Colombia at the Olympics
Appearance
Colombia at the Olympics | |
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IOC code | COL |
NOC | Colombian Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
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Summer appearances | |
Winter appearances | |
Colombia was at the Olympic Games in 1932 for the first time.
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Colombia is COL.[1]
History
[change | change source]Teams from Colombia have been in all but one Summer Olympic Games since then, missing only the 1952 Games. Colombia was in the Winter Olympic Games in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Colombian athletes have won a total of eleven Olympic medals in six different sports. María Isabel Urrutia won the nation's first gold medal in 2000.
The National Olympic Committee for Colombia was formed in 1936 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1948.
List of medalists
[change | change source]Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964, [p. 9 of 409 PDF]; retrieved 2012-8-16.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Colombia profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- COlombia at Olympic.org