Albania (ALB)

Overview

NOCKomiteti Olimpik Kombëtar Shqiptar
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Participants

Olympic Games 50
Youth Olympic Games 15

Description

Albania’s National Olympic Committee was founded in 1958 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 25 May 1959, at the IOC session in Munich. Despite this, Albania did not compete at the Olympics until 1972. The NOC then did not compete again at the Olympics for 20 years, returning in 1992, and has not missed any edition of the Olympic Games since then.

Albania has not won any medals but has had fairly good weightlifters. A few of their lifters have emigrated to Greece, and competed for that nation at the Olympics, notably Pyrros Dimas. Dimas was born in Albania, but won gold medals for Greece in weightlifting in 1996-2000-2004, and a bronze medal in 2008. Through 2022, the best result for athletes representing Albania was a fourth place by Briken Calja in women’s weightlifting lightweight class.

Albania has competed at the Olympic Winter Games continuously since 2006, but only in Alpine skiing. Until PyeongChang 2018, they had only two Winter Olympians, one man and one woman. Erjon Tola competed in men’s Alpine events in 2006, 2010, and 2018, while Suela Mëhilli skied women’s events in 2014 and 2018. At Beijing 2022, another Alpine skier represented Albania, Denni Xhepa.

Participations by edition

Olympic Games

Edition As Men Women Total
1972 Summer Olympics Albania 4 1 5 Results
1992 Summer Olympics Albania 5 2 7 Results
1996 Summer Olympics Albania 3 4 7 Results
2000 Summer Olympics Albania 2 2 4 Results
2004 Summer Olympics Albania 5 2 7 Results
2006 Winter Olympics Albania 1 0 1 Results
2008 Summer Olympics Albania 7 4 11 Results
2010 Winter Olympics Albania 1 0 1 Results
2012 Summer Olympics Albania 6 3 9 Results
2014 Winter Olympics Albania 0 1 1 Results
2016 Summer Olympics Albania 3 3 6 Results
2018 Winter Olympics Albania 1 1 2 Results
2020 Summer Olympics Albania 6 3 9 Results
2022 Winter Olympics Albania 1 0 1 Results

Youth Olympic Games

Edition As Men Women Total
2010 Summer Youth Olympics Albania 2 2 4 Results
2014 Summer Youth Olympics Albania 3 2 5 Results
2018 Summer Youth Olympics Albania 2 3 5 Results
2020 Winter Youth Olympics Albania 1 0 1 Results

Participations by discipline

Olympic Games

Discipline (Sport) Men Women Total
Alpine Skiing (Skiing) 2 1 3 Results
Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) 1 0 1 Results
Athletics 4 5 9 Results
Cycling Road (Cycling) 1 0 1 Results
Judo 2 1 3 Results
Shooting 5 5 10 Results
Swimming (Aquatics) 4 3 7 Results
Weightlifting 11 2 13 Results
Wrestling 3 0 3 Results

Youth Olympic Games

Discipline (Sport) Men Women Total
Alpine Skiing (Skiing) 1 0 1 Results
Athletics 2 2 4 Results
Boxing 1 1 2 Results
Cycling Road (Cycling) 2 0 2 Results
Judo 0 1 1 Results
Rowing 1 0 1 Results
Swimming (Aquatics) 0 3 3 Results
Weightlifting 1 0 1 Results