Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics

[3][9] The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada attracted many tropical nations, including Costa Rica, Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.

In the 1994 Winter Olympics six years later, the Jamaican four-man sled placed a creditable fourteenth, ahead of the United States and Russia, while Jamaican-born bobsledder Lascelles Brown won silver for Canada in 2006.

[12] The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada saw the debut of the Cayman Islands, Colombia, Peru,[13] and Ghana.

[15] Two years later, he attracted media attention again when it was discovered he had altered his name to that of one of his sponsors, a lingerie firm, as a marketing stunt.

In the 2020 edition, Diego Amaya from Colombia won the silver medal in the boys' mass start speed skating.

This was the first time in history that an athlete from a tropical nation and a Latin American won a medal at an Olympic winter event.

[20] Four years later, Zion Bethônico from Brazil won the bronze medal in the men's snowboard cross event.

The team from Ghana during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics .
In 2014, Michael Christian Martinez became the first Filipino , the first Southeast Asian , and the first male figure skater from a tropical country in the Winter Olympics, as well as the first Philippine Winter Olympian in 22 years.
World map with tropical latitudes highlighted in red
World map with tropical climates highlighted in red
Philip Boit was the first Kenyan to participate in the Winter Olympics.
Lamine Guèye, the first Black African skier to take part in a Winter Olympics.