Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

competed at the

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, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. The

Chilean Olympic Committee The Chilean Olympic Committee (COCh) (:es:Comité Olímpico Chile, Comité Olímpico Chile) is a non-profit private organization composed of all Chilean sports federations who join it and accept its governance through statutes and regulations. I ...

( es, Comité Olímpico de Chile, COCH), link=no) fielded a team of 42 athletes, 25 men and 17 women, to compete in sixteen sports at the Games. It was the nation's largest delegation sent to the Olympics without any association to the team-based sports for the first time. Nearly 25 percent of the Chilean team competed in the track and field, the largest by sport; there was only a single competitor in archery, equestrian, golf, judo, shooting, taekwondo, and triathlon. The Chilean roster featured five sets of family members, including beach volleyball cousins

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and

Marco Grimalt Marco Alfonso Grimalt Krogh (born 11 July 1989) is a Chilean Olympic volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team ...

, race walking twins

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and

Yerko Araya Yerko Ignacio Araya Cortés (born 14 February 1986 in Antofagasta) is a Chilean racewalker. He competed in the 20 km walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he placed 41st. He has a twin brother, Edward, who is also a racewalker. Personal ...

, London 2012 yachtsman Benjamín Grez and his older brother Cristobal, and two other pairs of rookies sailing each other in the men's and women's 470 class, respectively: sisters

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and Begoña Gumucio and brothers Andrés and

Francisco Ducasse Francisco Ducasse (born 3 December 1996) is a Chilean competitive sailor. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the sam ...

. Fifteen Chilean athletes previously competed in London, with Laser sailor Matías del Solar and distance freestyle swimmer

Kristel Köbrich Kristel Arianne Köbrich Schimpl (born August 9, 1985 in Santiago, Chile) is an Olympic long-distance freestyle swimmer from Chile. She was the country's flag bearer at the 2004 Olympics, and also swam at the 2008 Games, 2012 Games and 2016 ...

headed to their fourth Olympics. Meanwhile, marathon runner

Érika Olivera Érika Alejandra Olivera de la Fuente (born 4 January 1976 in Quinta Normal) is a female marathon runner from Chile and deputy for the National Renewal party. She has competed at five Olympic Games, the most Olympic appearances ever by a fem ...

, who served as the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony, reached a historic milestone as the first Chilean female to compete in five Olympic Games. Other notable Chilean athletes included world-ranked triathlete

Bárbara Riveros Bárbara Catalina Riveros Díaz (born 3 August 1987, in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean professional triathlete, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 Olympian. She was the ITU (now World Triathlon) World Sprint Distance Champion in 2012. In France, Bárb ...

, artistic gymnast and London 2012 fourth-place finalist Tomás González, shot putter

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, and 16-year-old archer

Ricardo Soto Ricardo Andrés Soto Pedraza (born 20 October 1999) is a Chilean recurve archer from Concepción. In 2009, he moved to Arica. He competed in the archery event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Career 2016 Summer Olympics At the ...

. For the second Olympics in a row, Chile failed to earn a single medal at the Games. Riveros, González, and weightlifter

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were the only athletes to achieve the most successful outcome for Chile in Rio de Janeiro, finishing among the top eight in their respective sporting events (fifth for Riveros and seventh each for González and Valdés).

Archery

One Chilean archer qualified for the men's individual recurve by securing one of three available Olympic spots at the Pan American Qualification Tournament in

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Athletics (track and field)

Chilean athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): ;Track & road events ;Men ;Women ;Field events

Cycling

Road

Chile has qualified one rider in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of his top 20 individual ranking in the

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. One additional spot was awarded to the Chilean cyclist in the women's road race by virtue of her top 100 individual placement in the 2016 UCI World Rankings.

Equestrian

Chile has entered one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top finish from Central & South America in the individual FEI Olympic rankings.

Eventing

Golf

Chile has entered one golfer into the Olympic tournament.

Felipe Aguilar Felipe Andrés Aguilar Schuller (born November 7, 1974) is a Chilean professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. Career In 2006 he became the second Chilean, after Roy Mackenzie to earn full membership to the European Tour but failed to ...

(world no. 248) qualified directly among the top 60 players for the men's singles based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016.

Gymnastics

Artistic

Chile has entered two artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. London 2012 fourth-place finalist Tomás González and fellow Olympian Simona Castro had claimed their Olympic spots each in the men's and women's apparatus and all-around events, respectively, at the Olympic Test Event in

. ;Men ;Women

Judo

Chile has qualified one judoka for the men's middleweight category (90 kg) at the Games. Thomas Briceño earned a continental quota spot from the Pan American region as highest-ranked Chilean judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016.

Rowing

Chile has qualified one boat each in the men's and women's lightweight double sculls, respectively, at the 2016 Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta in

Valparaíso Valparaíso (; ) is a major city, seaport, naval base, and educational centre in the commune of Valparaíso, Chile. "Greater Valparaíso" is the second largest metropolitan area in the country. Valparaíso is located about northwest of Santiago ...

. Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Chilean sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the individual fleet World Championships, and South American qualifying regattas. ;Men ;Women M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Chile has qualified one shooter in the women's skeet by virtue of her best finish at the seventh stop of the

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series in Gabala,

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. Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Chilean swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):

Taekwondo

Chile entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. Ignacio Morales secured a spot in the men's lightweight category (68 kg) by virtue of his top two finish at the 2016 Pan American Qualification Tournament in

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, Mexico.

Tennis

Chile has entered two tennis players into the Olympic tournament.

Julio Peralta Julio Leonardo Peralta Martínez (; born 9 September 1981) is a professional tennis player from Chile. Peralta has found success in the late stage of his career, reaching no. 29 in the ATP rankings in doubles. He captured six doubles titles at ATP ...

and

Hans Podlipnik Hans Podlipnik Castillo (; born 9 January 1988) is a Chilean retired tennis player of Slovenian descent. His best results are in doubles, winning one ATP World Tour and reaching another final in this category, besides from winning 19 Challenge ...

had claimed one of eight ITF Olympic men's doubles places, as Chile's top-ranked tennis pair outside of direct qualifying position in the ATP World Rankings as of 6 June 2016.

Triathlon

Chile has secured a quota in the women's triathlon event as a result of

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' triumph at the

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Volleyball

Beach

Chile men's beach volleyball team qualified directly for the Olympics by winning the final match over Venezuela at the 2016 CSV Continental Cup in

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, Argentina, signifying the nation's Olympic debut to the sport.

Weightlifting

Chile has qualified one female weightlifter for the Rio Olympics by virtue of a top four national finish at the 2016 Pan American Championships. Meanwhile, an unused men's Olympic spot was added to the Chilean weightlifting team by IWF, as a response to the vacancy of women's quota places in the individual World Rankings and to the "multiple positive cases" of doping on several nations. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by 20 June 2016.

References

External links

* {{Country at games navbox, Chile, Olympics Nations at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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