IOC Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The IOC Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, as independent Olympic participants.^[1]

The IOC code is the French acronym "EOR", which stands for Équipe olympique des réfugiés.^[1] This was the second appearance of a refugee team in the summer Olympics, following the 2016 Games.

For the 2020 Games, the team included 29 athletes, up from 10 in the 2016 team. The team comprised athletes originating from 11 nations who currently reside and train across 13 host nations, supported by the IOC's Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes program.^[2]

At the parade of nations, the IOC Team, according to the Japanese script traditional order and English pronunciation Ai Ō Shī of IOC in Japanese, was the second to parade after Greece who traditionally parade first.

Team selection

The team was selected on 8 June 2021,^[1]^[3] represented in the following list, together with each competitor's country of origin and their host National Olympic Committee (NOC).

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Athletics

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events
Men

Women

Badminton

Refugee Olympic Team entered one male player to compete at the Games. Aram Mahmoud competed in the men's singles event after he received an invitation from the IOC.^[4]

Boxing

Key

RSC = Referee stopped contest

Canoeing

Sprint

Cycling

Road

Judo

Mixed

Karate

Kumite

Kata

Shooting

Swimming

Taekwondo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Key:

VT (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by fall.
VB (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by injury (VF for forfeit, VA for withdrawal or disqualification)
PP (ranking points: 3–1 or 1–3) – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
PO (ranking points: 3–0 or 0–3) – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
ST (ranking points: 4–0 or 0–4) – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
SP (ranking points: 4–1 or 1–4) – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.

Greco-Roman

References

^ a b c "29 refugee athletes to send a message of solidarity and hope to the world at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". Retrieved 8 June 2021.
^ "Why is there a Refugee Olympic Team?". International Rescue Committee. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
^ "IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2021.
^ "Aram Mahmoud Makes the Cut for Tokyo 2020". Badminton World Federation. 8 June 2021. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.