Luxembourg at the Olympics

Luxembourg at the Olympic Games
Flag of Luxembourg – Flag bearers IOC code  LUX NOC Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois Website www.cosl.lu (French)
Olympic history
Summer Games
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
Winter Games
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948–1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010

Athletes from Luxembourg have competed at 28 editions of the modern Olympic Games. Luxembourg's National Olympic Committee, the Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois, was founded in 1912 and sent its first team to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Recently, it was also discovered that Michel Théato, who competed for France at the 1900 Summer Olympics, was actually Luxembourgish. However, the gold medal Théato won in the marathon at the Paris Games is still credited to France by the IOC.

Medalists

Luxembourg has won four Olympic medals (one gold and three silver) in its 28 Olympic appearances.

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
2 Silver	Joseph Alzin	1920 Antwerp	Weightlifting	Men's heavyweight
1 Gold	Josy Barthel	1952 Helsinki	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres
2 Silver	Marc Girardelli	1992 Albertville	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom
2 Silver	Marc Girardelli	1992 Albertville	Alpine skiing	Men's super-G

Winter Olympic Games

Luxembourg first competed at the Winter Olympic Games in 1928, and has taken part in a total of seven Winter Games. Thus, despite having been one of the earliest countries to take part, Luxembourg has competed in relatively few of the Games. In the seven Games, Luxembourg has won a total of two medals: both silver, and won by Marc Girardelli in 1992.

After Luxembourg's first appearance, in St. Moritz, and the country's second appearance, at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Luxembourg did not compete at the Olympics for another five decades. As a low-lying country, whose highest peak (the Kneiff) lies only 560 metres (1,837 ft) above sea level, Luxembourg had little pedigree in most Winter Olympic sports.

However, the naturalisation of Marc Girardelli, an Austrian-born alpine skier, saw Luxembourg return to the Games in 1988. In the following Winter Olympics, in 1992 in Albertville, Girardelli won Luxembourg's first two Winter Olympic medals, scooping silver in both the Giant Slalom and Super G.

Neither Girardelli, nor Luxembourg, has won another Winter medal since 1992, but the country's return to the Winter world stage has been maintained by the appearance of two ice skaters in subsequent Games: Patrick Schmit in 1998 and Fleur Maxwell in 2006.

See also

• Luxembourg at the Paralympics

External links

• Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois (French)

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