Yugoslavia at the Olympics

Teams from Yugoslavia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920. Previously, several athletes from Croatia, Slovenia and northern Serbian province Vojvodina had competed for Austria or Hungary when those countries were part of the Empire of Austria-Hungary. A small team of two athletes had competed distinctly for Serbia at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Yugoslavia at the
Olympics
IOC codeYUG
NOCYugoslav Olympic Committee
Medals
Ranked 42nd
Gold
26
Silver
32
Bronze
29
Total
87
Summer appearances
Winter appearances
Other related appearances
 Serbia (1912, 2008–)
 Croatia (1992–)
 Slovenia (1992–)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992 S–)
 Independent Olympic Participants (1992 S)
 North Macedonia (1996–)
 Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006)
 Montenegro (2008–)
 Kosovo (2016–)

Yugoslavia has been the designation for Olympic teams from three distinct national entities:

Two of the successor nations (Croatia and Slovenia) began to compete as independent teams at the Olympics starting at the 1992 Winter Games and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1992 Summer Games and as of the 2008 Summer Olympics, all six successor nations, former socialist republics, have participated independently. Kosovo, a former autonomous province, made its Olympic debut as an independent national team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Timeline of participation

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The Yugoslav Olympic Committee was established in Zagreb in 1919 (recognized by the IOC in 1920), before moving to Belgrade in 1927, and it took the place of the Serbian Olympic Committee in the Association of National Olympic Committees. During the dissolution of Yugoslavia, several new committees were formed in the break-away countries. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro, participated at the Games since 1996. At the 1996[1] and 2000[2] Games, the nation was designated with the same code, Yugoslavia (YUG), as the defunct SFRY. It was rechartered as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 with there being no territorial changes. The Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) designation and code were used at the 2004 Games.[3]

Date Team
1912 as part of   Austria   Serbia (SRB)
1920–1936   Kingdom of Yugoslavia (YUG)
1948–1988   SFR Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 W   Croatia (CRO)   Slovenia (SLO)   SFR Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 S   Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)   Independent Olympic Participants (IOP)
1994 ban on participation by the UN
1996–2006   North Macedonia (MKD)   FR Yugoslavia (YUG)/
  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
2008–2014   Serbia (SRB)   Montenegro (MNE)
2016–   Serbia (SRB)   Kosovo (KOS)

Hosted Games

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Yugoslavia has hosted the Games on one occasion.

Games Host city Dates Nations Participants Events
1984 Winter Olympics Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 – 19 February 49 1,272 39

Medal tables

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*Red border colour indicates the games were held on home soil.
*Yugoslavia hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

List of medalists

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Summer Olympics

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Medal Name(s) Games Sport Event
  Gold Leon Štukelj 1924 Paris   Gymnastics Men's all-around competition
  Gold Leon Štukelj 1924 Paris   Gymnastics Men's horizontal bars
  Gold Leon Štukelj 1928 Amsterdam   Gymnastics Men's rings
  Silver Josip Primožič 1928 Amsterdam   Gymnastics Men's parallel bars
  Bronze Leon Štukelj 1928 Amsterdam   Gymnastics Men's all-around competition
  Bronze Stane Derganc 1928 Amsterdam   Gymnastics Men's vault
  Bronze Edvard Antosiewicz
Dragutin Cioti
Stane Derganc
Boris Gregorka
Anton Malej
Ivan Porenta
Josip Primožič
Leon Štukelj
1928 Amsterdam   Gymnastics Men's team all-around
  Silver Leon Štukelj 1936 Berlin   Gymnastics Men's rings
  Silver Ivan Gubijan 1948 London   Athletics Men's hammer throw
  Silver 1948 London   Football Men's tournament
  Gold Duje Bonačić
Velimir Valenta
Mate Trojanović
Petar Šegvić
1952 Helsinki   Rowing Men's coxless four
  Silver 1952 Helsinki   Football Men's tournament
  Silver 1952 Helsinki   Water polo Men's tournament
  Silver Franjo Mihalić 1956 Melbourne   Athletics Men's marathon
  Silver 1956 Melbourne   Football Men's tournament
  Silver 1956 Melbourne   Water polo Men's tournament
  Gold 1960 Rome   Football Men's tournament
  Silver Branislav Martinović 1960 Rome   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman lightweight
  Gold Miroslav Cerar 1964 Tokyo   Gymnastics Men's pommeled horse
  Gold Branislav Simić 1964 Tokyo   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
  Silver 1964 Tokyo   Water polo Men's tournament
  Bronze Miroslav Cerar 1964 Tokyo   Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar
  Bronze Branislav Martinović 1964 Tokyo   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman featherweight
  Gold Miroslav Cerar 1968 Mexico City   Gymnastics Men's pommeled horse
  Gold Đurđica Bjedov 1968 Mexico City   Swimming Women's 100m breaststroke
  Gold 1968 Mexico City   Water polo Men's tournament
  Silver Đurđica Bjedov 1968 Mexico City   Swimming Women's 200m breaststroke
  Silver Stevan Horvat 1968 Mexico City   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman lightweight
  Silver 1968 Mexico City   Basketball Men's tournament
  Bronze Zvonimir Vujin 1968 Mexico City   Boxing Men's lightweight
  Bronze Branislav Simić 1968 Mexico City   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
  Gold Mate Parlov 1972 Munich   Boxing Men's light-heavyweight
  Gold 1972 Munich   handball Men's tournament
  Silver Josip Čorak 1972 Munich   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweight
  Bronze Zvonimir Vujin 1972 Munich   Boxing Men's light-welterweight
  Bronze Milovan Nenadić 1972 Munich   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
  Gold Matija Ljubek 1976 Montreal   Canoeing Men's 1000m Canadian singles
  Gold Momir Petković 1976 Montreal   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
  Silver Tadija Kačar 1976 Montreal   Boxing Men's light middleweight
  Silver Ivan Frgić 1976 Montreal   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
  Silver 1976 Montreal   Basketball Men's tournament
  Bronze Matija Ljubek 1976 Montreal   Canoeing Men's C1 500m Canadian singles
  Bronze Ace Rusevski 1976 Montreal   Boxing Men's lightweight
  Bronze Slavko Obadov 1976 Montreal   Judo Men's middleweight (80 kg)
  Gold Slobodan Kačar 1980 Moscow   Boxing Men's light heavyweight
  Gold 1980 Moscow   Basketball Men's tournament
  Silver Zoran Pančić
Milorad Stanulov
1980 Moscow   Rowing Men's double sculls
  Silver 1980 Moscow   Handball Women's tournament
  Silver 1980 Moscow   Water polo Men's tournament
  Bronze Radomir Kovačević 1980 Moscow   Judo Men's heavyweight
  Bronze Shaban Sejdiu 1980 Moscow   Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight
  Bronze Zlatko Celent
Duško Mrduljaš
Josip Reić
1980 Moscow  Rowing Men's coxed pairs
  Bronze 1980 Moscow   Basketball Women's tournament
  Gold Vlado Lisjak 1984 Los Angeles   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg
  Gold 1984 Los Angeles   Handball Women's tournament
  Gold Matija Ljubek
Mirko Nišović
1984 Los Angeles   Canoeing Men's C-2 500 m
  Gold Shaban Tërstena 1984 Los Angeles   Wrestling Men's freestyle 52 kg
  Gold 1984 Los Angeles   Water polo Men's tournament
  Gold Anton Josipović 1984 Los Angeles   Boxing Men's light heavyweight
  Gold 1984 Los Angeles   Handball Men's tournament
  Silver Refik Memišević 1984 Los Angeles   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg
  Silver Milan Janić 1984 Los Angeles   Canoeing Men's K-1 1000 m
  Silver Matija Ljubek
Mirko Nišović
1984 Los Angeles   Canoeing Men's C-2 1000 m
  Silver Redžep Redžepovski 1984 Los Angeles   Boxing Men's flyweight
  Bronze Jožef Tertei 1984 Los Angeles   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 100 kg
  Bronze Zoran Pančić
Milorad Stanulov
1984 Los Angeles   Rowing Men's double sculls
  Bronze Mirko Puzović 1984 Los Angeles   Boxing Men's light welterweight
  Bronze Aziz Salihu 1984 Los Angeles   Boxing Men's super heavyweight
  Bronze Shaban Sejdiu 1984 Los Angeles   Wrestling Men's freestyle 74 kg
  Bronze 1984 Los Angeles   Basketball Men's tournament
  Bronze 1984 Los Angeles   Football Men's tournament
  Gold Goran Maksimović 1988 Seoul   Shooting Men's air rifle
  Gold Jasna Šekarić 1988 Seoul   Shooting Women's air pistol
  Gold 1988 Seoul   Water polo Men's tournament
  Silver Shaban Tërstena 1988 Seoul   Wrestling Men's freestyle flyweight (52 kg)
  Silver Ilija Lupulesku
Zoran Primorac
1988 Seoul   Table Tennis Men's doubles
  Silver 1988 Seoul   Basketball Women's tournament
  Silver 1988 Seoul   Basketball Men's tournament
  Bronze Damir Škaro 1988 Seoul   Boxing Men's light heavyweight
  Bronze Sadik Mujkić
Bojan Prešern
1988 Seoul   Rowing Men's coxless pairs
  Bronze Jasna Šekarić 1988 Seoul   Shooting Women's sport pistol
  Bronze Gordana Perkučin
Jasna Fazlić
1988 Seoul   Table Tennis Women's doubles
  Bronze 1988 Seoul   Handball Men's tournament
As Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Medal Name(s) Games Sport Event
  Gold Aleksandra Ivošev 1996 Atlanta   Shooting Women's 50m rifle 3 positions
  Silver 1996 Atlanta   Basketball Men's tournament
  Bronze Aleksandra Ivošev 1996 Atlanta   Shooting Women's 10m air rifle
  Bronze 1996 Atlanta   Volleyball Men's tournament
  Gold 2000 Sydney   Volleyball Men's tournament
  Silver Jasna Šekarić 2000 Sydney   Shooting Women's 10m air pistol
  Bronze 2000 Sydney   Water polo Men's tournament
As Independent Olympic Participants
Medal Name Games Sport Event
  Silver Jasna Šekarić 1992 Barcelona   Shooting Women's 10m air pistol
  Bronze Aranka Binder 1992 Barcelona   Shooting Women's 10m air rifle
  Bronze Stevan Pletikosić 1992 Barcelona   Shooting Men's 50m rifle prone

Winter Olympics

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Medal Name Games Sport Event
  Silver Jure Franko 1984 Sarajevo   Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom
  Silver Mateja Svet 1988 Calgary   Alpine skiing Women's slalom
  Silver Matjaž Debelak
Miran Tepeš
Primož Ulaga
Matjaž Zupan
1988 Calgary   Ski Jumping Men's team large hill
  Bronze Matjaž Debelak 1988 Calgary   Ski Jumping Men's individual large hill

Medal table after Yugoslavia

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Teams from Yugoslavia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920. Yugoslavia has been the designation for Olympic teams from three distinct national entities:

The United Nations[4] affirmed that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had ceased to exist, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) was a new state. All former republics were entitled to state succession, while none of them continued SFR Yugoslavia's international legal personality. As a result of the U.N. resolution, individual FRY athletes were allowed to compete as Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and FRY was not allowed to compete at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro, participated at the Games since 1996. At the 1996[1] Games, the nation was designated with the same code, Yugoslavia (YUG), as the defunct SFRY. It was rechartered as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 with there being no territorial changes. The Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) designation and code were used at the 2004 Games.[3]

Two of the successor nations (Croatia and Slovenia) began to compete as independent teams at the Olympics starting at the 1992 Winter Games and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1992 Summer Games and as of the 2008 Summer Olympics, all six successor nations, former socialist republics, have participated independently. Kosovo, a former autonomous province, made its Olympic debut as an independent national team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Date Team
1912 as part of   Austria (AUT)   Serbia (SRB)
1920–1936   Kingdom of Yugoslavia (YUG)
1948–1988   SFR Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 W   Croatia (CRO)   Slovenia (SLO)   SFR Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 S   Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)   Independent Olympic Participants (IOP)
1994 ban on participation by the UN
1996–2006   North Macedonia (MKD)   FR Yugoslavia (YUG)/
  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
2008–2014   Serbia (SRB)   Montenegro (MNE)
2016–   Serbia (SRB)   Kosovo (KOS)

Medal counts:
status after the 2024 Summer Olympics

Summer Games Winter Games Combined total
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    Serbia (SRB) (1912, 2008–current) 6 9 8 12 29 4 0 0 0 0 10 9 8 12 29
    Yugoslavia (YUG) (1920–1992 w) 16 26 29 28 83 14 0 3 1 4 30 26 32 29 87
  Independent Olympic Participants (IOP) (1992 s) 1 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3
  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) (1996–2006) 3 2 4 3 9 3 0 0 0 0 6 2 4 3 9
  Croatia (CRO) (1992–current) 9 16 15 17 48 9 4 6 1 11 18 20 21 18 59
  Slovenia (SLO) (1992–current) 9 10 10 11 31 9 4 8 12 24 18 14 18 23 55
  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (1992 s –current) 9 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0
  North Macedonia (MKD) (1996–current) 8 0 1 1 2 7 0 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 2
  Montenegro (MNE) (2008–current) 5 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 9 0 1 0 1
  Kosovo (KOS) (2016–current) 3 3 1 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 1 5
Total 26 66 70 75 211 22 8 17 14 39 48 74 87 89 250

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Watkins, Ginger T., ed. (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results (PDF). Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. pp. viii–ix. ISBN 1-56145-150-9. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  2. ^ Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. (2001). "National Olympic Committees". Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume Three: Results (PDF). Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. pp. 1–5. ISBN 0-9579616-1-8. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  3. ^ a b Skarveli, Efharis; Zervos, Isabel, eds. (November 2005). Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad, Volume Two: The Games (PDF). Athens 2004 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. pp. 528–529. ISBN 960-88101-7-5. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  4. ^ Murphy, Sean D. (2002). United States Practice in International Law: 1999–2001. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-521-75070-7.
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