Madagascar first entered the Olympic Games in 1964 and has sent athletes to every games apart from
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
and
1988
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. The largest group the country ever sent to an Olympic games was 10 in
2000
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. They have never won a medal.
reached the final of the men's 100 metres in the
1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...
and finished eighth.
Madagascar appeared for the Winter Games for the first time in 2006 and did not compete again until 2018.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
Medals by Winter Games
See also
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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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Madagascar at the Paralympics
Madagascar made its Paralympic Games début at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney. Its sole representative, Aina Onja, was a blind sprinter who ran the men's 100m sprint in the T11 category. His time of 13.98 was the slowest in the heats, and ...
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Olympics
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