| South Sudan at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | SSD |
| NOC | South Sudan National Olympic Committee |
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| Summer appearances | |
| Other related appearances | |
 Sudan (1960–) Independent Olympic Athletes (2012) | |
South Sudan first participated at theOlympic Games in 2016, and have competed in everySummer Olympic Games since then. The country has not competed at theWinter Olympic Games. In their first two Olympics, 2016 and 2020, South Sudan competed only inathletics, but in 2024 they also competed in basketball.
South Sudan was part ofSudan until 2011, whenit gained independence after a referendum.Sudan has competed at the Olympics since 1960. Under IOC rules, the South Sudan NOC was not eligible for IOC membership until national sports federations had joined both the NOC and the correspondinginternational federation of fiveOlympic sports.[1]Guor Marial competed as anIndependent Olympic Athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 47th in themen's marathon.[2]Margret Rumat Rumar Hassan competed as an Independent Olympic Athlete at the2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[3][4] By 2015, Sudanese federations were recognised inathletics,basketball,association football,handball,judo,table tennis andtaekwondo.[1] The South Sudan NOC was founded by representatives of these sports on 8 June 2015.[5] After a recommendation by its executive board, the IOC admitted the NOC at its session inKuala Lumpur byacclamation.[1][4]
In 2012, South Sudan was a newly formed country, and had not yet assembled enough national sports federations to satisfy the Olympic requirements to appear as a country; so its athletes instead participated under the flag ofIndependent Olympic Athletes.[6]Guor Marial competed as anIndependent Olympic Athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 47th in themen's marathon.[2]
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The first year South Sudan competed in the Olympics, they sent three athletes.Santino Kenyi andMargret Hassan participated in the men's 1500 metres and women's 200 metres sprint, respectively.[7][8] As the men's marathon has only one round,Guor Marial was the only South Sudanese athlete to get to the finals. He placed 82nd with a time of 2:22:45.[9] Kenyi raced in themen's 1500 m and was placed in heat one, which includedMatthew Centrowitz Jr. of the United States, the eventual gold medalist. Kenyi himself finished 12th among 14 runners with a time of 3:45.27 and did not advance.[10] Hassan was in thewomen's 200 m, where she was placed in heat four. This heat contained eventual gold medal-winnerElaine Thompson of Jamaica, although it was won by the Ivory Coast'sMarie-Josée Ta Lou. Hassan finished in eighth, which was last in her heat, failing to qualify but setting a new personal best of 26.99.[11]
South Sudan only sent one male and one female athlete to the 2020 Summer Olympics,Abraham Guem andLucia Moris.[12] They participated in the men's 800 metres and women's 200 metres.[13][14] Guem participated in the heats of the men's 1500 metres race in heat one. He finished the race in 13th out of 16 competitors in his heat, with a time 3:40.86, and failed to advanced to the semifinals.[15] Moris participated in round one of the women's 200 metres race in heat two. She finished the race in 25.24 seconds, sixth out of seven in her heat, and failed to advance to the semifinals.[14]
South Sudan sent two athletes in athletics and a basketball team to the 2024 Summer Olympics. The athletics participants were Guem and Moris. They participated in the men's 1500 metres and women's 200 metres, respectively. Guem failed to advanced to the semifinals, however he did qualify for therepechage round.[16] Moris did not finish her race, and failed to advance to the first round.[17] TheSouth Sudan men's national basketball team qualified for themen's basketball tournament by being the highest rank from the African zone in2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.[18] It was the first time that the nation had qualified for an Olympic basketball competition.[19] They failed to advance to the quarterfinals from the group stage.[20]
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–2008 | as part of Sudan (SUD) | |||||
| 2012 London | as part of the Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA) | |||||
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2020 Tokyo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2024 Paris | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2028 Los Angeles | future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |
| Games | Athlete | Sport | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Guor Marial | Athletics | [21] |
| 2020 Tokyo | Abraham Guem | Athletics | |
| Lucia Moris | |||
| 2024 Paris | Kuany Kuany | Basketball | [22] |
| Lucia Moris | Athletics |
However, South Sudan is only a year old and has yet to form a National Olympic Committee of its own.
