olympicAthletes: Olympic Athlete Event Data, Athens 1896 to Milano-Cortina 2026

A tidy, long-format dataset of every athlete-event participation in the modern Olympic Games. Extends the rgriff23 Olympic_history dataset (1896-2016) with five additional editions scraped from olympedia.org: PyeongChang 2018, Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, and Milano-Cortina 2026.

Datasets

• olympic_athletes: ~315,000 athlete-event rows.

• medal_table: verified medal tables for every edition, 1896-2026.

• editions: edition-level metadata for every Games, 1896-2026.

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/moderndive/olympicAthletes

• https://moderndive.github.io/olympicAthletes/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/moderndive/olympicAthletes/issues

Author

Maintainer: Chester Ismay chester.ismay@gmail.com