Jordan at the Olympics

Jordan at the Olympicsis a history which began in 1980.

The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Jordan is JOR.  "Official abbreviations" at The Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964, [p. 9 of 409 PDF]; retrieved 2012-10-12.

History
Teams from Jordan have been in every Summer Olympic Games since.  It has been in the 1992 Winter Olympics but it has yet to appear since then.

As of 2011, no Jordanian athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. In the 1988 Seoul Games, Samer Kamal and Ihsan Abu Sheikha won bronze medals in Taekwondo. As this was Taekwondo's first time in the Olympics it was named a demonstration sport, not an official Olympic event. Ammar Fahed managed to get the third Jordanian bronze medal in Barcelona Olympic games 1992.

The National Olympic Committee for Jordan was formed in 1957 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1963.

Olympic table

GamesAthletes by sportMedals20px|Athletics20px|Shooting20px|Archery20px|Swimming20px|Taekwondo20px20px20px Moscow 1980  -  4  -  -  - 000 Los Angeles 1984  5  -  -  -  -000 Seoul 1988  -  -  1  -  6001 Barcelona 1992  2  -  -  -  - 000 Atlanta 1996  1  -  -  3  -000 Sydney 2000  2  -  -  2  1000 Athens 2004  1  -  -  -  1000 Bejiing 2008  2  2  -  -  1000

Related pages
 List of IOC country codes

References

Other websites

 Jordan profile at London2012.com 

Olympics
Category:Nations at the Olympics