Kosovo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Kosovo at the
2020 Summer Olympics
IOC codeKOS
NOCOlympic Committee of Kosovo
Websitenoc-kosovo.org (in Albanian and Serbian)
in Tokyo, Japan
July 23, 2021 (2021-07-23) – August 8, 2021 (2021-08-08)
Competitors11 in 6 sports
Flag bearers (opening)Majlinda Kelmendi
Akil Gjakova
Flag bearer (closing)Egzon Shala
Medals
Ranked 42nd
Gold
2
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Yugoslavia (1920–1992W)
 Independent Olympic Participants (1992S)
 Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006)
 Serbia (2008–2012)

Kosovo (KOS) competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, represented by the Olympic Committee of Kosovo (KOK/OKK). The nation had previously participated in the Summer Olympic Games on one occasion in 2016. A total of 11 athletes, five men and six women, were selected by the national committee to compete in six sports. Initially scheduled to take place during the summer of 2020, the games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 in relation to the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).[1]

Kosovo won two gold medals, a further improvement on its 2016 performance where the country won one gold medal. Kosovo remains the only country to win more than two medals, all of which are gold. The gold medals were won by two female Judokas.[2]

Distria Krasniqi who won Gold in the Women's 48 kg event[3] and by Nora Gjakova who won Gold in the Women's 57 kg event.[4] Majlinda Kelmendi the gold medalist from the 2016 Summer Olympics represented Kosovo for the second time in the Women's 52 kg category.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Two gold medals for Kosovo". 27 July 2021.
  3. ^ "HISTORIKE, Distria Krasniqi e fiton medaljen e artë në Lojërat Olimpike". 24 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Nora Gjakova fiton medaljen e artë".
  5. ^ "First ever Olympics medal for Kosovo".
  6. ^ "Majlinda Kelmendi do medalje ari në "Tokio 2020"".

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