Monaco first appeared in the quadrennial Mediterranean Games event in 1955; 70 years ago (1955) in Barcelona.

Monaco's first medal came in 1963 in Naples, a bronze won by sailors Gérard Battaglia and Jean-Pierre Crovetto in the Snipe category.

Along with Jules Soccal, they had competed three years earlier in the Dragon event as part of the 1960 Rome Olympics which also took place in the Gulf of Naples, where they finished 23rd.

[1] Monaco's second medal came 46 years later, in the 2009 Mediterranean Games at Pescara, with judoka Yann Siccardi winning silver in the 60 kg event.

In 2018 in Tarragona Lucas Catarina won silver in the men's tennis tournament, and the Chinese-born table tennis player Xiaoxin Yang added another silver in the women's singles tournament.