Basque pelota at the Summer Olympics

Basque pelota at the Summer Olympics
IOC CodePEL
Governing bodyFIPV
Events10 (men: 9; women: 1)
Summer Olympics
  • 1896
  • 1900
  • 1904
  • 1908
  • 1912
  • 1920
  • 1924
  • 1928
  • 1932
  • 1936
  • 1948
  • 1952
  • 1956
  • 1960
  • 1964
  • 1968
  • 1972
  • 1976
  • 1980
  • 1984
  • 1988
  • 1992
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2004
  • 2008
  • 2012
  • 2016
  • 2020
  • 2024
  • 2028
Note: demonstration or exhibition sport years indicated in italics

Basque pelota was featured at the Summer Olympics at the 1900 Games. It was contested in another three Olympics as a demonstration sport: 1924, 1968 and 1992.[1]

In 2011, the International Federation of Basque Pelota proposed Basque pelota for the 2020 Olympic Games in the event that Madrid would win the candidacy, which it did not.[2]

  1. ^ Peinado, Alejandro (2024-04-21). "Cuando la pelota vasca era deporte olímpico y aseguraba medalla a España: "Fue una oportunidad perdida"". infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  2. ^ "La pelota vasca, propuesta como deporte olímpico". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2024-05-07.