Colombia at the Olympics

Colombia at the
Olympics

IOC code

COL

NOC

Colombian Olympic Committee

Website

www.coc.org.co (in Spanish)

Medals

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
5	9	14	28

Summer appearances

Winter appearances

2010
2014

Colombia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1932, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one edition of the Summer Olympic Games since then, missing only the 1952 Games. Colombia has only participated in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010.

Colombian athletes have won a total of 27 Olympic medals (five gold, eight silver and fourteen bronze) in eight different sports, with weightlifting and cycling as the most successful ones.

The Colombian Olympic Committee was created in 1936 and recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 1948.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Total		5	9	14	28	55
Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1932 Los Angeles	1	0	0	0	0	–
1936 Berlin	5	0	0	0	0	–
1948 London	5	0	0	0	0	–
1952 Helsinki	did not participate
1956 Melbourne	26	0	0	0	0	–
1960 Rome	16	0	0	0	0	–
1964 Tokyo	20	0	0	0	0	–
1968 Mexico City	44	0	0	0	0	–
1972 Munich	59	0	1	2	3	31
1976 Montreal	35	0	0	0	0	–
1980 Moscow	23	0	0	0	0	–
1984 Los Angeles	39	0	1	0	1	33
1988 Seoul	40	0	0	1	1	46
1992 Barcelona	49	0	0	1	1	54
1996 Atlanta	48	0	0	0	0	–
2000 Sydney	44	1	0	0	1	50
2004 Athens	53	0	0	2	2	68
2008 Beijing	67	0	2	1	3	63
2012 London	104	1	3	4	8	38
2016 Rio de Janeiro	147	3	2	3	8	23
2020 Tokyo	future event

Medals by Winter Games

Total		0	0	0	0	–
Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2010 Vancouver	1	0	0	0	0	–

Medals by sport

As of the 2016 Summer Olympics

Colombia's most successful Olympic performances have been in weightlifting and cycling, with 6 medals, 2 gold in each.

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Weightlifting	2	3	2	7	26
Cycling	2	1	3	6	18
Athletics	1	1	1	3	56
Shooting	0	2	0	2	49
Boxing	0	1	4	5	52
Judo	0	1	1	2	41
Wrestling	0	0	2	2	49
Taekwondo	0	0	1	1	33
Total	5	9	14	28

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
02 ! Silver	Bellingrodt, HelmutHelmut Bellingrodt	1972 Munich	Shooting	50 metre running target
03 ! Bronze	Rojas, ClementeClemente Rojas	1972 Munich	Boxing	Men's featherweight
03 ! Bronze	Pérez, AlfonsoAlfonso Pérez	1972 Munich	Boxing	Men's lightweight
02 ! Silver	Bellingrodt, HelmutHelmut Bellingrodt	1984 Los Angeles	Shooting	50 metre running target
03 ! Bronze	Julio, EliecerEliecer Julio	1988 Seoul	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
03 ! Bronze	Restrepo, XimenaXimena Restrepo	1992 Barcelona	Athletics	Women's 400 metres
01 ! Gold	Urrutia, María IsabelMaría Isabel Urrutia	2000 Sydney	Weightlifting	Women's 75 kg
03 ! Bronze	Calle, María LuisaMaría Luisa Calle	2004 Athens	Cycling	Women's points race
03 ! Bronze	Mosquera, MabelMabel Mosquera	2004 Athens	Weightlifting	Women's 53 kg
02 ! Silver	Salazar, DiegoDiego Salazar	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg
02 ! Silver	Solís, LeidyLeidy Solís	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting	Women's 69 kg
03 ! Bronze	Rentería, JackelineJackeline Rentería	2008 Beijing	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 55 kg
01 ! Gold	Pajón, MarianaMariana Pajón	2012 London	Cycling	Women's BMX
02 ! Silver	Ibargüen, CaterineCaterine Ibargüen	2012 London	Athletics	Women's triple jump
02 ! Silver	Urán, RigobertoRigoberto Urán	2012 London	Cycling	Men's road race
02 ! Silver	Figueroa, ÓscarÓscar Figueroa	2012 London	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg
03 ! Bronze	Oquendo, CarlosCarlos Oquendo	2012 London	Cycling	Men's BMX
03 ! Bronze	Alvear, YuriYuri Alvear	2012 London	Judo	Women's 70 kg
03 ! Bronze	Oviedo, Óscar MuñozÓscar Muñoz Oviedo	2012 London	Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
03 ! Bronze	Rentería, JackelineJackeline Rentería	2012 London	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 55 kg
01 ! Gold	Ibargüen, CaterineCaterine Ibargüen	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics	Women's triple jump
01 ! Gold	Pajón, MarianaMariana Pajón	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Cycling	Women's BMX
01 ! Gold	Figueroa, ÓscarÓscar Figueroa	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting	Men's 62 kg
02 ! Silver	Martínez, YuberjénYuberjén Martínez	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Boxing	Men's light flyweight
02 ! Silver	Alvear, YuriYuri Alvear	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Judo	Women's 70 kg
03 ! Bronze	Valencia, IngritIngrit Valencia	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Boxing	Women's flyweight
03 ! Bronze	Ramirez, Carlos AlbertoCarlos Alberto Ramirez	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Cycling	Men's BMX
03 ! Bronze	Mosquera, Luis JavierLuis Javier Mosquera	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg

Multiple medalists

Athlete	Sport	Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Mariana Pajón	Cycling	2012, 2016	2	0	0	2
Caterine Ibargüen	Athletics	2012, 2016	1	1	0	2
Óscar Figueroa	Weightlifting	2012, 2016	1	1	0	2
Helmut Bellingrodt	Shooting	1972, 1984	0	2	0	2
Yuri Alvear	Judo	2012, 2016	0	1	1	2
Jackeline Rentería	Wrestling	2008, 2012	0	0	2	2

External links

"Colombia". International Olympic Committee.
"Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
"Colombia". Sports-Reference.com.

Nations that have competed at the Olympic Games
Participated at the Summer Olympic Games • Participated at the Winter Olympic Games • Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo DR Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Summer Winter Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand East Timor Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Summer Winter Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel¹ Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Winter Cook Islands Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Other	Independent Olympians Refugee Olympic Team
Historical	Australasia Bohemia British West Indies Republic of China Czechoslovakia East Germany Mixed teams Netherlands Antilles North Borneo North Yemen Rhodesia Russian Empire Saar Serbia and Montenegro South Yemen Soviet Union Unified Team United Team of Germany West Germany Yugoslavia
¹ Israel has been a member of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) since 1994.

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