Guatemala first participated at the
Olympic Games
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in 1952, but then missed the next three Olympiads. Guatemala has sent athletes to compete in every
Summer Olympic Games since 1968. The nation has participated in the
Winter Olympic Games
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once, in 1988.
Guatemala won its first Olympic medal sixty years after its first Olympic appearance, during the
2012 Summer Olympics, when
Érick Barrondo took second place in the
men's 20 km walk. This makes Guatemala notable as one of the few countries with
more Nobel laureates than Olympic medalists.
The
National Olympic Committee for Guatemala was created in 1947 and recognized by the
International Olympic Committee
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that same year.
Medal tables
Medals by Winter Games
Medals by sport
List of medalists
See also
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:Olympic competitors for Guatemala
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Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
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Guatemala at the Paralympics
References
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