United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics

The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. It was the nineteenth time that Team USA participated, having boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. 522 competitors, 339 men and 183 women, took part in 217 events in 25 sports.

These Olympic Games were unique for the United States in that the host state was California, the home state of the country's president, Ronald Reagan, who himself opened the Games, becoming the first American president to open a Summer Olympics, and also any Olympic games in the United States. Reagan was governor of the state from 1967 to 1975. It was not until the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City that an American president opened a Winter Olympics in the United States.

The United States topped the medal count for the first time since 1968, winning a record 83 gold medals and surpassing the Soviet Union’s total of 80 golds at the 1980 Summer Olympics.



Medalists
The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.


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* - Indicates that the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final.

Archery
The United States returned to archery competition with a dominant men's team that earned the top two spots. Their women were not as successful against the newly powerful Asian teams from Korea, China, and Japan, but still managed to place an archer in the top eight.

Athletics

 * Key
 * Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
 * Q = Qualified for the next round
 * q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target


 * Men
 * Road and track events
 * - Indicates the athlete ran in a preliminary round but not the final.


 * Field events


 * Combined event – Decathlon


 * Women
 * Road and track events
 * - Indicates the athlete ran in a preliminary round but not the final.


 * Field events


 * Combined event – Heptathlon

Basketball
Summary

Men's tournament
Roster


 * Head coach: Bob Knight

Preliminary round

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Gold medal game

Women's tournament
Roster
 * Cathy Boswell
 * Denise Curry
 * Anne Donovan
 * Teresa Edwards
 * Lea Henry
 * Janice Lawrence
 * Pamela McGee
 * Carol Menken-Schaudt
 * Cheryl Miller
 * Kim Mulkey
 * Cindy Noble
 * Lynette Woodard

Preliminary round

Gold medal game

Canoeing

 * Men


 * Women

Key: QF – Qualified to medal final; SF – Qualified to semifinal; R – Qualified to repechage

Cycling
Twenty cyclists represented the United States in 1984.

Road

 * Men


 * Women

Track

 * Points race


 * Pursuit


 * Sprint


 * Time trial

Diving

 * Men


 * Women

Equestrian

 * Dressage


 * Eventing


 * Jumping

Fencing
Twenty fencers represented the United States in 1984.


 * Men


 * Women

Field hockey

 * Summary

Men's tournament

 * Roster
 * Mohammed Barakat
 * Ken Barrett
 * Rawle Cox
 * Trevor Fernandez
 * Scott Gregg
 * Manzar Iqbal
 * Michael Kraus
 * Randy Lipscher
 * David McMichael
 * Gary Newton
 * Michael Newton
 * Brian Spencer
 * Morgan Stebbins
 * Robert Stiles
 * Andrew Stone
 * Nigel Traverso


 * Preliminary round
 * Group A


 * 9th-12th place classification


 * 11th place match

Women's tournament

 * Roster
 * Gwen Cheeseman (gk)
 * Beth Anders
 * Kathleen McGahey
 * Anita Miller
 * Regina Buggy
 * Christine Larson-Mason
 * Beth Beglin
 * Marcella Place
 * Julie Staver
 * Diane Moyer
 * Sheryl Johnson
 * Charlene Morett
 * Karen Shelton
 * Brenda Stauffer
 * Leslie Milne
 * Judy Strong


 * Round robin

Football

 * Summary

Head coach: 🇬🇷 Alketas Panagoulias
 * Roster


 * Group stage – Group D

Artistic

 * Men
 * Team


 * Individual finals


 * Women
 * Team


 * Individual finals

Handball

 * Summary

Men's tournament

 * Roster
 * James Buehning
 * Bob Djokovich
 * Tim Dykstra
 * Craig Gilbert
 * Steven Goss
 * William Kessler
 * Stephen Kirk
 * Peter Lash
 * Michael Lenard
 * Joseph McVein
 * Gregory Morava
 * Rod Oshita
 * Thomas Schneeberger
 * Joe Story


 * Head coach: Javier Garcia


 * Preliminary Round
 * Group B
 * Lost to West Germany (19:21)
 * Lost to Denmark (16:19)
 * Lost to Sweden (18:21)
 * Lost to Spain (16:17)
 * Drew with South Korea (22:22)


 * 9th place final
 * Defeated Japan (24:16)

Women's tournament

 * Roster
 * Pamela Boyd
 * Reita Clanton
 * Theresa Contos
 * Sandra de la Riva
 * Mary Dwight
 * Carmen Forest
 * Melinda Hale
 * Leora Jones
 * Carol Lindsey
 * Cynthia Stinger
 * Penelope Stone
 * Janice Trombly
 * Sherry Winn


 * Head coach: Klement Capilar

Modern pentathlon
Three male modern pentathletes represented the United States in 1984. They won the silver medal in the team event.

Rowing
United States rowing results and competitors:


 * Men


 * Women

Qualification legend: FA = Final A (medal); FB = Final B (non-medal); SF = Semifinal; R = Repechage
 * - Race not run, times from heats were used to rank boats.

Shooting

 * Men


 * Women


 * Open

Swimming

 * Men

* - Athlete swam in the heat but not the final.
 * Women

Note: Times in the first round ranked across all heats.

Qualification legend: FA – Advance to medal final; FB – Advance to non-medal final

Volleyball

 * Summary

Men's tournament

 * Roster
 * Aldis Berzins
 * Craig Buck
 * Rich Duwelius
 * Dusty Dvorak
 * Karch Kiraly
 * Chris Marlowe
 * Pat Powers
 * Steven Salmons
 * Dave Saunders
 * Paul Sunderland
 * Steve Timmons
 * Marc Waldie
 * Preliminary round (group A)
 * Defeated Argentina (3-1)
 * Defeated Tunisia (3-0)
 * Defeated South Korea (3-0)
 * Lost to Brazil (0-3)


 * Semi Finals
 * Defeated Canada (3-0)


 * Final
 * Defeated Brazil (3-1)

Women's tournament

 * Roster
 * Paula Weishoff
 * Susan Woodstra
 * Rita Crockett
 * Laura Flachmeier
 * Carolyn Becker
 * Flo Hyman
 * Rose Magers
 * Julie Vollertsen
 * Debbie Green-Vargas
 * Kimberly Ruddins
 * Jeanne Beauprey
 * Linda Chisholm
 * Head coach: Arie Selinger
 * Preliminary round (group B)
 * Defeated West Germany (3-0)
 * Defeated Brazil (3-2)
 * Defeated China (3-1)


 * Semi Finals
 * Defeated Peru (3-0)


 * Final
 * Lost to China (1-3)

Water polo

 * Summary


 * Roster
 * Craig Wilson
 * Kevin Robertson
 * Gary Figueroa
 * Peter Campbell
 * Doug Burke
 * Joseph Vargas
 * Jon Svendsen
 * John Siman
 * Andrew McDonald
 * Terry Schroeder
 * Jody Campbell
 * Timothy Shaw
 * Christopher Dorst
 * Preliminary round (group B)
 * Defeated Greece (12-5)
 * Defeated Brazil (10-4)
 * Defeated Spain (10-8)


 * Final Round (Group D)
 * Defeated Netherlands (8-7)
 * Defeated Australia (12-7)
 * Defeated West Germany (8-7)
 * Drew with Yugoslavia (5-5)

Wrestling
Key:
 * TO – Victory by fall.
 * PP – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
 * PO – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
 * ST – Technical superiority – a margin of victory of at least 12 points.
 * SP - Technical superiority - a margin of victory between 8 and 11 points, the loser with technical points.
 * SO - Technical superiority - a margin of victory between 8 and 11 points, the loser without technical points.
 * DC - Judges' decision, no technical points scored by either wrestler
 * DQ - Decision by forfeit
 * PA - Decision by injury
 * PZ - Loser disqualified for passivity, no technical points scored by either wrestler.
 * P1 - Loser disqualified for passivity, winner leading by 7 points or less.
 * Q – Qualify to gold medal bout
 * q – Qualify to bronze medal bout