North Macedonia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1996 under the official name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and has sent athletes to compete in every edition of both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games (first appeared in Nagano 1998) since then. Until 1988, Macedonian athletes competed for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in 1992, as part of the Independent Olympic Participants.
North Macedonian athletes have won a total of two medals in the post-Yugoslav era at the Summer Olympic Games, including a bronze from freestyle wrestler Mogamed Ibragimov in the men's 85 kg at Sydney 2000 and a silver from taekwondo fighter Dejan Georgievski in the men's heavyweight category at Tokyo 2020.
The provisional appellation of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was used until 2018 in the context of the Macedonia naming dispute.
