Cameroon at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | CMR | ||||||||
| NOC | Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Cameroun | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 24 in 6 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Wilfried Ntsengue | ||||||||
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Cameroon competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fourteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Cameroon Olympic Sports Committee (French: Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Cameroun) sent a total of 24 athletes, 5 men and 19 women, to the Games, competing in six different sports. For the second straight time in history, Cameroon was represented by more female than male athletes due to its presence of the women's volleyball team.
Notable athletes in the Cameroon team were professional boxers Mahaman Smaila and Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam, who both staged their Olympic comebacks in Rio de Janeiro for nearly a decade, and wrestler Annabelle Ali, who joined triple jumper and double gold medalist Françoise Mbango-Etone as the only Cameroonians to appear in three consecutive editions of the Games. Middleweight boxer Wilfried Ntsengue, the youngest member of the team (aged 18), was the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Like the previous Games, Cameroon left Rio de Janeiro without a single Olympic medal for the second consecutive time. Ali narrowly missed out of Cameroon's first medal of the Games, after losing the match to Russia's Ekaterina Bukina for the bronze in the women's 75 kg category.
Cameroonian athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
Cameroon entered four boxers to compete in each of the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Simplice Fotsala, Wilfried Ntsengue, and 2008 Olympian Mahaman Smaila had claimed their Olympic spots at the 2016 African Qualification Tournament in Yaoundé. Returning for his second Games from a 12-year absence, light heavyweight boxer Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam rounded out the Cameroonian roster with his semifinal triumph at the 2016 APB and WSB Olympic Qualifier in Vargas, Venezuela.
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