3/21/2023 0 Comments Slovenia olympic games tokyo 2020![]() Track and field athlete Merlene Ottey competed at the Olympics seven times between 19. He competed between 19, representing Yugoslavia for his first two appearances. The shooter Rajmond Debevec has competed at the Olympics eight times as of 2020. Tina Maze (alpine skiing), Peter Prevc (ski jumping), and Iztok Čop (rowing) are the most decorated post-independence Slovenian Olympians, with four medals each. The most successful winter games were the 2014 Winter Olympics, where Slovenian athletes won a record eight medals, including two gold. ![]() Slovenia's most successful Summer Olympics have been the 2020 Summer Olympics where they won three gold medals and five medals overall. ![]() All of Yugoslavia's Winter Olympic medals (three silver and one bronze) were won by Slovenians with the first being the silver medal of Jure Franko in alpine skiing, won at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, when Yugoslavia hosted the Games.Īthletes representing Slovenia have won a total of 28 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 24 at the Winter Olympic Games. Among post-war Olympians, Miroslav Cerar won two gold and one bronze medals, also in gymnastics. Leon Štukelj was the most prominent pre-war athlete, winning three gold, one silver, and two bronze medals, and he is still the most decorated Slovenian Olympian. Before the Second World War, all of the Olympic medals for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were won by Slovene gymnasts (with the exception of Croatian Dragutin Ciotti who was a member of the bronze medal winning men's gymnastics all-around team at the 1928 Summer Olympics). Then, until Slovenia's independence, they competed as part of Yugoslavia. There, Rudolf Cvetko became the first Slovene to win an Olympic medal, a silver in the men's team sabre. Slovenian athletes first competed at the Olympics in Stockholm, at the 1912 Summer Olympics, as part of the Austrian team. ![]() The Slovenian Olympic Committee was established in 1991 and was recognised by the International Olympic Committee on 5 February 1992. Slovenia first participated as an independent nation at the Olympic Games at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the country has sent athletes to compete at every Games since then. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |