and it is today. 30 Years of existence of Slovak NOC time for the final part of the recap
During this period, competed at 15 Olympic Games (7 Summer & 8 Winter Olympics)
From the 15 Olympics our teams returned home with medals from 12 of them.
We won medals at every Summer Olympics so far, while in the Winter edition we had to wait to our 4th participation in Torino to win the first one, but since then we won medal at every next edition as well.
won during this period in total 42 olympic medals (14-18-10)
32 at Summer Olympics (10-14-8) and 10 at Winter Games (4-4-2)
In 2000 Sydney, Slovakia had the largest Olympic team in its history. 117 athletes
especially thanks to 3 different Team sports (M Football, W Basketball & M Water Polo), it is still the only time SVK qualified in a team sport and immediately with 3 of them...
Paradoxically at the Winetr Olympics, Slovakia participated in a team sport at every edition with M Ice Hockey, In Vancouver they were joined also with the Women team
The most successful athelets at the Olympics are
Anastasiya Kuzmina (Biathlon) with 6 medals (3-3-0) , the only biathelete in the world to win 3 individual gold medals at 3 consecutive WOG
followed by the Hochschorner twins Peter & Pavol, 3 times consecutive Olympic champions in Canoe Slalom M C2, they also have a bronze from London
Followed by Michal Martikán (Canoeing Slalom 2-2-1), Elena Kaliská (Canoeing Slalom 2-0-0) and Zuzana Rehák Štefečeková (Shooting Trap 1-2-0)
Other multiple medalists are Erik Vlček (Canoeing Sprint 0-2-2 all in K4), Martina Moravcová (Swimming 0-2-0 first Slovak female athlete to win an Olympic medal for Slovakia), Juraj Tarr (Canoeing Sprint 0-2-0), Michal Riszdorfer, Richard Riszdorfer and Denis Myšák (all Canoeing Sprint 0-1-1), and shooter Jozef Gӧnci (0-0-2)
The only time Slovakia won 2 medals in 1 event. Sydney 2000 M C1 (Silver Michal Martikán, Bronze Juraj Minčík) something we are no more able to repeat, because of 1 boat per cpountry nonsense rule