List of Olympic medalists from Belgium

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The archer Hubert Van Innis is the most successful Olympic competitor in Belgium.

Belgium took part in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1900 . In 1920 the 6th Olympic Games were held in Antwerp , Belgium.

The first Belgian Olympic champion was archer Hubert Van Innis in 1900 , who with six gold medals and three silver medals is also the most successful Olympic participant in Belgium. The seven archers who, together with Hubert Van Innis, formed the Belgian team in shooting at moving bird targets in 1920, each won two gold medals and one bronze medal. Between Van Innis and his teammates, the fencer Paul Anspach placed himself in the list of the most successful Belgian athletes with two gold and silver medals and one bronze medal.

The Belgian Olympic team did best at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, with the two events in Paris in second and third place. The figure skating couple Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet won the only gold medal at the Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1948.

Medals balance

So far, the athletes from Belgium have won 154 Olympic medals (41 gold, 55 silver and 58 bronze). This statistic does not include medals in art competitions .

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Belgium at the
Summer Olympics 		 
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Belgium at the
Winter Olympics
year gold gold silver silver bronze bronze total rank year gold gold silver silver bronze bronze total rank
1900 5 5 5 15th 6th            
1908 1 5 2 8th 10            
1912 2 1 3 6th 13            
1920 14th 11 11 36 5            
1924 3 7th 3 13 10 1924 0 0 1 1 10
1928 0 1 2 3 30th 1928 0 0 1 1 8th
1932 0 0 0 0 1932 0 0 0 0
1936 0 0 2 2 29 1936 0 0 0 0
1948 2 2 3 7th 15th 1948 1 1 0 2 9
1952 2 2 0 4th 14th 1952 0 0 0 0
1956 0 2 0 2 28 1956 0 0 0 0
1960 0 2 2 4th 26th 1960 - - - - -
1964 2 0 1 3 20th 1964 0 0 0 0
1968 0 1 1 2 36 1968 - - - - -
1972 0 2 0 2 29 1972 0 0 0 0
1976 0 3 3 6th 28 1976 0 0 0 0
1980 1 0 0 1 23 1980 0 0 0 0
1984 1 1 2 4th 21st 1984 0 0 0 0
1988 0 0 2 2 44 1988 0 0 0 0
1992 0 1 2 3 44 1992 0 0 0 0
1996 2 2 2 6th 31 1994 0 0 0 0
2000 0 2 3 5 55 1998 0 0 1 1 22nd
2004 1 0 2 3 51 2002 0 0 0 0
2008 2 0 0 2 46 2006 0 0 0 0
2012 0 1 2 3 60 2010 0 0 0 0
2016 2 2 2 6th 2014 0 0 0 0
2020 - - - - - 2018 0 1 0 1
total 40 53 55 148   total 1 2 3 6th  
Ges. S + W 41 55 58 154

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Kamper / Mallon 1992, page 345
  2. ↑ Hendrik van Heuckelum was Dutch
  3. ↑ The helmsman of the Orban brothers was the Greek Theophilos Psiliakos
  4. ↑ The helmsman of the Orban brothers was the Greek Theophilos Psiliakos
  5. ↑ Eric Thornton was British

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