Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: South Sudan bụ akụkụ nke Sudan ruo 2011, mgbe ọ nwetara nnwere onwe mgbe a referendum. Sudan esonyela n'egwuregwu Olimpik kemgbe afọ 1960. N'okpuru iwu IOC, ndị South Sudan NOC erughị eru maka ndị otu IOC ruo mgbe ndị otu egwuregwu mba ha sonyere ma NOC na ndị otu egwuregwu mba ụwa nke egwuregwu Olympic ise. Guor Marial gbara asọmpi dị ka onye na-eme egwuregwu Olympic na 2012 Summer Olympics, na-emecha 47th na
marathon ụmụ nwoke. Margret Rumat Rumat Hassan gbara asọmpi dị ka onye na-eme egwuregwu Olympic na 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Ka ọ na-erule afọ 2015, a matala ndị otu Sudan n'egwuregwu, bọọlụ basketball, bọọlụ bọọlụ, bọọlụ aka, judo, tebụl tebụl na taekwondo. Ndị nnọchi anya egwuregwu ndị a hiwere NOC nke South Sudan na 8 June 2015. Mgbe ndị isi oche ya tụchara aro, IOC nabatara NOC na nnọkọ ya na Kuala Lumpur site na nkwanye ugwu.