Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, competed at the

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, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Ivory Coast National Olympic Committee (french: Comité National Olympique de Côte d'Ivoire) selected a team of 12 athletes, five men and seven women, to compete in six different sports at these Games, overhauling the roster size set in London 2012 by two athletes. For the fourth time in the nation's Olympic history, Ivory Coast was represented by more female than male athletes. More than half of the Ivorian roster were rookies at the Games, with archer Philippe Kouassi, taekwondo fighter

Ruth Gbagbi Ruth Marie Christelle Gbagbi (born 7 February 1994 in Abidjan) is an Ivorian taekwondo practitioner. She competed in the 67 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; she was defeated by Hwang Kyung-Seon in the preliminary round and eliminated by H ...

, and sprinters Ben Youssef Meïté and

Murielle Ahouré Murielle Ahouré (born 23 August 1987) is an Ivorian sprinter who competes in the 60 meters, 100 m and 200 m. She was a double silver medalist at the 2013 world championships in Moscow. She came second in both the 100 and 200 meters at this e ...

, top eight finalist in both 100 and 200 metres, returning for their second appearance from London 2012. As the most experienced member of the team, Ahouré was selected by the committee to carry the Ivorian flag in the opening ceremony. Ivory Coast left Rio de Janeiro with two Olympic medals, adding them to the silver won by sprinter

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in the men's 400 metres at Los Angeles 1984. These medals were awarded to Gbagbi (women's 67 kg) and fellow taekwondo fighter

Cheick Sallah Cissé Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 19 September 1993) is an Ivorian taekwondo athlete. After winning gold at the 2015 African Games in the men's 80 kg, he represented Ivory Coast at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the same category. ...

(men's 80 kg), who emerged himself as the Ivory Coast's first ever Olympic champion.

Medallists

Archery

Two Ivorian archers qualified each for both the men's and women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the three Olympic places available from the 2016 African Archery Championships in

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. However, the Ivorian National Committee revoked the entry of Carla Frangilli after the final deadline. According to reallocation procedures, the quota was assigned to Greece, and four-time Olympian

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was selected.

Athletics (track and field)

Ivorian 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

Fencing

Ivory Coast has entered one fencer into the Olympic competition for the first time. Gbahi-Gwladys Sakoa had received a spare Olympic berth freed up by South Africa, as the next highest-ranked fencer, not yet qualified, in the women's épée at the African Zonal Qualifier in

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Judo

Ivory Coast has qualified one judoka for the women's lightweight category (57 kg) at the Games. Zouleiha Abzetta Dabonne earned a continental quota spot from the African region as highest-ranked Ivorian judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016.

Swimming

Ivory Coast has received a Universality invitation from

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

Taekwondo

Ivory Coast entered three athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. Cheick Sallah Cisse qualified automatically for the men's welterweight category (80 kg) by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings. Meanwhile, 2012 Olympian

and debutant Mamina Koné secured the remaining spots on the Ivory Coast team by virtue of their top two finish respectively in the women's welterweight (67 kg) and heavyweight category (+67 kg) at the 2016 African Qualification Tournament in

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