Syria first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948. Syrian diver Zouheir Shourbagi, the sole competitor, placed 10th in the men's platform. Syria then missed the next four Olympiads (though in 1960 the nation competed with Egypt as part of the United Arab Republic). Syria returned to the Games in 1968, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one Summer Olympic Games, missing the 1976 Games. The nation has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
The National Olympic Committee of Syria was created in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 31 January 1948, at the IOC Session in Sankt Moritz. Syrian athletes have won a total of four medals, in four sports: Athletics, Freestyle wrestling, Weightlifting and Boxing.
History
Syria first participated as an independent nation at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. At Rome in 1960, it participated as part of the United Arab Republic. It split its alliance with Egypt in 1961 and did not compete in Tokyo in 1964.Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960 : the official report of the Organizing Committee Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, v. 1 (pages 828-830)
Syria returned to the Olympics in Mexico in 1968 for the first time and missed only at Montreal in 1976. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Syria had won its first Olympic medal when Joseph Atiyeh won silver in the freestyle wrestling. During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ghada Shouaa won Syria's first gold medal in heptathlon with a total of 6,780 points.
Syria also achieved the third medal in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and it was a bronze medal by the national boxer Nasser al-Shami in the sport of boxing. Finally, the fourth medal was achieved by national weightlifter Man Asaad in the weightlifting competitions, as it was a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 1 0 0 0 0 – did not participate as part of (RAU) did not participate 2 0 0 0 0 – 5 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 67 0 0 0 0 – 9 0 1 0 1 33 13 0 0 0 0 – 9 0 0 0 0 – 7 1 0 0 1 49 8 0 0 0 0 – 6 0 0 1 1 71 8 0 0 0 0 – 10 0 0 0 0 – 7 0 0 0 0 – 6 0 0 1 1 86 6 0 0 0 0 – future event Total 1 1 2 4 107
Medals by sport
List of medalists Medal Name GamesSportEvent Wrestling Men's freestyle 100 kg Athletics Women's heptathlon Boxing Men's heavyweight Weightlifting Men's 109+kg
Flagbearers
+ Summer Olympics Games Athlete Sport Zouheir ShourbagiDiving did not participate as part of (RAU) did not participate Mahmoud BalahWrestling Mounzer KhatibShooting did not participate Jihad Naim Shooting Joseph Atiyeh Wrestling Hafez El-Hussein Athletics Dennis Atiyeh Wrestling Ghada Shouaa Athletics Moutassem Ghotouq Head of mission Mohammad Hazzory Athletics Ahed Joughili Weightlifting Majdeddin Ghazal Athletics Majdeddin Ghazal Athletics Ahmad HamchoHend Zaza EquestrianTable tennis Amre HamchoAlisar Youssef EquestrianAthletics
See also
List of flag bearers for Syria at the Olympics :Category:Olympic competitors for Syria Syrian Olympic Committee Syria at the Paralympics Syria at the Mediterranean Games Syria at the Asian Games Tiberius Claudius Patrobius
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