Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
sent athletes to the
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 ...
under its own flag for the first time in
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
. Bosnian athletes competed under the Yugoslav flag (see
Yugoslavia at the Olympics Teams from Yugoslavia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920. Previously, several athletes from Croatia, Slovenia and northern Serbian province Vojvodina had competed for Austria or Hungary when those countries were part of the Empire of A ...
) until the breakup of that country. Along with
Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
,
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and
Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of four current European participants that have never won an Olympic medal. The
Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Latin: Olimpijski komitet Bosne i Hercegovine; Serbian Cyrillic: Олимпијски комитет Босне и Херцеговине) is the non-profit organiza ...
was formed in 1992 and recognized in 1993.


Medal tables


Medals by Summer Games


Medals by Winter Games


Best Placement by summer sport

Bosnia and Herzegovina has yet to win its first medal at Summer Games. Below are the top three placements so far.


Best Placement by winter sport

Bosnia and Herzegovina has yet to win its first medal at Winter Games. Below are the top three placements so far.


Competitors by sport

The following is a list of the total number of competitors by sport in the Games.


Summer


Winter


Flagbearers


Pre-1992 Yugoslavian medalists from Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnian-Herzegovinian athletes have won medals on many occasions in different sports as part of teams and one as individual competitors (boxing) representing
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
.


Association Football


Basketball


Boxing


Handball


See also

* List of flag bearers for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics *
Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Paralympics Bosnia and Herzegovina, having become independent from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992, made its Paralympic Games début at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, with merely two athletes competing in men's track and field. Th ...
*
Bosnia and Herzegovina at the World Athletics Championships Bosnia and Herzegovina has participated in the World Championships in Athletics since the early 1990s; after Bosnia and Herzegovina independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Kada Delić was the first Bosnian athlete to appear ...


References


External links

* * * {{National sports teams of Bosnia and Herzegovina