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Jordan at the Olympics
IOC code	JOR
NOC	Jordan Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.jo (in English and Arabic)
Medals	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer appearances
1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1992

Jordan at the Olympicsis a history which began in 1980.

The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Jordan is JOR.^[1]

Teams from Jordan have been in every Summer Olympic Games since. It has been in the 1992 Winter Olympics but it has yet to appear since then.

As of 2011, no Jordanian athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. In the 1988 Seoul Games, Samer Kamal and Ihsan Abu Sheikha won bronze medals in Taekwondo. As this was Taekwondo's first time in the Olympics it was named a demonstration sport, not an official Olympic event. Ammar Fahed managed to get the third Jordanian bronze medal in Barcelona Olympic games 1992.

The National Olympic Committee for Jordan was formed in 1957 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1963.

Games	Athletes by sport					Medals
Moscow 1980	-	4	-	-	-	0	0	0
Los Angeles 1984	5	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Seoul 1988	-	-	1	-	6	0	0	1
Barcelona 1992	2	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Atlanta 1996	1	-	-	3	-	0	0	0
Sydney 2000	2	-	-	2	1	0	0	0
Athens 2004	1	-	-	-	1	0	0	0
Bejiing 2008	2	2	-	-	1	0	0	0

• List of IOC country codes

• "Jordan Olympic Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
• Jordan profile at London2012.com Archived 2012-08-09 at the Wayback Machine