Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

has competed in 12 Summer Games. To date, Kuwait has won three bronze

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s. In the 1992 Barcelona Games, Kuwait received a bronze medal in the then- demonstration sport of

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. Their first Olympic medal was a bronze for double trap shooting, won by

Fehaid Al-Deehani Fahad Al-Deehani ( ar, فهيد الديحاني, born October 11, 1966) is a Kuwaiti professional target shooter and officer in the Kuwaiti military. He was born in Kuwait City. Olympic career Al-Deehani won a bronze medal for the men's dou ...

at the

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in Sydney. Their second was also a bronze won by Al-Deehani in the men's trap at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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. In 2016, Al-Deehani won the gold medal for men's double trap as an independent athlete. The National Olympic Committee for Kuwait was formed in 1957. It was recognized by the

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in 1966, but has been suspended twice in the past ten years. Due to its most recent suspension, Kuwait was not allowed to compete as a sovereign state at the 2016 Summer Olympics, though the nation's participants were able to compete as

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under the Olympic flag. At those games, Kuwaiti shooters

and

Abdullah Al-Rashidi Abdullah Al-Rashidi (born August 23, 1963) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter and three-time world champion. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020, winning bronze medals in men's skeet in both 2016 and 2 ...

won a gold medal and bronze medal respectively as

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Participation

Timeline of participation

Combined medals

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by summer sport

List of medalists

See also

References

External links