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# {{flagIOC|AUS|1896 Summer|1}} – [[Federation of Australia|Prior to 1901]] Australia was not a unified nation but six separately administered British colonies, but the results of [[Edwin Flack]] are typically given with him listed as Australian. This is a modern convention, because the [[Australian Olympic Committee]] was only founded in 1920. The concept of "national teams" chosen by [[National Olympic Committee]]s did not exist at this point in time.

# {{flagIOC|BUL|1896 Summer|1}}&nbsp;– The [[Bulgarian Olympic Committee]] claims that gymnast [[Charles Champaud]] was competing as a Bulgarian.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bgolympic.org/fce/index.shtml?s=001&p=0039&n=000001 |title=Athens 1896 |publisher=[[Bulgarian Olympic Committee]] |access-date=7 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312003309/http://www.bgolympic.org/fce/index.shtml?s=001&p=0039&n=000001 |archive-date=2007-03-12}}</ref> Champaud was a Swiss national living in Bulgaria. Mallon and de Wael both list Champaud as Swiss.<ref>De Wael, KONRAD [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/gym1896.html Gymnastics 1896]</ref> Olympedia listed him as a member of the Bulgarian team of Swiss nationality.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/31002 |title=Charles Champaud|publisher=Olympedia.org |access-date=31 January 2022}}</ref>

# {{flagIOC|CHI|1896 Summer|1}}&nbsp;– The Chilean Olympic Committee claims to have had one athlete, [[Luis Subercaseaux]], compete in the 100, 400, and 800-meter races in the athletics programme.{{r|LUN}}<ref>Guttmann (1994), 128; {{cite web|url=http://www.coch.cl/museo.htm |title=La Presencia de Chile en los Juegos Olimpicos |access-date=2006-12-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702073204/http://www.coch.cl/museo.htm |archive-date= 2 July 2008 }}, Olympic Committee of Chile; McGehee (2000), 107</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aboutolympics.co.uk/athens-olympics.html |title=1896 Athens Olympics |access-date=21 February 2011 |author=AboutOlympics |quote=Fourteen nations were represented&nbsp;– Australia, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, USA, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland |archive-date=28 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128194808/http://www.aboutolympics.co.uk/athens-olympics.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | first1=Bill | last1=Mallon | first2=Ture | last2=Widlund | title=The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary | page=39 | year=1988 | publisher=McFarland | location=Jefferson | isbn=0-7864-0379-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall | access-date=21 February 2011 | quote=Across the field, in answer to the Herald's trumpet, come two Hungarians, a Chilian, a Frenchman, a German, an Englishman and an American, to run the 100-meters race | df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://olympic-museum.de/part_count/1896.htm | title=Participating Countries&nbsp;– Olympic Games Athens 1896 | access-date=22 May 2011 | author=Olympic Games Museum | year=2011 | publisher=olympic-museum.de | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127142910/http://olympic-museum.de/part_count/1896.htm | archive-date=2011-11-27}}</ref> If so, he was 13 years old at the Olympics. No further details are given, and no mention is made of Subercaseaux in de Wael, or the Official Report. Olympedia claims that he was entered to compete in the 100m, 400m and 800m events but did not start.{{r|Subercaseaux}}