The IOC Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan as independent Olympic participants.
A total of 29 athletes including 19 men and 10 women from 11 different nations competed in 12 different sports including athletics, badminton, boxing, canoeing, cycling, judo, karate, shooting, swimming, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling. The team included refugees from Afghanistan, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Venezuela.
The IOC code is the French acronym "EOR", which stands for . This was the second appearance of a refugee team in the summer Olympics, following the 2016 Summer Olympics.
For the 2020 Games, the team included 29 athletes, up from 10 in the 2016 team. The team comprised athletes originating from 11 nations who currently reside and train across 13 host nations, supported by the IOC's Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes program.
At the parade of nations, the IOC Team, according to the Japanese script traditional order and English pronunciation of IOC in Japanese, was the second to parade after Greece who traditionally parade first.
The team was selected on 8 June 2021.
In total, 29 refugee athletes competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
In total seven refugee athletes took part in the athletics events.
In total one refugee athlete took part in the badminton events.
Aram Mahmoud competed in the men's singles event after he received an invitation from the IOC.
In total two refugee athletes took part in the boxing events.
In total one refugee athlete took part in the canoeing events.
In total two refugee athletes took part in the cycling events.
In total six refugee athletes took part in the judo events.
In total two refugee athletes took part in the karate events.
In total one refugee athlete took part in the shooting events.
In total two refugee athletes took part in the swimming events.
In total three refugee athletes took part in the taekwondo events.
In total one refugee athlete took part in the weightlifting events.
In total one refugee athlete took part in the wrestling events.