Fiji at the Olympics

Fiji at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  FIJ
NOC Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee
Websitewww.fijiolympiccommittee.com
Olympic history
Summer Games
Winter Games

Fiji, having made its Olympic début at the 1956 Summer Games, has competed at twelve Summer Games and three Winter Games. Its athletes have taken part in athletics, judo, shooting, swimming and weightlifting, but have never won a medal.[1]

As of August 2011, two athletes from Fiji have taken part in Olympic Games through reaching the required standards to qualify, rather than by receiving a wild card invitation. They are Makelesi Bulikiobo, who qualified for the women's 400 metre sprint at the 2008 Games in Beijing, and Leslie Copeland, who with a throw of 80.45 metres qualified for the men's javelin event at the 2012 Games in London.[2]

Fiji's Winter Olympians were Rusiate Rogoyawa in cross-country skiing (1988, 1994) and Laurence Thoms in alpine skiing (2002).

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1956 Melbourne 5 0 0 0 0 –
1960 Rome 2 0 0 0 0 –
1964 Tokyo did not participate
1968 Mexico City 1 0 0 0 0 –
1972 Munich 2 0 0 0 0 –
1976 Montreal 2 0 0 0 0 –
1980 Moscow did not participate
1984 Los Angeles 15 0 0 0 0 –
1988 Seoul 24 0 0 0 0 –
1992 Barcelona 19 0 0 0 0 –
1996 Atlanta 17 0 0 0 0 –
2000 Sydney 7 0 0 0 0 –
2004 Athens 10 0 0 0 0 –
2008 Beijing 6 0 0 0 0 –
2012 London 9 0 0 0 0 –
Total 0 0 0 0 –

Medals by Winter Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1988 Calgary 1 0 0 0 0 –
1992 Albertville did not participate
1994 Lillehammer 1 0 0 0 0 –
1998 Nagano did not participate
2002 Salt Lake City 1 0 0 0 0 –
2006 Turin did not participate
2010 Vancouver
Total 0 0 0 0 –

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ Fiji at the Olympics, The Telegraph
  2. ↑ "The London dream", Fiji Times, 22 August 2011