Chile lays claim to being one of 14 nations to participate at the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics and made its debut appearance at the 1948 Winter Olympics. The national teams sent by Chile to each of the Olympic Games have been under the auspices of the Chilean Olympic Committee since its inception in 1934 and acceptance by the International Olympic Committee. Previous to the establishment of the Chilean Olympic Committee, athletes were sent to the Olympics under the auspices of the Chilean Athletics Federation.

Chile at the
Olympics
IOC codeCHI
NOCChilean Olympic Committee
Websitewww.coch.cl (in Spanish)
Medals
Ranked 81st
Gold
3
Silver
8
Bronze
4
Total
15
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

The athletes representing Chile at the Olympics have brought home a total of fifteen medals, with tennis as the top medal-producing sport. Chile has yet to win any medals at the Winter Olympics.

Medal tables

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Medals by Summer Games

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Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
  1896 Athens 1 0 0 0 0
  1900 Paris did not participate
  1904 St. Louis
  1908 London
  1912 Stockholm 14 0 0 0 0
  1920 Antwerp 2 0 0 0 0
  1924 Paris 13 0 0 0 0
  1928 Amsterdam 38 0 1 0 1 30
  1932 Los Angeles did not participate
  1936 Berlin 40 0 0 0 0
  1948 London 54 0 0 0 0
  1952 Helsinki 59 0 2 0 2 31
  1956 Melbourne 33 0 2 2 4 27
  1960 Rome 9 0 0 0 0
  1964 Tokyo 14 0 0 0 0
  1968 Mexico City 21 0 0 0 0
  1972 Munich 11 0 0 0 0
  1976 Montreal 7 0 0 0 0
  1980 Moscow did not participate
  1984 Los Angeles 52 0 0 0 0
  1988 Seoul 17 0 1 0 1 36
  1992 Barcelona 12 0 0 0 0
  1996 Atlanta 21 0 0 0 0
  2000 Sydney 50 0 0 1 1 71
  2004 Athens 22 2 0 1 3 39
  2008 Beijing 27 0 1 0 1 70
  2012 London 35 0 0 0 0
  2016 Rio de Janeiro 42 0 0 0 0
  2020 Tokyo 58 0 0 0 0
  2024 Paris 48 1 1 0 2 55
  2028 Los Angeles future event
  2032 Brisbane
Total 3 8 4 15 81

Medals by Winter Games

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Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
  1948 St. Moritz 4 0 0 0 0
  1952 Oslo 3 0 0 0 0
  1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 4 0 0 0 0
  1960 Squaw Valley 5 0 0 0 0
  1964 Innsbruck 5 0 0 0 0
  1968 Grenoble 4 0 0 0 0
  1972 Sapporo did not participate
  1976 Innsbruck 5 0 0 0 0
  1980 Lake Placid did not participate
  1984 Sarajevo 4 0 0 0 0
  1988 Calgary 5 0 0 0 0
  1992 Albertville 5 0 0 0 0
  1994 Lillehammer 3 0 0 0 0
  1998 Nagano 3 0 0 0 0
  2002 Salt Lake City 6 0 0 0 0
  2006 Turin 9 0 0 0 0
  2010 Vancouver 3 0 0 0 0
  2014 Sochi 6 0 0 0 0
  2018 Pyeongchang 7 0 0 0 0
  2022 Beijing 4 0 0 0 0
  2026 Milano Cortina future event
  2030 French Alps
  2034 Salt Lake City
Total 0 0 0 0

Medals by Summer sport

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Sports   Gold   Silver   Bronze Total Rank
  Tennis 2 1 1 4 11
  Shooting 1 1 0 2 43
  Athletics 0 2 0 2 83
  Equestrian 0 2 0 2 24
  Boxing 0 1 2 3 58
  Wrestling 0 1 0 1 54
  Football 0 0 1 1 31
Total 3 8 4 15 81

Medals by gender

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Gender   Gold   Silver   Bronze Total
Men 2 7 4 13
Women 1 1 0 2
Mixed 0 0 0 0
Total 3 8 4 15

List of medalists

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A total of 32 athletes have won 15 Olympic medals for Chile. Only three athletes have won more than one medal: Óscar Cristi (two silver), Fernando Gonzalez (one gold, one silver and one bronze) and Nicolás Massú (two gold).

Medal Name Games Sport Event
  Silver Manuel Plaza   1928 Amsterdam   Athletics Men's marathon
  Silver Óscar Cristi   1952 Helsinki   Equestrian Individual jumping
  Silver Óscar Cristi
Ricardo Echeverría
César Mendoza
  Equestrian Team jumping
  Silver Marlene Ahrens   1956 Melbourne   Athletics Women's javelin throw
  Bronze Claudio Barrientos   Boxing Men's bantamweight
  Silver Ramón Tapia   Boxing Men's middleweight
  Bronze Carlos Lucas   Boxing Men's light heavyweight
  Silver Alfonso de Iruarrizaga   1988 Seoul   Shooting Mixed skeet
  Bronze   2000 Sydney   Football Men's competition
  Gold Fernando González
Nicolás Massú
  2004 Athens   Tennis Men's doubles
  Gold Nicolás Massú   Tennis Men's singles
  Bronze Fernando González   Tennis Men's singles
  Silver Fernando González   2008 Beijing   Tennis Men's singles
  Gold Francisca Crovetto   2024 Paris   Shooting Women's skeet
  Silver Yasmani Acosta   Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg

Best non-medaling results:

Sport Rank Athlete Event & Year
Summer
  Sailing 4th Erich Wichmann-Harbeck O-Jolle in 1936
  Gymnastics 4th Tomás González Men's floor in 2012
Men's vault in 2012
  Golf 4th Guillermo Pereira Men's individual in 2020
  Cycling 5th Mario Masanés Men's sprint in 1948
Macarena Perez Grasset Women's BMX freestyle in 2024
  Basketball 5th Chile men's team Men's tournament in 1952
  Triathlon 5th Bárbara Riveros Women's individual in 2016
  Weightlifting 6th María Valdés Women's 75 kg in 2012
  Modern pentathlon 7th Nilo Floody
Hernán Fuentes
Luis Carmona
Men's team in 1952
  Diving 7th Günther Mund Men's 3 metre springboard in 1956
  Rowing 7th Rodrigo Abásolo
Mario Castro
Víctor Contreras
Zibor Llanos
Carlos Neyra
Rodolfo Pereira
Alejandro Rojas
Marcelo Rojas
Giorgio Vallebuona
Men's eight in 1984
  Taekwondo 7th Felipe Soto Men's 80 kg in 2000
  Fencing 9th Jorge Garretón
Abelardo Castro
Tomas Goyoaga
Oscar Novoa
Efraín Díaz
Nemoroso Riquelme
Men's team sabre in 1928
  Archery 9th Ricardo Soto Men's individual in 2016
  Canoeing 9th María Mailliard
Karen Roco
Women's C-2 500 metres in 2020
  Judo 9th Mary Dee Vargas Women's 48 kg in 2020
  Volleyball 9th Marco Grimalt
Esteban Grimalt
Men's tournament in 2020
  Water polo 13th Osvaldo Martinez
Augusto Hurtado
Teodoro Salah
Luis Aguirrebeña
Isaac Froimovich
Pedro Aguirrebeña
José Salah
Svante Törnvall
Men's tournament 1948
  Swimming 14th Kristel Kobrich Women's 800 m in 2012
Women's 1500 m in 2020
  Surfing 17th Manuel Selman Men's shortboard in 2020
  Skateboarding 19th Josefina Tapia Women's park in 2020
Winter
  Alpine skiing 11th Thomás Grob Men's combined in 1998
  Biathlon 67th Claudia Barrenechea Women's individual in 2002
  Cross-country skiing 84th Yonathan Fernández Men's sprint in 2014
  Freestyle skiing 13th Dominique Ohaco Women's slopestyle in 2014

See also

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  • "Chile". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
  • "Chile". Olympedia.com.
  • "Olympic Analytics/CHI". olympanalyt.com.