Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

competed at the

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, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The

National Sports Committee of Indonesia The National Sports Committee of Indonesia ( id, Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia, abbreviated KONI) is the sports governing body of Indonesia. It was founded in 1946 to unite the various satellite sports associations that was created within the ...

( id, Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia, ''KONI'') confirmed a team of 28 athletes, 17 men and 11 women, to compete across seven sports at the Games. Three of them obtained their spots to compete in athletics and swimming through wild card entries, with the rest of the team directly qualifying for the Games on merit. Among the sporting events the nation competed in, Indonesia made its Olympic debut in men's team archery and BMX cycling, as well as its return to rowing after 12 years. The Indonesian roster featured ten returning Olympians, with three of them headed to their third straight Games: badminton shuttler

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, along with her partner

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, in the mixed doubles, and two-time bronze medalists

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and Triyatno in weightlifting. Other notable Indonesian athletes included Beijing 2008 champion

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in the men's badminton doubles and long jumper and reigning Asian Games champion

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, who was appointed as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Indonesia left Rio de Janeiro with three Olympic medals (one gold and two silvers), improving its medal tally from London four years earlier. Among the nation's medalists were badminton players Ahmad and Natsir, who both bounced back from their fourth-place finish in London to secure the mixed doubles gold, and weightlifting rookie Sri Wahyuni Agustiani, who won Indonesia's first medal of the Games with a silver in the women's 48 kg. Meanwhile, Irawan set a historic milestone as the first Indonesian weightlifter to win medals across three Olympic Games, winning a silver in the men's 62 kg to complement his two previous bronze medals.

Medalists

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Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Archery

One Indonesian archer qualified for the women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the

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. Three Indonesian archers qualified for the men's events by virtue of the nation's podium finish in the team recurve competition at the 2016

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meet in

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, Turkey.

Athletics

Indonesian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): ;Track & road events ;Field events

Badminton

Indonesia has qualified a total of ten badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016: two pairs in the mixed doubles, a pair each in the men's and women's doubles, and one entry each in the men's and women's singles. ;Men ;Women ;Mixed

Cycling

BMX

Indonesia received an invitation from the UCI to send a men's BMX rider to the Olympics, as the next highest-ranked eligible nation, not yet qualified, in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of May 31, 2016, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since

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. Indonesia's top-ranked BMX rider and 2014 Asian Games fourth-place finalist Toni Syarifudin was named to the Olympic roster on June 8, 2016.

Rowing

Indonesia has qualified one boat each in the men's and women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta in

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, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since

. 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

Swimming

Indonesia has received a Universality invitation from

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to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.

Weightlifting

Indonesian weightlifters have qualified five men's and two women's quota places for the Rio Olympics based on their combined team standing by points at the

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and 2015 IWF World Championships. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016. The weightlifting team, headlined by London 2012 medalists

and Triyatno, was named to the Olympic roster on June 21, 2016. ;Men ;Women

References

External links

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