United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | USA | ||||||||
| NOC | United States Olympic Committee | ||||||||
| in Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
| Competitors | 554 in 30 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer |
Michael Phelps (opening) Simone Biles (closing) |
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Medals Ranked 1st |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
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| 1906 Intercalated Games | |||||||||
The United States, represented by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from August 5 to 21, 2016. U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympics edition of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which they boycotted.
The 2016 Olympics were the third most successful for the United States as far as the medal count (121) and the most successful not held in the United States: St. Louis had 239 total medals won in 1904, and Los Angeles won 174 in 1984. These Games also witnessed the thousandth Summer Olympic gold medal for the Americans.
The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
* – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes:
Three U.S. archers qualified for the men's events after having secured a top eight finish in the men's team recurve at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Another U.S. archer also qualified for the women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the same tournament.
U.S. athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): The team will be selected based on the results of the 2016 United States Olympic Trials (July 1 to 10).
Six marathon runners (three per gender) were the first set of U.S. track and field athletes being selected for the Games by virtue of their top three finish at the Olympic Team Trials in Los Angeles on February 13, 2016. One week later in Santee, California, three-time Olympian John Nunn joined them to the team by winning the men's 50 km walk trials under the entry standard (4:06:00).
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