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'''[[Lebanon]]''' first participated at the '''[[Olympic Games]]''' in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one [[Summer Olympic Games]] since then. Lebanon was one of three nations to boycott the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Games]] in protest of the [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|French]] involvement in the [[Suez Crisis]].
| NOCname = [[Lebanese Olympic Committee]]
Lebanon has also participated in most [[Winter Olympic Games]] since 1948, missing only the 1994 and 1998 Winter Games.
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[[Lebanon]]'s first appearance in the Olympics was in 1936 when a "delegation of officials" attended the Summer Olympics in Berlin.<ref>''Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan'' By Britannica Educational Publishing</ref> The Lebanese Olympic Committee was established in 1947. Lebanon participated for the first time at the [[Olympic Games]] in 1948, and has competed in all but one [[Summer Olympic Games]] since then. Lebanon boycotted the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Games]] in protest of the [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|French]] involvement in the [[Suez Crisis]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timeline: Politics and Protest at the Olympics |url=https://www.cfr.org/timeline/olympics-boycott-protest-politics-history |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref> Lebanon has participated in most [[Winter Olympic Games]] since 1948, missing only the 1994 and 1998 Winter Games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lebanon at the Olympic Games |url=https://www.topendsports.com/events/summer/countries/lebanon.htm |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=www.topendsports.com}}</ref>


Lebanon also participated at the 1st Youth Olympic Games 2010 in Singapore.
In 2010, Lebanon participated at the 1st [[Youth Olympic Games]] in Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OCA » Singapore 2009 |url=https://ocasia.org/games/17-singapore-2009.html |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=ocasia.org}}</ref>


Lebanese athletes have won a total of five medals, three in [[Greco-Roman wrestling]], one in [[Olympic weightlifting|weightlifting]] and one in [[Olympic Taekwondo|Taekwondo]].
Lebanese athletes have won four medals, three in [[Greco-Roman wrestling]] and one in [[Olympic weightlifting|weightlifting]].


The [[National Olympic Committee]] for Lebanon was created in 1947 and recognized by the [[International Olympic Committee]] in 1948.
The [[Lebanese Olympic Committee]] was formed in 1947 and recognized by the [[International Olympic Committee]] in 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-03-21 |title=About Us |url=https://www.lebolymp.org/about-us/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Lebanese Olympic Committee |language=en}}</ref>


== Medal tables ==
==List of medalists==
{{See also|All-time Olympic Games medal table}}
{| class="wikitable"
=== Medals by Summer Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"
|-
|-
!Games
!style="width:6em"| Medal
!Athletes
!style="width:10em"| Name
!style="width:9em"| Games
|style="background:gold; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Gold
!style="width:7em"| Sport
|style="background:silver; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Silver
!style="width:18em"| Event
|style="background:#cc9966; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Bronze
!style="width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Total
!style="width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|[[Olympic medal table|Rank]]
|-
|-
| {{silver medal}} || [[Zakaria Chihab]] || [[1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki]] || [[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1948}} || [[Lebanon at the 1948 Summer Olympics|8]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1948 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || [[Khalil Taha]] || [[1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki]] || [[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || Men's Greco-Roman welterweight
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1952}} || [[Lebanon at the 1952 Summer Olympics|9]] || 0 || 1 || 1 || '''2''' || [[1952 Summer Olympics medal table|32]]
|-
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1956}} || colspan=6 | ''did not participate''
| {{silver medal}} || [[Mohamed Tarabulsi]] || [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich]] || [[Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]] || Men's middleweight
|-
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || [[Hassan Bechara]] || [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] || [[Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || Men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1960}} || [[Lebanon at the 1960 Summer Olympics|19]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1960 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || [[Michel Samaha]] || [[2010 Youth Summer Olympics|2010 Singapore]] || [[Taekwondo at the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics|Taekwondo]] || Men's -74 Kg
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1964}} || [[Lebanon at the 1964 Summer Olympics|5]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1964 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1968}} || [[Lebanon at the 1968 Summer Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1968 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1972}} || [[Lebanon at the 1972 Summer Olympics|19]] || 0 || 1 || 0 || '''1''' || [[1972 Summer Olympics medal table|33]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1976}} || [[Lebanon at the 1976 Summer Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1976 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1980}} || [[Lebanon at the 1980 Summer Olympics|15]] || 0 || 0 || 1 || '''1''' || [[1980 Summer Olympics medal table|35]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1984}} || [[Lebanon at the 1984 Summer Olympics|22]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1984 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1988}} || [[Lebanon at the 1988 Summer Olympics|21]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1988 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1992}} || [[Lebanon at the 1992 Summer Olympics|12]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1992 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|1996}} || [[Lebanon at the 1996 Summer Olympics|1]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1996 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2000}} || [[Lebanon at the 2000 Summer Olympics|5]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2000 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2004}} || [[Lebanon at the 2004 Summer Olympics|5]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2004 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2008}} || [[Lebanon at the 2008 Summer Olympics|6]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2008 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2012}} || [[Lebanon at the 2012 Summer Olympics|10]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2012 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2016}} || [[Lebanon at the 2016 Summer Olympics|9]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2016 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2020}} || [[Lebanon at the 2020 Summer Olympics|6]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2020 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2024}} || [[Lebanon at the 2024 Summer Olympics|10]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2024 Summer Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2028}} || colspan=6; rowspan=2| ''future event''
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|SOG|2032}}
|-
!colspan=2| Total !! 0 !! 2 !! 2 !! 4 || [[All-time Olympic Games medal table|123]]
|}
|}


=== Medals by sport ===
=== Medals by Winter Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"
{| {{MedalTable|type=Sport}}
|-
|-
!Games
|align=left| [[Wrestling at the Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || 0|| 1 || 2 || 3
!Athletes
|style="background:gold; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Gold
|style="background:silver; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Silver
|style="background:#cc9966; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Bronze
!style="width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Total
!style="width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|[[Olympic medal table|Rank]]
|-
|-
|align=left| [[Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]] || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1948}} || [[Lebanon at the 1948 Winter Olympics|2]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1948 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|-
|align=left| [[Taekwondo at the Youth Summer Olympics|Taekwondo]] || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1952}} || [[Lebanon at the 1952 Winter Olympics|1]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1952 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1956}} || [[Lebanon at the 1956 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1992 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1960}} || [[Lebanon at the 1960 Winter Olympics|2]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1960 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1964}} || [[Lebanon at the 1964 Winter Olympics|4]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1964 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1968}} || [[Lebanon at the 1968 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1968 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1972}} || [[Lebanon at the 1972 Winter Olympics|1]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1972 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1976}} || [[Lebanon at the 1976 Winter Olympics|1]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1976 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1980}} || [[Lebanon at the 1980 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1980 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1984}} || [[Lebanon at the 1984 Winter Olympics|4]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1984 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1988}} || [[Lebanon at the 1988 Winter Olympics|4]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1988 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1992}} || [[Lebanon at the 1992 Winter Olympics|4]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[1992 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1994}} || colspan=6; rowspan=2| ''did not participate''
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|1998}}
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2002}} || [[Lebanon at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2002 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2006}} || [[Lebanon at the 2006 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2006 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2010}} || [[Lebanon at the 2010 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2010 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2014}} || [[Lebanon at the 2014 Winter Olympics|2]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2014 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2018}} || [[Lebanon at the 2018 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2018 Winter Olympics medal table|-]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2022}} || [[Lebanon at the 2022 Winter Olympics|3]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || [[2022 Winter Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align=left| {{GamesName|WOG|2026}} || colspan=6| ''future event''
|-
!colspan=2| Total !! 0 !! 0 !! 0 !! 0 || [[All-time Olympic Games medal table|-]]
|}


=== Medals by summer sport ===
! Total || 0 || 2 || 3 || 5
{{Medals table
| caption =
| team = Sport
| hide_rank = yes
| leading =
| gold_1 = 0 | silver_1 = 1 | bronze_1 = 2 | name_1 = {{GamesSport|Wrestling|Format=d}}
| gold_2 = 0 | silver_2 = 1 | bronze_2 = 0 | name_2 = {{GamesSport|Weightlifting|Format=d}}
}}

== Medalists ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!style="width:6em"| Medal
!style="width:12em"| Name
!style="width:12em"| Games
!Sport
!Event
|-
| {{silver medal}} || [[Zakaria Chihab]] || {{GamesName|SOG|1952}} || [[Image:Wrestling pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || [[Khalil Taha]] || {{GamesName|SOG|1952}} || [[Image:Wrestling pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || Men's Greco-Roman welterweight
|-
| {{silver medal}} || [[Mohamed Traboulsi]] || {{GamesName|SOG|1972}} || [[Image:Weightlifting pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics| Weightlifting]] || [[Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 75 kg|Men's 75 kg]]
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || [[Hassan Bechara]] || {{GamesName|SOG|1980}} || [[Image:Wrestling pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics| Wrestling]] || [[Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg|Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg]]

|-
|}
|}


==See also==
==See also==
* [[List of flag bearers for Lebanon at the Olympics]]
*[[Sport in Lebanon]]
* [[:Category:Olympic competitors for Lebanon]]
* [[:Category:Olympic competitors for Lebanon]]


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
* {{cite web |title=Olympic Medal Winners |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}
* {{cite web |title=Lebanese Olympic Committee |publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/noc/noc_uk.asp?noc_initials=LIB |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}


==External links==
{{NationsinOlympics}}
* {{cite web |title=Lebanon |date=27 July 2021 |publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=https://www.olympic.org/lebanon }}
* {{cite web |title=Lebanon |publisher=Olympedia.com |url=http://www.olympedia.org/countries/LIB }}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{cite web |title=Olympic Analytics/LIB |publisher=olympanalyt.com |url=http://olympanalyt.com/OlympAnalytics.php?param_pagetype=MedalsByGames&param_country=LIB }}


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Latest revision as of 13:29, 20 August 2024

Lebanon at the
Olympics
IOC codeLBN
NOCLebanese Olympic Committee
Websitewww.lebolymp.org
Medals
Ranked 125th
Gold
0
Silver
2
Bronze
2
Total
4
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Lebanon's first appearance in the Olympics was in 1936 when a "delegation of officials" attended the Summer Olympics in Berlin.[1] The Lebanese Olympic Committee was established in 1947. Lebanon participated for the first time at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has competed in all but one Summer Olympic Games since then. Lebanon boycotted the 1956 Games in protest of the British and French involvement in the Suez Crisis.[2] Lebanon has participated in most Winter Olympic Games since 1948, missing only the 1994 and 1998 Winter Games.[3]

In 2010, Lebanon participated at the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.[4]

Lebanese athletes have won four medals, three in Greco-Roman wrestling and one in weightlifting.

The Lebanese Olympic Committee was formed in 1947 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1948.[5]

Medal tables

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Medals by Summer Games

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Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1948 London 8 0 0 0 0 -
1952 Helsinki 9 0 1 1 2 32
1956 Melbourne did not participate
1960 Rome 19 0 0 0 0 -
1964 Tokyo 5 0 0 0 0 -
1968 Mexico City 3 0 0 0 0 -
1972 Munich 19 0 1 0 1 33
1976 Montreal 3 0 0 0 0 -
1980 Moscow 15 0 0 1 1 35
1984 Los Angeles 22 0 0 0 0 -
1988 Seoul 21 0 0 0 0 -
1992 Barcelona 12 0 0 0 0 -
1996 Atlanta 1 0 0 0 0 -
2000 Sydney 5 0 0 0 0 -
2004 Athens 5 0 0 0 0 -
2008 Beijing 6 0 0 0 0 -
2012 London 10 0 0 0 0 -
2016 Rio de Janeiro 9 0 0 0 0 -
2020 Tokyo 6 0 0 0 0 -
2024 Paris 10 0 0 0 0 -
2028 Los Angeles future event
2032 Brisbane
Total 0 2 2 4 123

Medals by Winter Games

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Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1948 St. Moritz 2 0 0 0 0 -
1952 Oslo 1 0 0 0 0 -
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 0 0 0 0 -
1960 Squaw Valley 2 0 0 0 0 -
1964 Innsbruck 4 0 0 0 0 -
1968 Grenoble 3 0 0 0 0 -
1972 Sapporo 1 0 0 0 0 -
1976 Innsbruck 1 0 0 0 0 -
1980 Lake Placid 3 0 0 0 0 -
1984 Sarajevo 4 0 0 0 0 -
1988 Calgary 4 0 0 0 0 -
1992 Albertville 4 0 0 0 0 -
1994 Lillehammer did not participate
1998 Nagano
2002 Salt Lake City 2 0 0 0 0 -
2006 Turin 3 0 0 0 0 -
2010 Vancouver 3 0 0 0 0 -
2014 Sochi 2 0 0 0 0 -
2018 Pyeongchang 3 0 0 0 0 -
2022 Beijing 3 0 0 0 0
2026 Milano Cortina future event
Total 0 0 0 0 -

Medals by summer sport

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SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
 Wrestling0123
 Weightlifting0101
Totals (2 entries)0224

Medalists

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Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Silver Zakaria Chihab 1952 Helsinki Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
 Bronze Khalil Taha 1952 Helsinki Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman welterweight
 Silver Mohamed Traboulsi 1972 Munich Weightlifting Men's 75 kg
 Bronze Hassan Bechara 1980 Moscow Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan By Britannica Educational Publishing
  2. ^ "Timeline: Politics and Protest at the Olympics". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  3. ^ "Lebanon at the Olympic Games". www.topendsports.com. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  4. ^ "OCA » Singapore 2009". ocasia.org. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  5. ^ "About Us". Lebanese Olympic Committee. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
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