Grenada At The Olympics
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Grenada Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
first competed at the Olympic Games in
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
, and has participated in each
Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
since then. Grenada won its first medal in 2012, a gold in athletics. The
Grenada Olympic Committee Grenada Olympic Committee (IOC code: GRN) is the National Olympic Committee representing Grenada. See also *Grenada at the Olympics *Grenada at the Commonwealth Games External links Grenada Olympic Committee
National Olympic Committees ...
was formed in 1984 and recognized in the same year. Grenada has not competed in any Winter Olympic Games. After 28 years of competing in the Summer Olympic Games, Grenada won its first medal at the London 2012 Olympics, when Kirani James clocked a new national record of 43.94 seconds on 6 August 2012 to win gold in the Men's 400 meters. It was the smallest country in the history to win a Summer Olympic gold medal until Bermuda won one in 2021, and it is still the smallest sovereign state to win one. At the Rio 2016 Olympics James again won another medal in the Men's 400 meters, this time a silver, with a time of 43.76s. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics James won a bronze in the same event.


Medal tables


Medals by Summer Games


Medals by sport


List of medalists


See also

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List of flag bearers for Grenada at the Olympics This is a list of flag bearers who have represented Grenada at the Olympics.Grenada at the Commonwealth Games Grenada have competed in ten Commonwealth Games. The first Games for the nation was in 1970. They attended the next three Games, but did not appear between 1982 and 1998. Grenada have only won 5 Commonwealth Games medal to date: in 2006, a silver i ...


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