Olympic history of Serbia and Montenegro

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The state union of Serbia and Montenegro was represented at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics from 2004 to 2006 .

The National Olympic Committee was the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro . It was founded in 2003 and officially recognized by the IOC; In 2006 it was dissolved.

Before 2004, athletes from Serbia and Montenegro took part under the flag of Yugoslavia. At this time, see the article Olympic History of Yugoslavia .

history

Participation of Yugoslavia and the successor states in the Olympic Games

Years	Teams
	Croatia	Slovenia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	North Macedonia	Serbia	Kosovo	Montenegro
1912	Empire of Austria			Ottoman Empire	Serbia	Ottoman Empire	no participation
1920-1988	Yugoslavia
1992 W	Croatia	Slovenia	Yugoslavia
1992 p			Bosnia and Herzegovina	Independent Olympian
1994				no participation	Prohibition of participation by the UN
1996-2002				North Macedonia	BR Yugoslavia
2004-2006					Serbia and Montenegro
2008-2014					Serbia		Montenegro
2016–					Serbia	Kosovo

Serbia and Montenegro as well as the autonomous province of Kosovo belonged to Yugoslavia for a long time . Athletes from these republics therefore took part in the Olympic Games for Yugoslavia. The state fell apart in the early 1990s: Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia became independent.

Yugoslavia was allowed to take part in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , but then fell under the sanctions of the United Nations . As a result, Yugoslavia was excluded from the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . In the former games, however, individual athletes were allowed to compete as independent Olympic participants .

From the 1996 Summer Olympics onwards, the country was allowed to run under its flag again, now as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . In 2003 this was converted into the new nation Serbia and Montenegro, under this name the nation competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . Montenegro gained independence through a referendum in 2006 . Since then, Montenegro and Serbia have competed in the Olympic Games as independent states. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Kosovo also competed as a separate nation for the first time, although the independence from Serbia, declared in 2008, was not recognized everywhere .

Overview of the participations (from 1996)

Summer games

year	Athletes	Flag bearer	Medals
						total	rank
1996	68	Igor Milanović	1	1	2	4th	41
2000	109	Vladimir Grbić	1	1	1	3	44
2004	87	Dejan Bodiroga	0	2	0	2	61

Winter games

year	Athletes	Flag bearer	Medals
						total	rank
1998	2	Marko Đorđević	-	-	-	-	-
2002	6th	Jelena Lolović	-	-	-	-	-
2006	7th	Jelena Lolović	-	-	-	-	-

See also

• List of Olympic medalists from Serbia and Montenegro
• Category: Olympians (Serbia and Montenegro)

Web links

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