Belarus competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Belarusian athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Gold

• Ekaterina Karsten — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls

Silver

• Vladimir Dubrovshchik — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw

• Natalya Sazanovich — Athletics, Women's Heptathlon

• Igor Basinsky — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol

• Aleksandr Pavlov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Sergei Lishtvan — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight (100 kg)

• Aleksey Medvedev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight (> 100 kg)

Bronze

• Vasiliy Kaptyukh — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw

• Ellina Zvereva — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw

• Vitaly Scherbo — Gymnastics, Men's All-around Individual

• Vitaly Scherbo — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

• Vitaly Scherbo — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault

• Yelena Mikulich, Marina Znak, Natalya Volchek, Natalia Stasyuk, Tamara Davydenko, Valentina Skrabatun, Natalya Lavrinenko, Yaroslava Pavlovich, and Aleksandra Pankina — Rowing, Women's Eights [In 2000, Stasyuk and Lavrinenko were banned for life from the sport of rowing for steroid use.]

• Valery Tsilent — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (82 kg)

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Results by event

Archery

In its debut Olympic archery competition, Belarus was represented by two women. Their combined record was 4-2 as Olga Yakusheva made it to the quarterfinals before being defeated.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Olga Yakusheva - quarterfinal, 5th place (3-1)
• Olga Zabugina - round of 32, 31st place (1-1)

Athletics

Men's Decathlon

• Eduard Hamalainen

* Final Result — 8613 points (→ 5th place)

Men's Pole Vault

• Dmitriy Markov

* Qualification — 5.60m

* Final — 5.86m (→ 6th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Igor Astapkovich

* Qualification — 78.52m

* Final — 78.20m (→ 7th place)

• Sergey Alay

* Qualification — 75.10m

* Final — 77.38m (→ 8th place)

• Aleksandr Krasko

* Qualification — 73.74m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

• Dmitriy Goncharuk

* Qualification — 19.57m

* Final — 19.79m (→ 9th place)

• Viktor Bulat

* Qualification — 17.29m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

• Vladimir Dubrovshchik

* Qualification — 63.22m

* Final — 66.60m (→ Silver Medal)

• Vasiliy Kaptyukh

* Qualification — 62.22m

* Final — 65.80m (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 20 km Walk

• Yevgeniy Misyulya — 1:21:16 (→ 9th place)

• Mikhail Khmelnitskiy — 1:22:17 (→ 12th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Viktor Ginko — 3:45:27 (→ 5th place)

• Yevgeniy Misyulya — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 400m Hurdles

• Tanya Ledovskaya

* Qualification — 55.82

* Semifinals — 54.99 (→ did not advance)

• Nelli Voronkova

* Qualification — 56.97 (→ did not advance)

• Tanya Kurochkina

* Qualification — 57.28 (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

• Anzhela Atroschenko

* Qualification — 5.94m (→ did not advance)

• Natasha Sazanovich

* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Tatyana Khramova

* Qualification — 1.90m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Natasha Shikolenko

* Qualification — 62.32m

* Final — 58.56m (→ 12th place)

Women's Discus Throw

• Elyna Zvereva

* Qualification — 62.74m

* Final — 65.64m (→ Bronze Medal)

• Ira Yatchenko

* Qualification — 62.04m

* Final — 60.46m (→ 12th place)

• Lyudmila Filimonova

* Qualification — 53.30m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Natalya Sazanovich

* Final Result — 6563 points (→ Silver Medal)

Women's Marathon

• Yelena Mazovka — 2:36.22 (→ 24th place)
• Natalia Galuchko — 2:44.21 (→ 50th place)
• Madina Biktagirova — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10 km Walk

• Olga Kardopoltseva — 43:02 (→ 6th place)
• Valentina Tsybulskaya — 43:21 (→ 8th place)
• Nataliya Misyulya — 45:11 (→ 17th place)

Boxing

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

• Serguei Ostrochapkine
  1. First Round — Lost to Dennis Zimba (Zambia), referee stopped contest in third round

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

• Sergey Bykovsky
  1. First Round — Defeated Besiki Wardzetashvili (Georgia), 11-11 (referee decision)
  2. Second Round — Lost to Nordine Mouichi (France), 6-17

Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

• Vadim Mezga
  1. First Round — Defeated Lucas Sinoia (Mozambique), 11-6
  2. Second Round — Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba), 2-12

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Serguei Dychkov
  1. First Round — Defeated Romans Kuklins (Latvia), 16-6
  2. Second Round — Defeated Garth da Silva (New Zealand), 12-8
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Luan Krasniqi (Germany), 5-10

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

• Sergei Liakhovich
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Lost to Paea Wolfgramm (Tonga), 9-10

Cycling

Women's Individual Road Race

• Zinaida Stagurskaya

* Final — 02:37:06 (→ 14th place)

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

• Andrey Semenyuk

* Preliminary Heat — 385.32

* Semi Final — 202.23

* Final — 393.33 (→ 10th place)

• Vyacheslav Khamulkin

* Preliminary Heat — 331.86 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 3m Springboard

• Svetlana Alekseyeva

* Preliminary Heat — 246.27

* Semi Final — 200.37 (→ did not advance, 14th place)

Gymnastics

Women's Rhythmic Individual Competition

• Larissa Loukianenko → 7th place (38.666 points)
• Tatyana Ogryzko → 8th place (38.530 points)

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Oleg Rukhlevich
  1. Heat – 23.12 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

• Dimitri Kalinovski
  1. Heat – 23.61 (→ did not advance, 38th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Oleg Rukhlevich
  1. Heat – 50.42 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

• Sergei Mikhnovets
  1. Heat – 15:41.80 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Alexei Kriventsov
  1. Heat – 1:04.20 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Aleksandr Gukov
  1. Heat – 2:17.49 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle

• Alena Popchanka
  1. Heat – 27.18 (→ did not advance, 40th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Svetlana Zhidko
  1. Heat – 58.64 (→ did not advance, 40th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Inga Borodich
  1. Heat – 2:05.85 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

• Elena Rudkovskaya
  1. Heat – 1:13.71 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• Natalya Baranovskaya
  1. Heat – 1:04.09 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

• Svetlana Zhidko, Inga Borodich, Natalya Baranovskaya, and Alena Popchanka
  1. Heat – 3:50.22 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Svetlana Zhidko, Inga Borodich, Natalya Baranovskaya, and Alena Popchanka
  1. Heat – 8:21.70 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition

• Natasha Zvereva
  1. First round — Defeated Sabine Appelmans (Belgium) 7-5 6-3
  2. Second round — Defeated Amanda Coetzer (South Africa) 6-1 4-6 6-2
  3. Third round — Lost to Conchita Martinez (Spain) 2-6 5-7

Weightlifting

Men's Bantamweight

• Viktor Sinyak

Men's Middleweight

• Leonid Lobachev
• Oleg Kechko

Men's Middle-Heavyweight

• Vladimir Khlud
• Viktor Belyatsky

Men's Heavyweight I

• Oleg Chiritso

Men's Heavyweight II (– 108 kg)

• Vladimir Yemelyanov

*Snatch — 187.5 kg

*Clean & Jerk — 220.0 kg

*Total — 407.5 kg (→ 4th place)

• Gennadiy Shchekalo

*Snatch — 175.0 kg

*Clean & Jerk — no mark

*Total — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Super-Heavyweight (+ 108 kg)

• Aleksandr Kurlovich

References