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The women's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 3 to 19 August 2016. [1] It was the 6th edition of the women's Olympic football tournament.Together with the men's competition, the 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament was held in six cities in Brazil, including Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the final at the Maracanã Stadium. [2]
The United States entered as the defending Olympic champions while Jamaica was the reigning world champions from 2015, having defeated the Americans there.Great Britain entered with the fastest time recorded that year (3:25.05 minutes), which it had achieved to win the 2016 European title.
The 2016 United States women's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XXXI Olympiad which were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The U.S. women's Olympic team won their eighth gold medal, and sixth consecutive, at the event. The United States defeated Spain in the gold medal final en route to their eighth victory at the event.
This was also the first Olympic women's high jump since 1980 where the winning height was below two metres. A week earlier, while competing in the heptathlon , Katarina Johnson-Thompson had jumped 1.98 m.
The 2016 Summer Olympics women's basketball tournament in Rio de Janeiro, began on 6 August and ended on 20 August 2016. [1] The United States won their eighth total and sixth consecutive gold medal by defeating Spain 101–72 in the final. [2] [3] [4] Serbia captured their first bronze medal after beating France 70–63. [5]
Shaunae Miller of Bahamas was the world leading runner for 2016, followed by 2015 World Champion Allyson Felix. 2012 Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross had failed to make the American team due to a hamstring injury during the American trials.
Semenya becomes the fifth woman to win two medals in the Women's Olympic 800. Since the disqualification of Mariya Savinova from 2012, she has become the first two time gold medalist. The medals were presented by Barbara Kendall , IOC member , New Zealand and Hamad Kalkaba Malboum , Vice President of the IAAF .
Reigning Olympic champion Ye Shiwen missed a chance to defend her title in the final, after finishing twenty-seventh out of thirty-three swimmers in the prelims. [ 5 ] The medals for the competition were presented by Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski , Philippines, IOC member , and the gifts were presented by Husain al-Musallam , First Vice President of ...