Olympic history of Haiti

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Constantin Henriquez, 1900 Olympic rugby champion

Haiti , whose NOK , the Comité Olympique Haïtien , was founded in 1914 andrecognizedby the IOC in1924, sent an athlete delegation to the Summer Olympics as early as 1900. Haiti took part in another 14 summer games, but never in the winter games. Young athletes have been sent to the two youth summer games held so far.

General overview

Summer games

Silvio Cator, silver 1928 in the long jump

Samyr Lainé (2013)

The first Olympic team in Haiti consisted of two fencers in Paris in 1900. The first Olympian in Haiti was the foil fencer André Corvington on May 14, 1900. The Haiti-born rugby player Constantin Henriquez studied medicine in Paris. As a rugby player, he was French champion twice. In Paris he took part in the rugby tournament for the team of the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques and was Olympic champion with the French team. Henriquez became Haiti's first Olympic and medalist, but he won the medal for France. Henriquez is also considered to be the first dark-skinned Olympic champion in history.

Haiti did not participate in the Olympic Games again until 24 years later, again in Paris. This time the team consisted of marksmen and athletes. Haiti won the first medal in Paris. The shooting team with the free rifle won the bronze medal on June 27, 1924. The Haitian shooters also dominated the individual competition. Four of their five team members came under the top 15. Ludovic Augustin was fifth, Ludovic Valborge sixth, Destin Destine tenth and Astrel Rolland 13th. In 1928 in Amsterdam, Silvio Cator won silver in the long jump and thus the first medal of a Haitian individual athlete. In 1932 Cator finished the long jump competition in 9th place. The composer Alphonse Henriquez submitted one of his works to the Olympic art competitions , but was unable to place.

Weightlifter Rene Ambroise was to take part in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He also arrived at the Olympic site, but injured himself during training and therefore could not start the competition.

Haiti did not send any teams to the following Summer Games in 1948, 1952 and 1956. In 1960 a weight lifter started. No Haitian athletes were posted in 1964 and 1968 either. 1972 in Munich, sprinter Mireille Joseph became the first woman from Haiti to take part in the Olympic Games. In Montreal 1976 boxers from Haiti took part for the first time. Haiti followed the US call for a boycott and stayed away from the 1980 Moscow Games.

In 1988 in Seoul a tennis player from Haiti took part in the Olympic tournament for the first time, Haitian judoka for the first time in 1992, and a swimmer in 1996. In 2000 in Sydney a track and field athlete was able to qualify for a final. Dudley Dorival finished seventh over the 110 meter hurdles. A Haitian Taekwondoin was used for the first time in Athens in 2004. In 2012 in London, the triple jumper Samyr Lainé reached the final and was eleventh. In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, a Haitian wrestler competed for the first time.

Youth games

Haiti took part in the 2010 Summer Youth Games in Singapore with 22 young people . The Haitian soccer team won the silver medal. In the preliminary round, the boys lost 9-0 to Bolivia, then won their game against Vanuatu 2-1. In the semifinals, they beat hosts Singapore 3-2 and met Bolivia again in the final. They lost the game 0-5. In 2014 in Nanjing , three young people took part.

Overview of the participations

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports										Medals
	total	m	w															total	rank
1896	not participated
1900	2	2	0		2
1904-1920	not participated
1924	8th	8th	0			3	5										1	1	23
1928	2	2	0			2										1		1	30th
1932	2	2	0			2
1936-1956	not participated
1960	1	1	0					1
1964-1968	not participated
1972	7th	6th	1	Jules Meliner		7th
1976	13	10	3			10			3
1980	not participated
1984	3	1	2	Ronald Agénor	2	1
1988	4th	3	1	Deborah St. Phard		3				1
1992	7th	7th	0	Hermate Souffrant		2					5
1996	7th	7th	0	Eagle volmar		3				1	2	1
2000	5	3	2	Nadine Faustin-Parker		3					1	1
2004	8th	7th	1	Tudor Sanon		4th			1		2		1
2008	7th	3	4th	Joel Brutus		4th			1		2
2012	5	3	2	Linouse Desravine		4th					1
2016	10	7th	3	Announcement Castelly		3		1	1		1	2	1	1
total															0	1	1	2	112

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
1924-2018	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

Youth Summer Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports				Medals
	total	m	w									total	rank
2010	22nd	19th	3	Peterson Sertune	1	18th	2	1		1		1	74
2014	3	1	2		2		1
total									0	1	0	1	88

Youth Winter Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
2012-2016	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

Medalist

Gold medals

So far (as of 2017) no gold medal. Constantin Henriquez's 1900 gold medal in rugby is included in France's medal table.

Silver medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline	annotation
Silvio Cator	1928 Amsterdam	athletics	Long jump

Bronze medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline	annotation
Ludovic Augustin Destin Destine Eloi Metullus Astrel Rolland Ludovic Valborge	1924 Paris	shoot	Free rifle crew	first medal win

Medals by sport

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

Medal table

Olympic games

				total	rank
Olympic Summer Games	0	1	1	2	112
winter Olympics	0	0	0	0	-
total	0	1	1	2	113

Youth Olympic Games

				total	rank
Youth Olympic Summer Games	0	1	0	1	88
Youth Olympic Winter Games	0	0	0	0	-
total	0	1	0	1	92

Web links

• Haiti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Haiti on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)