Angola at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | ANG | ||||||||
| NOC | Angolan Olympic Committee | ||||||||
| Website | (Portuguese) | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 25 in 7 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Luisa Kiala | ||||||||
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Angola competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of its support of the Soviet boycott.
The Angolan Olympic Committee (Portuguese: Comité Olímpico Angolano) selected a total of 25 athletes, 8 men and 17 women, for the Games, competing in seven different sports. The nation's team size was roughly ten athletes smaller than the team sent to London four years earlier, and had the second largest share of women in its Summer Olympic history. Women's handball was the only team-based sport in which Angola had its representation at these Games, unable to send any of the nation's basketball teams to the Olympics for the first time since 1988. Among the sports played by the athletes, Angola marked its debut in rowing and a return in sailing and shooting from a two-decade absence.
Notable Angolan athletes featured three-time judoka Antónia Moreira, medley swimmer Pedro Pinotes, trap shooter João Paulo da Silva, who sought for his Olympic comeback in Rio after a 16-year absence, and four-time Olympian and handball team captain Luísa Kiala, who became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Angola, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal.
Angola has received universality slots from IAAF to send two athletes (one male and one female) to the Olympics.
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Angola women's handball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2015 Africa Qualification Tournament in Luanda. They were drawn in Group A of the preliminary round.
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