Costa Rica at the 2016 Summer Olympics information
Sporting event delegation
Costa Rica at the 2016 Summer Olympics
IOC code
CRC
NOC
Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica
Website
www.concrc.org(in Spanish)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors
11 in 6 sports
Flag bearer
Nery Brenes[1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1936
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Costa Rica 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, since its debut in 1936.
Costa Rican Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico de Costa Rica) selected a squad of 11 athletes, six men and five women, to compete in six different sports at the Games. This was approximately the same contingent size as the previous Games, with the addition of two female athletes and the difference of two males. Among the sports represented by the athletes, Costa Rica marked its Olympic debut in beach volleyball.[2]
Nearly half of the Costa Rican roster had competed in London 2012, with sprinter Nery Brenes leading the athletes as the most experienced member and the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony at his third Games.[1]
For the fourth consecutive time, Costa Rica left Rio de Janeiro without a single Olympic medal. Unable to reach the final, Brenes was the only athlete to produce a best finish for the Costa Rican squad at the Games, placing sixth each in the semifinal heat of both the men's 200 and 400 metres.[3]
^ ab"Emocionado y sorprendido Nery Brenes llevará el Pabellón en Río 2016" [Excited and surprised, Nery Brenes will carry the flag in Rio 2016] (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: La Nación. 22 July 2016.
^"Costa Rica es grande entre las pequeñas delegaciones de los Juegos Olímpicos" [Costa Rica enters among the smallest delegations at the Olympics] (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: La Nación. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
^Krumholtz, Michael (16 August 2016). "Nery Brenes sets national record, wins first round heat in Olympic 200m dash". The Tico Times. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
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