Zimbabwe at the Olympics

The Olympic Zimbabwe's history begins in 1934 with the founding of the NOCs, the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee. The NOC was recognized in 1959 by the IOC. The British colony was independent until 1980 under the name Zimbabwe. Before independence took 1928, 1960 and 1964 athletes under the name Rhodesia participated in Summer Olympics.

136 participants, including 45 women, were able to win eight medals since 1980. With three gold, four silver and one bronze medal Zimbabwe is ranked 63 in the Eternal medal of the Olympics.

3.1 Medals by sport
3.2 medalist 3.2.1 Gold Medals
3.2.2 Silver Medals
3.2.3 bronze medals

Participation at the Olympic Games

Already at the Olympic debut at the Games of Moscow in 1980 there was the first medal, at the same time the first Olympic victory to celebrate. The Zimbabwean Women's hockey team was surprisingly with three wins and two draws Olympic champion.

The following five Summer Games were unsuccessful for the Zimbabwe Olympic team. Only the boxer Ndaba Dube, who won in 1984 in Los Angeles bantamweight fifth place, achieved a top ranking. 1992 Barcelona came with the float Ivor Le Roux, the youngest ever participant of Zimbabwe at the Olympic games. On July 26, 1992 Le Roux was old at the start of the 200m Freestyle 16 years and 155 days. On August 1, 1992 was received in the double sculls women with the rower Susanne Standish -White, the oldest participant so far Zimbabwe at the start.

Only in 2004 in Athens, another medal win was celebrated. The swimmer Kirsty Coventry won a complete set of medals, first silver over 100 meters backstroke (16th August 2004), then bronze 200m individual medley (17th August 2004) and on 20 August 2004 Gold 200m backstroke.

2008 Beijing won Coventry even four medals. On August 10, 2008, she won silver over 400 meters individual medley. It was followed by two more silver medals: August 12, 100m backstroke and a day later than 200 meters individual medley. With a new world record Coventry 200m backstroke swam on August 16 finally her second Olympic gold medal. Two more medals missed the athletes just barely. The long jumper Ngoni Makusha jumped in the final on August 18, 8.19 meters, narrowly missing the bronze medal by just one centimeter. Brian Farai ran on August 20 in the final 200 meters of the men with 20.22 seconds in 4th place, narrowly missing the bronze medal by 0.24 seconds.

London 2012 medals were not won, so there was Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe 's most successful participant. 2014 for the first time took part in an athlete from Zimbabwe Olympic Winter Games.

General Overview

Summer Games

Winter Games

Medals

Medals by sport

Medalist

Gold Medals

Silver Medals

Bronze

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