Lebanese Swimming at the Olympics

For the first time in history, a Lebanese swimming team attended the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico, with one male swimmer attending the event (Yacoub Masboungi).^[1] The first female Lebanese swimmer to attend an Olympics was Ani Jane Mugrditchian, at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

The Lebanese swimming team never advanced past Heats and never won any medals.

Olympics	Swimmer	Event	Heat Result	Ranking	Ref
1968 Summer Olympics Mexico	Yacoub Masboungi	100 Freestyle	1:00.5	58th of 64	^[2]
1968 Summer Olympics Mexico	Yacoub Masboungi	100 Backstroke	1:11.6	34th of 37	^[3]
1972 Summer Olympics Munich (West Germany)	Bruno Bassoul	100 Freestyle	1:00.08	47th of 48	^[4]
		100 Breaststroke	1:19.94	44th of 44	^[5]
		100 Butterfly	1:05.45	38th of 39	^[6]
		200 Individual Medley	2:27.78	35th of 40	^[7]
1980 Summer Olympics Moscow (USSR)	Bilall Yamout	100 Freestyle	1:03.48	37th of 39	^[8]
	Bilall Yamout	200 Freestyle	2:27.94	41st of 42	^[9]
	Ibrahim El-Baba	100 Butterfly	1:05.20	30th of 34	^[10]
1984 Summer Olympics Los Angeles	Percy Sayegh	100 Freestyle	1:01.88	66th of 68	^[11]
	Percy Sayegh	200 Freestyle	2:20.76	55th of 56	^[12]
	Rami Kantari	100 Freestyle	1:01.96	67th of 68	^[13]
		200 Freestyle	2:25.43	56th of 56	^[14]
		100 Backstroke	-	DSQ	^[15]
	Ibrahim El-Baba	100 Backstroke	1:13.76	44th of 44	^[16]
	Ibrahim El-Baba	100 Butterfly	1:04.48	47th of 53	^[17]
	Amine El-Domyati	100 Breaststroke	1:19.10	50th of 50	^[18]
1988 Summer Olympics Seoul	Rami Kantari	100 Backstroke	1:09.35	50th of 52	^[19]
		200 Backstroke	2:40.29	41st of 41	^[20]
		200 Individual Medley	2:34.53	56th of 56	^[21]
	Amine El-Domyati	50 Freestyle	27.34	67th of 69	^[22]
		100 Breaststroke	1:14.40	57th of 61	^[23]
		200 Breaststroke	2:44.34	51st of 52	^[24]
	Emile Lahoud	100 Freestyle	1:02.40	75th of 76	^[25]
		200 Freestyle	2:16.39	63rd of 63	^[26]
		400 Freestyle	4:47.09	48th of 49	^[27]
1992 Summer Olympics Barcelona	Emile Lahoud	50 Freestyle	25.76	61st of 72	^[28]
		100 Freestyle	55.51	63rd of 75	^[29]
		200 Freestyle	2:01.06	47th of 54	^[30]
		200 Individual Medley	2:22.08	47th of 52	^[31]
2000 Summer Olympics Sydney	Ragi Edde	100 Freestyle	59.26	68th of 71	^[32]
2004 Summer Olympics Athens	Abed Rahman Kaaki	50 Freestyle	24.68	57th of 83	^[33]
2008 Summer Olympics Beijing	Wael Koubrousli	100 Breaststroke	1:06.22	57th of 63	^[34]
2012 Summer Olympics London	Wael Koubrousli	100 Breaststroke	1:07.06	44th of 44	^[35]
2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro	Anthony Barbar	50 Freestyle	23.77	50th of 85	^[36]
2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo	Munzer Kabbara	200 Individual Medley	2:03.08	41st of 45	^[37]
2024 Summer Olympics Paris	Simon Doueihy	100 Freestyle	50.10	42nd of 79	^[38]

Olympics	Swimmer	Event	Heat Result	Ranking	Ref
1972 Summer Olympics Munich (West Germany)	Ani Jane Mugrditchian	100 Breaststroke	1:29.71	40th of 40	^[39]
1988 Summer Olympics Seoul	Nancy Khalaf	50 Freestyle	30.77	50th of 50	^[40]
1988 Summer Olympics Seoul	Nancy Khalaf	100 Freestyle	1:06.73	56th of 57	^[41]
2000 Summer Olympics Sydney	Rola El Haress	100 Freestyle	1:03.26	48th of 54	^[42]
2004 Summer Olympics Athens	Ghazal El Jobeili	50 Freestyle	31.00	63rd of 73	^[43]
2008 Summer Olympics Beijing	Nibal Yamout	100 Breaststroke	1:16.17	45th of 49	^[44]
2012 Summer Olympics London	Katya Bachrouche	800 Freestyle	8:35.88	19th of 35	^[45]
2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro	Gabriella Doueihy	400 Freestyle	4:31.21	31st of 32	^[46]
2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo	Gabriella Doueihy	200 Freestyle	2:11.29	29th of 29	^[47]
2024 Summer Olympics Paris	Lynn El Hajj	100 Breaststroke	1:10.27	31st of 37	^[48]

Lebanese Swimming at the Olympics

Women's Participations at Summer Olympics

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