| Noc: | SYR |
| Nocname: | Syrian Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Olympics |
| Website: | |
| Rank: | 109 |
| Gold: | 1 |
| Silver: | 1 |
| Bronze: | 2 |
| See also: | (1960) |
Syria first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948. Syrian diver Zouheir Shourbagi, the sole competitor, placed 10th in the men's platform.[1] Syria then missed the next four Olympiads (though in 1960 the nation competed with Egypt as part of the United Arab Republic). Syria returned to the Games in 1968, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one Summer Olympic Games, missing the 1976 Games. Syria has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
The National Olympic Committee of Syria was created in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 31 January 1948, at the IOC Session in Sankt Moritz. Syrian athletes have won a total of four medals, in four sports: Athletics, Freestyle wrestling, Weightlifting and Boxing.
Syria first participated as an independent nation at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. At Rome in 1960, it participated as part of the United Arab Republic. It split its alliance with Egypt in 1961 and did not compete in Tokyo in 1964.[2]
Syria returned to the Olympics in Mexico in 1968 for the first time and missed only at Montreal in 1976. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Syria had won its first Olympic medal when Joseph Atiyeh won silver in the freestyle wrestling.[3] During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ghada Shouaa won Syria's first gold medal in heptathlon with a total of 6,780 points.[4]
Syria also achieved the third medal in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and it was a bronze medal by the national boxer Nasser al-Shami in the sport of boxing.[5] Finally, the fourth medal was achieved by national weightlifter Man Asaad in the weightlifting competitions, as it was a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table.
See also: List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games.
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| did not participate | |||||||
| as part of (RAU) | |||||||
| did not participate | |||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| did not participate | |||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 33 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 49 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 71 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 86 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |||
| future event | |||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 107 | ||
| Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's freestyle 100 kg | |||||
| Women's heptathlon | |||||
| Men's heavyweight | |||||
| Men's 109+kg |
See also: List of flag bearers for Syria at the Olympics.
| Games | Athlete | Sport | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zouheir Shourbagi | Diving | |||||
| did not participate | ||||||
| as part of (RAU) | ||||||
| did not participate | ||||||
| Mahmoud Balah | Wrestling | |||||
| Mounzer Khatib | Shooting | |||||
| did not participate | ||||||
| Jihad Naim | Shooting | |||||
| Joseph Atiyeh | Wrestling | |||||
| Hafez El-Hussein | Athletics | |||||
| Dennis Atiyeh | Wrestling | |||||
| Ghada Shouaa | Athletics | |||||
| Moutassem Ghotouq | Head of mission | |||||
| Mohammad Hazzory | Athletics | |||||
| Ahed Joughili | Weightlifting | |||||
| Majd Eddin Ghazal | Athletics | |||||
| Majd Eddin Ghazal | Athletics | |||||
| Ahmad Hamcho Hend Zaza | Equestrian Table tennis | |||||
| Amre Hamcho Alisar Youssef | Equestrian Athletics | |||||