Olympic history of Mauritius
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Mauritius , whose NOK , the Mauritius Olympic Committee , was founded in 1971, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1984. No athlete has yet been sent to the Winter Games.
Overview
Four track and field athletes made up the Mauritius Olympic team when it first participated in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . The first Olympian in his country was sprinter Daniel André on August 3, 1984 in the 100-meter run. A week later, on August 10, 1984, Christine Béchard, the discus thrower, was the first woman in the island state to take part.
At the following Olympic Games, athletes from Mauritius took part in various sports. Sun took in 1988 in Seoul some tennis players, wrestlers, boxers and weightlifters. Badminton players, sailors and swimmers followed in Barcelona in 1992 , and judoka in Atlanta in 1996 . Archers took part for the first time in Sydney in 2000 and cyclists in Beijing in 2008 . The last to join in 2012 were beach volleyball players and triathletes in London .
Successful participants were the sprinter Stéphan Buckland , who reached the final of the 200-meter run in Athens in 2004 and came in sixth. Boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze bantamweight medal in Beijing on August 22, 2008, making him the first and so far only medalist for Mauritius.
Overview of the participants
Summer games
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| 1896-1980 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | 4th | 3 | 1 | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 8th | 6th | 2 | Navind Ramsaran | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1992 | 13 | 6th | 7th | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6th | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 26th | 21st | 5 | Khemraj Naïko | 12 | 3 | 2 | 4th | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | 20th | 16 | 4th | Michael Macaque | 6th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2004 | 9 | 6th | 3 | Michael Medor | 4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | 11 | 6th | 5 | Stéphan Buckland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 80 | ||||||||
| 2012 | 11 | 4th | 7th | Natacha Rigobert | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 11 | 5 | 6th | Kate Foo Kune | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 141 | |||||||||||||||||
Winter games
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Medalist
Gold medals
So far (as of 2017) no medal winners
Silver medals
So far (as of 2017) no medal winners
Bronze medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Bruno Julie | 2008 Beijing | Boxing | Bantamweight |
Medals by sport
| sport | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| Boxing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Web links
- Mauritius in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Mauritius on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
