Olympic history of Nepal

NEP

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Nepal , whose NOK , the Nepal Olympic Committee , was founded in 1962 andrecognizedby the IOC in1963, has been participating in the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. In 1968 they did not participate in the Mexico City Games. Nepalese athletes have not yet been able to win medals. Since 2002, Nepalese athletes have also been participating in winter games. Young athletes have taken part in all of the Youth Olympic Games that have been held so far in summer and winter.

Overview

Summer games

The Taekwondoin Deepak Bista, flag bearer in Beijing 2008

The country's first Olympic team in 1964 consisted of two track and field athletes and four boxers. In the following participations, Nepalese athletes competed in weightlifting (from 1980), judo and shooting (from 1988), swimming (from 1996), Taekwondo (from 2004) and archery (from 2016).

The first Olympians in Nepal were the boxers Ram Prasad Gurung and Om Prasad Pun on October 11, 1964. The first woman in Nepal to participate in the Olympic Games on September 18, 1988 was Parvati Thapa.

Winter games

During the Winter Games of 1924, on February 4, 1924, the Sherpa Tejbir Bura was awarded the Prix ​​olympique d'alpinisme as a member of the British expedition to Mount Everest 1922 .

It was not until 2002 that a Nepalese winter athlete took part for the first time. Cross-country skier Jayaram Khadka was the first Nepalese winter Olympian on February 14, 2002. Women from Nepal have not yet participated in the Winter Games. Cross-country skiing is the only sport so far in which Nepal was represented at the Winter Games.

Youth games

At the first Youth Summer Games in Singapore in 2010 , four teenagers, two boys and two girls, competed in athletics and taekwondo. In 2014 in Nanjing , two teenagers, a boy and a girl, competed in athletics and badminton.

A boy took part in the 2012 Winter Youth Games in alpine skiing. 2016 in Lillehammer the only participant was again an alpine ski racer.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports								Medals
	total	m	w													total	rank
1896-1960	not participated
1964	6th	6th	0	Ram Prasad Gurung	2	4th
1968	not participated
1972	2	2	0	Jit Bahadur Chhetri	2
1976	1	1	0		1
1980	10	10	0		5	3	2
1984	10	10	0	Khadga Ranabhat	5	3	2
1988	16	13	3	Krishna Bahadur Basnet	7th	5	1	2	1
1992	2	1	1		1				1
1996	6th	3	3	Tika Bogati	2		1		1	2
2000	5	2	3	Chitra Bahadur Gurung	2				1	2
2004	6th	3	3	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari	2				1	2	1
2008	8th	4th	4th	Deepak Bista	2		1	1	1	2	1
2012	5	2	3	Prasiddha Shah	2				1	2
2016	7th	3	4th	Phupu Khatri	2			1		2	1	1
total													0	0	0	0	-

Winter games

Dachhiri Dawa Sherpa, three-time Olympian in cross-country skiing

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports		Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
1924	no active participation, award of the mountaineering prize
1928-1998	not participated
2002	1	1	0	Jayaram Khadka	1
2006	1	1	0	Dachhiri Dawa Sherpa	1
2010	1	1	0	Dachhiri Dawa Sherpa	1
2014	1	1	0	Dachhiri Dawa Sherpa	1
2018	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

List of medal winners

Gold medals

So far (as of 2018) no gold medals

Silver medals

So far (as of 2018) no silver medals

Bronze medals

So far (as of 2018) no bronze medals

Web links

• Nepal in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Nepal on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Web presence of the Nepalese NOK

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Gurkha Museum (Eng.)