Slovenia at the 2020 Summer Olympics

In June 2021, the Olympic Committee of Slovenia officially confirmed 41 competitors who would represent the country at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.^[3] On 4 July 2021, the national men's basketball team won the Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in Kaunas, secured a spot at the Olympic tournament, and bringing the total number of athletes to 53.^[4] Eva Terčelj, a canoeist, and Bojan Tokić, a table tennis player, were chosen as the flag bearers at the opening ceremony. This was the first time in Olympic history that there were two flag bearers, a man and a woman.^[5] Slovenia sent competitors in 14 sports. Apart from the men's basketball team, the sports with five or more competitors were athletics, cycling, canoeing, and judo. Miroslav Cerar, a gymnast who won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, was chosen as the leader of the Slovenian Olympic Team.^[3]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Slovenian athletes won four medals, including one gold. Vasilij Žbogar, a sailor, has since retired from competing. Judokas Tina Trstenjak and Anamari Velenšek returned to the Olympic tournament, as did the canoeist Peter Kauzer. Other potential candidates included cyclists Tadej Pogačar, the incumbent Tour de France winner, and Primož Roglič, the sport climbing champion Janja Garnbret, canoeists Terčelj and Benjamin Savšek, and the discus thrower Kristjan Čeh. The basketball team, the reigning European champions led by the NBA star Luka Dončić, was seen as a team that could reach high.^[6][7]

The first medal event for Slovenia took place on 24 July, the men's road race in cycling. Following an early breakaway, Jan Tratnik led the chase for a long time. In the finish kilometres, Richard Carapaz and Brandon McNulty broke away from the peloton that has by then thinned out. Carapaz won the race while the chase group set themselves up for the sprint for the silver and bronze medals, resulting in an 8-way race for the finish in the final metres of the race. Pogačar won bronze, slightly behind Wout van Aert. Roglič finished 28th with over 6 minutes behind, having still not completely recovered from his fall at Tour de France.^[8][9][10]

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[11]

One Slovenian archer booked a place in the men's individual recurve by finishing in the top four at the Europe Continental Qualification Tournament in Antalya, Turkey.^[12]

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Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Žiga Ravnikar	Men's individual	651	41	Nespoli (ITA) L 0–6	Did not advance

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Slovenian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[13][14]

Track & road events

Field events

Slovenia entered one golfer into the Olympic tournament. Pia Babnik (world no. 301) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the women's event based on the IGF World Rankings.^[21]

Slovenia qualified five judoka (one man and four women) for each of the following weight classes at the Games. All of them, highlighted by Rio 2016 Olympians Adrian Gomboc (men's half-lightweight, 66 kg) and defending champion Tina Trstenjak (women's half-middleweight, 63 kg), were selected among the top 18 judoka of their respective weight classes based on the IJF World Ranking List of June 28, 2021.^[24]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Adrian Gomboc	Men's −66 kg	Mungandu (ZAM) W 10–00	Zantaraia (UKR) W 01–00	An B-u (KOR) L 00–10	Did not advance	Shmailov (ISR) L 00–01	Did not advance	7
Maruša Štangar	Women's −48 kg	Kang Y-j (KOR) W 10–01	Pareto (ARG) L 00–10	Did not advance
Kaja Kajzer	Women's −57 kg	Dorjsuren (MGL) W 01–00	Lien C-l (TPE) W 10–00	Gjakova (KOS) L 00–11	Bye	Nelson-Levy (ISR) W 10–00	Klimkait (CAN) L 00–01	5
Tina Trstenjak	Women's −63 kg	Han H-j (KOR) W 01–00	Cabaña (ESP) W 10–00	Barrios (VEN) W 10–01	Centracchio (ITA) W 10–00	Bye	Agbegnenou (FRA) L 00–01
Anamari Velenšek	Women's +78 kg	Cutro-Kelly (USA) W 11–00	Altheman (BRA) L 00–10	Did not advance

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Slovenian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.^[25]

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Slovenia granted an invitation from ISSF to send two-time Olympian Živa Dvoršak (women's 50 m rifle 3 positions) to the rescheduled Games as the highest-ranked shooter vying for qualification in the ISSF World Olympic Rankings of 6 June 2021.^[26][27]

Slovenia entered two sport climbers into the Olympic tournament. Janja Garnbret qualified directly for the women's combined event, by winning the gold medal and securing one of the seven provisional berths at the 2019 IFSC World Championships in Hachioji, Japan.^[28][29] Meanwhile, Mia Krampl finished in the top six of those eligible for qualification at the IFSC World Qualifying Event in Toulouse, France, earning a quota place and joining with Gambret on the Slovenian roster.^[30]

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Athlete	Event	Qualification									Final
		Speed		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank	Speed		Boulder		Lead			Total	Rank
		Best	Place	Result	Place	Hold	Time	Place			Best	Place	Result	Place	Hold	Time	Place
Janja Garnbret	Women's	9.44	14	4T4z 4 4	1	30	—	4	56.00	4 Q	7.81	5	2T3z 5 3	1	37+	—	1	5
Mia Krampl		10.43	18	0T4z 0 5	14	26+	3:16	7	1764.00	18	Did not advance

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Slovenian swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[31][32]

Slovenia entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. For the first time in history, the men's team secured a berth by advancing to the quarterfinal round of the 2020 World Olympic Qualification Event in Gondomar, Portugal, permitting a maximum of two starters to compete in the men's singles tournament.^[33]

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Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Darko Jorgić	Men's singles	Bye		Robles (ESP) W 4–3	Pitchford (GBR) W 4–2	Harimoto (JPN) W 4–3	Lin Y-j (TPE) L 0–4	Did not advance
Bojan Tokić		Bye	Hazin (CAN) W 4–0	Pucar (CRO) W 4–0	Calderano (BRA) L 1–4	Did not advance
Darko Jorgić Deni Kozul Bojan Tokić	Men's team	—N/a				South Korea L 1–3	Did not advance

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Slovenia entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Games for the first time since London 2012. Ivan Trajkovič qualified directly for the men's heavyweight category (+80 kg) by finishing among the top five taekwondo practitioners at the end of the WT Olympic Rankings.

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Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ivan Trajkovič	Men's +80 kg	Obame (GAB) W 26–5 PTG	Larin (ROC) L 3–16	Did not advance	Taufatofua (TGA) W 22–1 PTG	In K-d (KOR) L 4–5	5

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