Nauru at the Olympics

The Pacific island nation Nauru first competed at the Summer Olympic Games in the 1996 games in Atlanta. It is nation with the smallest population in the 206-member International Olympic Committee. The nation is mainly known for its weightlifting tradition and all seven athletes that had competed for Nauru at the Olympics before 2012 were weightlifters.[1]

Nauru at the
Olympics
IOC codeNRU
NOCNauru Olympic Committee
Websitewww.oceaniasport.com/nauru
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
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Total
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Summer appearances

Under the leadership of Vinson Detenamo, the Olympic movement began in Nauru in the early 1990s. The Olympic Committee was established in 1991 and talks with the International Olympic Committee started the same year. In May 1994 Nauru presented its bid to join the IOC and in September 1994 the nation was accepted, clearing the path for participation in the 1996 games.

1996 was not the first time that Nauru athletes participated in the Olympics. After his win in the 1990 Commonwealth Games, weightlifter Marcus Stephen petitioned for citizenship of Samoa to compete in the 1992 games. Stephen competed for Nauru at the Olympics in 1996 and 2000, placing 11th in the 62 kg category in 2000. In 2009, he replaced Vinson Detenamo as president of Nauru's National Olympic Committee.[2]

Paul Coffa is the weightlifting coach of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation and has been Nauru's Olympic coach since 1994.

Medal tables
See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table

Medals by Summer Games
Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1996 Atlanta30000–
2000 Sydney20000–
2004 Athens30000–
2008 Beijing10000–
2012 London20000–
2016 Rio de Janeiro20000–
2020 Tokyo20000–
2024 Parisfuture event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total0000–

Athletes

See also

References
  1. Nauru at the Olympics, The Telegraph
  2. "Nauru president claims national Olympic committee ledaership" Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, ABC Radio Australia, January 26, 2009
  • "Nauru". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
  • "Nauru". Olympedia.com.
  • "Olympic Analytics/NRU". olympanalyt.com.


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