Every Nigerian Olympic Medal

Checked 30 September 2026

27 medals in 10 Games

Nigeria has won 3 gold, 11 silver and 13 bronze Olympic medals. Athletics leads the way with 14, boxing has 6, football 3 (one of each colour), weightlifting 2, and taekwondo and wrestling one each.

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Olympic Games Nigeria has taken part in

Nigeria has participated in various Olympic games and sports competitions featuring in many fields like shot put, long jump, football and more, and it includes;

1992 Summer Olympic Games held 27 July to 9 August in Barcelona, Spain.

1972 Summer Olympic held 26 August to 11 September in Munich, Germany.

1984 Summer Olympics held 28 July to 12 August in Los Angeles, California, United States.

1996 Summer Olympics held 19 July to 4 August in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

2000 Summer Olympics held 15 September to 1 October in Sydney, Australia.

2008 Summer Olympics held 8 August to 24 August in Beijing, China.

2012 Summer Olympic Games held 27 July to 12 August in London, United Kingdom.

2016 Summer Olympics held 5 August to 21 August at Rio de Janeiro

2018 Winter Olympics held 9 February to 25 February in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Achievements

In the year 1992 Nigeria won two silver medals in boxing at the Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, through David Izonritei (heavyweight, 91 kg) and Richard Igbineghu (super heavyweight, +91 kg).

In the year 1964, boxer Nojim Maiyegun won Nigeria’s first Olympic medal, a bronze in the light middleweight (71 kg) class at the Olympics held in Tokyo.

In the year 1972, boxer Isaac Ikhouria won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight (81 kg) class at the Olympics held in Munich.

In the year 1984 in Los Angeles, Nigeria won a silver medal through featherweight boxer Peter Konyegwachie and a bronze medal in the men’s 4 x 400 m relay.

In the year 1996, Nigeria won the Olympic Gold in Atlanta USA in football category while they won a bronze medal in boxing category by Duncan Dokiwari (+91 kg).

In the year 2000 in Sydney, Nigeria won silver medals through Glory Alozie in the 100 m hurdles and weightlifter Ruth Ogbeifo, and the men’s 4 x 400 m relay team were later awarded gold after the original winners were disqualified. In the year 2008, they took part in the Beijing Olympics and won a silver medal in football.

They won a bronze medal by men’s football squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August.

Nigeria is the first African country to participate in Bobsleigh and Skeleton, they participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea from 9th to 25th February 2018 of which three Nigerian female athletes Ngozi Onwumere, Seun Adigun, and Akuoma Omeoga represented the country in Bobsleigh and Simidele Adeagbo who qualified for Olympics in skeleton sports.

Nigerian athletes have won a total of 27 Olympic medals, most of them in athletics and boxing, and still counting. Nigeria is the first African country to win all three medals in Olympic men’s football, with the 1996 squad winning the gold, the 2008 squad winning the silver and the 2016 squad winning the bronze medal.

Nigerian athletes since history have achieved so many awards in Olympic Games from history till date and are still making progress to achieve more in the years to come thereby making the country and African at large proud.

So Far Nigeria Has 27 Medals at the Olympic Games

Grouped as follows:

• 3 gold, 11 silver, 13 bronze in the Olympic competitions they have competed in so far.
• They have won 5 medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing (3 silver, 2 bronze), after two medals were upgraded.
• Nigeria’s have won a gold medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta through their Men’s Football team, the Dream Team.
• Chioma Ajunwa has also won a gold medal in women’s long jump competition at the Olympic.

Checked 30 September 2026

Nigeria at the Commonwealth Games and African Games

The Olympics are the hardest stage of all. Nigeria has 27 Olympic medals, against about 294 at the Commonwealth Games and 1,447 at the African Games. No Nigerian has yet won gold at both the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games: Mary Onyali and Blessing Okagbare won Commonwealth titles but not Olympic gold, and Chioma Ajunwa’s Commonwealth medal was a relay bronze.

The next African Games are in Cairo, Egypt, from 20 January to 7 February 2027. See the full medal stories on our Commonwealth Games and African Games pages.