Olympic history of Bahrain

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The Bahraini NOK al-Ladschna al-ulimbiyya al-bahrainiyya was 1978 founded and in 1979 the International Olympic Committee added.

The Bahraini NOK has been sending athletes to the Olympic Games since 1984. Since then, Bahrain has been represented at all Summer Olympics. The country has not yet participated in the Winter Olympics. Young athletes have taken part in both of the youth summer games that have been held so far.

Overview

With a ten-man team, which consisted only of men, Bahrain first took part in the Olympic Games at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. The athletes competed in athletics, modern pentathlon, sport shooting and swimming. Seven athletes, again all men, competed at the 1988 Games in Seoul . For the first time you took part in the Olympic fencing tournament.

Athletics and cycling were the sports that ten athletes, all men, competed in at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics . Five men, a track and field athlete and four sailors, competed in Atlanta in 1996 . At the age of 43, the sailor Ahmed Al-Saie was the oldest Olympic athlete from Bahrain to date.

In 2000 in Sydney two women from Bahrain took part for the first time. The team also included two men. One man and one woman each competed in athletics and swimming. Fatima Al-Gerashi was the first woman to run for Bahrain.

Seven men and three women competed in athletics, sailing, sport shooting and swimming in Athens in 2004 . Since the Athens Games, naturalized athletes have been increasingly used, especially in athletics. On the medium and long distances, native Kenyans and Moroccans were used for the men, and Ethiopians for the women. Athletes from Jamaica and Nigeria as well as a wrestler from Russia also became Bahraini citizens and competed in the Olympic Games.

In Beijing 2008 , 14 athletes, 11 men and three women, took part. Rashid Ramzi won the 1,500 meter run and thus won the first Olympic medal for Bahrain. However, on April 29, 2009, the National Olympic Committee of Bahrain confirmed that Ramzi had tested positive for the EPO compound CERA during follow-up tests on doping samples taken during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games . CERA was also found in the B sample. On November 18, 2009, Ramzi was officially stripped of his gold medal.

The first medal win was celebrated in London in 2012 . Four men and eight women competed in athletics, sport shooting and swimming. Maryam Yusuf Jamal , born in Ethiopia and racing for Bahrain since 2004, won the bronze medal in the 1,500 meter run. The Turkish women Aslı Çakır Alptekin and Gamze Bulut placed in front of her were convicted of doping and subsequently disqualified. Jamal was awarded the silver medal, but no decision has yet been made about the new gold medal (as of January 1, 2018). The native Ethiopian Shitaye Eshete finished sixth over 10,000 meters.

In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, 33 active athletes took part in the country's largest Olympic team to date. Here again it was women who could win medals. The native Kenyan Ruth Jebet managed the first Olympic victory for Bahrain over 3000 meters obstacle . Eunice Kirwa , also a native of Kenya, also won silver in the marathon . In the men's race, Ali Khamis finished sixth over 400 meters. For the first time a wrestler was used, the native Russian Adam Batirow.

Youth games

Three boys and one girl competed in the sports of track and field and taekwondo at the first 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games .

In the Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 in Nanjing two boys and three girls in athletics took part. Salwa Eid Naser won silver over 400 meters, Dalila Gosa bronze over 1500 meters.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year Athletes Flag bearer sports Medals
total m w athletics swim shoot Modern pentathlon fencing Cycling sailing Wrestling Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
1896-1980 not participated
1984 10 10 0 Youssef Mubarak 1 2 4th 3
1988 7th 7th 0 Ahmed Hamada 3 3 4th
1992 10 10 0 Khalid Rabeeah 6th 4th
1996 5 5 0 Mohamed Al-Sada 1 4th
2000 4th 2 2 Dawood Youssef 2 2
2004 10 7th 3 Ahmed Hamada 6th 2 1 1
2008 14th 11 3 Ruqaya Al Ghasra 11 2 1
2012 12 4th 8th Azza Algasmi 9 2 1 1 1 69
2016 33 20th 13 Farhan Farhan 29 2 1 1 1 1 2 48
total 2 1 0 3 81

Winter games

year Athletes Flag bearer sports Medals
total m w Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total rank
1924-2018 not participated
total 0 0 0 0 -

List of medal winners

Surname sport Year / discipline gold silver bronze total
Ruth Jebet athletics athletics Rio de Janeiro 2016 : 3000 meter obstacle , women gold 1 0 0 1
Eunice Kirwa athletics athletics Rio de Janeiro 2016 : marathon , women silver 0 1 0 1
Maryam Yusuf Jamal athletics athletics London 2012 : 1500 meters , women gold 1 0 0 1

Medals by sport

sport gold silver bronze total
athletics 2 1 0 3
total 2 1 0 3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. NZZ : Ramzi the most prominent doping offender, November 18, 2009 (accessed November 27, 2009)
  2. ^ The Guardian on August 17, 2015
  3. ORF Sport on March 29, 2017
  4. The modern pentathletes also took part in the fencing tournament