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Montenegro participated at the Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation in 2008, at the Beijing Games. Previously, Montenegrin athletes have competed as part of Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 and as part of Yugoslavia before that.

The National Olympic Committee for Montenegro is the Montenegrin Olympic Committee. It was created in 2006 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 2007.

On August 11, 2012, Montenegro won its first ever Olympic medal as an independent country, taking silver in women's handball.

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Silver	Montenegro women's national handball team Sonja Barjaktarović Anđela Bulatović Katarina Bulatović Ana Đokić Marija Jovanović Milena Knežević Suzana Lazović Majda Mehmedović Radmila Miljanić Bojana Popović Jovanka Radičević Ana Radović Maja Savić Jasna Tošković Marina Vukčević	2012 London	Handball	Women's tournament

Before the 2012 Olympic Games, several other athletes from the Socialist Republic of Montenegro and Republic of Montenegro have also won Olympic medals in five different sports as part of teams representing Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro at the Olympics, but none as individual competitors.^[1]

Medal	Games	Sport	Team	Name
Silver	1952 Helsinki	Water polo	Men	Boško Vuksanović
Silver	1956 Melbourne	Football	Men	Nikola Radović
Silver	1956 Melbourne	Water polo	Men	Boško Vuksanović
Silver	1964 Tokyo	Water polo	Men	Boris Čukvas, Milan Muškatirović, Božidar Stanišić
Gold	1968 Mexico City	Water polo	Men	Dejan Dabović, Đorđe Perišić
Silver	1976 Montreal	Basketball	Men	Žarko Varajić, Rajko Žižić
Gold	1980 Moscow	Basketball	Men	Ratko Radovanović, Rajko Žižić
Silver	1980 Moscow	Water polo	Men	Milivoj Bebić, Zoran Gopčević, Milorad Krivokapić, Zoran Mustur
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Handball	Women	Svetlana Mugoša, Ljiljana Mugoša, Zorica Pavićević
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Handball	Men	Veselin Vujović
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Water polo	Men	Milorad Krivokapić, Andrija Popović
Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Basketball	Men	Ratko Radovanović, Rajko Žižić
Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	Football	Men	Ljubomir Radanović
Gold	1988 Seoul	Water polo	Men	Igor Gočanin, Mirko Vičević
Silver	1988 Seoul	Basketball	Men	Zdravko Radulović, Žarko Paspalj
Bronze	1988 Seoul	Handball	Men	Veselin Vujović
Silver	1996 Atlanta	Basketball	Men	Žarko Paspalj
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Volleyball	Men	Goran Vujević, Vladimir Batez
Gold	2000 Sydney	Volleyball	Men	Goran Vujević, Igor Vušurović, Vladimir Batez
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Water polo	Men	Veljko Uskoković, Nenad Vukanić
Silver	2004 Athens	Water polo	Men	Vladimir Gojković, Predrag Jokić

• List of flag bearers for Montenegro at the Olympics
• Montenegro at the Paralympics

• "Montenegro". International Olympic Committee.
• "Montenegro". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/MNE". olympanalyt.com.
• "Winners of the Medals from Montenegro". Montenegrin Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
• "Yugoslav Olympic medallists by sports". Olympic Committee of Serbia. Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2008-01-14.