The Yugoslav Olympic medalists are athletes who competed and won medals for various Yugoslav entities at the Summer and Winter Olympic games between 1920 and 2002. While being part of Yugoslavia, athletes represented three distinct national entities; the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1920–1936), and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1948–1988) and the FR Yugoslavia (1994–2002). Yugoslavia was a multinational state with six constitutive ethnic groups; Muslims (e.g. Bosniaks), Croatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes, and significant ethnic minorities in Vojvodina (Hungarians) and Kosovo (Albanians). Before the formation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1918, athletes from the region mostly represented Austria or Hungary, with the sole exception being the 1912 Summer Olym