Olympic history of Niger
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Niger , whose NOC , the Comité Olympique et Sportif National du Niger , was founded in 1964 andrecognizedby the IOC in the same year, has been taking part in the Summer Olympics since 1964. In 1976 they joined the African boycott of the Montreal Games. In 1980, the Nigerien team stayed away from Moscow. So far, no athletes have been sent to the Winter Games.
Overview
Niger's Olympic premiere took place at the 1964 Tokyo Games . The first, and in Tokyo only, Olympic athlete in the country was welterweight boxer Issaka Daboré , who took up his first fight on October 12, 1964 and was able to advance to the quarter-finals. Only boxers were sent to the following games in Mexico City in 1968 and Munich in 1972 . In Munich Daboré, this time in the light welterweight division, won the first Olympic medal for Niger. After his semi-final defeat, he was honored with the bronze medal.
In 1976 and 1980 Niger followed the calls for boycotts from African countries and the USA and did not send any athletes to Montreal and Moscow. It was not until 1984 in Los Angeles that the Niger returned to the Olympic stage, this time with athletes for the first time.
In the following Olympic Games, Niger was unsuccessful, no participant was able to qualify for another round. In 1996 in Atlanta , the only 14-year-old athlete Rachida Mahamane was the first woman from Niger to take part in the Olympic Games. Nigerien swimmers took part for the first time in Sydney in 2000 , a judoka in Athens in 2004 and a rower in London in 2012 .
The unsuccessful Nigerien participants ended in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro with the winning of the silver medal by the Taekwondoin Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga in the heavyweight division.
Overview of the participants
Summer games
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| 1896-1960 | not participated | ||||||||||||||
| 1964 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1968 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 1972 | 4th | 4th | 0 | Issaka Daboré | 4th | 1 | 1 | 43 | |||||||
| 1976-1980 | not participated | ||||||||||||||
| 1984 | 4th | 4th | 0 | Boubagar Soumana | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 1988 | 6th | 6th | 0 | Hassan Karimou | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Abdou Manzo | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1996 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Abdou Manzo | 3 | ||||||||||
| 2000 | 4th | 2 | 2 | Mahamane Ani Ali | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2004 | 4th | 3 | 1 | Abdou Alassane Dji Bo | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2008 | 4th | 2 | 2 | Mohamed Alhousseini | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2012 | 6th | 4th | 2 | Moustapha Hima | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 2016 | 6th | 4th | 2 | Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 69 | ||||
| total | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 124 | ||||||||||
Winter games
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Medalist
Gold medals
So far (as of 2017) no medal winners.
Silver medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Taekwondo | Heavyweight |
Bronze medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Issaka Daboré | 1972 Munich | Boxing | Light welterweight |
Medals by sport
| sport | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| Taekwondo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Boxing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| total | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Web links
- Niger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Niger on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
