Iraq at the Olympics

Iraq first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948. Iraqis missed the 1952 and boycotted the 1956 games over opposition to the Suez Crisis. Following this absence, Iraq returned to win a Bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. They participated in the next three games but once again did not appear in the 1972 and 1976 games to boycott apartheid South Africa. In joining the 1976 Boycott, Iraq became only the second non-African state to participate in the boycott (the other being Guyana). Since 1980, Iraq has appeared in every game despite the Iraq Wars. On April 9, 2003, the National Olympic Committee of Iraq building in Baghdad was damaged in looting and fires from looters. Iraq's Olympic program recovered in time to compete in the Athens Olympics the following year, and the Iraq football team almost won a bronze medal but were defeated by Italy in the bronze medal match. Iraq has never competed at the Winter Olympic Games.

Iraq at the Olympics
IOC code	IRQ
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Iraq
Website	www.nociraq.iq (in Arabic and English)
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer appearances
1948 1952–1956 1960 1964 1968 1972–1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

Iraq has only won one medal since they have entered the games. They won a bronze medal, in weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

They have been represented by National Olympic Committee of Iraq since entering.

Medal tables

Medals by Games

Games	Athletes	Athletes by sport																	Total	Rank
1948 London	12	-	2	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0	-
1952 Helsinki		Did not participate
1956 Melbourne
1960 Rome	21	-	11	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	1	0	0	1	1	41
1964 Tokyo	13	-	4	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	0	0	0	0	-
1968 Mexico City	3	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	0	0	0	0	-
1972 Munich		Did not participate
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow	43	-	6	-	7	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	9	0	0	0	0	-
1984 Los Angeles	23	-	-	-	3	-	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	0	0	0	0	-
1988 Seoul	27	-	2	-	3	-	16	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	5	0	0	0	0	-
1992 Barcelona	8	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	5	-	0	0	0	0	-
1996 Atlanta	3	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	0	0	0	0	-
2000 Sydney	4	-	2	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0	-
2004 Athens	24	-	2	-	1	-	17	1	-	-	1	-	1	1	-	0	0	0	0	-
2008 Beijing	4	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0	-
2012 London	8	1	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	1	0	0	0	0	-
2016 Rio de Janeiro	24				1		18	1	1	1				2		0	0	0	0	-
2020 Tokyo	future event
2024 Paris
2028 Los Angeles
Total																0	0	1	1	141

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Weightlifting	0	0	1	1
Totals (1 sports)	0	0	1	1

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Abdul Wahid Aziz	1960 Rome	Weightlifting	Men's Lightweight

See also

• Abdul-Wahid Aziz
• Iraq at the Paralympics
• List of flag bearers for Iraq at the Olympics

External links

• "Iraq". International Olympic Committee.
• "Iraq". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/IRQ". olympanalyt.com.
• Official Olympic Reports