Luxembourg at the Olympics

Luxembourg at the Olympic Games
Flag of Luxembourg IOC code  LUX NOC Luxembourgian Olympic and Sporting Committee Website www.cosl.lu (French)
Olympic history
Summer Games
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter Games
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948–1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

Athletes from Luxembourg have competed at 28 editions of the modern Olympic Games. Luxembourg's National Olympic Committee, the Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois, was founded in 1912 and sent its first team to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Only two athletes won medals competing for Luxembourg in the Summer Olympics: weightlifter Joseph Alzin, silver in 1920, and runner Josy Barthel, gold in 1952. In the late 20th-century, it was discovered that runner Michel Théato was actually Luxembourgish. Théato competed for France at the 1900 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the men's marathon. The medal is still credited to France by the IOC.^[1]

Luxembourg first competed at the Winter Olympic Games in 1928, and has taken part in a total of seven Winter Games. Thus, despite having been one of the earliest countries to take part, Luxembourg has competed in relatively few of the Games. In the seven Games, Luxembourg has won a total of two medals: both silver, and won by Marc Girardelli in 1992.

After Luxembourg's first appearance, in St. Moritz, and the country's second appearance, at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Luxembourg did not compete at the Olympics for another five decades. As a low-lying country, whose highest peak (the Kneiff) lies only 560 metres (1,837 ft) above sea level, Luxembourg had little pedigree in most Winter Olympic sports.

However, the naturalisation of Marc Girardelli, an Austrian-born alpine skier, saw Luxembourg return to the Games in 1988. In the following Winter Olympics, in 1992 in Albertville, Girardelli won Luxembourg's first two Winter Olympic medals, scooping silver in both the Giant Slalom and Super G.

Neither Girardelli, nor Luxembourg, has won another Winter medal since 1992, but the country's return to the Winter world stage has been maintained by the appearance of two ice skaters in subsequent Games: Patrick Schmit in 1998 and Fleur Maxwell in 2006.

Luxembourg qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics two athletes but did not participate because one did not reach the criteria set by the NOC and the other was injured before the Games.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1900 Paris 1[1] 0 0 0 0 – 1904 St. Louis did not participate 1908 London 1912 Stockholm 21 0 0 0 0 – 1920 Antwerp 26 0 1 0 1 19 1924 Paris 51 0 0 0 0 – 1928 Amsterdam 49 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Los Angeles did not participate 1936 Berlin 49 0 0 0 0 – 1948 London 47 0 0 0 0 – 1952 Helsinki 44 1 0 0 1 27 1956 Melbourne 11 0 0 0 0 – 1960 Rome 52 0 0 0 0 – 1964 Tokyo 12 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Mexico City 5 0 0 0 0 – 1972 Munich 11 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Montreal 8 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Moscow 3 0 0 0 0 – 1984 Los Angeles 5 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Seoul 8 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Barcelona 6 0 0 0 0 – 1996 Atlanta 6 0 0 0 0 – 2000 Sydney 4 0 0 0 0 – 2004 Athens 10 0 0 0 0 – 2008 Beijing 12 0 0 0 0 – 2012 London 9 0 0 0 0 – 2016 Rio de Janeiro 2020 Tokyo Total 1 1 0 2 91

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1928 St. Moritz 5 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Lake Placid did not participate 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 4 0 0 0 0 – 1948–1984 did not participate 1988 Calgary 1 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Albertville 1 0 2 0 2 16 1994 Lillehammer 1 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 1 0 0 0 0 – 2002 Salt Lake City did not participate 2006 Turin 2 0 0 0 0 – 2010 Vancouver did not participate 2014 Sochi 1 0 0 0 0 – 2018 Pyeongchang Total 0 2 0 2 41

Medals by summer sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Athletics 1 0 0 1 Weightlifting 0 1 0 1 Total 1 1 0 2

Medals by winter sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Alpine skiing 0 2 0 2 Total 0 2 0 2

See also

• List of flag bearers for Luxembourg at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Luxembourg
• Luxembourg at the Paralympics

References

1. 60th anniversary for only Luxembourg Olympic gold medal win

External links

• "Luxembourg". International Olympic Committee.
• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
• "Luxembourg". Sports-Reference.com.
• Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois (French)