Tanzania at the Olympics

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Tanzania at the
Olympics
Flag of Tanzania.svg
IOC codeTAN
NOCTanzania Olympic Committee
Medals
Ranked 122nd
Gold
0
Silver
2
Bronze
0
Total
2
Summer appearances
  • 1964
  • 1968
  • 1972
  • 1976
  • 1980
  • 1984
  • 1988
  • 1992
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2004
  • 2008
  • 2012
  • 2016
  • 2020

Tanzania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1964, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games except for the boycotted 1976 Games and has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.

Tanzanian athletes have won a total of two medals, both in athletics.

The National Olympic Committee for Tanzania was created in 1968 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year.

The résumé of Olympic events in which Tanzania has officially participated has been a static entity for most of the country's Olympic career, at least until recently. The country has in recent years began to diversify the body of its participating athletes. Tanzania introduced itself to the Olympic swimming community at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing, with its first team, which included the nation's first female athlete competing in a sport outside the country's familiar realm of athletics. Tanzania also included female swimming its team sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Despite the diversification of the nation's Olympic participation, the athlete body of the country's Olympic team nevertheless remains small.

Medal tables[]

Medals by Summer Games[]

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Japan 1964 Tokyo 4 0 0 0 0 -
Mexico 1968 Mexico City 4 0 0 0 0 -
West Germany 1972 Munich 15 0 0 0 0 -
Canada 1976 Montreal Did not participate
Soviet Union 1980 Moscow 41 0 2 0 2 28
United States 1984 Los Angeles 18 0 0 0 0 -
South Korea 1988 Seoul 10 0 0 0 0 -
Spain 1992 Barcelona 9 0 0 0 0 -
United States 1996 Atlanta 7 0 0 0 0 -
Australia 2000 Sydney 4 0 0 0 0 -
Greece 2004 Athens 8 0 0 0 0 -
China 2008 Beijing 10 0 0 0 0 -
United Kingdom 2012 London 6 0 0 0 0 -
Brazil 2016 Rio de Janeiro 7 0 0 0 0 -
Japan 2020 Tokyo 3 0 0 0 0 -
France 2024 Paris Future Event
United States 2028 Los Angeles
Australia 2032 Brisbane
Total 0 2 0 2 120

Medals by sport[]

SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Athletics0202
Totals (1 sports)0202

List of medalists[]

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Silver Suleiman Nyambui Soviet Union 1980 Moscow Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics Men's 5000 metres
 Silver Filbert Bayi Soviet Union 1980 Moscow Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics Men's 3000 metre steeplechase

See also[]

  • List of flag bearers for Tanzania at the Olympics

External links[]

  • "United Republic of Tanzania". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
  • "Tanzania". Olympedia.com.
  • "Olympic Analytics/TAN". olympanalyt.com.


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