Montenegro at the Olympics

Montenegro at the Olympic Games

Flag of Montenegro
IOC code  MNE
NOC Montenegrin Olympic Committee
Websitewww.cokcg.org (Montenegrin) (English)
Olympic history
Summer Games
Winter Games
Other related appearances
Yugoslavia (1920–1992W)
Independent Olympic Participants (1992S)
Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006)

Montenegro participated at the Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation in 2008, at the Beijing Games. Previously, Montenegrin athletes have competed as part of Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 and as part of Yugoslavia before that.

The National Olympic Committee for Montenegro is the Montenegrin Olympic Committee. It was created in 2006 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 2007.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1920–1988 as part of  Yugoslavia (YUG)
Spain 1992 Barcelona as part of the  Independent Olympic Participants (IOP)
1996–2004 as part of  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
China 2008 Beijing 19 0 0 0 0
United Kingdom 2012 London 34 0 1 0 1 69
Brazil 2016 Rio de Janeiro
Japan 2020 Tokyo
Total 0 1 0 1 124

Medals by Winter Games

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1924–1992 as part of  Yugoslavia (YUG)
1994–2006 as part of  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
Canada 2010 Vancouver 1 0 0 0 0
Russia 2014 Sochi 2 0 0 0 0
South Korea 2018 Pyeongchang
Total 0 0 0 0

Medals by summer sport

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Handball 0 1 0 1
Total 0 1 0 1

List of medalists

Before the 2012 Olympic Games Montenegrin athletes had won medals on 22 occasions in five different sports as part of teams representing Yugoslavia or Serbia and Montenegro, but none yet as individual competitors. On August 11, 2012, Montenegro won its first ever Olympic medal as an independent country, taking silver in women's handball.

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Silver women's national handball team, MontenegroMontenegro women's national handball team
Sonja Barjaktarović Radmila Miljanić
Anđela Bulatović Bojana Popović
Katarina Bulatović Jovanka Radičević
Ana Đokić Ana Radović
Marija Jovanović Maja Savić
Milena Knežević Jasna Tošković
Suzana Lazović Marina Vukčević
Majda Mehmedović
United Kingdom 2012 London Handball Women's tournament

Basketball

Medal Games Team Names
 Silver Canada 1976 Montreal Men Žarko Varajić, Rajko Žižić
 Gold Soviet Union 1980 Moscow Men Ratko Radovanović, Rajko Žižić
 Bronze United States 1984 Los Angeles Men Ratko Radovanović, Rajko Žižić
 Silver South Korea 1988 Seoul Men Zdravko Radulović

Association Football

Medal Games Team Names
 Silver Australia 1956 Melbourne Men Nikola Radović
 Bronze United States 1984 Los Angeles Men Ljubomir Radanović

Handball

Medal Games Team Names
 Gold United States 1984 Los Angeles Women Svetlana Mugoša, Ljiljana Mugoša, Zorica Pavićević
 Gold United States 1984 Los Angeles Men Veselin Vujović
 Bronze South Korea 1988 Seoul Men Veselin Vujović

Volleyball

Medal Games Team Names
 Bronze United States 1996 Atlanta Men Goran Vujević
 Gold Australia 2000 Sydney Men Goran Vujević, Igor Vušurović

Water polo

Medal Games Team Names
 Silver Finland 1952 Helsinki Men Boško Vuksanović
 Silver Australia 1956 Melbourne Men Boško Vuksanović
 Silver Japan 1964 Tokyo Men Boris Čukvas, Milan Muškatirović, Božidar Stanišić
 Gold Mexico 1968 Mexico City Men Dejan Dabović, Đorđe Perišić
 Silver Soviet Union 1980 Moscow Men Milivoj Bebić, Zoran Gopčević, Milorad Krivokapić, Zoran Mustur
 Gold United States 1984 Los Angeles Men Milorad Krivokapić, Andrija Popović
 Gold South Korea 1988 Seoul Men Igor Gočanin, Mirko Vičević
 Bronze Australia 2000 Sydney Men Veljko Uskoković, Nenad Vukanić
 Silver Greece 2004 Athens Men Vladimir Gojković, Predrag Jokić

See also

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