Algeria first competed at the Olympic Games in 1964, and has participated in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics. The nation has also sent athletes to compete at 3 Winter Olympic Games.

The National Olympic Committee for Algeria is the Comité Olympique Algérien (Algerian Olympic Committee), founded in 1963.

History

Before independence during the French Algeria period, the Algerian athletes were participating with France, among the most famous, the gold medalists Boughera El Ouafi in 1928, Alain Mimoun in 1956 and many others.

After independence in 1962, Algeria participated in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Summer Olympics with gymnast Mohamed Lazhari. Algeria withdrew from the 1976 Summer Olympics due to the refusal of the IOC to ban countries who had competed in South Africa amidst its apartheid policies. Almost every nation in Africa participated in the boycott. South Africa itself had been banned from the Olympics since 1964.

In the 1980 Summer Olympics Algeria participated for the first time in a team sport, competing in both football and handball. Their first medal came at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where Mustapha Moussa won bronze in boxing.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 1896–1960 as part of 1 0 0 0 0 – 3 0 0 0 0 – 5 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 54 0 0 0 0 – 32 0 0 2 2 42 42 0 0 0 0 – 35 1 0 1 2 34 45 2 0 1 3 34 47 1 1 3 5 41 61 0 0 0 0 – 62 0 1 1 2 64 39 1 0 0 1 50 65 0 2 0 2 62 41 0 0 0 0 – 45 2 0 1 3 39 future event Total 7 4 9 20 67

Medals by Winter Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 4 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 2 0 0 0 0 – 1 0 0 0 0 – 2014–2026 did not participate future event Total 0 0 0 0 –

Medals by summer sport

Athletes with most medals Only two Algerian athletes have won multiple medals in the history of the Olympic Games: middle-distance runner Taoufik Makhloufi, and boxer Hocine Soltani. Athlete Sport Games Total Taoufik Makhloufi 2012–2016 1 2 0 3 Hocine Soltani 1992–1996 1 0 1 2

Notes: in Khaki the athletes still in activity.

Gold medalists In this table (sorted by individual totals gold medals), athletes who have won a gold medal at the Olympics. AthleteSportBornPeriodIndividualTeamTotal Olympics World Ch. Olympics World Ch. Individual Team Individual + TeamTot.1Noureddine MorceliAthletics 1970 1988–1998 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 42Taoufik MakhloufiAthletics 1988 2007–2021 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 43Hassiba BoulmerkaAthletics 1968 1988–1997 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 44Kaylia NemourGymnastics 2006 2022– 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 45Hocine SoltaniBoxing 1972 1991–2000 1 0 1 0 0 1 – – – - - - 1 0 2 - - - 1 0 2 36Imane KhelifBoxing 1999 2018– 1 0 0 0 1 0 – – – - - - 1 1 0 - - - 1 1 0 27Nouria Merah-BenidaAthletics 1970 1996–2006 1 0 0 0 0 0 – – – - - - 1 0 0 - - - 1 0 0 1

Notes: in Khaki the athletes still in activity.

List of medalists Medal Name Games Sport EventDate Boxing Men's light-heavyweight Boxing Men's middleweight Athletics Women's 1500 metres Boxing Men's featherweight Athletics Men's 1500 metres Boxing Men's lightweight Boxing Men's middleweight Athletics Women's 1500 metres Athletics Men's 5000 metres Athletics Men's high jump Athletics Men's 800 metres Boxing Men's light-welterweight Judo Men's -90 kg Judo Women's -52 kg Athletics Men's 1500 metres Athletics Men's 800 metres Athletics Men's 1500 metres Gymnastics Women's uneven bars Boxing Women's 66 kg Athletics Men's 800 metres

Flagbearers

+ Summer Olympics Games Athlete Sport Mohamed Lazhari Gymnastics Azzedine Azzouzi Athletics did not participate Djamel Yahiouche Swimming Abdelkrim Bendjemil Handball Noureddine Tadjine Athletics Mourad Sennoun Volleyball Karim El-Mahouab Handball Djabir Saïd-Guerni Athletics Djabir Saïd-Guerni Athletics Salim Iles Swimming Abdelhafid Benchabla Boxing Sonia Asselah Judo Mohamed Flissi & Amel Melih Boxing (Flissi) & Swimming (Melih) Yasser Triki & Amina Belkadi Athletics (Triki) & Judo (Belkadi)

+ Winter Olympics Games Athlete Sport Nacera Boukamoum Alpine skiing did not participate Christelle Douibi Alpine skiing Mehdi-Selim Khelifi Cross-country skiing did not participate future event

Algeria at the Olympic Games Football Tournament

See also Algeria national athletics team List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games :Category:Olympic competitors for Algeria Algeria at the Paralympics Algeria at the African Games Algeria at the Mediterranean Games Algeria at the Arab Games Algeria at the Islamic Solidarity Games

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