The 45 men competed in athletics, Boxing, Fencing, Cycling, Modern pentathlon, Shooting and Football.

The football selection met in the preliminary round the team from West Germany, which later won bronze, and lost 1–4.

At 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, in which a sports sailor competed for the first time, were unsuccessful for the Tunisian team.

Oussama Mellouli won bronze in the 1500 meter freestyle and became Olympic champion in the 10 km open water swim.

[13][14] He is also the first swimmer to win both indoor (1500m freestyle in Beijing 2008) and outdoor (10 km open water 2012 in London) olympic gold medals.

Inès Boubakri was sixth in the foil, epee fencer Sarra Besbes eighth, her sister Azza Bebes ninth with the sabre.

At 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Tunisian team won three bronze medals.

Inès Boubakri won her medal in foil fencing,[16] Marwa Amri in freestyle wrestling in the 58 kg class and Oussama Oueslati in welterweight taekwondo.

[17] Beach volleyball players from Tunisia competed in Rio de Janeiro for the first time.

[20][21] At 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Tunisia has three medals at the Games, with Farès Ferjani winning silver in the individual men's sabre event[22] and Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi capturing the bronze in the men's 58 kg event, the latter becoming the first Tunisian to score back-to-back medals in taekwondo during the Olympics.

Firas Katoussi would follow suit with the country's first gold medal in the Taekwondo men's 80 kg event.