Olympic history of Vanuatu
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Vanuatu , whose NOK , the Vanuatu National Olympic Committee , was founded in 1987, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1988. So far, no athlete Vanuatus has participated in the Winter Games. Young athletes have been sent to both of the youth summer games held so far.
The athletes from the Pacific Islands have not yet won medals.
General overview
Olympic games
Vanuatu's first Olympic team consisted of athletes and a boxer in Seoul in 1988. In the following summer games, Vanuatu athletes took part in archery (from 2000), table tennis (from 2008), judo (from 2012) and rowing (from 2016).
Boxer James Iahuat was the island nation's first Olympian on September 19, 1988. Five days later, the sprinter Olivette Daruhi, Vanuatu's first woman, took part in the Olympic Games.
Youth Olympic Games
Vanuatu took part in the 2010 Summer Youth Games in Singapore with 22 teenagers . 18 boys and four girls competed in soccer and basketball.
In 2014 in Nanjing , 21 teenage athletes, 19 boys and two girls, took part. They competed in soccer, beach volleyball and athletics.
Overview of the participations
Summer games
year | Athletes | Flag bearer | sports | Medals | |||||||||||
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total | m | w | total | rank | |||||||||||
1896-1984 | not participated | ||||||||||||||
1988 | 4th | 3 | 1 | Olivette Daruhi | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
1992 | 6th | 4th | 2 | Baptiste Firiam | 6th | ||||||||||
1996 | 4th | 3 | 1 | Tawai Keiruan | 4th | ||||||||||
2000 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Mary Estelle Kapalu | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
2004 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Moses Kamut | 2 | ||||||||||
2008 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Priscila Tommy | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
2012 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Anolyn Lulu | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
2016 | 4th | 4th | 0 | Yoshua Shing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Winter games
year | Athletes | Flag bearer | sports | Medals | ||||||
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total | m | w | total | rank | ||||||
1924-2018 | not participated | |||||||||
total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Youth Summer Games
year | Athletes | Flag bearer | sports | Medals | |||||||||
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total | m | w | total | rank | |||||||||
2010 | 22nd | 18th | 4th | Seiloni Iaruel | 18th | 4th | |||||||
2014 | 21st | 19th | 2 | 18th | 2 | 1 | |||||||
total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Youth Winter Games
year | Athletes | Flag bearer | sports | Medals | ||||||
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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
- Vanuatu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Vanuatu on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Website of the NOK Vanuatus (engl.)