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Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
competed at the
2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...
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Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...
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South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with one competitor. The country returned to the Winter Olympics after last competing in
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, which also marked its debut.


Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Malagasy delegation per sport.


Alpine skiing

Madagascar qualified one female athlete,
Mialitiana Clerc Mialitiana Clerc (born 16 November 2001 in Ambohitrimanjaka, Madagascar) is an alpine skier from Madagascar. Clerc competed for Madagascar at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. Clerc became the first female to compete for Madag ...
. Clerc was born in Madagascar, and was adopted by a French family at the age of one. She learned to ski in France. Clerc became the first female Malagasy athlete to compete at the Winter Olympics.


See also

* Madagascar at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics


References

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2018 in Malagasy sport