Pakistan at the Olympics

Pakistan first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948 in London, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Soviet Union.

Pakistan at the Olympics
IOC code	PAK
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Pakistan
Website	nocpakistan.org
Medals	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 4 Total 10
Olympics appearances (overview)
20
Summer appearances
1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winter appearances
2010 2014 2018 2022

Pakistan's first ever participation in the Winter Olympic Games was at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics when Mohammad Abbas became Pakistan's first athlete to qualify in the Alpine Skiing (Giant Slalom) category.

Pakistani athletes have won a total of ten medals, all in the Summer Olympics with eight of those from men's field hockey. In 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, Pakistan's Syed Hadi Haider Naqvi did pick up a bronze medal in the demonstration sport of Tae-Kwon-Do, but as the sport was not given full status, the medal was not recognized in the official tally.

The National Olympic Committee for Pakistan was created in 1948. Rome 1960 has been the most successful Olympics for Pakistan so far, with Pakistan winning two medals: a gold medal in field hockey and a bronze medal in wrestling.

Pakistan has won two individual medals in the Olympics to date, both bronze medals: one in wrestling in Rome 1960 and one in boxing in Seoul 1988.

Pakistan has not won a single medal at the Olympic games since 1992 Barcelona.

Participation & Medal tables

Summer Olympics

Games	Athletes	Athletes by sport											Medals			Total	Rank
1900–1936	as part of  India
1948 London	39[1]	5	3	2	19				4	2	4		-	-	-	0[1]	–
1952 Helsinki	44[2]	16[2]	4	2	18			1	2	1	1		-	-	-	0[2]	–
1956 Melbourne	62[3]	19[3]	6	4	18[3]			2	3	3	6		-	1[3]	-	1[3]	31
1960 Rome	49[4]	12[4]	4	2	18			4		2	7		1[4]	-	1[4]	2[4]	20
1964 Tokyo	41	6	4[5]	4[5]	18			5		1[5]	6		-	1[5]	-	1[5]	30
1968 Mexico City	20[6]				18[6]						2[6]		1[6]	-	-	1[6]	29
1972 Munich	25	5	2[7]		18					1[7]	2[7]		-	1[7]	-	1[7]	33
1976 Montreal	24	2[8]	2		16					2	2		-	-	1[8]	1[8]	37
1980 Moscow	did not participate
1984 Los Angeles	29	3[9]	4[9]		16	6[9]					2[9]		1[9]	-	-	1[9]	25
1988 Seoul	31	7	2[10]		16	2[10]	1[10]				3[10]		-	-	1[10]	1[10]	46
1992 Barcelona	27	4	4		16	2[11]					1[11]		-	-	1[11]	1[11]	54
1996 Atlanta	24[12]	2[12]	4[12]		16[12]				1[12]		1[12]		-	-	-	0[12]	-
2000 Sydney	27[13]	2[13]	4[13]		16[13]	3[13]		1[13]	1[13]				-	-	-	0[13]	-
2004 Athens	26[14]	2[14]	5[14]		16[14]			1[14]	2[14]				-	-	-	0[14]	-
2008 Beijing	21	2			16			1	2				-	-	-	0	-
2012 London	21	2			16			1	2				-	-	-	0	-
2016 Rio de Janeiro	7[15]	2[15]						2[15]	2[15]			1[15]	-	-	-	0	-
2020 Tokyo	future event
2024 Paris
2028 Los Angeles
Total													3	3	4	10

Winter Olympics

Games	Athletes	Athletes by sport		Medals			Total	Rank
1924–2006	did not participate
2010 Vancouver	1	1	0	-	-	-	0	–
2014 Sochi	1	1	0	-	-	-	0	–
2018 Pyeongchang	2[16]	1[16]	1[16]	-	-	-	0	–
2022 Beijing	future event
2026 Milan–Cortina	future event
Total				0	0	0	0

Medals by sport

Medals by sport
Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Field hockey	3	3	2	8	6
Wrestling	0	0	1	1	53
Boxing	0	0	1	1	67
Total	3	3	4	10	70[17]

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Silver	Men's field hockey team Abdul Rashid Akhtar Hussain Munir Dar Ghulam Rasul Anwar Khan Habib Ali Kiddie Latif-ur-Rehman Manzoor Hussain Atif Motiullah Naseer Bunda Noor Alam Khursheed Aslam Abdul Waheed Mushtaq Ahmad Zakir Hussain	1956 Melbourne	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Gold	Men's field hockey team Abdul Hamid Rashid Abdul Abdul Waheed Bashir Ahmad Ghulam Rasul Anwar Khan Khursheed Aslam Habib Ali Kiddie Manzoor Hussain Atif Mushtaq Ahmad Motiullah Naseer Bunda Noor Alam Munir Dar	1960 Rome	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Bronze	Mohammad Bashir	1960 Rome	Wrestling	Men's freestyle welterweight
Silver	Men's field hockey team Abdul Hamid Muhammad Asad Malik Munir Dar Mahmood Khalid Anwar Khan Nawaz Khizar Khurshid Azam Muhammad Manna Manzoor Hussain Atif Mohammed Rashid Motiullah Tariq Niazi Saeed Anwar Aziz Tariq Hayat Zafar Uddin Zaka	1964 Tokyo	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Gold	Men's field hockey team Abdul Rasheed Jahangir Butt Tanvir Dar Gulraiz Akhtar Khalid Mahmood Muhammad Asad Malik Ashfaq Ahmed Tariq Niazi Riaz Ahmad Riazuddin Saeed Anwar Tariq Aziz Zakir Hussain	1968 Mexico City	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Silver	Men's field hockey team Rashid Abdul Akhtar Rasool Ul Akhtar Jahangir Butt Ur Fazal Islahuddin Siddique Muhammad Asad Malik Shahnaz Sheikh Munawwaruz Zaman Ahmad Riaz Saeed Anwar Saleem Sherwani Iftikar Syed Mudassar Syed Zahid Sheikh	1972 Munich	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Bronze	Men's field hockey team Rashid Abdul Akhtar Rasool Mahmood Arshad Arshad Chaudhry Khan Haneef Islahuddin Siddique Samiullah Khan Hassan Manzoor Manzoor Hussain Munawwaruz Zaman Zia Qamar Nazim Salim Shahnaz Sheikh Saleem Sherwani Iftikar Syed Mudassar Syed	1976 Montreal	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Gold	Men's field hockey team Syed Ghulam Moinuddin Qasim Zia Nasir Ali Abdul Rashid Al-Hasan Ayaz Mahmood Naeem Akhtar Kalimullah Khan Manzoor Hussain Hassan Sardar Hanif Khan Khalid Hamid Shahid Ali Khan Tauqeer Dar Ishtiaq Ahmed Saleem Sherwani Mushtaq Ahmad	1984 Los Angeles	Field hockey	Men's tournament
Bronze	Hussain Shah	1988 Seoul	Boxing	Men's middleweight
Bronze	Men's field hockey team Saeed Anjum Hasan Farhat Khalid Bashir Muhammad Khawaja Mansoor Ahmed Asif Bajwa Ikhlaq Muhammad Mohammad Khalid Sr Qamar Muhammad Hussain Musaddaq Rana Mujahid Shahbaz Ahmed Muhammad Shahbaz Shahid Ali Khan Tahir Zaman Wasim Feroz	1992 Barcelona	Field hockey	Men's tournament

Pakistan Field Hockey team at the Olympics

Games	Ranking
1948 London	4th (semi-final)
1952 Helsinki	4th (semi-final)
1956 Melbourne	Silver
1960 Rome	Gold
1964 Tokyo	Silver
1968 Mexico City	Gold
1972 Munich	Silver
1976 Montreal	Bronze
1980 Moscow	US-led boycott
1984 Los Angeles	Gold
1988 Seoul	5th
1992 Barcelona	Bronze
1996 Atlanta	6th
2000 Sydney	4th (semi-final)
2004 Athens	5th
2008 Beijing	8th
2012 London	7th
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Did not qualify
2020 Tokyo	Did not qualify

Milestones

• First medal : 1956 Melbourne,  Silver, National field hockey team
• First gold medal : 1960 Rome, National field hockey team
• First individual medal : 1960 Rome,  Bronze, Mohammad Bashir, Wrestling
• Most medals :
  • Munir Dar, 1956–64 (3) National field hockey team
  • Anwar Khan, 1956–64 (3) National field hockey team
  • Motiullah, 1956–64 (3) National field hockey team
  • Saeed Anwar, 1964–72 (3) National field hockey team

Best Performances (Athletics)

• 1952 Helsinki : Men's 4 x 100 metres relay (Semi-final) Muhammad Aslam, Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Shariff Butt, Muhammad Fazil
• 1956 Melbourne : Men's 100 metres: Abdul Khaliq (Semi-final) – 4th in Semifinal heat
• 1956 Melbourne : Men's 200 metres: Abdul Khaliq (Semi-final) – 4th in Semifinal heat – Stands in top seven athletes Fastest overall qualifying time in First and second Rounds heats in 1956
• 1956 Melbourne : Men's 110 metres hurdles: Ghulam Raziq (Semi-final)
• 1956 Melbourne : Men's 4 x 100 metres relay Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Sharif Butt, Abdul Khaliq, Ghulam Raziq (Semi-final)
• 1960 Rome : Men's 110 metres hurdles: Ghulam Raziq (Semi-final) – 4th in Semifinal heat
• 1960 Rome : Men's 4 x 100 metres relay (Semi-final) Abdul Malik, Muhammad Ramzan Ali, Ghulam Raziq, Abdul Khaliq
• 1988 Seoul : Men's 4 × 400 metres relay (Semi-final) Bashir Ahmed, Mohammad Sadaqat, Mohammad Afzal, Muhammad Fayyaz

Medal drought 1996 onwards

Pakistan has not won a medal in the last 6 Olympics up to and including 2016 Rio de Janeiro, leading to a medal drought of 24 years. In each of the following Olympics, Pakistan was the most populated nation to not win at least one medal.

• 1996 Atlanta
• 2000 Sydney
• 2004 Athens
• 2008 Beijing
• 2012 London
• 2016 Rio de Janeiro

See also

• List of flag bearers for Pakistan at the Olympics
• Olympic competitors for Pakistan
• Pakistan at the Asian Games
• Pakistan at the Commonwealth Games
• Pakistan at the Paralympics

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External links

• "Pakistan". International Olympic Committee.
• "Pakistan". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/PAK". olympanalyt.com.