Bahrain (BRN)

The Bahrain National Olympic Committee was organized in 1978 and provisionally recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the IOC session in Montevideo in April 1979, full recognition followed at a meeting of the IOC Executive Board in Nagoya in October 1979. Bahrain has competed at all Olympic Games since 1984. Bahrain has not yet competed at the Olympic Winter Games. Bahrain athletes have competed in eight sports – athletics, cycling, fencing, modern pentathlon, sailing, shooting, swimming, and taekwondo. In 2008 Moroccan born middle distance runner Rashid Ramzi finished first in the men’s 1500 metres, but he lost his gold medal due to doping one year later. In 2012 the Ethiopian born Maryam Jamal won the first medal for Bahrain with bronze in the women’s 1,500 metres. In 2016 Bahrain won another two medals both won by Kenyan-born women with Ruth Jebet winning gold in the 3000 m steeplechase and Eunice Kirwa winning silver in the marathon.