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Guatemala has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1968. The nation has participated in the Winter Olympic Games once, in 1988. Guatemala won its first Olympic medal sixty years after its first Olympic appearance, during the 2012 Summer Olympics , when Érick Barrondo took second place in the men's 20 km walk .
Guatemala competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. The nation made its official debut in Helsinki 1952, and Guatemalan athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics from 1968 onwards. Kevin Cordón and Waleska Soto were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony. [1]
On 15 October 2022 the International Olympic Committee officially suspended the National Olympic Committee of Guatemala. As a result of the suspension, any athletes of Guatemala no longer had the ability represent the country and compete under the country's flag/name at the Olympic Games and other international multi-sports events.
Guatemala competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.This was the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952, despite failing to register any athletes in three other editions (1956 to 1964).
Guatemala competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time (and as of 2024, only time) at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Competitors [ edit ]
Guatemala competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. It had been 16 years since the previous time that the nation competed at the Olympic Games. 48 competitors, 47 men and 1 woman, took part in 37 events in 8 sports.
0–9. Guatemala at the 1952 Summer Olympics; Guatemala at the 1968 Summer Olympics; Guatemala at the 1972 Summer Olympics; Guatemala at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Prior to and including the Beijing Guatemala competed at fourteen Summer Olympics (thirteen of them consecutive) and a fifteen Olympic games overall. In Olympic history, only one Guatemalan, Erick Barrondo, has won an Olympic medal. [2] That medal was in 2012 when Barrondo won the silver medal in the men's 20 kilometres walk. [3]