Teams from Yugoslavia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920.
Yugoslavia has been the designation for Olympic teams from three distinct national entities: •
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (officially called the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1929) from 1920 to 1936 •
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1948 to the
1992 Winter Olympics •
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, formed as a joint state by only Montenegro and Serbia after the
breakup of Yugoslavia, from 1996 to 2002 The
United Nations affirmed that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had ceased to exist, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) was a new state. All former republics were entitled to state succession, while none of them continued SFR Yugoslavia's international legal personality. As a result of the U.N. resolution, individual FRY athletes were allowed to compete as
Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and FRY was not allowed to compete at the
1994 Winter Olympics. The
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting of the
Republic of Serbia and the
Republic of Montenegro, participated at the Games since 1996. At the 1996 Games, the nation was designated with the same code,
Yugoslavia (YUG), as the defunct
SFRY. It was rechartered as the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 with there being no territorial changes. The
Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) designation and code were used at the 2004 summer games and 2006 winter games. Two of the successor nations (
Croatia and
Slovenia) began to compete as independent teams at the Olympics starting at the 1992 Winter Games and
Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1992 Summer Games and as of the
2008 Summer Olympics, all six successor nations, former socialist republics, have participated independently.
Kosovo, a former autonomous province, made its Olympic debut as an independent national team at the
2016 Summer Olympics. ==See also==