Algeria first competed at the Olympic Games in 1964, and has participated in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics. Algeria has also sent athletes to the Winter Olympic Games on three occasions. The National Olympic Committee for Algeria is the Comité Olympique Algérien (Algerian Olympic Committee), founded in 1963.

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Algeria at the Olympics
IOC code	ALG
NOC	Algerian Olympic Committee
Website	www.coa.dz
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 8 Total 17
Summer appearances
1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1992 1994–2002 2006 2010 2014–2022
Other related appearances
France (1896–1960)

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Before independence during the French Algeria period, the Algerian athletes were participating with France, among the most famous, the gold medalists Boughera El Ouafi in 1928, Alain Mimoun in 1956 and many others.^[1]

After independence in 1962, Algeria participated in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Summer Olympics with gymnast Mohamed Lazhari. Algeria withdrew from the 1976 Summer Olympics due to the refusal of the IOC to ban countries who had competed in South Africa amidst its apartheid policies.^[2][3] Almost every nation in Africa participated in the boycott. South Africa itself had been banned from the Olympics since 1964.

In the 1980 Summer Olympics Algeria participated for the first time in a team sport, competing in both football and handball. Their first medal came at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where Mustapha Moussa won bronze in boxing.^[4][5]

Only two Algerian athlete have won two medals in the history of the Olympic Games: middle-distance runner Taoufik Makhloufi and boxer Hocine Soltani.

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Athlete	Sport	Games				Total
Taoufik Makhloufi	Athletics	2012–2016	1	2	0	3
Hocine Soltani	Boxing	1992–1996	1	0	1	2

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Notes: in Khaki the athletes still in activity.

In this table (sorted by individual totals gold medals), the men who have won gold individual medals at the Olympics (but also at the World Championships).

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	Athlete	Sport	Born	Period	Individual						Team						Total
					Olympics			World Ch.			Olympics			World Ch.			Individual			Team			Individual + Team
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1	Noureddine Morceli	Athletics	1970	1988–1998	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	4
2	Taoufik Makhloufi	Athletics	1988	2007–	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	4
3	Hassiba Boulmerka	Athletics	1968	1988–1997	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	4
4	Hocine Soltani	Boxing	1972	1991–2000	1	0	1	0	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	1	0	2	-	-	-	1	0	2	3
5	Nouria Merah-Benida	Athletics	1970	1996–2006	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1

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Notes: in Khaki the athletes still in activity.

• Algeria national athletics team
• List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
• List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games
• Category:Olympic competitors for Algeria
• Algeria at the Paralympics
• Algeria at the African Games
• Algeria at the Mediterranean Games
• Algeria at the Arab Games
• Algeria at the Islamic Solidarity Games