Olympic history of Slovenia

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1992—

7th	13	20th

Slovenia has been represented at the Olympic Games since 1992. Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics representatives .

The National Olympic Committee is the Olimpijski komite Slovenije . It was founded in 1991 and officially recognized by the IOC in 1992.

In 1912 athletes from what is now Slovenia took part in the team of Cisleithania (the Austrian part of the State of Austria-Hungary) and from 1920 to 1988 in the teams of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1920-1926) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (from 1948).

Slovenia has not hosted any Olympic Games to date (as of 2018).

General

The first participation in the Olympic Games of Slovenia took place at the Olympic Winter Games in 1992 with a delegation of 27 athletes in six disciplines (20 men, seven women). In the same year Slovenia took part in the Summer Olympics - with 35 athletes in twelve disciplines (29 men, seven women). Iztok Čop and Denis Žvegelj as well as Milan Janša , Janez Klemenčič , Sašo Mirjanič and Sadik Mujkič were the first Slovenian medalists: All of them won bronze medals in rowing: the first two in two without a helmsman and the other four in a foursome without a helmsman - this meant for Slovenia 52nd place.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics , the first Winter Olympic sports medals were won: in the men it was Jure Košir with the bronze medal in the slalom and the women were Alenka Dovžan the bronze medal in the combination and Katja Koren with the bronze medal in the slalom - 20th place for Slovenia

At the 1996 Summer Olympics , performance continued to rise: Andraž Vehovar (canoe, single kayak, slalom) and Brigita Bukovec (athletics, women, 100 meter hurdles) were the first Slovenian winners of a silver medal. That meant place 55.

2000 Summer Olympics : Slovenia's athletes achieved an Olympic victory for the first time. Iztok Čop and Luka Špik in rowing (men, double sculls) and Rajmond Debevec in shooting (men, small bore, three-position fight). Slovenia improved by 19 places to 36th place.

After participating without medals , Slovenia was able to win the bronze medal in the ski jumping team competition with Damjan Fras , Robert Kranjec , Primož Peterka and Peter Žonta at the 2002 Winter Olympics , which meant 23rd place.

2004 Summer Olympics : The number of medals fell again (one silver, three bronze), so Slovenia only achieved 63rd place - to date (as of 2018) the worst Slovenian placement. With 79 athletes, this was the largest Slovenian delegation to the Olympic Games.

Slovenia also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics , which again meant 23rd place.

Since 2008 Slovenia has achieved exactly one gold medal at every Summer Games, in 2008 there were two silver and two bronze medals; One silver and two bronze medals in 2012 and two silver and one bronze medal in 2016.

In 2014 it was Tina Maze who won a gold medal for Slovenia at the Winter Games for the first time (downhill and giant slalom). Slovenia provided 71 athletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics - the largest Slovenian delegation to the Winter Games.

Overview of the participations

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w					total	rank
1992	35	29	6th	Rajmond Debevec	-	-	2	2	52
1996	37	25th	12	Brigita Bukovec	-	2	-	2	55
2000	74	55	19th	Iztok Čop	2	-	-	2	36
2004	79	23	56	Beno Lapajne	-	1	3	4th	63
2008	62	41	21st	Urška Žolnir	1	2	2	5	41
2012	63	28	37	Peter Kauzner	1	1	2	4th	43
2016	60	36	24	Vasilij Žbogar	1	2	1	4th	45
total	410	237	175	7 participations	5	8th	10	23	59

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w					total	rank
1992	27	20th	7th	Franci Petek	-	-	-	-	-
1994	22nd	17th	5	Jure Košir	-	-	3	3	20th
1998	34	21st	13	Primož Peterka	-	-	-	-	-
2002	40	24	16	Dejan Košir	-	-	1	1	23
2006	37	24	13	Tadeja Brankovič	-	-	1	1	23
2010	47	39	8th	Tina Maze	-	2	1	3	21st
2014	66	50	16	Tomaž Razingar	2	2	4th	8th	16
2018	71	52	19th	Vesna Fabjan	-	1	1	2	24
total	72	43	29	8 participations	4th	2	4th	10	25th

Youth Summer Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w					total	rank
2010	24	12	12	Simon Brus	2	-	1	3	30th
2014	48	31	17th		2	2	3	7th	29
total	41	23	18th	2 participations	4th	4th	4th	12	27

Youth Winter Games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	Medals
	total	m	w					total	rank
2012	21st	11	10	Tim-Kevin Ravnjak	1	4th	2	7th	30th
2016	20th	12	8th		3	-	2	5	10
total	72	43	29	2 participations	4th	2	4th	10	12

See also

• List of Olympic medalists from Slovenia
• Category: Olympian (Slovenia)

Web links

Commons : Slovenia at Olympic Games  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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