There, Rudolf Cvetko became the first Slovene to win an Olympic medal, a silver in the men's team sabre.

Before the Second World War, all of the Olympic medals for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were won by Slovene gymnasts (with the exception of Croatian Dragutin Ciotti who was a member of the bronze medal-winning men's gymnastics all-around team at the 1928 Summer Olympics).

[4] Leon Štukelj was the most prominent pre-war athlete, winning three gold, one silver, and two bronze medals, and he is still the most decorated Slovenian Olympian.

[5] Among post-war Olympians, Miroslav Cerar won two gold and one bronze medals, also in gymnastics.

All of Yugoslavia's Winter Olympic medals (three silver and one bronze) were won by Slovenians with the first being the silver medal of Jure Franko in alpine skiing, won at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, when Yugoslavia hosted the Games.

[68] This list contains Olympic medals won by Slovenian athletes before Slovenia started to participate as an independent country in 1992.

Stojna Vangelovska, a Macedonian basketball player who won silver with women's team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics,[69][70] and Vinko Jelovac, a basketball player born in Croatia who won silver with men's team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics,[71] are sometimes included to lists of Slovenian medalists.