Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

first participated at the

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in 1964, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games except for the boycotted 1976 Games and has never participated in the

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. Tanzanian athletes have won a total of two medals, both in

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. The National Olympic Committee for Tanzania was created in 1968 and recognized by the

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that same year. The résumé of Olympic events in which Tanzania has officially participated has been a static entity for most of the country's Olympic career, at least until recently. The country has in recent years began to diversify the body of its participating athletes. Tanzania introduced itself to the Olympic swimming community at the 2008 Summer Olympics at

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, with its first team, which included the nation's first female athlete competing in a sport outside the country's familiar realm of

. Tanzania also included female swimming its team sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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. Despite the diversification of the nation's Olympic participation, the athlete body of the country's Olympic team nevertheless remains small.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by sport

List of medalists

See also

External links