Tonga at the Olympics

Tonga at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  TGA
NOC Tonga Sports Association and National Olympic Committee
Websitewww.oceaniasport.com/tonga
Olympic history
Summer Games
Winter Games

Tonga has competed in seven editions of the Olympic Summer Games and one of the Olympic Winter Games. Tonga became the smallest independent nation to have won an Olympic medal in the Summer games when Super Heavyweight Boxer Paea Wolfgramm earned silver in the 1996 Super heavyweight 91 kg championships in Atlanta.

Tonga sought to enter a delegation for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which would have been the country's first participation in the Winter Games. The Tonga Amateur Sports Association (TASA) announced that it intended to send one athlete to compete in the luge event. In December 2008, two male athletes (Fuahea Semi and Taniela Tufunga) were selected to travel to Germany for training, although only one of them would compete at the Olympics.[1][2][3] Semi was eventually selected as Tonga's candidate to compete in the Games, and was presented by his German sponsors under a new name, "Bruno Banani".[4][5][6][7] He failed to qualify, however, crashing in the final round of qualifications and ending the Kingdom's hopes of competing at the 2010 Games.[8] Banani qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, becoming the first Tongan athlete to compete at the Winter Games.[9]

Medal tables

Medals by Games

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States 1996 Atlanta 0 1 0 1
Total 0 1 0 1

Medals by sport

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Boxing 0 1 0 1
Total 0 1 0 1

List of medalists

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Silver Paea Wolfgramm United States 1996 Atlanta Boxing Men's Super Heavyweight (>91 kg)

See also

References

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