Tonga at the Olympics

Tonga at the Olympics
IOC code	TGA
NOC	Tonga Sports Association and National Olympic Committee
Website	www.oceaniasport.com/tonga
Medals	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 1 0 1
Summer appearances
1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter appearances
2014

Tonga has competed in eight editions of the Olympic Summer Games and one of the Olympic Winter Games. Tonga became the smallest independent nation to have won an Olympic medal in the Summer games when Super Heavyweight Boxer Paea Wolfgramm earned silver in the 1996 Super heavyweight 91 kg championships in Atlanta.

Tonga sought to enter a delegation for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which would have been the country's first participation in the Winter Games. The Tonga Amateur Sports Association (TASA) announced that it intended to send one athlete to compete in the luge event. In December 2008, two male athletes (Fuahea Semi and Taniela Tufunga) were selected to travel to Germany for training, although only one of them would compete at the Olympics.^[1][2][3] Semi was eventually selected as Tonga's candidate to compete in the Games, and was presented by his German sponsors under a new name, "Bruno Banani".^[4][5][6][7] He failed to qualify, however, crashing in the final round of qualifications and ending the Kingdom's hopes of competing at the 2010 Games.^[8] Banani qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, becoming the first Tongan athlete to compete at the Winter Games.^[9]

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1984 Los Angeles 7 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Seoul 5 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Barcelona 5 0 0 0 0 – 1996 Atlanta 5 0 1 0 1 61 2000 Sydney 3 0 0 0 0 - 2004 Athens 5 0 0 0 0 – 2008 Beijing 3 0 0 0 0 - 2012 London 3 0 0 0 0 – 2016 Rio de Janeiro 7 0 0 0 0 – 2020 Tokyo Future Event Total 0 1 0 1 127

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 2014 Sochi 1 0 0 0 0 – 2018 Pyeongchang Future Event Total 0 0 0 0 –

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Boxing	0	1	0	1	59
Total	0	1	0	1	127

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
02 ! Silver	Paea Wolfgramm	1996 Atlanta	Boxing	Men's Super Heavyweight (>91 kg)

See also

• Tonga at the Paralympics
• Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics

References

External links

• "Tonga". International Olympic Committee. 
• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. 
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. 
• "Tonga". Sports-Reference.com.