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Indonesia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.This was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The National Sports Committee of Indonesia (Indonesian: Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia, KONI) confirmed a team of 28 athletes, 17 men and 11 women, to compete across seven sports at the Games.
New Zealand competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.This was the nation's twenty-third appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since.
for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. MIX Mixed-NOCs: 2010– Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics ...
New Zealand: 4.80 m =NR: Long jump details: Tianna Bartoletta United States: 7.17 m Brittney Reese United States: 7.15 m Ivana Španović Serbia: 7.08 m NR: Triple jump details: Caterine Ibargüen Colombia: 15.17 m Yulimar Rojas Venezuela: 14.98 m Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan: 14.74 m Shot put details: Michelle Carter United States: 20.63 m Valerie ...
Indonesia first participated in the Olympic Games in 1952 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for two; in 1964 due to controversy around the 1962 Asian Games when they banned Israel and the then-internationally recognized Republic of China which resulted in a ban for their track and field team, and in 1980, when they participated in the U.S.-led ...
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), [C] officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Portuguese: Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
Before this, at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics, New Zealand and Australian athletes competed together in a combined Australasia team. New Zealand has also participated in most Winter Olympic Games since 1952, missing only the 1956 and 1964 Games. The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) is the National Olympic Committee for New Zealand.
New Zealand Olympic medallists' success for New Zealand at the Olympics is often considered to be notable due to the relatively small population of the country (5.34 million as of June 2024). Being located in the remote South Pacific , New Zealanders needed to endure long sea voyages to attend the early Olympics.