North Macedonia first competed as an independent nation at the
Olympic Games at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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, then as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", and has participated in every
Summer Olympic Games
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and
Winter Olympic Games since then. Previously, until 1988, Macedonian athletes competed for
Yugoslavia, and in 1992 as
Independent Olympic Participants
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. The provisional appellation of "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" was used until
2018
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, in the context of the
Macedonia naming dispute.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
Medals by Winter Games
Medals by sport
List of medalists
Two athletes representing North Macedonia since 1996 have won an Olympic medal.
List of Yugoslav medalists from North Macedonia
Several other athletes from the
Socialist Republic of Macedonia
The Socialist Republic of Macedonia ( mk, Социјалистичка Република Македонија, Socijalistička Republika Makedonija), or SR Macedonia, commonly referred to as Socialist Macedonia or Yugoslav Macedonia, was ...
(a constituent country of the former
SFR Yugoslavia
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) have also won Olympic medals, competing for Yugoslavia.
See also
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List of flag bearers for North Macedonia at the Olympics
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North Macedonia at the Paralympics
North Macedonia, following its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, made its Paralympic Games début at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, where it sent a single athlete ( Branimir Jovanovski) to compete in shooting. The country has competed ...
Notes
External links
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