Olympic history of Cambodia

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Cambodia , whose NOK , the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia , was founded in 1984 andrecognizedby the IOC in1994, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1964. As early as 1956, two riders were sent to the Stockholm Equestrian Games. Another participation of Cambodian athletes took place in 1972 under the name Khmer Republic . Cambodia stayed away from the Olympic Games for the next 24 years, and has only been a permanent participant in Summer Games since 1996. So far, no athletes from Cambodia have participated in the Winter Games. Young athletes took part in both of the youth summer games that have been held so far.

Overview

Summer games

Cambodia's first Olympic team took part in the Stockholm Equestrian Games in 1956 and consisted of two show jumpers. Isoup Ganthy and Saing Pen were Cambodia's first Olympians on June 17, 1956. In the following participations, Cambodian athletes competed in boxing, cycling and sailing (since 1964), athletics and swimming (since 1972), wrestling (since 1996) and in judo and taekwondo (since 2012). The first woman in Cambodia to compete in the Olympic Games on September 1, 1972 was the athlete Meas Kheng.

Youth games

Three young athletes, two boys and one girl, competed in judo, swimming and athletics at the first edition of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . The judoka Sothea Sam won the bronze medal in the flyweight division.

In 2014 in Nanjing , three athletes, a boy and two girls, took part again. They competed in athletics, swimming and wrestling. Medals could not be won.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports									Medals				rank
	total	Men	Women																		Total
1896-1952	not participated
1956	2	2	0		2
1960	not participated
1964	13	13	0			4th	6th	3
1968	not participated
1972	9	8th	1	Chaing Cheng		1			4th	4th
1976-1992	not participated
1996	5	3	2	To Rithya					2	2	1
2000	4th	2	2	To Rithya					2	2
2004	4th	2	2	Hem Kiry					2	2
2008	4th	2	2	Hem bunting					2	2
2012	6th	3	3	David Sorn					2	2		1	1
2016	6th	2	4th	Sorn Seavmey					2	2	1		1
total														0	0	0	0	-

Winter games

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

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

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