Olympic history of North Macedonia

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North Macedonia , whose NOK , the Makedonski Olimpiski Komitet , was founded in 1992 andrecognizedby the IOC in1993, has participated in the Summer Olympic Games since 1996 and in the Winter Olympic Games since 1998. Young athletes have taken part in all the Youth Olympic Games (summer and winter) that have been held so far. Until the name change on February 13, 2019, North Macedonia used the name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) due to the dispute over the name of Macedonia with Greece .

Before North Macedonia gained independence, the country's athletes took part in the Yugoslav team in the Olympic Games. Since the North Macedonian NOK had not yet been founded, there was the opportunity for athletes in the country to compete as independent Olympic participants at the Winter Games in Albertville and the Summer Games in Barcelona in 1992, together with other athletes from the former Yugoslavia .

General overview

Summer games

Mogamed Ibragimov won bronze in freestyle wrestling in 2000

The first Olympic team in North Macedonia consisted of eleven athletes in 1996 who competed in wrestling, shooting, swimming and canoeing. From 2000, North Macedonians also competed in athletics, and from 2016 also in judo.

As the first participant from North Macedonia, a woman made her Olympic debut on July 20, 1996 with the swimmer Mirjana Boševska. The first man from North Macedonia to compete in the Olympic Games on July 21 was the swimmer Aleksandar Malenko.

In Atlanta, the bantamweight freestyle wrestler Shaban Tërstena was fifth. In 2000 the first Olympic medal was won. The freestyle wrestler Mogamed Ibragimov won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division.

Winter games

In 1998, North Macedonia took part in the Winter Games for the first time. Since then, North Macedonian athletes have only participated in alpine ski racing and cross-country skiing.

The first winter Olympian was the alpine ski racer Aleksandar Stojanowski on February 19, 1998. One day later, the ski racer Jana Nikolowska was the first North Macedonian woman to take part in the Winter Games. The best placing of a North Macedonian winter sportsman in 2014 was the 29th place of the racing driver Antonio Ristewski in the slalom.

Youth games

North Macedonia took part in the 2010 Summer Youth Games in Singapore with six teenagers, two boys and four girls . The athletes competed in badminton, shooting, swimming and tennis. In 2014 in Nanjing , five teenagers, four boys and one girl, took part. They competed in the sports of shooting, swimming, wrestling and cycling.

In the Winter Youth Games in 2012 in Innsbruck , a boy and a girl were doing. They participated in cross-country skiing and alpine ski racing. Two boys competed in the same sports in Lillehammer in 2016 .

Overview of the participations

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports						Medals
	total													total	rank
1896-1912	not participated
1920-1988	Participation in the Yugoslav team
1992	Participation as an independent Olympian
1996	11	8th	3	Vladimir Bogoyevsky	3	1	4th	3
2000	10	6th	4th	Lazar Popowski	2	1	4th	1	2				1	1	71
2004	10	7th	3	Blaogo Georgiewski	2	1	4th	1	2
2008	7th	5	2	Atanas Nikolovsky	1	1	2	1	2
2012	4th	2	2	Marko Blaževski			2		2
2016	6th	2	4th	Anastasia Bogdanowski		1	2		2	1
total											0	0	1	1	141

Winter games

Darko Damjanovski at the 15-kilometer run in Sochi in 2014

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports		Medals
	total									total	rank
1924-1988	Participation in the Yugoslav team
1992-1994	not participated
1998	3	2	1	Gjoko Dineski	2	1
2002	2	2	0	Jana Nikolowska	1	1
2006	3	2	1	Giorgi Markowski	2	1
2010	3	2	1	Antonio Ristewski	1	2
2014	3	2	1	Darko Damjanovski	1	2
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

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Mogamed Ibragimov	2000 Sydney	Wrestling	Freestyle light heavyweight

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
Wrestling	0	0	1	1
total	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Macedonia in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Macedonia on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Website of the Macedonian NOK (maz.)