Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
first participated at the
Olympic Games
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in 1992, and has sent athletes to compete in every
Summer Olympic Games
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since then. Namibia has never participated in the
Winter Olympic Games
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.
Namibian athletes have won a total of five medals, all silver medals.
Frankie Fredericks
Frank "Frankie" Fredericks (born 2 October 1967) is a former track and field athlete from Namibia. Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four silver medals at the Olympic Games (two in 1992 and two in 1996), making him Namibia's only ...
won four medals in
athletics
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Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
across two Olympics.
The Namibian
National Olympic Committee
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was created in 1990 and recognized by the
International Olympic Committee
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Namibia at the Paralympics
Namibia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona. These were the first Summer Paralympics to be held since the country's accession to independence from South Africa in 1990, and thus the first Games in which Nam ...