Olympic history of Spain

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Spain first took part in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris . The second participation took place in Antwerp in 1920 . The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were boycotted by the republican government , and the country was in a civil war . The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne were also boycotted due to the bloody suppression of the Hungarian popular uprising by the Soviet Union's troops just a few weeks earlier, although Spain had already taken part in the equestrian competitions in Stockholm in June of the same year .

Spain's first participation in the Winter Olympics took place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 . Since then, the country has always been represented.

The Comité Olímpico Español (COE, Spanish Olympic Committee ) was founded in 1924 and was admitted to the International Olympic Committee in the same year .

Host

Spain has hosted games once so far. Barcelona's candidacy for the 1992 Summer Games prevailed over competitors Paris , Amsterdam , Belgrade , Birmingham and Brisbane .

Successful applications

• Barcelona 1992 (summer)

Failed applications

• Barcelona 1924 (summer)
• Barcelona 1936 (summer)
• Barcelona 1940 (summer)
• Madrid 1972 (summer)
• Granada 1976 (winter)
• Jaca 1998 (winter)
• Jaca 2002 (winter)
• Seville 2004 (summer)
• Seville 2008 (summer)
• Jaca 2010 (winter)
• Madrid 2012 (summer)
• Jaca 2014 (winter)
• Madrid 2016 (summer)
• Madrid 2020 (summer)

Medals balances

Olympic Summer Games

In a total of 22 summer games, Spanish athletes have so far won 150 medals; 45 times gold, 64 times silver and 41 times bronze. The first medal recognized by the International Olympic Committee went to Francisco Villota and José de Amézola , who won gold in pelota doubles in 1900 . However, the Spanish Olympic Committee continues to lead Pedro Pidal , Marqués de Villaviciosa with silver in the pigeon shooting as the first Spanish medalist, based on data from the Spanish Olympic Academy. This different point of view is due to the fact that these games took place as part of the Paris World Exhibition , which led to problems in later processing the events and their classification in Olympic history. Statistically, these games have an official perspective, that of the IOC, and a perspective expanded by historical facts, which has led to numerous divergent publications, especially when it comes to the counting of participants, nations and medals.

year	city	space				total	Athletes
1896	Athens	not participated
1900	Paris	14th	1	0	0	1	9
1904	St. Louis	not participated
1908	London	not participated
1912	Stockholm	not participated
1916	Berlin	not participated
1920	Antwerp	17th	0	2	0	2	58
1924	Paris	-	0	0	0	0	95
1928	Amsterdam	24.	1	0	0	1	80
1932	los Angeles	26th	0	0	1	1	6th
1936	Berlin	not participated
1948	London	28.	0	1	0	1	65
1952	Helsinki	34.	0	1	0	1	27
1956	Melbourne	equestrian only (Stockholm)				0	6th
1960	Rome	41.	0	0	1	1	144
1964	Tokyo	-	0	0	0	0	51
1968	Mexico city	-	0	0	0	0	122
1972	Munich	43.	0	0	1	1	123
1976	Montreal	30th	0	2	0	2	113
1980	Moscow	20th	1	3	2	6th	155
1984	los Angeles	20th	1	2	2	5	178
1988	Seoul	25th	1	1	2	4th	229
1992	Barcelona	6th	13	7th	2	22nd	422
1996	Atlanta	13.	5	6th	6th	17th	289
2000	Sydney	25th	3	3	5	11	321
2004	Athens	20th	3	11	6th	20th	316
2008	Beijing	14th	5	11	3	19th	287
2012	London	21st	4th	10	4th	18th	278
2016	Rio de Janeiro	14th	7th	4th	6th	17th	306
total		25th	45	64	41	150

winter Olympics

In a total of 17 participations in winter games, Spanish athletes have so far won two medals; 1972 in Sapporo took Francisco Fernandez Ochoa gold in slalom , his younger sister Blanca Fernandez Ochoa won in 1992 in Albertville also in the slalom bronze medal. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , German- born cross-country skier Johann Mühlegg won three gold medals for Spain. However, these were subsequently revoked for taking the doping agent darbepoetin α . In 2018 snowboard crosser Regino Hernández took bronze.

year	city	space				total	Athletes
1924	Chamonix	not participated
1928	St. Moritz	not participated
1932	Lake Placid	not participated
1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	-	0	0	0	0	6th
1948	St. Moritz	-	0	0	0	0	6th
1952	Oslo	-	0	0	0	0	4th
1956	Cortina d'Ampezzo	-	0	0	0	0	9
1960	Squaw Valley	-	0	0	0	0	4th
1964	innsbruck	-	0	0	0	0	6th
1968	Grenoble	-	0	0	0	0	19th
1972	Sapporo	13.	1	0	0	1	3
1976	innsbruck	-	0	0	0	0	4th
1980	Lake Placid	-	0	0	0	0	8th
1984	Sarajevo	-	0	0	0	0	12
1988	Calgary	-	0	0	0	0	12
1992	Albertville	19th	0	0	1	1	17th
1994	Lillehammer	-	0	0	0	0	13
1998	Nagano	-	0	0	0	0	12
2002	Salt Lake City	-	0	0	0	0	7th
2006	Turin	-	0	0	0	0	16
2010	Vancouver	-	0	0	0	0	18th
2014	Sochi	-	0	0	0	0	20th
2018	Pyeongchang	-	0	0	2	2	13
total		27.	1	0	3	2

Medals by sport

The sport of sailing brought the greatest successes of Spanish athletes at the Olympics, with 13 gold, five silver and one bronze medal so far. In cycling Spanish athletes were a total of fourteen times, in Canoeing and Athletics twelve times and Tennis eleven times on the podium.

sport				total
sailing	13	5	1	19th
Cycling	5	5	4th	14th
Judo	3	1	2	6th
Canoeing	2	7th	3	12
athletics	2	4th	6th	12
do gymnastics	2	1	1	4th
tennis	1	7th	3	11
hockey	1	3	1	5
Taekwondo	1	3	0	4th
Swimming	1	2	3	6th
Equestrian sport	1	2	1	4th
Soccer	1	2	0	3
Water polo	1	2	0	3
Rhythmic gymnastics	1	1	0	2
Alpine skiing	1	0	1	2
Archery	1	0	0	1
Pelota	1	0	0	1
Synchronized swimming	0	3	1	4th
basketball	0	3	0	3
Boxing	0	2	2	4th
Sport shooting	0	2	1	3
polo	0	1	0	1
volleyball	0	1	0	1
Triathlon	0	1	0	1
rowing	0	1	0	1
Weightlifting	0	1	0	1
Handball	0	0	4th	4th
fencing	0	0	1	1
Wrestling	0	0	1	1
figure skating	0	0	1	1
Snowboard	0	0	1	1

Medalist

See: List of Olympic medalists from Spain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results in pigeon shooting in 1900 (PDF; 82 kB) from www.coe.es

Web links

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