Angola competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of its participation in the Soviet boycott.
The Angolan Olympic Committee (Portuguese: Comité Olímpico Angolano) selected a total of 25 athletes, 8 men and 17 women, for the Games, competing in seven different sports.[2] The nation's team size was roughly ten athletes smaller than the team sent to London four years earlier, and had the second largest share of women in its Summer Olympic history. Women's handball was the only team-based sport in which Angola had its representation at these Games, unable to send any of the nation's basketball teams to the Olympics for the first time since 1988. Among the sports played by the athletes, Angola marked its debut in rowing and a return in sailing and shooting from a two-decade absence.
Notable Angolan athletes featured three-time judoka Antónia Moreira, medley swimmer Pedro Pinotes, trap shooter João Paulo da Silva, who sought for his Olympic comeback in Rio after a 16-year absence, and four-time Olympian and handball team captain Luísa Kiala, who became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[1] Angola, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal.
^ ab"Luisa Kiala pode ser porta-bandeira no Rio de Janeiro" [Luisa Kiala will be the flag bearer in Rio de Janeiro] (in Portuguese). ANGOP. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
^"Rio 2016: Caravana angolana aos Jogos Olímpicos fixada em 25 atletas" [Rio 2016: Angolan team sets at 25 athletes for the Olympics] (in Portuguese). ANGOP. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
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