Antigua and Barbuda at the Olympics

The Olympic Movement Antigua and Barbuda began to take shape in the mid- 1960s. Five years after the West Indies Federation, which included the two islands, had taken part in the Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, was created to send to Antigua the desire to own delegation to the VIII British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston ( Jamaica). To this end, Antigua Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association ( AOCGA ) was established in 1965 and the following year Antigua was at the Commonwealth Games in his debut on the international sporting stage. In 1968, the AOCGA then the International Olympic Committee for the first time an application for inclusion in the Olympic family. However, the application was not in accordance with the Articles of Association of the IOC and was rejected. Only in 1975 was started after a reorganization of the AOCGA a second attempt. The IOC accepted at its 77th Session on the edge of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976, the Application and explained Antigua for temporary membership. As part of the 78th Session of the IOC in July 1976 in Montreal the AOCGA received its full appreciation.

Participations

Antigua took the first time at the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 with its own delegation in part. Four years later, returned the AOCGA the invitation to the Summer Olympics in Moscow not, thus conveying the boycott of most Western states. Since the 1984 Summer Olympics the country took part in all the Summer Games.

Of medals won

1960 Summer Olympics 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Kingston, Jamaica Antigua and Barbuda at the 1976 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 1984 Summer Olympics 1988 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 1988 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 1992 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 1996 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 2000 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 2004 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics Antigua and Barbuda at the 2012 Summer Olympics Algeria at the Olympics Angola at the Olympics Benin at the Olympics Botswana at the Olympics Burkina Faso at the Olympics Burundi at the Olympics DR Congo at the Olympics Eritrea at the Olympics Gabon at the Olympics The Gambia at the Olympics Ghana at the Olympics Guinea at the Olympics Guinea-Bissau at the Olympics Cameroon at the Olympics Cape Verde at the Olympics Kenya at the Olympics Comoros at the Olympics Lesotho at the Olympics Liberia at the Olympics Libya at the Olympics Madagascar at the Olympics Malawi at the Olympics Mali at the Olympics Morocco at the Olympics Mauritania at the Olympics Mauritius at the Olympics Mozambique at the Olympics Namibia at the Olympics Niger at the Olympics Nigeria at the Olympics Congo at the Olympics Rwanda at the Olympics Zambia at the Olympics Senegal at the Olympics Seychelles at the Olympics Sierra Leone at the Olympics Zimbabwe at the Olympics Somalia at the Olympics Sudan at the Olympics Swaziland at the Olympics Tanzania at the Olympics Togo at the Olympics Tunisia at the Olympics Uganda at the Olympics Central African Republic at the Olympics Virgin Islands at the Olympics Argentina at the Olympics Aruba at the Olympics Bahamas at the Olympics Barbados at the Olympics Belize at the Olympics Bermuda at the Olympics Bolivia at the Olympics Brazil at the Olympics British Virgin Islands at the Olympics Cayman Islands at the Olympics Chile at the Olympics Costa Rica at the Olympics Dominica at the Olympics Dominican Republic at the Olympics Ecuador at the Olympics El Salvador at the Olympics Grenada at the Olympics Guatemala at the Olympics Guyana at the Olympics Haiti at the Olympics Honduras at the Olympics Jamaica at the Olympics Colombia at the Olympics Mexico at the Olympics Nicaragua at the Olympics Panama at the Olympics Paraguay at the Olympics Peru at the Olympics Puerto Rico at the Olympics Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympics Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the Olympics Suriname at the Olympics Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics Uruguay at the Olympics Venezuela at the Olympics Bahrain at the Olympics Bangladesh at the Olympics Bhutan at the Olympics Brunei at the Olympics Hong Kong at the Olympics India at the Olympics Indonesia at the Olympics Iraq at the Olympics Iran at the Olympics Yemen at the Olympics Jordan at the Olympics Cambodia at the Olympics Qatar at the Olympics Kyrgyzstan at the Olympics Kuwait at the Olympics Laos at the Olympics Lebanon at the Olympics Malaysia at the Olympics Maldives at the Olympics Mongolia at the Olympics Myanmar at the Olympics Oman at the Olympics Timor-Leste at the Olympics Pakistan at the Olympics Philippines at the Olympics Saudi Arabia at the Olympics Singapore at the Olympics Sri Lanka at the Olympics Syria at the Olympics Tajikistan at the Olympics Thailand at the Olympics Turkmenistan at the Olympics Uzbekistan at the Olympics United Arab Emirates at the Olympics Vietnam at the Olympics Albania at the Olympics Andorra at the Olympics Armenia at the Olympics Azerbaijan at the Olympics Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics Germany at the Olympics Estonia at the Olympics Finland at the Olympics Macedonia at the Olympics Iceland at the Olympics Latvia at the Olympics Liechtenstein at the Olympics Malta at the Olympics Monaco at the Olympics Portugal at the Olympics San Marino at the Olympics Switzerland at the Olympics Spain at the Olympics Cyprus at the Olympics American Samoa at the Olympics Australia at the Olympics Cook Islands at the Olympics Fiji at the Olympics Guam at the Olympics Kiribati at the Olympics Marshall Islands at the Olympics Nauru at the Olympics New Zealand at the Olympics Palau at the Olympics Papua New Guinea at the Olympics Samoa at the Olympics Solomon Islands at the Olympics Tonga at the Olympics Tuvalu at the Olympics Vanuatu at the Olympics Mixed team at the Olympics Rhodesia at the Olympics Soviet Union at the Olympics
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