Canada
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competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil, from August 5 to August 21, 2016. Since the nation's debut in
1900
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,
Canadian
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athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in Moscow because of the country's support for the
United States-led boycott. The chef de mission was
Curt Harnett
Curtis "Curt" Melvin Harnett, (born 14 May 1965) is a Canadian racing cyclist. He began cycling as a way to stay in shape for hockey. He competed in four Olympic Games, winning three medals, one silver and two bronze.
Harnett also has three me ...
, appointed in April 2016 after
Jean-Luc Brassard
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972) is a Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position fo ...
, the original chef de mission, resigned his position.
A total of 314 athletes, 128 men and 186 women over 27 sports (all of the Olympic sports except
handball
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), represented the country, an increase of 37 athletes from
2012
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. The team contained 98 coaches and 107 support staff (such as doctors and physiotherapists among others). Originally, 312 athletes were named to the team, however two male athletes were added in
kayaking
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on July 29, 2016 following the suspension of Russian athletes, thus bringing the total to 314.
Canada qualified five squads in team sports, matching the record high from
1984
Events
January
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. Canada's official goal (set by
Own the Podium) for these games were at least 19 medals of any colour (an improvement of one or more from 2012), and a top 12 finish in terms of overall medals won. Canada left the games with 22 medals (ranked in the top ten in terms of overall medals), which matched the total from the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the previous high for a non-boycotted games. Canadian athletes were paid for medals earned. Gold medallists earned
$20,000; silver medallists were paid $15,000; and bronze medallists $10,000, coming from the Athlete Excellence Fund.
Rosie MacLennan
Rosannagh "Rosie" MacLennan (born August 28, 1988) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. She is the 2013 and 2018 World Trampoline champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games champion in the individual trampoline e ...
, trampoline gymnast who had left the 2012 Games as the sole Canadian to win gold, was honored as Canada's flagbearer at the
opening ceremony
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Swimmer
Penny Oleksiak
Penelope Oleksiak (born June 13, 2000) is a Canadian competitive swimmer. Her country's most decorated Olympian, Oleksiak rose to fame during the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she became the first Canadian to win four medals in the same Summer Gam ...
broke the country's
Olympic
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Competitions
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record for most medals (4) won by a single Canadian athlete in any
Summer Olympic Games
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, as well as becoming the youngest ever Canadian gold medallist. At the end of the Games, she was appointed as the flagbearer for the team at the
closing ceremony
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Medallists
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Women's heptathlon
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Diving
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Football
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Equestrian
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Cycling
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Competitors
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Archery
One Canadian archer qualified for the men's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the
2015 World Archery Championships
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in
Copenhagen
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, Denmark. Meanwhile, another Canadian archer was added to the squad by securing one of three available Olympic spots in the women's individual recurve at the Pan American Qualification Tournament in
Medellín
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Colombia
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.
Georcy-Stéphanie Picard was named to the team on June 9, 2016.
Crispin Duenas
Crispin Natanie Duenas (born January 5, 1986) is a Filipino-Canadian recurve archer who represented Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2020 Su ...
was later named to the team officially on June 29, 2016. The team was officially named on July 6, 2016.
Athletics (track and field)
Canadian athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): The team was selected based on the results of the 2016 Canadian Olympic Track & Field Trials. The Canadian road events have standards that are different from the IAAF and are listed below. On July 11, a team of 65 athletes (28 men and 37 women) was announced, marking the largest ever track and field team Canada has sent to the Olympics. Athletes
Oluwasegun Makinde,
Marissa Kurtimah and
Micha Powell who were named as relay alternates did not compete in any race.
The six medals won by Canadian athletes were the most won in athletics since the
1928 Summer Olympics
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.
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Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.
;Women
;Field events
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;Women
;Combined events –
Men's decathlon
;Combined events –
Women's heptathlon
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;Road standards
Badminton
Canada qualified two badminton players. London 2012 Olympian
Michelle Li
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was selected among the thirty-four individual shuttlers in the women's singles based on the
BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016, while Martin Giuffre picked up one of the spare athlete berths (from athletes starting in both singles and a double event) as the next highest-ranked eligible player in the men's singles. The team was officially named on July 23, 2016.
Basketball
Women's tournament
Canada's women's basketball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the
2015 FIBA Americas Championships in
Edmonton
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Boxing
Canada entered three boxers to compete in three weight classes.
Arthur Biyarslanov
Arthur Biyarslanov (born 22 April 1995) is a Canadian professional boxer of Chechen descent. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as well as representing Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Biyarslanov' ...
,
Mandy Bujold
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, and
Ariane Fortin
Ariane Fortin (born November 20, 1984) is a Canadian southpaw amateur boxer. She is a two-time World Boxing Champion. She also won a silver medal in the middleweight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan A ...
secured their spots on the Olympic team at the
2016 American Qualification Tournament in
Buenos Aires
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, Argentina. The full team was officially nominated on July 14, 2016.
Canoeing
Canada's canoeing and kayaking team consisted of eleven athletes (seven men and four women).
Slalom
Two Canadian canoeists qualified a maximum of one boat in each of the following classes through the
2015 Pan American Games
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. The team was selected based on the slalom canoeists' performances from the National trials in May 2016 along with stages two and three of the ICF World Cup series in
La Seu d'Urgell
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and
Pau (both held on the second and third week of June 2016). The team was officially named on June 10, 2016.
Sprint
Canadian canoeists/kayakers qualified two boats in the men's K-1 200 and women's K-1 500 m through the
2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. Meanwhile, all other boats earned their spots at the 2016 Pan American Sprint Qualifier in
Gainesville, Georgia
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, United States, either by winning their event or when the quota place for their event passed to the highest finisher not qualified.
Andréanne Langlois was officially nominated to the team on June 20, 2016. The full team was officially nominated on June 27, 2016. On July 29, 2016,
Canoe Kayak Canada
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announced that it received two additional athlete quotas for the men's K-2 200 m event, following the suspension of the
Russian
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kayakers.
On August 1, 2016, both
Ryan Cochrane and
Hugues Fournel were named to the team in the men's K-2 200 m event.
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Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)
Cycling
Canada qualified a total of 19 cyclists (7 men and 12 women). The full team was officially announced on June 29, 2016.
Road
Canadian riders qualified for the following quota places in the men's and women's Olympic road race (3 per gender) by virtue of their top 5 national ranking in the
2015 UCI America Tour
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The points leader, based on the cumulative resul ...
(for men) and top 12 in the
UCI World Ranking (for women).
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Track
A total of eight Canadian track cyclists qualified. Following the completion of the
2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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, Canadian riders accumulated spots in the women's team sprint and team pursuit, as well as the women's omnium. As a result of their place in the women's team sprint, Canada won the right to enter two riders in both women's sprint and women's keirin. Therefore, Canada were permitted to enter the maximum team size of 7 women. Although Canada failed to win a quota place in the men's team sprint, they managed to secure a single berth in the men's keirin, by virtue of their final individual UCI Olympic ranking in that event.
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Mountain biking
Canadian mountain bikers qualified for two men's and two women's quota places into the Olympic cross-country race, as result of the nation's tenth-place finish for men and third for women, respectively, in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of May 25, 2016.
BMX
Canadian riders qualified for one men's quota place in BMX at the Olympics, as a result of the nation's tenth-place finish in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of May 31, 2016.
BMX rider and London 2012 Olympian
Tory Nyhaug was among the cyclists named to Canada's Olympic team on June 29, 2016.
Diving
Canadian divers qualified for the following individual spots and the synchronized teams at the Olympics through the
2015 FINA World Championships, the
2015 Pan American Games
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, and the
2016 FINA World Cup series. The diving team was officially named to the Olympic roster on June 13, 2016, featuring London 2012 bronze medallists
Meaghan Benfeito
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and
Roseline Filion
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.
Maxim Bouchard was added to the team on June 28, 2016, after Canada received an additional quota place from
FINA
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.
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Equestrian
Canadian equestrian riders qualified a full squad in the team eventing and jumping competitions through the
2014 FEI World Equestrian Games
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and the
2015 Pan American Games
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respectively. Two dressage riders also qualified by virtue of a top finish from each of the individual FEI Olympic rankings (for North America) and the
2015 Pan American Games
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. The full team of 10 athletes was officially named on July 14, 2016.
Dressage
The Canadian team was nominated using the average of the top four results from January 1, 2016 to July 3, 2016.
Eventing
On July 29, 2016, it was announced
Selena O'Hanlon was withdrawn from the eventing team (due to an injury of her horse Foxwood High, and replaced with
Kathryn Robinson and Let It Bee).
"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.
Jumping
The team did not include
Ian Millar
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, who was looking to make a record eleventh appearance at the
Summer Olympics
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. Millar's horse was injured earlier in the year and therefore could not compete. His daughter Amy, made her Olympic debut.
"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.
* penalties for the first day of team jumping will not be carried into the second round.
Fencing
Canada entered five fencers into the Olympic competition.
Joseph Polossifakis and
Eleanor Harvey secured a spot on the Canadian team by virtue of a top two placement from the America region outside the world's top 14 in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings, while
Maxime Brinck-Croteau
Maxime Brinck-Croteau (born March 29, 1986) is a male épée fencer from Canada. Brinck-Croteau won the silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Championships in Santiago, and later competed at the 2015 Pan American Games, in Toronto, Ontario.
Brin ...
,
Leonora MacKinnon, and
Maximilien van Haaster
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Career
Va ...
were one of the two highest-ranked fencers from the America zone, not already qualified. The team was officially named on May 24, 2016.
Field hockey
Men's tournament
Canada men's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by having achieved a top four finish at the
2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals.
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Football (soccer)
Women's tournament
Canada women's football team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of second-place finish at the
2016 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship in
Houston, Texas
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Golf
Canada entered four golfers (two per gender) into the Olympic tournament.
Graham DeLaet
Graham DeLaet (born 22 January 1982) is a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. He has also worked as a broadcaster for TSN.
Early life
DeLaet was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan and grew up there and in Moose Jaw. He attended ...
(world no. 148),
David Hearn (world no. 127),
Brooke Henderson
Brooke Mackenzie Henderson (born 10 September 1997) is a Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.
Henderson was named the Canadian Press female athlete of the year for 2015, 2017 and 2018. She won her first major at age 18 in 2016 at the ...
(world no. 2), and
Alena Sharp
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(world no. 91) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016.
Gymnastics
Artistic
Canada fielded a team of six artistic gymnasts (one man and five women). The women's team qualified through a top eight finish at the
2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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in
Glasgow
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. Meanwhile, Canada claimed one male quota place in the apparatus and all-around events at the
Olympic Test Event in
Rio de Janeiro
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. The team was officially unveiled on June 30, 2016.
;Men
;Women
;Team
;Individual finals
Trampoline
Canada qualified one gymnast in the women's trampoline by virtue of a top eight finish at the
2015 World Championships in
Odense
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, Denmark. Meanwhile, an additional Olympic berth was awarded to
Jason Burnett, who finished in the top six at the
2016 Olympic Test Event in
Rio de Janeiro
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. The team was officially unveiled on June 30, 2016.
Judo
Canada qualified a total of seven judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Six of them (four men and two women), including London 2012 bronze medallist
Antoine Valois-Fortier
Antoine Valois-Fortier (born 13 March 1990) is a Canadian retired judoka who won the bronze medal in the −81 kg category at the 2012 Olympics, becoming the first Canadian to win a medal in Olympic judo in twelve years and the fifth to w ...
, were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men and top 14 for women in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016, while
Ecaterina Guica at women's half-lightweight (52 kg) earned a continental quota spot from the Pan American region as Canada's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position. The team was officially unveiled on June 28, 2016.
Arthur Margelidon
Arthur Margelidon (born 12 October 1993, in Paris, France) is a Canadian judoka who competes in the men's 73 kg category.
Career
Margelidon won the bronze medal the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, and the gold medal at the 2016 Pan Am ...
(73 kg) also qualified as being part of the top 22 eligible judokas in the world rankings, however had to withdraw after breaking his forearm in training.
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;Women
Modern pentathlon
Canadian athletes qualified two quota spots in the women's event.
Donna Vakalis secured a selection in the women's event after obtaining a top five finish at the
2015 Pan American Games
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Melanie McCann qualified through the world rankings as one of the top 8 athletes not yet qualified as of June 1, 2016.
Rowing
Canada qualified a total of seven boats (26 rowers) for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta. Six rowing crews confirmed Olympic places for their boats at the
2015 FISA World Championships in
Lac d'Aiguebelette
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, France, while the rowers competing in the men's quadruple sculls were further added to the Canadian roster with their top two finish at the 2016 European & Final Qualification Regatta in
Lucerne
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, Switzerland. The full team was announced on June 28, 2016.
Rowing Canada
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decided not to enter a men's eight boat (the defending Olympic silver medallist and current world record holder) in the hopes of qualifying more competitive boats (and winning more medals).
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;Women
Rugby sevens
Women's tournament
The Canadian women's rugby sevens team (12 athletes) qualified for the Olympics by finishing in the top four of the
2014–15 Sevens World Series
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.
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Sailing
Canadian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the
2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, the individual fleet Worlds, and North American qualifying regattas.
Olympic veterans
Luke Ramsay and
Nikola Girke (Nacra 17), as well as the skiff crew Danielle Boyd and Erin Rafuse (49erFX), were the first Canadian sailors to be selected for Rio on March 8, 2016, while the entire nation's Olympic sailing squad will be named by June 2016. Laser Radial sailor
Brenda Bowskill was named to the team on May 9, 2016, and was followed by Finn yachtsman Tom Ramshaw a week later and 470 crew brothers Graeme and Jacob Saunders in the first week of June 2016. The team was officially unveiled on July 4, 2016.
Citing the sailors' performances and downward trend throughout the qualifying period, the
Canadian Yachting Association
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decided to reject quota places earned in both windsurfing and 49er classes.
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;Women
;Mixed
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
Shooting
Canadian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of gold medal finishes at the
2015 Pan American Games
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, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by March 31, 2016. Three-time Olympic trap shooter
Cynthia Meyer
Cynthia Barbara Meyer (born October 6, 1965, in New York City, United States) is a Canadian trap shooter who won a gold medal for Canada at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. Meyer is also a former world championship medalist in ...
and two-time Pan American Games pistol champion
Lynda Kiejko
Lynda Kiejko (née Hare born 13 September 1980 in Winchester, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pistol sport shooter.
Kiejko started off 2015 with a career high 6th-place finish at a World Cup event in Changwon, South Korea in the 10m air p ...
were officially named to the Canadian team on May 5, 2016.
Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)
Swimming
A total of 30 swimmers (10 men and 20 women) were selected to the Canadian roster for the Olympics.
To secure their nomination to the Olympic team, swimmers needed to have attained a top two finish under the FINA Olympic qualifying A standard in each of the individual pool events at the Canadian Olympic Trials (April 5 to 10) in
Toronto
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.
Richard Weinberger
Richard Weinberger (born June 7, 1990) is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Weinberger won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the 10-kilometre open water marathon. He is the 2011 Pan American Games champion and also has a b ...
qualified for the open water race by finishing in the top 10 at the
2015 World Aquatics Championships
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in
Kazan
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, Russia. Meanwhile,
Stephanie Horner qualified at the 2016 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in
Setubal, Portugal.
The six medals won by Canadian swimmers is the most since the
1984 Summer Olympics
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and the most in a fully contested Olympic swimming competition since the
1976 Summer Olympics
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;Women
Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.
Synchronized swimming
Canada fielded a squad of two synchronized swimmers to compete in the women's duet, by claiming the gold medal at the
2015 Pan American Games
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. The team was officially named on May 18, 2016.
Table tennis
Canada entered two table tennis players into the Olympic competition. Pan American Games silver medallist
Eugene Wang
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and two-time Olympian
Zhang Mo secured an Olympic spot in the men's and women's singles, respectively, by virtue of a top three finish at the North American Qualification Tournament in Toronto. The team was officially named on June 1, 2016.
Taekwondo
Canada entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics.
2011 Pan American Games
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champion
Melissa Pagnotta
Melissa Pagnotta (born September 22, 1988) is a Canadian taekwondo fighter. Pagnotta participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first Ontario representative in that sport. She qualified to the 2016 Olympics by winnin ...
made her Olympic debut in the women's welterweight category (67 kg) by virtue of a top two finish at the 2016 Pan American Qualification Tournament in
Aguascalientes
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, Mexico. In May 2016, Pagnotta was officially named to the Olympic team.
Tennis
Canada entered four tennis players into the Olympic tournament.
Milos Raonic
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(world no. 9),
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; cs, Vašek Pospíšil, ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranking of No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 ...
(world no. 46), and
Eugenie Bouchard
Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (; french: Eugénie Bouchard, ; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian tennis player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the final of a Grand Slam t ...
(world no. 48) qualified directly among the top 56 eligible players for their respective singles events based on the
ATP and
WTA World Rankings as of June 6, 2016.
Bouchard's doubles partner
Gabriela Dabrowski
Gabriela "Gaby" Dabrowski (; pl, Dąbrowska, ; born April 1, 1992) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 164 by the WTA on November 3, 2014 and her highest doubles ranking of world No. 4 on ...
was added to the team on June 30, 2016. On July 15, 2016, Raonic withdrew from the games, citing the
Zika virus
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.
Daniel Nestor
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Nestor won 91 men's doubles titles (with 11 different partners), including an Olympic gold medal
...
was chosen to replace him in the
men's doubles event.
Triathlon
Canada qualified five triathletes (two men and three women). All five quotas were earned through the
International Triathlon Union
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Olympic Qualification List as of May 15, 2016. The team was officially named on June 29, 2016. All five triathletes will be making their Olympic debuts.
Volleyball
Beach
Canada qualified eight beach volleyball players. Three Canadian beach volleyball teams (one men's pair and two women's pairs) qualified directly for the Olympics by virtue of their nation's top 15 placement in the
FIVB Olympic Rankings as of June 13, 2016. Meanwhile, another men's pair was added to the Canadian team by virtue of the nation's top two finish at the 2016 FIVB Continental Cup in
Sochi
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. The team of
Josh Binstock
Josh Binstock (born January 12, 1981), nicknamed Binner, is a male two-time Olympian beach volleyball player from Canada. He competed in the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He also competed for Canada in volleybal ...
and
Sam Schachter
Samuel Schachter (born May 8, 1990) is a Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. At the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel, he and Team Canada won a silver medal. He and pa ...
won a trial match against another pair on July 16, 2016 in
North Bay, Ontario
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to officially qualify for the games. Canada is one of four countries (along with the host nation Brazil, Netherlands and the United States to qualify two teams in each tournament).
Indoor
Men's tournament
Canada men's volleyball team (of 12 athletes) qualified for the Olympics by virtue of a top four finish at the first
World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Tokyo
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, Japan, signifying the team's return to the Olympics for the first time since
1992
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, and the first, as a nation, since
1996
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;Group A
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Weightlifting
Canada qualified one male and one female weightlifter by virtue of a top seven national finish (for men) and top four (for women), respectively, at the 2016 Pan American Championships. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016. The team was officially announced on July 25, 2016.
Wrestling
Canada qualified a total of eight wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition. Two Olympic spots were secured in the women's freestyle (48 & 63 kg) at the
2015 World Championships, while the remainder of the berths were awarded to Canadian wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals at the
2016 Pan American Qualification Tournament.
Haislan Garcia
Haislan Veranes Garcia (born March 4, 1983) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler. Competing in the 65–66 kg division, he participated in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics; he reached quarter-finals in 2012, losing to the eventual champion Tatsuhiro Y ...
claimed a spot in the men's freestyle 65 kg at the
final World Qualification Tournament in
Istanbul
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. The team was officially named on June 23, 2016.
;Men's freestyle
;Women's freestyle
See also
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Canada at the 2015 Pan American Games
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Canada at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Canada competed at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway from 12 to 21 February 2016. Isabelle Charest was named as the chef de mission.
Medalists
Medalists in mixed NOCs events
Alpine skiing
Canada qualified a full team of t ...
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Canada at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Canada competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
On August 29, 2016, a team of 162 athletes in 19 sports was announced.
Disability classifications
Every participant at the Paralympics has th ...
References
External links
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Nations at the 2016 Summer Olympics
2016
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2016 in Canadian sports