The women's team

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competition in

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at the

2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

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was held on 11 August at the

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. The medals were presented by

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, IOC

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, Romania and Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu, Vice President of the FIE.

Schedule

All times are

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(UTC−3)

Draw

Finals

Classification 5–8

Final classification

References

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