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Ballooning

Activity of flying gas and hot air balloons

—country of origin
—first recorded
1900†former Olympic sport
—disciplines & variants
—international bodies

Ballooning is an air sport. It was contested at the Olympic Games in 1900.

PractitionersBalloonist
Olympic statusFormer Olympic sport · 1900
Ballooning
Image: Rudolf H. Boettcher · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olympic Games

Olympic history

Editions where Ballooning or one of its disciplines was on the programme. Filled boxes mark the sport itself, outlined ones its disciplines; the small number is the count of medal events where recorded.

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