Pakistan at the Olympics

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The Pakistan Olympic Association was created in 1948, while the Pakistan Sports Board was established in 1962. Pakistan first participated in the Olympic Games in 1948 in London, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union. It has participated in every Winter Olympic Games since the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, when alpine skier Mohammad Abbas became the first Pakistani athlete to qualify for a Winter Olympics event. Pakistani athletes have won a total of 11 medals, all in the Summer Olympics, including 4 gold medals. Pakistan's men's field hockey team won eight medals in the nine games it participated in between 1956 and 1992. This included a run of 5 consecutive finals between 1956 and 1972, where the hockey team won 2 gold and 3 silver medals in quick succession. Arshad Nadeem is the only Pakistani athlete to have won an individual Olympic gold medal and set an Olympic record.

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