Jordan at the Olympics
Jordan at the Olympicsis a history which began in 1980.
| Jordan at the Olympics | |
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| File:Flag of Jordan.svg | |
| IOC code | JOR |
| NOC | Jordan Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals |
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| Summer appearances | |
| Winter appearances | |
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Jordan is JOR.[1]
History
Teams from Jordan have been in every Summer Olympic Games since. It has been in the 1992 Winter Olympics but it has yet to appear since then.
As of 2011, no Jordanian athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. In the 1988 Seoul Games, Samer Kamal and Ihsan Abu Sheikha won bronze medals in Taekwondo. As this was Taekwondo's first time in the Olympics it was named a demonstration sport, not an official Olympic event. Ammar Fahed managed to get the third Jordanian bronze medal in Barcelona Olympic games 1992.
The National Olympic Committee for Jordan was formed in 1957 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1963.
Olympic table
| Games | Athletes by sport | Medals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | Shooting | Archery | Swimming | 
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| 23x15px Moscow 1980 | - | 4 | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23x15px Los Angeles 1984 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23x15px Seoul 1988 | - | - | 1 | - | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 23x15px Barcelona 1992 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23x15px Atlanta 1996 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23x15px Sydney 2000 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23x15px Athens 2004 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23x15px Bejiing 2008 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Related pages
References
- ↑ [1]Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine "Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964, [p. 9 of 409 PDF]; retrieved 2012-10-12.
Other websites
- "Jordan Olympic Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- Jordan profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-08-09 at the Wayback Machine