Highlights
Montenegro competed for the first time as a separate nation at the Beijing 2008 Games, sending a team of 19 in six sports. They did not collect a medal, although the men's water polo team finished fourth.
From 1996 to 2004, they competed as part of Serbia Montenegro. Zarko PASPALJ was a silver medallist with the men's basketball team at the Atlanta 1996 Games. He also took silver with Yugoslavia in 1988.
Goran VUJEVIC was a member of the gold medal-winning men's volleyball team at Sydney 2000.
Water polo players Veljko USKOKOVIC and Nenad VUKANIC took bronze in 2000, and at Athens 2004, Vladimir GOJKOVIC and Pedrag JOKIC were part of the squad that grabbed the silver.
Before 1992, all athletes from Montenegro represented Yugoslavia. Dejan DABOVIC was part of the Mexico City 1968 water polo gold medal-winning team.
His teammate Borde PERISIC competed in four Olympic Games from 1960-1972. In Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964 he competed as a swimmer before making the water polo team in 1968 and 1972.
Sisters Lijjana MUGOSA and Svetlana MUGOSA ANTIC won gold as part of the Yugoslavian handball team at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Anthem: Title
Oj, svijetla majska zoro (Oh Bright Dawn of May)
Anthem: Year of Induction
2004
Anthem: Composer
Composer unknown , from a popular folk song
Official NOC name
Montenegro
IOC recognition date
2007
NOC President's name
Mr Dusan SIMONOVIC
Year of first appearance in an Olympic Games
2008
Number of appearances in Olympic Games
2, including London 2012
