We hit Spain today for the first time on Olympic Wednesday as we remember the Summer Olympiad in Barca, baby! We phrase it such as we were fortunate enough to attend, after declining an invite to the the US Trials in our own athletic discipline leading up to these Games—our friends were competing so we decided to join them as best we could for support. It was a surreal experience we will never forget, for many reasons.

But we digress: at this 25th edition of the Summer Olympics, almost 9,400 athletes from 169 countries came to compete in 257 medal events spread out over 33 disciplines. The Unified Team of former Soviet-ruled entities edged out the United States in the medal count, 112 to 104, while a unified German team came in third with 84 medals. The host nation won 22 medals itself, which was a pretty good showing overall.

Most Outstanding Male Athlete: Vitali Shcherba, Unified Team

Belarussian gymnast Vitali Shcherba stole the show in Barcelona, winning six gold medals—three more than any other competitor regardless of gender. He was just 20 years old, but he dominated all by winning the individual all around, the horse vault, the parallel bars, the rings, and the pommel horse. He added the last gold in the team all-around competition, while also taking sixth in the floor exercise. This was amazing.

Most Outstanding Female Athlete: Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungary

This is a tough one to decide: two women won three golds in these Games, and three other women won two golds while also adding a silver and a bronze. How to decide? Our usual tiebreak is the individual golds won, so let see what that yields us: swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary. She was the only woman to win three individual events: the 100m backstroke, the 200m backstroke, and the 400m individual medley.

For the record, she won the 200m back in three straight Olympiads: Seoul, Barcelona, and Atlanta.

Most Outstanding Male Team: Unified Team Gymnastics

It wasn’t just about Shcherba, either: Hryhoriy Misiutin took the silver in the individual all around, while Valeri Belenki won the bronze. Together, they helped their “nation” win the team all around, as well. Individually, beyond the dominance of Shcherba at the top of so many events, Misiutin took home three silvers (floor, vault, horizontal bar). Belenki didn’t medal in any other individual events, which was odd.

Most Outstanding Female Team: Chinese Table Tennis

The Chinese women took gold and silver in both table tennis events, the individual and the doubles competition. Deng Yaping won the singles by beating her teammate Qiao Hong, and then they teamed together to win gold in the doubles event, while a second Chinese duo took silver in the doubles. There’s not much more the women of China could have done in the table tennis events, really. Well done, for sure.