Team Sudan - Profile

Highlights: Sudan made its first Olympic appearance in 1960, but it was not until 2008 that the NOC won its first medal. In Beijing, Ismail Ahmed Ismail took silver in the men's 800m athletics event, finishing just five-hundredths of a second behind the gold medallist Wilfred Bungei from Kenya. Beijing was Ismail's second Olympic Games, and he went on to compete again in London but could not repeat his medal-winning heroics.

Before Ismail's Beijing 2008 effort, Sudan's best Olympic result was recorded by triple jumper Yamile Aldama who leapt 14.99m in the final in Athens, finishing fifth.

A six-member team of four men and two women represented Sudan in athletics, judo and swimming at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Anthem Title: "Nahnu Djundulla Djundulwatan" [We are the Army of God and of Our Land].

Anthem Composer: Words by Sayed Ahmad Muhammad Salih. Music by Ahmad Murjan.

Anthem Inducted: 1956

Official NOC Name: Sudan Olympic Committee

Founding Date: 1956

IOC Recognition Date: 1959

Delegation President: Hashim Haroun Ahmed

Delegation Secretary General: Hussam Hashim Khojaly

First OG/PG Appearance: 1960

Number OG/PG Appearances: 13 [Tokyo 2020 included]

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