Tanzania
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Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania Swahili: , is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda,
Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia,
Malawi, and Mozambique to the south.
The country's eastern border lies on the Indian Ocean.
Capital: Dodoma
Currency: Tanzanian shilling
Population: 46,218,486 (2011)
Tanzania at the olympics
Tanzania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1964, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 Games. The nation has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
Tanzanian athletes have won a total of two medals, both in athletics.
The résumé of Olympic events in which Tanzania has officially participated has been a static entity for most of the country's Olympic career, at least until recently. The country has in recent years began to diversify the body of its participating athletes. Tanzania introduced itself to the Olympic swimming community at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing, with its first ever team, which included the nation's first female athlete competing in a sport outside the country's familiar realm of athletics. Tanzania also included female swimming its team sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Despite the diversification of the nation's Olympic participation, the athlete body of the country's Olympic
The National Olympic Committee for Tanzania was created in 1968 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year.
The 2012
Olympic team
Flag Bearers
1964= -
1972= Cleaver Kamanya
1980= -
1984= Micheal Nassoro
1988= -
1992= -
1996= Ikaji Salum
2000= Restituta Joseph
2004= Restituta Joseph
2008= Fabian Naasi
2012= Zakia Mrisho Mohamed
The medals that
Tanzania have won
2 Swimmers
3 Track and field Athletes
1 Boxer