Olympic history of Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea , whose NOK , the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee , was founded in 1973, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1976. With the exception of the boycotted games in 1980, athletes were sent to all subsequent summer games. No athlete from Papua New Guinea has participated in the Winter Games. Young athletes have been sent to both of the youth summer games held so far.

Athletes in Papua New Guinea could not win medals.

General overview

Olympic games

Papua New Guinea's first Olympic team consisted of athletes, boxers and a shooter in Montreal in 1976. In the following years, the country's athletes participated in the sports of sailing and weightlifting (since 1988), swimming (since 2000), taekwondo (since 2008) and judo (since 2012).

The country's first Olympians were shooter Trevan Clough and boxer Tumat Sogolik on July 18, 1976. The first woman in Papua New Guinea at the Olympic Games was the athlete Iammogapi Launa on August 3, 1984, who competed in the heptathlon.

The greatest success at the Olympic Games was achieved by the swimmer Ryan Pini in Beijing in 2008. Over 100 meters dolphin he reached the final and finished eighth. In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, weightlifter Morea Baru finished sixth in the featherweight division.

Youth Olympic Games

Papua New Guinea took part in the 2010 Summer Youth Games in Singapore with 21 young people . Three boys and 18 girls competed in athletics, soccer, swimming and weightlifting. The sprinter John Rivan won the bronze medal with the mixed relay Oceania with four runners from four nations. This medal is not included in the medal table of Papua New Guinea. The weightlifter Steven Kari finished fourth in the light heavyweight division.

In 2014 in Nanjing , 24 teenage athletes, four boys and 20 girls, took part. They competed in athletics, soccer, swimming, weight lifting, and sailing.

Overview of the participations

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports								Medals
	total	m	w													total	rank
1896-1972	not participated
1976	6th	6th	0	Wavala Kali	3	2	1
1980	not participated
1984	7th	4th	3	Iammogapi Launa	5		2
1988	11	9	2	Pinye Malaibi	6th	2		2	1
1992	13	12	1		6th	5		1	1
1996	11	11	0	Subul Babo	6th	4th		1
2000	5	2	3	Xenia Peni	2			1		2
2004	4th	2	2	Dika Toua	2			1		1
2008	7th	3	4th	Ryan Pini	2	1		1		2	1
2012	8th	4th	4th	Toea Wisil	2			1		2	1	1
2016	8th	6th	2	Ryan Pini	2	1		1		1	2	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	-

Youth Summer Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports					Medals
	total	m	w										total	rank
2010	21st	3	18th	Steven Kari	1	18th	1	1
2014	24	4th	20th		1	18th	2	2	1
total										0	0	0	0	-

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

Silver medals

So far (as of 2017) no silver medal

Bronze medals

So far (as of 2017) no bronze medal

Web links

• Papua New Guinea in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Papua New Guinea on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Website of the NOC of Papua New Guinea