Nigeria at the Olympics

Nigeria, the NOK, the Nigeria Olympic Committee, was founded in 1951 and recognized in the same year by the IOC since 1952 takes part in the Olympic Summer Games. In 1976, you stick to the African boycott of the Games of Montreal. At the Winter Games No athletes have so far been sent.

A total of 513 participants were sent, of which 160 are women. Nigerian athletes won 23 medals. First medal winner in 1964 of the Boxer Nojim Maiyegun, who won the bronze medal in the light middleweight. 1992 won the 4 x 100 - meter relay for the first time Nigerian women a bronze medal. The athlete Chioma Ajunwa made ​​on 2 August 1996 with her victory in the long jump for the first Olympic victory in the country. A day later, the U-23 national soccer team celebrate the first gold medal for the men with a 3-2 over Argentina.

In 1992, with the 15 -year-old handball player Barbara Diribe the youngest participant of Nigeria at the start. The oldest participant was 37 years in 2012 with the table tennis player Segun Toriola, at the Summer Olympic Games was launched for the sixth time.

Overview of participants

Summer Games

Winter Games

So far (as of 2012) no participants at the Winter Olympics.

List of medalists

National Olympic Committee International Olympic Committee 1960 Summer Olympics 1964 Summer Olympics Yusuf Alli 1988 Summer Olympics Sunday Bada Sunday Uti Moses Ugbusien Rotimi Peters Davidson Ezinwa Chidi Imoh Oluyemi Kayode Osmond Ezinwa Beatrice Utondu Christy Opara-Thompson Faith Idehen Olabisi Afolabi Fatima Yusuf Charity Opara Falilat Ogunkoya Jude Monye Enefiok Udo-Obong Aaron Egbele Deji Aliu Musa Audu Saul Weigopwa Ene Franca Idoko Gloria Kemasuode Halimat Ismaila Oludamola Osayomi Chika Chukwumerije Taekwondo at the 2008 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 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 Antigua and Barbuda 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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