Steadily rising since Renée Sintenis and Otto Peltzer became the first known members of the LGBTQIA+ community to take park part in the Amsterdam Olympics of 1928, more than 225 athletes have competed at the Winter and Summer Games to date. Sintenis was the first LGBTQIA+ athlete to win an Olympic medal.
As the chart shows, the last Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 had 75 LGBTQIA+ athletes competing, the most of any Olympiad and reflects a clear upward trend over the last quarter of a century.
