Luxembourg at the Olympics

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Luxembourg at the
Olympics
IOC codeLUX
NOCLuxembourg Olympic and Sporting Committee
Websitewww.teamletzebuerg.lu (in French)
Medals
Ranked 91st
Gold
2
Silver
3
Bronze
0
Total
5
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Luxembourg's National Olympic Committee, the Luxembourg Olympic and Sporting Committee, was founded in 1912 and sent its first team to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Only three athletes won medals competing for Luxembourg in the Summer Olympics: weightlifter Joseph Alzin, silver in 1920, and runner Josy Barthel, gold in 1952. In the late 20th-century, it was discovered that runner Michel Théato, whose medal was previously given to France, was actually Luxembourgish. Théato won the gold medal in the men's marathon.[1]

Luxembourg first competed at the Winter Olympic Games in 1928, and has taken part in a total of ten Winter Games. Thus, despite having been one of the earliest countries to take part, Luxembourg has competed in relatively few of the Games. To date, Luxembourg has won a total of two medals: both silver, and won by Marc Girardelli in 1992.

After Luxembourg's first appearance, in St. Moritz, and the country's second appearance, at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Luxembourg did not compete at the Olympics for another five decades. As a low-lying country, whose highest peak (the Kneiff) lies only 560 metres (1,837 ft) above sea level, Luxembourg had little pedigree in most Winter Olympic sports.

However, the naturalisation of Marc Girardelli, an Austrian-born alpine skier, saw Luxembourg return to the Games in 1988. In the following Winter Olympics, in 1992 in Albertville, Girardelli won Luxembourg's first two Winter Olympic medals, scooping silver in both the giant slalom and super-G.

Neither Girardelli, nor Luxembourg, has won another Winter medal since 1992, but the country's return to the Winter world stage has been maintained by the appearance of two ice skaters in subsequent Games: Patrick Schmit in 1998 and Fleur Maxwell in 2006.

Luxembourg qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics with two athletes but did not participate because one did not reach the criteria set by the NOC and the other was injured before the Games.

Medal tables[edit]

Medals by Summer Games[edit]

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1900 Paris 1[1] 1 0 0 1 14
1904 St. Louis did not participate
1908 London
1912 Stockholm 21 0 0 0 0
1920 Antwerp 26 0 1 0 1 19
1924 Paris 51 0 0 0 0
1928 Amsterdam 49 0 0 0 0
1932 Los Angeles did not participate
1936 Berlin 49 0 0 0 0
1948 London 47 0 0 0 0
1952 Helsinki 44 1 0 0 1 27
1956 Melbourne 11 0 0 0 0
1960 Rome 52 0 0 0 0
1964 Tokyo 12 0 0 0 0
1968 Mexico City 5 0 0 0 0
1972 Munich 11 0 0 0 0
1976 Montreal 8 0 0 0 0
1980 Moscow 3 0 0 0 0
1984 Los Angeles 5 0 0 0 0
1988 Seoul 8 0 0 0 0
1992 Barcelona 6 0 0 0 0
1996 Atlanta 6 0 0 0 0
2000 Sydney 4 0 0 0 0
2004 Athens 10 0 0 0 0
2008 Beijing 12 0 0 0 0
2012 London 9 0 0 0 0
2016 Rio de Janeiro 10 0 0 0 0
2020 Tokyo 12 0 0 0 0
2024 Paris future event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total 2 1 0 3 94

Medals by Winter Games[edit]

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1928 St. Moritz 5 0 0 0 0
1932 Lake Placid did not participate
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 4 0 0 0 0
1948–1984 did not participate
1988 Calgary 1 0 0 0 0
1992 Albertville 1 0 2 0 2 16
1994 Lillehammer 1 0 0 0 0
1998 Nagano 1 0 0 0 0
2002 Salt Lake City did not participate
2006 Turin 2 0 0 0 0
2010 Vancouver did not participate
2014 Sochi 1 0 0 0 0
2018 Pyeongchang 1 0 0 0 0
2022 Beijing 2 0 0 0 0 -
2026 Milan–Cortina future event
Total 0 2 0 2 44

Medals by summer sport[edit]

SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Athletics2002
Weightlifting0101
Totals (2 entries)2103

Medals by winter sport[edit]

SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Alpine skiing0202
Totals (1 entries)0202

List of medalists[edit]

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Gold Michel Théato 1900 Paris Athletics Men's marathon
 Gold Josy Barthel 1952 Helsinki Athletics Men's 1500m
 Silver Joseph Alzin 1920 Antwerp Weightlifting Men's Heavyweight
 Silver Marc Girardelli 1992 Albertville Alpine skiing Men's super-G
 Silver Marc Girardelli 1992 Albertville Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "60th anniversary for only Luxembourg Olympic gold medal win". Archived from the original on 2015-07-12. Retrieved 2015-07-11.

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