Uruguay at the Olympics

Uruguay at the Olympics
IOC code	URU
NOC	Uruguayan Olympic Committee
Website	www.cou.org.uy  (in Spanish)
Medals Ranked 93rd	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 2026

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

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table

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 25 0 0 0 0 - 2028 Los Angeles future event 2032 Brisbane Total 2 2 6 10 93

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 Milano Cortina future event 2030 French Alps 2034 Salt Lake City 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 Leandro Andrade Pedro Arispe Pedro Casella Pedro Cea Luis Chiappara Pedro Etchegoyen Alfredo Ghierra Andrés Mazali José Nasazzi José Naya Pedro Petrone Ángel Romano Zoilo Saldombide Héctor Scarone Pascual Somma Humberto Tomasina Antonio Urdinarán Santos Urdinarán Fermín Uriarte José Vidal Alfredo Zibechi Pedro Zingone	1924 Paris	Football	Men's competition [1]
Gold	Football team José Leandro Andrade Peregrino Anselmo Pedro Arispe Juan Arremón Venancio Bartibás Fausto Batignani René Borjas Antonio Campolo Adhemar Canavesi Héctor Castro Pedro Cea Lorenzo Fernández Roberto Figueroa Álvaro Gestido Andrés Mazali Ángel Melogno José Nasazzi Pedro Petrone Juan Piriz Héctor Scarone Domingo Tejera Santos Urdinarán	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

References

1. "When Uruguay dominated the world of football" . Retrieved 18 February 2024.

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.