Ireland at the Olympics

**Ireland** has been at the Summer Olympic Games since 1924, and at the Winter Olympic Games since 1992. Before 1922, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Irish athletes at earlier Games are counted as British in Olympic numbers.

## Medal tables

The following tables include medals won by athletes on Irish teams together with one poet. All medals are from the Summer Games. Ireland's best result at the Winter Games was fourth, by Clifton Wrottesley in the Men's Skeleton in 2002 at Salt Lake City.

### Medallists (28)

|style="width:6em"|Medal|style="width:15em"|Name|style="width:12em"|Games|style="width:12em"|Sport|style="width:12em"|Event|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||1924 Paris|Poetry|Poetry||||||
|||1928 Amsterdam|Athletics|Men's hammer throw||||||
|||1932 Los Angeles|Athletics|Men's 400 metre hurdles||||||
|||1932 Los Angeles|Athletics|Men's hammer throw||||||
|||1952 Helsinki|Boxing|Men's bantamweight||||||
|||1956 Melbourne|Athletics|Men's 1500 metres||||||
|||1956 Melbourne|Boxing|Men's welterweight||||||
|||1956 Melbourne|Boxing|Men's flyweight||||||
|||1956 Melbourne|Boxing|Men's bantamweight||||||
|||1956 Melbourne|Boxing|Men's lightweight||||||
|||1964 Tokyo|Boxing|Men's lightweight||||||
|||1980 Moscow|Boxing|Men's flyweight||||||
||James Wilkinson|| 1980 Moscow || Sailing || Flying Dutchman class|||||||||
|||1984 Los Angeles|Athletics|Men's marathon||||||
|||1992 Barcelona|Boxing|Men's welterweight||||||
|||1992 Barcelona|Boxing|Men's bantamweight||||||
|||1996 Atlanta|Swimming|Women's 400 metre freestyle||||||
|||1996 Atlanta|Swimming|Women's 200 metre individual medley||||||
|||1996 Atlanta|Swimming|Women's 400 metre individual medley||||||
|||1996 Atlanta|Swimming|Women's 200 metre butterfly||||||
|||2000 Sydney|Athletics|Women's 5000 metres||||||
|||2008 Beijing|Boxing|Men's Light flyweight||||||
|||2008 Beijing|Boxing|Men's Light Heavyweight||||||
|||2008 Beijing|Boxing|Men's Middleweight||||||
|||2012 London|Equestrian|Individual jumping||||||
|||2012 London|Boxing|Women's lightweight||||||
|||2012 London|Boxing|Men's light flyweight||||||
|||2012 London|Boxing|Men's flyweight||||||
|||2012 London|Boxing|Men's bantamweight||||||

### Medals by Summer Games

|Total||9||8||11||28|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1924 Paris|0|0|0|0|||||
|1928 Amsterdam|1|0|0|1|||||
|1932 Los Angeles|2|0|0|2|||||
|1936 Berlin|_did not participate_||||||||
|1948 London|0|0|0|0|||||
|1952 Helsinki|0|1|0|1|||||
|1956 Melbourne/Stockholm|1|1|3|5|||||
|1960 Rome|0|0|0|0|||||
|1964 Tokyo|0|0|1|1|||||
|1968 Mexico City|0|0|0|0|||||
|1972 Munich|0|0|0|0|||||
|1976 Montreal|0|0|0|0|||||
|1980 Moscow|0|1|1|2|||||
|1984 Los Angeles|0|1|0|1|||||
|1988 Seoul|0|0|0|0|||||
|1992 Barcelona|1|1|0|2|||||
|1996 Atlanta|3|0|1|4|||||
|2000 Sydney|0|1|0|1|||||
|2004 Athens|0|0|0|0|||||
|2008 Beijing|0|1|2|3|||||
|2012 London|1|1|3|5|||||

### Medals by sport

|Total||9||8||11||28|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Athletics|4|2|0|6|||||
|Swimming|3|0|1|4|||||
|Boxing|2|5|9|16|||||
|Sailing|0|1|0|1|||||
|Equestrian|0|0|1|1|||||

## Related pages

- List of IOC country codes

## Other websites

- Ireland profile at London2012.com

## Infobox (country at games)

- **noc**: IRL
- **nocname**: Olympic Federation of Ireland
- **games**: Olympics
- **gold**: 9
- **silver**: 10
- **bronze**: 12
- **seealso**: (1896–1920)