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'''[[Zambia]]''' participated for the first time at the [[Olympic Games]] under the current name in 1968, and has since taken part in every [[Summer Olympic Games]] with the exception of 1976. Previously, it competed as [[Northern Rhodesia at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Northern Rhodesia]] in 1964 and under the banner of [[Rhodesia at the 1960 Summer Olympics|Rhodesia]] in 1960. Zambia has never sent athletes to compete in the [[Winter Olympic Games]]. 

Zambian athletes have won two medals in two sports. Boxer [[Keith Mwila]] won the country's first Olympic medal, a bronze, in the light flyweight category at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]], and twelve years later, [[Samuel Matete]] secured the silver medal in the men's 400 metres hurdles.

The [[National Olympic Committee]] of Zambia (NOCZ) was created in 1951 and recognised by the [[International Olympic Committee]] in 1963.

== Medal tables ==
=== Medals by Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"
|-
!Games
!Athletes
|style="background:gold; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Gold
|style="background:silver; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Silver
|style="background:#cc9966; width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Bronze
!style="width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|Total
!style="width:4.5em; font-weight:bold;"|[[Olympic medal table|Rank]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1960}} || colspan=6|''as part of {{flagIOCteam|RHO|1960 Summer}}''
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1964}} || 12 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[1964 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1968}} || 7 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[1968 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1972}} || 14 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[1972 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1976}} ||colspan=6|''did not participate''
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1980}} || 40 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[1980 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1984}} || 16 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || [[1984 Summer Olympics medal table|43]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1988}} || 31 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[1988 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1992}} || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[1992 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|1996}} || 8 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1 || [[1996 Summer Olympics medal table|61]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|2000}} || 8 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[2000 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|2004}} || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[2004 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|2008}} || 8 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[2008 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|2012}} || 7 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || [[2012 Summer Olympics medal table|–]]
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesName|SOG|2016}} ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||
|- 
!colspan=2| Total !! 0 !! 1 !! 1 !! 2 !! [[All-time Olympic Games medal table|118]]
|}

=== Medals by sport ===
{| {{MedalTable|type=Sport}}
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesSport|Athletics|Format=d}} || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align="left"| {{GamesSport|Boxing|Format=d}} || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
! Total !! 0 !! 1 !! 1 !! 2
|}

== List of medalists ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!style="width:5em"| Medal
!style="width:15em"| Name
!style="width:15em"| Games
!style="width:15em"| Sport
!style="width:15em"| Event
|-
| {{silver medal}} || {{sortname|Samuel|Matete}} || {{GamesName|SOG|1996}} || [[File:Athletics pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Athletics]] || [[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres hurdles|Men's 400 metres hurdles]]
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || {{sortname|Keith|Mwila}} || {{GamesName|SOG|1984}} || [[File:Boxing pictogram.svg|20px]] [[Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Boxing]] || [[Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics#Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)|Light flyweight (–48 kg)]]
|}

==See also==
* [[Zambia at the Paralympics]]
* [[List of flag bearers for Zambia at the Olympics]]

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Zambia |publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=http://www.olympic.org/zambia }}
* {{IOC medals|NOC=ZAM}}
* {{cite web |title=Olympic Medal Winners |publisher=International Olympic Committee |url=http://www.olympic.org/athletes?search=1&countryname=zambia }}
* {{cite web |title=Zambia |publisher=Sports-Reference.com |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ZAM }}
* {{cite web|title=Digital Library Collection – Official Olympic Reports|url=http://search.la84.org/|work=la84.org|publisher=LA84 Foundation|accessdate=18 February 2014}} 

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