Uruguay at the Olympics

Uruguay at the Olympics
IOC code	URU
NOC	Uruguayan Olympic Committee
Website	www.cou.org.uy (in Spanish)
Medals Ranked 92nd	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 6 Total 10
Summer appearances
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1998 2002–2022

Uruguay first participated at the Olympic Games in 1924, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. It has participated in the Winter Olympic Games only once, in 1998.

Uruguayan athletes have won ten medals, with two gold medals in football.

Uruguay's National Olympic Committee was created in 1923, and recognized by the International Olympic Committee the same year.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1896 Athens	did not participate
1900 Paris
1904 St. Louis
1908 London
1912 Stockholm
1920 Antwerp
1924 Paris	33	1	0	0	1	19
1928 Amsterdam	22	1	0	0	1	24
1932 Los Angeles	2	0	0	1	1	26
1936 Berlin	37	0	0	0	0	-
1948 London	61	0	1	1	2	26
1952 Helsinki	32	0	0	2	2	37
1956 Melbourne	21	0	0	1	1	56
1960 Rome	34	0	0	0	0	-
1964 Tokyo	23	0	0	1	1	35
1968 Mexico City	27	0	0	0	0	-
1972 Munich	13	0	0	0	0	-
1976 Montreal	9	0	0	0	0	-
1980 Moscow	did not participate
1984 Los Angeles	18	0	0	0	0	-
1988 Seoul	15	0	0	0	0	-
1992 Barcelona	16	0	0	0	0	-
1996 Atlanta	14	0	0	0	0	-
2000 Sydney	14	0	1	0	1	64
2004 Athens	15	0	0	0	0	-
2008 Beijing	12	0	0	0	0	-
2012 London	29	0	0	0	0	-
2016 Rio de Janeiro	17	0	0	0	0	-
2020 Tokyo	11	0	0	0	0	-
2024 Paris	future event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total		2	2	6	10	90

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1924 Chamonix	did not participate
1928 St. Moritz
1932 Lake Placid
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1948 St. Moritz
1952 Oslo
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
1960 Squaw Valley
1964 Innsbruck
1968 Grenoble
1972 Sapporo
1976 Innsbruck
1980 Lake Placid
1984 Sarajevo
1988 Calgary
1992 Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano	1	0	0	0	0	-
2002 Salt Lake City	did not participate
2006 Turin
2010 Vancouver
2014 Sochi
2018 Pyeongchang
2022 Beijing
2026 Milan–Cortina	future event
Total		0	0	0	0	-

Medals by Summer Sport

Sports	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Football	2	0	0	2	8
Rowing	0	1	3	4	40
Cycling	0	1	0	1	40
Basketball	0	0	2	2	21
Boxing	0	0	1	1	69
Total	2	2	6	10	90

Medals by gender

Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Men	2	2	6	10
Women	0	0	0	0
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	2	2	6	10

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Gold	Football team José Andrade Pedro Arispe Pedro Cea Alfredo Ghierra Andrés Mazali José Nasazzi José Naya Pedro Petrone Ángel Romano Héctor Scarone Humberto Tomasina Antonio Urdinarán Santos Urdinarán José Vidal Alfredo Zibechi Pedro Casella	1924 Paris	Football	Men's competition
Gold	Football team José Andrade Pedro Arispe Juan Arremón René Borjas Antonio Campolo Adhemar Canavesi Héctor Castro Pedro Cea Lorenzo Fernández Roberto Figueroa Alvaro Gestido Andrés Mazali José Nasazzi Pedro Petrone Juan Piriz Héctor Scarone Santos Urdinarán Peregrino Anselmo	1928 Amsterdam	Football	Men's competition
Bronze	Guillermo Douglas	1932 Los Angeles	Rowing	Men's single sculls
Silver	Eduardo Risso	1948 London	Rowing	Men's single sculls
Bronze	William Jones Juan Rodríguez	1948 London	Rowing	Men's double sculls
Bronze	Basketball team Martín Acosta y Lara Enrique Baliño Victorio Cieslinskas Héctor Costa Nelson Demarco Héctor García Otero Tabaré Larre Borges Adesio Lombardo Roberto Lovera Sergio Matto Wilfredo Peláez Carlos Roselló	1952 Helsinki	Basketball	Men's competition
Bronze	Miguel Seijas Juan Rodríguez	1952 Helsinki	Rowing	Men's double sculls
Bronze	Basketball team Carlos Blixen Ramiro Cortés Héctor Costa Nelson Chelle Nelson Demarco Héctor García Carlos González Sergio Matto Oscar Moglia Raúl Mera Ariel Olascoaga Milton Scaron	1956 Melbourne	Basketball	Men's competition
Bronze	Washington Rodríguez	1964 Tokyo	Boxing	Men's bantamweight
Silver	Milton Wynants	2000 Sydney	Cycling	Men's points race

See also

• List of flag bearers for Uruguay at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Uruguay
• Uruguay at the Paralympics

External links

• "Uruguay". International Olympic Committee.
• "Uruguay". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/URU". olympanalyt.com.
• "Comité Olímpico Uruguayo - C.O.U." (in Spanish). Comité Olímpico Uruguayo. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
• ed Berlioux, Monique (March 1979). "Uruguay and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (137). Lausanne: International Olympic Committee: 168–176. Retrieved 2008-04-01.