 .
Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics featured mens and womens Beach volleyball for the first time as an official Olympic sport .