In total, seven athletes including three men and four women represented Albania in five different sports including athletics, cycling, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling.
Qualifying for the women's javelin throw took place on 26 July 1996. Maniani contested qualifying group A. Her first two attempts resulted in fouls but, on her third attempt, she threw 55.64m. She did not advance to the final and finished 24th overall.[2]
Qualifying for the women's triple jump took place on 29 July 1996. Bitanji contested qualifying group A. Her first attempt was 12.55m before she extended that to 12.82m with her second jump which was her farthest in qualifying after a foul on her third attempt. She did not advance to the final and finished 25th overall.[3]
The women's 10m air pistol took place on 21 July 1996. In the preliminary round, Shehu shot a combined score of 377 across the four rounds and Mata shot a combined score of 363. Neither advanced to the final. Shehu finished joint-21st and Mata finished 38th overall.[5]
The women's 25m pistol took place on 26 July 1996. In the preliminary round, Shehu shot a combined score of 576 across the two rounds and Mata shot a combined score of 575. Neither advanced to the final. Shehu finished joint-15th and Mata finished 20th overall.[6]
One Albanian athlete participated in the weightlifting events – Ilirjan Suli competed in the men's 76 kg.[1]
The men's 76 kg took place on 24 July 1996. Suli lifted 147.5kg (snatch)[7] and 175kg (clean and jerk)[8] for a combined score of 322.5kg which placed him 14th in the overall rankings.[9]
The men's freestyle −100 kg took place on 30–31 July 1996. Troplini lost his first round match against Oleg Ladik of Canada by fall. He then lost his classification round two match by grand superiority to Davud Magomedov of Azerbaijan.[10]
Albania did not participate in 1976 due to a boycott and 1980 due to a boycott.
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