Iraq at the Olympics

Iraq at the Olympics
IOC code	IRQ
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Iraq
Website	www.nociraq.iq (in Arabic and English)
Medals Ranked 149th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer appearances
1948 1952–1956 1960 1964 1968 1972–1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024

Iraq first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948. It was absent from the 1952 Summer Olympics and boycotted the 1956 games over opposition to the Suez Crisis. Iraq returned to win a Bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. After participating in the next three games, it did not appear in the 1972 and 1976 games to boycott apartheid South Africa. Iraq is one of the non-African countries that joined the 1976 boycott, the others being Afghanistan, Albania, Burma (Myanmar), Guyana, Sri Lanka and Syria. Since 1980, Iraq has appeared in every game.

On April 9, 2003, the National Olympic Committee of Iraq building in Baghdad was damaged in looting and fires from looters. Iraq's Olympic program recovered in time to compete in the Athens Olympics the following year, and the Iraq football team almost won a bronze medal but were defeated by Italy in the bronze medal match. Iraq has never competed at the Winter Olympic Games.^[1]

Iraq has only won one medal since they have entered the games. They won a bronze medal, in weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[2]

They have been represented by National Olympic Committee of Iraq since entering.