Kuwait at the Olympics

Kuwait has competed in 12 Summer Games. To date, Kuwait has won two bronze Olympic medals and the Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani won a gold medal as an independent athlete.

Kuwait at the
Olympics
IOC codeKUW
NOCKuwait Olympic Committee
Websitewww.kuwaitolympic.net (in Arabic and English)
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
2
Total
2
Summer appearances
Other related appearances
 Independent Olympic Athletes (2016)

In the 1992 Barcelona Games, Kuwait received a bronze medal in the then-demonstration sport of taekwondo.[1] Their first Olympic medal was a bronze for double trap shooting, won by Fehaid Al-Deehani at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Their second was also a bronze won by Al-Deehani in the men's trap at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In 2016, Al-Deehani won the gold medal for men's double trap as an independent athlete.

The National Olympic Committee for Kuwait was formed in 1957. It was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1966, but has been suspended twice in the past ten years. Due to its most recent suspension, Kuwait was not allowed to compete as a sovereign state at the 2016 Summer Olympics, though the nation's participants were able to compete as Independent Olympic Athletes under the Olympic flag.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1968 Mexico City20000
1972 Munich40000
1976 Montreal150000
1980 Moscow560000
1984 Los Angeles230000
1988 Seoul250000
1992 Barcelona320000
1996 Atlanta250000
2000 Sydney29001171
2004 Athens110000
2008 Beijing80000
2012 London10001179
2016 Rio de Janeiroas  Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA)
2020 Tokyofuture event
2024 Paris
2028 Los Angeles
Total0022138

Medals by summer sport

SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Shooting0022
Totals (1 sports)0022

Combined medals

Combined IOC codes № Games Combined total
 Kuwait (KUW) 120022
 Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA) 1 1 0 1 2
Total 131034

List of medalists

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 BronzeFehaid Al-Deehani 2000 Sydney ShootingMen's double trap
 BronzeFehaid Al-Deehani 2012 London ShootingMen's trap

See also

References

  1. Al-Ahram Weekly On-line (28 Sep – 4 Oct 2000). "Three for the Arabs". Archived from the original on 2011-04-04. Retrieved 2011-08-08.


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