Sport in Kosovo

Popular team sports in Kosovo include football, basketball, volleyball, handball, and rugby, whereas major individual sports include wrestling, judo, swimming, boxing, karate and skiing.

Kosovo has seen more success internationally in individual sports, in particular judo, with 66 medals won in total, including 36 European medals, three Olympic gold medals, as well as nine World Judo medals and nine medals at the Mediterranean Games.

Previously, boxing had a high-profile role in Kosovo when it was part of the former Yugoslavia, winning 22 medals overall. Boxers from Kosovo won nine medals at the Mediterranean Games (three were gold medals) followed by seven medals in European Boxing, four medals in World Boxing and one Olympic bronze medal in 1984 by Aziz Salihu. Donjeta Sadiku would win the first ever gold medal for Kosovo at the Female Boxing World Cup in Warsaw (the first gold medal for the country in boxing since their Independence).

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