# Albania at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Albania sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China which was organised by the National Olympic Committee of Albania.
Albania competed with eleven athletes, seven of whom were men and four were women, competing in several sports such as athletics, and for the first time in judo. Other sports are swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, and shooting.
Although Albania didn't win any medals, it was an improvement on their performance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Weightlifter Romela Begaj came the closest to the medal rankings as she finished 5th in the Women's 58 kg category, lifting 216 kg in total.
The Albanians also showed good performances outside weightlifting. Sahit Prizreni, the world wrestling bronze medalist from 2007 in Baku competing for the second time for Albania in the Summer Olympics, He advanced to the round of 16 in Men's freestyle 60 kg, where he lost to Bazar Bazarguruev from Kyrgyzstan.
Elis Guri made his debut at the Summer Olympics in wrestling in the Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg category. In the round of 16 he defeated the Olympic champion of 2004, Karam Gaber, after three matches. In the quarterfinals he faced Mirko Englich of Germany. Despite a first-match win, Guri lost the other two matches and didn't qualify to the semifinals. He finished in 7th place, the best result for Albania so far at this sport.

## Athletics
### Key

* Note – Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
* Q = Qualified for the next round
* q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
* NR = National record
* N/A = Round not applicable for the event
* Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position | Distance | Position |
| Dorian Çollaku | Hammer throw | 70.98 | 28 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Klodiana Shala | 400 m | 54.84 | 7 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Judo
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Repechage 3 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Edmond Topalli | Men's −81 kg | Bye | Neto (POR) L 0000–1001 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Shooting
### Women

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Lindita Kodra | 10 m air pistol | 370 | 40 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Lindita Kodra | 25 m pistol | 570 | 35 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Swimming
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Sidni Hoxha | 50 m freestyle | 24.56 | 63 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Rovena Marku | 50 m freestyle | 28.15 | =58 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Weightlifting

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Gert Trasha | Men's −69 kg | 136 | DNF | — | — | — | DNF |
| Erkand Qerimaj | Men's −77 kg | 154 | 12 | 187 | 13 | 341 | 13 |
| Romela Begaj | Women's −58 kg | 98 | =3 | 118 | 7 | 216 | 5 |

## Wrestling
### Key

* VT - Victory by Fall.
* PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
* PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

### Men's freestyle

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Sahit Prizreni | −60 kg | Bye | Bazarguruev (KGZ) L 0–3 $^{PO}$ | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 15 |

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Elis Guri | −96 kg | Bye | Gaber (EGY) W 3–1 $^{PP}$ | Englich (GER) L 1–3 $^{PP}$ | Did not advance | Bye | Han T-Y (KOR) L 1–3 $^{PP}$ | Did not advance | 7 |