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The Manual of Style (Games summary – Events) sets out the style guidelines recommended by the WikiProject Olympics to achieve a consistent format for articles describing the results of specific events at an edition of the Olympic Games or Paralympic Games (e.g. Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's). These articles can be found under subcategories of Summer Olympics events by year or Sports at the Summer Olympics.

Summary edit

Articles describing the specific event at the Olympic or Paralympic Games should contain some common elements:

  • An infobox containing some high-level summary information, including the date of the event, the numbers of competitors and nations, the medalists, etc.
  • A side navbox with links to other events (or related pages, such as qualification, team rosters, etc.) in that same sport/discipline at that Games.
  • A bottom navbox with links to that event at other years of the Games (possibly showing winners).

The text sections will vary with the type of event and whether there were particularly interesting details of the event. They should be flexible. Some common sections will include:

  • Background: how the event was added the programme, any changes from prior Games, noteworthy entrants, etc.
  • Qualification: a brief summary of qualification for the event, usually with a link to a separate qualification page if available.
  • Competition format: a summary of how the event works; for some events, it will be clear from the results table, but a section summarizing in text the format is usually helpful.
  • Record: for events with records, what those records were coming into the Games and whether any were broken during the Games.
  • Schedule: when the various components of the event took place.
  • Results: the results of the event.

Infobox edit

Men's cycling road race
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
 
The field shortly after the start.
VenueUrban Road Cycling Course
245.4 km (152.5 mi)
DateAugust 9
Competitors143 from 55 nations
Winning time6:23:49
38.36 km/h (23.84 mph)
Medalists
  Samuel Sánchez
  Spain
  Fabian Cancellara
  Switzerland
  Alexandr Kolobnev
  Russia
← 2004
2012 →

An infobox template, derived from {{Infobox Olympic event}} or {{Infobox Paralympic event}}, is transcluded at the beginning of the corresponding article's lead section. It provides a summarized table with the most important information concerning the event at the Olympic or Paralympic Games, as well as a history section allowing the navigation through its other appearances.

See example on the right. Please fill in the following information:

event
Required for infobox title
games
String such as 2008 Summer or 2006 Winter, for example
image
(Optional) complete image syntax
caption
(Optional) displays under the image
venue or venues
Required, location of the competition (ie., link to the Olympic Stadium for that year, or whatever other venue was used)
date or dates
Required, date(s) of the competition. Use {{Start date}} (and {{End date}}) for the first (and last), over multiple lines if necessary.
competitors
total number of competitors for individual events (not including non-starters)
nations
total number of unique nations represented in this event
teams
Optional, number of teams in the tournament for team sports
governing_body
Optional, name of International Governing body for the sport
win_value
Optional, winning time or score. Use win_label = Winning score to change the label from Winning time to Winning score, for example. This field can also include record notes.
gold, silver, bronze
Athlete name or team name. Use gold = {{flagIPCteam|CHN|2008 Summer}} (for example) for a team name, instead of giving a full list of athletes. For duos and small teams, separate entries with {{Plainlist}}
goldNPC, silverNPC, bronzeNPC
(Optional) country code for the gold medal winner. Do not specify this if the gold parameter specifies a team name instead of an individual name. Use "NOC" instead of "NPC" for Olympic Games rather than Paralympic Games.
gold2 and goldNPC2
As for gold and goldNPC, but used for situations where there is a tie for first place and two gold medals are awarded (The template currently supports up to three of each medal type.).
prev
Link to article on the same event/sport from the previous edition of the Paralympic or Olympic Games
next
Link to article on the same event/sport from the following edition of the Paralympic or Olympic Games

Navboxes edit

Generally there will be two navboxes for each event: one on the side that links to other events within the same sport or discipline at the same Games, and one at the bottom that links to other appearances of the same event at different Games. For example, the men's individual cycling road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics has the two navboxes {{CyclingAt2008SummerOlympics}} and {{Footer Olympic Champions Road Cycling Men}}.

Records edit

There is a template for world and Olympic records at {{World Olympic Record}}. An example from the 1924 Olympic men's high jump:

World record   Harold Osborn (USA) 2.03 Urbana, United States 27 May 1924
Olympic record   Richmond Landon (USA) 1.936 Antwerp, Belgium 17 August 1920

Schedule edit

An example table showing the schedule for an event:

Date Time Round
Sunday, 6 July 1924 14:00 Qualifying
Monday, 7 July 1924 15:00 Final

Results edit

The results section will vary widely by the type of event. Some general notes:

  • For results tables in events like races, typical columns would include "Rank", "Athlete" (or "Cyclist" or "Swimmer" etc.), "Nation", "Time" / "Distance" / "Height" / etc., "Notes". Other columns may be necessary as well (eg., long jump events having "1", "2", "3" for individual jump distances).
    • It is generally best that these tables be sortable by nation, so avoid using {{flagIOCathlete}} in a column for Athlete--the athlete's name should be in that column, with {{flagIOCteam}} in the Nation column.
    • The Notes column is used for qualification to the next round, records/personal bests/etc.
    • In multiple round competitions, qualifiers for a next round can have their row highlighted in addition to the notes column indicating qualification. Highlights should follow the color scheme of Module:Sports_table:
      • Standard qualification should use BBF3BB green.
      • Alternative qualification should use CCF9CC lighter green. For example, many athletics events use an advancement format of "Top X in each heat plus next best Y overall". The best X in each heat would have the BBF3BB 'standard' qualification (and a "Q" in the notes), while the next best Y would have the CCF9CC 'alternative' qualification (and a "q" in the notes).
      • Repechages or other types of advancement where there is a second tier should use blue (BBF3FF).
  • If advancement is based on heat or group (most athletics races), each heat or group should be a separate subsection. If advancement is based solely on overall rank across heats/groups (most swimming races), there should be an overall table.
    • "Results" should be the level-two heading, the round name ("Heats", "Semifinals", "Qualifying", "Final") should be the level-three heading, and the heat/group ("Heat 1", "Quarterfinal 3", "Group C", etc.) should be the level-four heading.
  • Ranks and results should be center aligned. Names and nations should be left-aligned.
  • Ranks should be given as a cardinal number, i.e. "13" not "13th". Do not include a period (i.e., not "13.").
  • Useful templates for records in the notes column are {{WR}} and {{OlyR}} (not {{OR}}). There is a parameter for the sport (i.e., "athletics").

Team sports edit

  • Sports in this category include:
  • When entering the name of a sports team, in either a results table or a match result, one should use the appropriate template, that produces the nation's flag and a link to the team's main article:

Example: 

{{bk|Argentina}}
{{Wpw-rt|HUN}}
  • The results table for groups/pools should have a league-type format, with rows dedicated to each of the group teams and columns for every relevant statistics of the sport in question.
  • Often the sports table module can be used.

Example (from United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics):

Rank Team Points Played Won Lost PW PL Ratio SW SL Ratio
1   United States 10 5 5 0 460 371 1.240 15 4 3.750
2   Italy 9 5 4 1 439 401 1.095 13 6 2.167
3   Bulgaria 8 5 3 2 446 440 1.014 10 9 1.111
4   China 7 5 2 3 445 492 0.904 9 13 0.692
5   Venezuela 6 5 1 4 421 451 0.933 8 12 0.667
6   Japan 5 5 0 5 392 448 0.875 4 15 0.267
  • Results for individual games should be recorded using sport-specific templates, like the ones shown below, with parameter keys and rendered examples:
Basketball
Template:Basketballbox(edit talk links history)
{{basketballbox 
 | date = Date of the match
 | time = Scheduled time for match start
 | report = Report/Summary of the match (external link)
 | teamA = First ("home") team
 | scoreA = Team A score
 | scoreB = Team B score
 | Q1 = First quarter score
 | Q2 = Second quarter score
 | Q3 = Third quarter score
 | Q4 = Fourth quarter score
 | OT = Over-time score(s)
 | teamB = Second ("away") team
 | points1 = Top scorer from team A
 | rebounds1 = Top rebounder from team A
 | assist1 = Top assist-man from team A
 | otherstat1 = Team A player(s) with relevant stats
 | points2 = Top scorer from team B
 | rebounds2 = Top rebounder from team B
 | assist2 = Top assist-man from team B
 | otherstat2 Team B player(s) with relevant stats
 | place = Venue of the match
 | attendance = Attendance figures
 | referee = Referee's name and nationality
}}
August 10
14:30
Spain   81–66   Greece
Scoring by quarter: 20-16, 15-13, 27-17, 19-20
Pts: Fernández 16
Rebs: P. Gasol 7
Asts: Navarro, Rodríguez 2		 Pts: Spanoulis 15
Rebs: Tsartsaris 8
Asts: Diamantidis 3
Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Reynaldo Mercedes Sanchez (Dominican Republic)
Volleyball
Template:Volleyballbox(edit talk links history)
{{volleyballbox
|date = Match date
|time = Scheduled time for match start
|team1 = First team ("home") team
|score = Team 1 score 
|team2 = Team 2 score
|set= Set scores (Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4, Set 5)
|report = Match results report
|stadium = Match venue
|attendance = Attendance figures
|referee = Referee's name and nationality
}}
August 20
10:00 		United States   3–2   Serbia Capital Indoor Stadium
Attendance: 7,500
Referees: Wang Ning (China), Mohammad Shahmiri (Iran)
(20–25, 25–23, 21–25, 25–18, 15–12)
result statistics
Football
Template:Footballbox(edit talk links history)
{{Football box
|date = Match date
|time = Scheduled time for match start
|team1 = First ("home") team
|score = Final score (use en dash) 
|report = Match report/summary (external link)
|team2 = Second ("away") team
|goals1 = Team 1 scored goals
|goals2 = Team 2 scored goals
|stadium = Match venue
|attendance = Attendance figures
|referee = Referee's name and nationality
}}
New Zealand  0–5  Brazil
(Report) Anderson   3'
Pato   33'
Ronaldinho   54'   61' (pen.)
Sóbis   90+3'
Attendance: 44,951
Handball
Template:Handballbox(edit talk links history)
{{handballbox 
|date = Match date
|time = Scheduled time for match start
|team1 = First ("home") team
|score = Final score
|team2 = Second ("away") team
|report = Match report/summary
|goals1 = Team 1 scored goals
|goals2 = Team 2 scored goals
|HT= [[Half-time]] score
|FT= Full time score (used if overtime is played)
|OT1= Overtime period 1 score
|OT2= Overtime period 2 score
|OT3= Overtime period 3 score
|twomin1= # of Two minute suspensions to team 1
|yellow1= # of Yellow cards to team 1
|red1= # of Red cards to team 1
|twomin2= # of Two minute suspensions to team 2
|yellow2= # of Yellow cards to team 2
|red2= # of Red cards to team 2
|stadium = Match venue
|attendance = Attendance figures
|referee = Referee's names
|refnat = Referee's nationality
}}
12 August
9:00 		Brazil   14–33   Croatia Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Gjeding, Hansen (DEN)
Ertel, Souza 3 (9–18) Džomba 7
3×  4×  (Report) 2×  3× 
Field hockey
Template:Fieldhockeybox(edit talk links history)
{{fieldhockeybox 
|date = Match date
|time = Scheduled time for match start
|team1 = First ("home") team
|score = Final score
|team2 = Second ("away") team
|report = Match report (external links)
|goals1 = Team 1 scored goals
|goals2 = Team 2 scored goals
|stadium = Match venue 
|umpires = Umpires' names and nationalities
}}
23 August 2008
20:30
Germany   1 – 0   Spain
C. Zeller   16' Report
Umpires:
Henrik Ehlers (DEN)
David Gentles (AUS)
Water polo
Template:Waterpolobox(edit talk links history)
{{waterpolobox
 | date = Match date
 | time = Scheduled time for match start
 | report = Match report/summary (external link)
 | team1 = First ("home") team
 | score1 = Team 1 scored goals
 | team2 = Second ("away") team
 | score2 = Team 2 scored goals 
 | location = Match venue
 | attendance = Attendance figures
 | referees = Referees' names and nationalities
 | Q1 = First quarter score
 | Q2 = Second quarter score
 | Q3 = Third quarter score
 | Q4 = Fourth quarter score
 | OT = Over-time score
 | goals1 = Team 1 goalscorers
 | goals2 = Team 2 goalscorers
}}
August 24
14:20 		Game 43 Montenegro   4–6   Serbia Ying Tung Natatorium
Referees:
Tulga (TUR), Margeta (SLO)
Score by quarters: 0-2, 1-2, 1-2, 2-0
Janovic M. 2 Goals Savic 2
Baseball
Template:Linescore(edit talk links history)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
  South Korea 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 0
  Cuba 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 1
WP: Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-0)   LP: Norberto González (0-1)   Sv: Tae-Hyon Chong (2)
Home runs:
KOR: Seung-Yeop Lee (2)
CUB: Michel Enríquez (2), Alexei Bell (2)
Softball
Template:Linescore(edit talk links history)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
  Japan 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 4 0
  United States 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 2
WP: Yukiko Ueno(5-1)   LP: Cat Osterman(3-1)
Home runs:
JPN: Eri Yamada (2)
USA: Crystl Bustos (6)

Categories edit

This type of article should be included in the adequate categories:

  • [[Category:<SPORT> at the <YEAR> <SEASON> Olympics]] or [[Category:<SPORT> at the <YEAR> <SEASON> Paralympics]]
Replace <SPORT>, <YEAR>, and <SEASON> with the sport, year, and season, respectively, in which the Games that the article refers to took place
  • [[Category:<EVENT> at the Olympics|<YEAR>]] or [[Category:<EVENT> at the Paralympics|<YEAR>]]
Replace <EVENT> with the name of the event that the article refers to. Use the appropriate year as the sort key for the category.
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