In the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, Polish athletes won a total of 10 medals, of which only one was gold. The highest number of medals was recorded at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics, at 32. Poland won only one medal at the London Olympics, just after the end of World War II in 1948.
Number of medals won in the Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024
Characteristic
Gold medal
Silver medal
Bronze medal
1924
0
1
1
1928
1
1
3
1932
2
1
4
1936
0
3
3
1948
0
0
1
1952
1
2
1
1956
1
4
4
1960
4
6
11
1964
7
6
19
1968
5
2
11
1972
7
5
9
1976
7
6
13
1980
3
14
15
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Poland did not participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and was among a group of countries (along with Afghanistan, Angola, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Iran, DPRK, Cuba, Laos, Mongolia, Libya, East Germany, Hungary, Vietnam, and the USSR) that did not accept the IOC's invitation to participate in the Games.
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Polski Komitet Olimpijski. (August 11, 2024). Number of medals won in the Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 09, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1490341/poland-medals-won-in-the-summer-olympic-games/
Polski Komitet Olimpijski. "Number of medals won in the Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024." Chart. August 11, 2024. Statista. Accessed May 09, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1490341/poland-medals-won-in-the-summer-olympic-games/
Polski Komitet Olimpijski. (2024). Number of medals won in the Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 09, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1490341/poland-medals-won-in-the-summer-olympic-games/
Polski Komitet Olimpijski. "Number of Medals Won in The Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024." Statista, Statista Inc., 11 Aug 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1490341/poland-medals-won-in-the-summer-olympic-games/
Polski Komitet Olimpijski, Number of medals won in the Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1490341/poland-medals-won-in-the-summer-olympic-games/ (last visited May 09, 2025)
Number of medals won in the Summer Olympic Games by Poland from 1924 to 2024 [Graph], Polski Komitet Olimpijski, August 11, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1490341/poland-medals-won-in-the-summer-olympic-games/
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