Olympic history of Aruba
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Aruba , whose NOK ( Comité Olímpico Arubano ) was founded in 1985 andrecognizedby the IOC the following year, has participated in the Summer Olympics since 1988. The Dutch state on the Caribbean island has not yet participated in the winter games. Athletes from Aruba have not yet won any medals.
Overview
Between 1952 and 1984 athletes from the island could compete as team members of the Netherlands Antilles . When Aruba's status was changed in 1986 (since then Aruba has been a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), a separate NOK could be established.
Aruba's debut at the Olympic Games took place in Seoul in 1988. A team of eight competed in athletics, boxing, fencing, judo and swimming (synchronized swimming). Aruba's first Olympian was the boxer Hubert Wester, who took up the light welterweight division on September 19, 1988. The first woman was Lia Melis in a marathon on September 23, 1988.
Cycling and sailing were added in Barcelona in 1992, weightlifting in Atlanta in 1996 and Taekwondo in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. There was no success for the participants.
IOC member
Former synchronized swimmer Nicole Hoevertsz , who competed in Los Angeles in 1984 for the Netherlands Antilles and has been Secretary General of the Aruban NOK since 1998, became a member of the IOC in 2006.
Overview of the participants
Summer games
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| 1896-1948 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||
| 1952-1984 | participated as part of the Netherlands Antilles | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 8th | 4th | 4th | Bito Maduro | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 5 | 4th | 1 | Lucien Dirksz | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1996 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Junior Faro | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2000 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Richard Rodriguez | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2004 | 4th | 3 | 1 | Roshendra Vrolijk | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Fiderd Vis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | 4th | 3 | 1 | Ever le Grand | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 7th | 3 | 4th | Nicole van der Velden | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||||||||||||
Winter games
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Medalist
Gold medals
So far (as of 2017) no medal winners
Silver medals
So far (as of 2017) no medal winners
Bronze medals
So far (as of 2017) no medal winners
Web links
- Aruba in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Aruba on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
