Saudi Arabia at the 2016 Summer Olympics information
Sporting event delegation
Saudi Arabia at the 2016 Summer Olympics
IOC code
KSA
NOC
Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee
Website
olympic.sa(in Arabic and English)
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors
11 in 5 sports
Flag bearer
Sulaiman Hamad[1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Saudi Arabia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee sent a team of eleven athletes, seven men and four women, to compete in five different sports at the Olympics, doubling its female participation after two women attended the London Games four years earlier.[2] Discus thrower Sultan Mubarak Al-Dawoodi, along with distance runners Moukhled Al-Outaibi and Sarah Attar, were the only Saudi Arabian athletes to have participated at the previous Games, with the rest of the field making their Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile, judoka Sulaiman Hamad (men's 66 kg) led the Saudi delegation as the flag bearer and team captain in the opening ceremony.[1]
Saudi Arabia left Rio de Janeiro without a single Olympic medal, failing to reproduce its performance from the previous Games due to the absence of the equestrian jumping team.
^ ab"The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
^Batrawy, Aya (31 July 2016). "Saudi Arabia doubles female Olympic athletes from 2 to 4". Associated Press. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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