Syrian diver Zouheir Shourbagi, the sole competitor, placed 10th in the men's platform.

[1] Syria then missed the next four Olympiads (though in 1960 the nation competed with Egypt as part of the United Arab Republic).

[2] Syria returned to the Olympics in Mexico in 1968 for the first time and missed only at Montreal in 1976.

[3] During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ghada Shouaa won Syria's first gold medal in heptathlon with a total of 6,780 points.

[5] Finally, the fourth medal was achieved by national weightlifter Man Asaad in the weightlifting competitions, as it was a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.