Kuwait at the Olympics

Kuwait at the
Olympics
Kuwait at the; Olympics
IOC code	KUW
NOC	Kuwait Olympic Committee
Website	www.kuwaitolympic.net (in Arabic and English)
Medals; Ranked 147th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 3 Total 3
Summer appearances
	1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Independent Olympic Athletes (2016)

Kuwait has competed in 14 Summer Olympic Games. To date, Kuwait has won three bronze Olympic medals. The nation has never participated in any Winter Olympic Games.

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, as the Kuwait Olympic Committee had been suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the second time in five years due to governmental interference.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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. At those games, Kuwaiti shooters Fehaid Al-Deehani and Abdullah Al-Rashidi won a gold medal and bronze medal respectively as independent athletes.

Participation

Combined medals

Combined IOC codes	№ Games			Combined total
Kuwait	13	0	3	3
Independent Olympic Athletes (2016)	1	1	1	2
Total	14	1	4	5

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Total		0	0	3	3	147
Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1968 Mexico City	2	0	0	0	0	–
1972 Munich	4	0	0	0	0	–
1976 Montreal	15	0	0	0	0	–
1980 Moscow	56	0	0	0	0	–
1984 Los Angeles	23	0	0	0	0	–
1988 Seoul	25	0	0	0	0	–
1992 Barcelona	32	0	0	0	0	–
1996 Atlanta	25	0	0	0	0	–
2000 Sydney	29	0	0	1	1	71
2004 Athens	11	0	0	0	0	–
2008 Beijing	8	0	0	0	0	–
2012 London	10	0	0	1	1	79
2016 Rio de Janeiro	as Independent Olympic Athletes
2020 Tokyo	10	0	0	1	1	86
2024 Paris	9	0	0	0	0	–
2028 Los Angeles	future event
2032 Brisbane	future event

Medals by sport

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Fehaid Al-Deehani	2000 Sydney	Shooting	Men's double trap
Bronze	Fehaid Al-Deehani	2012 London	Shooting	Men's trap
Bronze	Abdullah Al-Rashidi	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	Men's skeet

References

↑ 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.
↑ "IOC suspends Kuwait's national Olympic committee". USA Today. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
↑ "Suspension of the Kuwait Olympic Committee". Olympics. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
↑ "Independent Olympic Athletes". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2016.

External links

"Kuwait". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
"Kuwait". Olympedia.com.
"Olympic Analytics/KUW". olympanalyt.com.

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[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.

[2] "IOC suspends Kuwait's national Olympic committee". USA Today. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

[3] "Suspension of the Kuwait Olympic Committee". Olympics. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

[4] "Independent Olympic Athletes". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2016.

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