Azerbaijan at the Olympics

**Azerbaijan** first took part in the **Olympic Games** as an independent nation in 1996. They have taken part in all summer and winter Olympics since then.   Before Azerbaijani athletes were part of the Soviet Union at the Olympics from 1952 to 1988.  In 1992 they were part of the Unified Team.

Azerbaijani athletes have won a total of twenty-six medals at the Summer Olympic Games.  The nation has not won any medals at the Winter Olympic Games.

The National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic was formed in 1992 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1993.

## Medalists

|style="width:6em"|Medal|style="width:12em"|Name|style="width:10em"|Games|style="width:10em"|Sport|style="width:10em"|Event|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||||Wrestling|Men's freestyle flyweight||||||
||||Shooting|Women's skeet||||||
||||Wrestling|Men's freestyle flyweight||||||
||||Boxing|Men's middleweight||||||
||||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman lightweight||||||
||||Boxing|Men's flyweight||||||
||||Boxing|Men's bantamweight||||||
||||Shooting|Women's 25 m pistol||||||
||||Shooting|Women's skeet||||||
||||Judo|Men's 73 kg||||||
||||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg||||||
||||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg||||||
||||Wrestling|Women's Freestyle 48 kg||||||
||||Judo|Men's 100 kg||||||
||Khetag Gazyumov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 96 kg||||||
||Shahin Imranov||Boxing|Men's featherweight||||||
||Valentin Hristov||Weightlifting|Men's 56 kg||||||
||Rovshan Bayramov||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg||||||
||Emin Ahmadov||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg||||||
||||Wrestling|Women's freestyle 48 kg||||||
||||Wrestling|Women's freestyle 55 kg||||||
||||Boxing|Men's heavyweight||||||
||||Boxing|Men's super heavyweight||||||
||Toghrul Asgarov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 60 kg||||||
||Sharif Sharifov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 84 kg||||||
||Khetag Gazyumov||gh Wrestling|Men's freestyle 96 kg||||||
||Radik Isayev||Taekwondo|Men's +80 kg||||||
||Lorenzo Sotomayor||Boxing||Men's light welterweight|||||
||Valentin Demyanenko||Canoeing|Men's C-1 200 meters||||||
||Rustam Orujov||Judo|Men's 73 kg||||||
||Elmar Gasimov||Judo|Men's 100 kg||||||
||Toghrul Asgarov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 65 kg||||||
||Khetag Gazyumov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 97 kg||||||
||Mariya Stadnik||Wrestling|Women's freestyle 48 kg||||||
||Kamran Shakhsuvarly||Boxing|Men's middleweight||||||
||Inna Osypenko-Radomska||Canoeing|Women's K-1 200 meters||||||
||Milad Beigi||Taekwondo|Men's 80 kg||||||
||Patimat Abakarova||Taekwondo|Women's 49 kg||||||
||Haji Aliyev||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 57 kg||||||
||Jabrayil Hasanov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 74 kg||||||
||Sharif Sharifov||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 86 kg||||||
||Rasul Chunayev||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg||||||
||Sabah Shariati||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg||||||
||Nataliya Synyshyn||Wrestling|Women's freestyle 53 kg||||||
||Rafael Aghayev||Karate|Men's 75 kg||||||
||Haji Aliyev||Wrestling|Men's freestyle 65 kg||||||
||Irina Zaretska||Karate|Women's +61 kg||||||
||Iryna Kindzerska||Judo|Women's +78 kg||||||
||Loren Alfonso||Boxing|Men's light heavyweight||||||
||Rafig Huseynov||Wrestling|Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg||||||
||Mariya Stadnik||Wrestling|Women's freestyle 50 kg||||||

### Medals by Summer Games

|Games|Athletes||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:gold; width:3.7em; font-weight:bold;"|Gold|style="background:silver; width:3.7em; font-weight:bold;"|Silver|style="background:#cc9966; width:3.7em; font-weight:bold;"|Bronze||
|1900–1912|_As part of the _||||||
|1920–1948|_did not participate_||||||
|1952–1988|_As part of the _||||||
||_As part of the _||||||
||23|0|1|0|**1**|61|
||31|2|0|1|**3**|34|
||36|1|0|4|**5**|50|
||44|1|1|4|**6**|40|
||53|2|2|5|**9**|30|
||56|1|7|10|**18**|39|
||44|0|3|4|**7**|67|
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### Medals by Winter Games

|Games|Athletes||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:gold; width:3.7em; font-weight:bold;"|Gold|style="background:silver; width:3.7em; font-weight:bold;"|Silver|style="background:#cc9966; width:3.7em; font-weight:bold;"|Bronze||
|1920–1948|_did not participate_||||||
|1952–1988|_As part of the _||||||
||_Did not participate_||||||
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||4|0|0|0|0|–|
||4|0|0|0|0|–|
||2|0|0|0|0|–|
||2|0|0|0|0|–|
||4|0|0|0|0|–|
||1|0|0|0|0|–|
||2|0|0|0|0|–|
||_Future Event_||||||

## Related pages

- List of IOC country codes
- List of flag bearers for Azerbaijan at the Olympics
- Azerbaijan at the Paralympics

## Other websites

- "Azerbaijani Wrestler Namig Abdullayev Wins Olympic Gold," in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 8:4 (Winter 2000), p. 76.
- "Zemfira Meftakhetdinova: Right on Target, Olympic Gold, Skeet Shooter," in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 8:4 (Winter 2000), p. 79.
- "Vugar Alakbarov, Olympic Bronze in Boxing," in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 8:4 (Winter 2000), p. 78.
- Azerbaijan profile at London2012.com

## Infobox (country at games)

- **noc**: AZE
- **nocname**: National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic
- **games**: Olympics
- **website**:  
- **gold**: 7
- **silver**: 11
- **bronze**: 25
- **seealso**: (1900–1912)
 (1952–1988)
 (1992)