41 Athletes, smallest delegation ever.
27 male & 14 female. 14 sports competing (in 6 of them with one athlete).
Debuting in Golf. Returning in combat sports Wrestling after Beijing 2008 and Boxing returning after 1996 when Di Caprio´s Titanic was still not a thing.
First time ever not qualified in Weightlifting and W tennis. Also the participation nice streak in Triathlon and MTB cycling is over as well.
The youngest athlete: Denisa Baránková (Archery) 19 years a couple of months younger than Emma Zapletalová (400m Hurdles)
The oldest athlete: Rory Sabbatini (Golf) 45 years old, some weeks older than Erik Varga (Shooting)
Weight: the heaviest Marcel Lomnický (Hammer Throw) 110kg the lightest Mária Czaková (Race Walk) 57kg
The tallest Matej Beňuš (C1 Canoe slalom) 196cm, the smallest Denisa Baránková (Archery) 162cm
Erik Vlček (K4-500) is going to compete at his 6th Olympics games (New all time Slovak record) Any other slovak athlete has competed at more han 5 Olympics (Summer or winter, SVK or Czechoslovakia or that Austria-Hungary thing before)
23 Athletes will experience their Olympic debut (out of 41 is not bad at all, I mean we have small team but very young, thats nice, Tommy Bach will be happy, we are youth & urban as heck)
The country won 28 medals (as Slovakia since 1996)
9 of them Gold. 8 of them in canoe Slalom, the only gold medal the country won in any other sport than canoe slalom as Slovakia was Matej Tóth in Rio 2016 Race Walk 50km.
The most succesful olympians, Hochschorner Twins 3 times olympic champions in a row 2000-2008 and bronze in London 2012 in C2
Michal Martikán won the most medals 5 in all 5 consecutive games he attended (2x gold, 2x silver and 1 bronze) from 1996-2012 in C1
we speak about canoe slalom ofc. Also this is the only sport we won 2 medals in 1 single day at the olympics twice in 2004 & 2008 and once it was even 2 gold medals in some 30 minutes (C2 M & K1 W in beijing)
Competed as the eastern and smallest part of (sadly now only former) Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1992 winning several medals even golds for the country.
Competed as the unknown piece of land of the (Thankfully former) Austria-hungary from 1896 to 1912 winning a couple of medals even golds for that thing.
Most popular sport of the country: Ice Hockey, interest of the games especially for winter olympics.
Goals in Tokyo: attacking PBs and NRs and try to show hopefully at least once our medal ceremony uniforms