Olympic history of Zambia

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Zambia , whose NOK , the National Olympic Committee of Zambia , was founded in 1964, first took partin the Summer Olympics in1964, under the name Northern Rhodesia . The name Zambia has been usedsince 1968. In 1976, the country participated in the boycott of the Montreal Olympics to protest against New Zealand's participation. Participation in winter games has so far been waived.

Overview

The badge of the Northern Rhodesian team in Tokyo 1964

Zambian athletes first took part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 under the name of Northern Rhodesia . The team included track and field athletes, boxers, fencers, wrestlers and swimmers. The first Olympian in his country was the boxer Cornelis van der Walt on October 12, 1964. The first female Olympian was fencer Patricia Skinner two days later. In 1968 in Mexico City , the team started for the first time under the name Zambia .

As before, the Zambian team was unsuccessful in 1972 in Munich . Zambia followed the call to boycott African countries and stayed away from the 1976 Montreal Games . 1980 in Moscow for the first time a soccer team took part in the Olympic tournament. In addition, the country's judoka started at the Olympic Games for the first time.

In 1984 in Los Angeles , Zambia celebrated its first medal win. The boxer Keith Mwila won the bronze medal in the light flyweight division. In 1988 in Seoul , the Zambian soccer team reached the quarter-finals, where they failed 4-0 against the Federal Republic of Germany.

After an unsuccessful participation in Barcelona in 1992 , the second medal for Zambia could be celebrated at the following Atlanta games in 1996 . Samuel Matete won silver in the 400-meter hurdles, 0.24 seconds behind the winner.

In the following Olympic Games no Zambian athletes were able to stage themselves. A Zambian badminton player competed for the first time in Beijing in 2008 .

IOC member

The President of the Zambian NOC, Patrick Chamunda , was a member of the IOC from 2002 to 2016. He has been an honorary member since 2016.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports								Medals				rank
	total	Men	Women													Total
1896-1956	not participated
1960	Zambian athletes were part of the Rhodesian team
1964	12	11	1	Trevor Haynes	5	2	1	2	2
1968	7th	7th	0		3	4th
1972	11	8th	3		7th	4th
1976	not participated
1980	37	37	0	Damiano Musonda	9	8th				14th	6th
1984	16	16	0	Davison Lishebo	4th	9					3				1	1	43
1988	29	29	0	Samuel Chomba	4th	7th				18th
1992	9	8th	1	Ngozi Mwanamwamba	4th	4th					1
1996	8th	7th	1	Davis Mwale	4th	4th								1		1	61
2000	8th	6th	2	Samuel Matete	4th	2			2
2004	6th	4th	2	Davis Mwale	2	2			2
2008	8th	6th	2	Hastings Bwalya	2	3			2			1
2012	7th	5	2	Prince Moses Mumba	3	1			1		1
2016	7th	5	2	Mathews Punza	3	1			2		1
total													0	1	1	2	124

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals			rank
	total	Men	Women
1924-2018	not participated
total						0	0	0	-

Medalist

Gold medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Silver medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Samuel Matete	1996 Atlanta	athletics	400 meter hurdles

Bronze medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Keith Mwila	1984 Los Angeles	Boxing	Light flyweight

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
athletics	0	1	0	1
Boxing	0	0	1	1
total	0	1	1	2

Web links

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