Lao People's Democratic Republic (LAO)

Laos formed a National Olympic Committee (NOC) in 1975 and saw it provisionally recognized at a meeting of the IOC Executive Board in Nagoya, in October 1979. It was fully recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 12 February 1980, at the IOC session in Lake Placid. Laos’s first Olympic appearance was at Moskva 1980. The country competed again from 1988 onwards. It has not yet competed at the Olympic Winter Games.

Laotian competitors have not yet won an Olympic medal. The best result for an athlete from Laos was probably the 25th place achieved by Thipsamay Chanthaphone in the 1980 men’s 20 kilometres race walk.