Grenada competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Grenada Olympic Committee sent a total of seven athletes, five men and two women, to the Games, competing only in athletics and swimming. The Grenadian team featured two returning athletes from London 2012; decathlete
Kurt Felix and track sprinter
Kirani James
Kirani James (born 1 September 1992) is a Grenadian professional sprinter who specializes in the 200 and 400 metres. He won the 400 m at the World Championships in 2011 and the 2012 London Olympics. In the 400 metres James also won the sil ...
, who became the nation's first ever Olympic champion, earning the gold in the men's 400 metres. As the most successful athlete of the Games, James was selected to carry the Grenadian flag for the second consecutive time in the opening ceremony.
Grenada left Rio de Janeiro with an Olympic silver medal won by James in the
men's 400 metres, unable to defend his title from the previous Games.
Medalists
Athletics (track and field)
Grenadian 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
;Combined events –
Men's decathlon
Swimming
Grenada has received a Universality invitation from
FINA
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to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.
See also
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Grenada at the 2015 Pan American Games
References
External links
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Nations at the 2016 Summer Olympics
2016
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2016 in Grenadian sport