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A tidy R data package covering every athlete-event participation in the modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896 through Milano-Cortina 2026 — about 315,000 rows.
# from GitHub:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("moderndive/olympicAthletes")library(olympicAthletes)
data(olympic_athletes) # ~315,000 athlete-event rows, 1896-2026
data(medal_table) # verified medal table for every edition, 1896-2026
data(editions) # metadata for every Games, 1896-2026
# Convenience subsets of olympic_athletes (same 16 columns)
data(athletics_athletes) # sport == "Athletics"
data(gymnastics_athletes) # sport == "Gymnastics"
data(basketball_athletes) # sport == "Basketball"
data(volleyball_athletes) # sport == "Volleyball"
data(curling_athletes) # sport == "Curling"
data(olympic_athletes_2024) # Paris 2024 Summer Games only
data(team_sport_athletes) # Basketball + Volleyball + Curling
data(art_competitions_athletes) # the 1912-1948 Art Competitions entrants
data(usa_summer_medals) # medal_table rows: USA at each Summer Games
# Pre-counted summaries for plotting examples
data(paris_2024_top_medals) # top-10 countries x Gold/Silver/Bronze (long format)
data(season_counts) # athlete-event rows per season (2 rows)
?olympic_athletes| Dataset | Rows | Description |
|---|---|---|
olympic_athletes |
315,094 | One row per (athlete, Games, event). 16 columns. |
medal_table |
1,929 | One row per (Games, NOC) with Gold/Silver/Bronze counts. |
editions |
62 | Year, season, host city, dates, participant counts. Includes cancelled Games. |
athletics_athletes |
43,062 | Subset of olympic_athletes where
sport == "Athletics". |
gymnastics_athletes |
29,413 | Subset where sport == "Gymnastics". |
basketball_athletes |
5,159 | Subset where sport == "Basketball". |
volleyball_athletes |
4,792 | Subset where sport == "Volleyball". |
curling_athletes |
961 | Subset where sport == "Curling". |
olympic_athletes_2024 |
13,660 | Subset where year == 2024 & season == "Summer"
(Paris 2024). |
team_sport_athletes |
10,912 | Subset where sport is Basketball, Volleyball, or
Curling. |
art_competitions_athletes |
3,578 | Subset where sport == "Art Competitions"
(1912–1948). |
usa_summer_medals |
30 | medal_table rows for the USA at each Summer Games
attended. |
paris_2024_top_medals |
30 | Top-10 countries by total medals at Paris 2024, long format
(country, noc, medal,
count). For barplot examples. |
season_counts |
2 | Athlete-event rows per season (Summer/Winter), pre-counted for
geom_col() examples. |
olympic_athletes extends the original rgriff23/Olympic_history
dataset. Column names are lowercase snake_case (e.g. noc,
medal) rather than the upstream TitleCase, and the
host-city column has been split into city_local_latin and
city_english. city_local_latin always uses the
Latin alphabet — non-Latin-script cities are romanized
("Moskva", "Tokyo", "Beijing",
"PyeongChang"), not rendered in their native script.
Rows for 1896-2016 come from the rgriff23 dataset (originally scraped
from sports-reference.com). Rows for 2018-2026 were scraped from olympedia.org using the pipeline
in the olympic-moderndive-data
repository. See data-raw/DATASET.R for the reproducible
build.
medal = "Gold"
row per roster member. Group by medal and noc
and divide team-event medals by team size to reproduce the IOC medal
table — or use the medal_table companion dataset which uses
the IOC convention.age is ~100% complete for all five 2018-2026 editions.
height/weight coverage ranges from
96%/93% for 2018 Winter down to 34%/29% for Paris
2024 — highest for Winter team sports (Ice Hockey rosters are
near-complete on olympedia) and lowest for the largest, most-recent
Summer Games, where olympedia simply hasn’t published measurements for
many athletes — same pattern as in the original 1896-2016 source.CC BY 4.0. Please cite this package, the rgriff23 source, and Olympedia.
Run citation("olympicAthletes") for citations that
always reflect your installed package version. It renders three entries
— the package itself plus its two upstream data sources:
Ismay C (2026). olympicAthletes: Olympic Athlete Event Data, Athens
1896 to Milano-Cortina 2026. R package version 0.5.9,
<https://moderndive.github.io/olympicAthletes/>.
Griffin R (2018). "Olympic history: longitudinal data scraped from
sports-reference.com." <https://github.com/rgriff23/Olympic_history>.
OlyMADMen (2026). "Olympedia." <https://www.olympedia.org/>.These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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