Nigeria first participated in the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics. The nation participated in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 2018, having qualified female athletes in bobsleigh and skeleton.
Nigerian athletes have won a total of 27 medals, mostly in athletics and boxing. The national football team won the gold medal in 1996. In 2008, following the International Olympic Committee's decision to strip the American 4 × 400 metre relay team of their medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics after Antonio Pettigrew confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs, their Nigerian rivals were awarded the gold medal.I.O.C. Strips Gold From 2000 U.S. Relay TeamOlympics: Nigeria awarded 4x 400m relay gold Nigeria also won a medal in the heavyweight division of taekwondo at the 1992 Summer Olympics; as this was only a demonstration sport, Emmanuel Oghenejobo's silver did not count as an official win.London may spring surprise in taekwondo, says Ashiru
The Nigeria Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee for Nigeria, was created in 1951.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 9 0 0 0 0 – 10 0 0 0 0 – 12 0 0 0 0 – 18 0 0 1 1 35 36 0 0 0 0 – 25 0 0 1 1 43 boycotted 44 0 0 0 0 – 32 0 1 1 2 30 69 0 0 0 0 – 55 0 3 1 4 38 65 2 1 3 6 32 83 1 2 0 3 41 70 0 0 2 2 68 74 0 3 2 5 57 49 0 0 0 0 – 71 0 0 1 1 78 55 0 1 1 2 74 88 0 0 0 0 – future event Total 3 11 13 27 80
Medals by Winter Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 3 0 0 0 0 – 1 0 0 0 0 – 1 0 0 0 0 – future event Total 0 0 0 0 –
Medals by summer sport
List of medalists Medal Name Games Sport Event Boxing Men's light middleweight Boxing Men's light heavyweight Boxing Men's featherweight Moses UgbisieRotimi PetersInnocent Egbunike Athletics Men's 4×400 metre relay Davidson EzinwaChidi ImohOluyemi KayodeOsmond Ezinwa* Athletics Men's 4×100 metre relay Boxing Men's heavyweight Boxing Men's super heavyweight Christy Opara-ThompsonMary OnyaliFaith Idehen Athletics Women's 4×100 metre relay Athletics Women's long jump Men's football teamDaniel AmokachiEmmanuel AmunekeTijani BabangidaCelestine BabayaroEmmanuel BabayaroTeslim FatusiVictor IkpebaDosu JosephNwankwo KanuGarba LawalAbiodun ObafemiKingsley ObiekwuUche OkechukwuJay-Jay OkochaSunday OlisehMobi OparakuWilson OrumaTaribo West Football Men's competition Fatima YusufCharity OparaFalilat Ogunkoya Athletics Women's 4×400 metre relay Athletics Women's 200 metres Athletics Women's 400 metres Boxing Men's super heavyweight Fidelis GadzamaClement ChukwuJude MonyeSunday BadaEnefiok Udo-Obong Athletics Men's 4×400 metre relay Athletics Women's 100 metre hurdles Weightlifting Women's 75 kg Uchenna EmedoluAaron EgbeleDeji Aliu Athletics Men's 4×100 metre relay Musa AuduSaul WeigopwaEnefiok Udo-Obong Athletics Men's 4×400 metre relay Men's football teamOlubayo AdefemiDele AdeleyeOluwafemi AjiloreEfe AmbroseVictor AnichebeOnyekachi ApamEmmanuel EkpoIkechukwu EzenwaPromise IsaacMonday JamesSani KaitaChinedu ObasiVictor Nsofor ObinnaPeter OdemwingieChibuzor OkonkwoSolomon OkoronkwoOladapo OlufemiAmbruse Vanzekin Football Men's competition Franca IdokoGloria KemasuodeHalimat IsmailaOludamola OsayomiAgnes Osazuwa* Athletics Women's 4x100 metre relay Blessing Okagbare Athletics Women's long jump Chika Chukwumerije Taekwondo Men's +80 kg Mariam Usman Weightlifting Women's +75 kg Men's football teamShehu AbdullahiJunior AjayiDaniel AkpeyiStanley AmuzieEmmanuel DanielWilliam Troost-EkongSaturday ErimuyaOghenekaro EteboImoh EzekielKingsley MaduMikel John ObiMuenfuh SincereAzubuike OkechukwuPopoola SaliuUmar SadiqNdifreke UdoAminu UmarUsman Mohammed Football Men's competition Blessing Oborududu Wrestling Women's freestyle 68 kg Ese Brume Athletics Women's long jump
See also List of flag bearers for Nigeria at the Olympics :Category:Olympic competitors for Nigeria Nigeria at the Paralympics
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